LoveLight and UCOH beaming in South Africa

UCOH has an ongoing partnership with LoveLight, a project of the Light Center in Baldwin, KS committed to serving AIDS orphans in South Africa. As such, UCOH sends a monthly tithe to support ongoing and simple needs of the children in orphanages.

LoveLight has been at work dispersing UCOH funds in South Africa. Some of the UCOH funds were gifted to Ndeleka at the Siyaphambili orphan care project. She feeds enormous numbers of children with a hot meal after school each day. UCOH funds were used to purchase badly needed chairs for the main dining area which is used for craft activities and homework.

Bryan Mitchell, a UCOH member, visited the South African project with Robin Goff, Director of the Light Center who runs the LoveLight project. Robin reported the absolute excitement in children to have something as simple as chairs. She wrote to UCOH, “you never saw children so excited to have chairs! Finally a spot to sit down to eat their one hot meal of the day served after school. For many this is the only the nutritious meal they get in a day. Ndeleka has close to 200 children on her list of children needing meals after school.”

We are blessed to be part of this ministry of using gifts to help co-create a unified global family. In years to come, UCOH hopes to partner in sending groups of volunteers to South Africa to help lift the families there. In the meantime, several volunteers will make an initial trip to set this foundation in July 2009. There will be an informational meeting on LoveLight travel to South Africa on May 22 at 7pm. For those interested, you may contact Maura Reyhfuss, project leader, at M302@suddenlink.net or simply come to the meeting at UCOH.