March 2010 - Clothes donation

We have received a donation of seven bags full of clothes, shoes and 1 hand bag.  The clothes were donated by Dominica’s neighbour, Mrs Maninjwa and Jane Pearce, PPR bookkeeper.  The ‘thank you’ letters to both Mrs Maninjwa and Jane family have already been submitted to them.  Since Wednesday, 3rd March the donation has been distributed to the needy people.  The donation has been distributed to forty six ‘HBC patients’ from eight communities that we are servicing.

Feb 2010 - Positive Ray Reef VCT day

The VCT outreach was held on the 6th of February 2010. The area was an informal settlement in Lenasia called Tembelihle, The program started at 9h00 and finished at 2pm. 270 people attended and 58 individuals were tested.Over 100 adult and children gave their live to the Lord and they were prayed for. We also had a minute of silence and we light a candle in remembrance to those that has passed on due to HIV/AIDS

Feb 2010 - VILLAGE CHURCH IN NAMBUR HYDRABAD INDIA

During 2009 Positive Ray partnered with the IDPL Slum Church in Hydrabad, India. With the donations received via friends and family we were able to donate R5000.00. Today, the slum church has a comfortable building in which to worship God. The response to our plea was overwhelming. In total we collected R11500.00. We are now donating the balance of R6500.00 to the Nambur Village Church for renovations. We thank God for the opportunity to partner with God’s people in India. Pray out of this partnership that many people will have the opportunity to hear the gospel.

Baptised Members Nambur Village Church

The church building

Pastor Prakash Rao Karukutla

Pastors/Leader Conference

The pastors/leaders conference was a great success. Approx 110 leaders received spiritual refreshing and motivation for ministry in 2010. All 5 conferences held throughout KwaZulu Natal and Gauteng were well received and well attended. Rev Choolwe from Zambia spoke on the “Priestly Ministry of Christ” and Rev Dennis Hustedt from USA ministered on “The relevancy of Prophets Today”. The conference below was held in Phoenix.

Visitor from South America

Nerry Torres from South America visited us during the month of October. She was a great friend and help to all of us at Positive Ray. She plans on becoming a missionary. Please pray for her that God will give her direction for her future ministry. We also had friends from Sweden visit with us.

Staff Motivation Lunch

As we all know keeping staff monitavated in our line pof work is very important. Every year managment aims to provide a monitvational lunch for staff. Here are some pictures of our 2009 functions:

Staff receevign awards for thier commitment and good perforamnce during the year.

Our HIV Program manager Sibongisene Cele.

Our Peer Education Program Manager Edmara Ngwane

Positve Ray Reef

During September the following happened: 

First, they received news from the Gauteng Social Welfare Department that their Drop in Centre is now a registered centre. Nedbank nominated them as their local hero and presented them with a cheque of R10,000.00

June 2009:

It was a privilege to launch POSITIVE RAY REEF on the 24 June 2009. After many discussions and much prayer a dream has come true. I praise God for people who are burdened and have a passion for those infected and affected by Aids. Faith Evangelical Church in partnership with Mount Olive and Harvest Ministries has taken on the challenge to integrate HIV/Aids into the ministry of the church. This is a pilot program that will be carefully monitored and we will learn from its failures and successes.

Trip to Botswana

Clement visited Botswana with the intention of sharing with church leaders the work of Positive Ray and how to integrate HIV/Aids into the Total Program of the Church. I met with about 22 church leaders from several churches under the banner of Evangelical Fellowship of Believers (EFB).

They expressed great interest in replicating PR and the kind of model we were introducing to them. A second visit is being scheduled. We are networking with an organisation called Flying Mission a partner of SIM to help the church in Botswana.

Positive Ray partners with Churches in India

It was a privilege to visit India from the 2 to 13 July 2009. I was part of a delegation of 17 from the Evangelical Church of South Africa who went on Missions with Operation Mobilisation. My visit to India took me to 5 states namely: Hyderabad, Delhi, Bangalore, Chennai and Mumbai. India is a fascinating country with many challenges. With a population of 1.1 billion people, all you see is people, people and more people against the background of heavy traffic that always on the move.

Driving in India is a story on its own. It was interesting to learn; even though India has a Christian population of 2% it makes the biggest contribution to the social up liftment of the country. In the midst of many challenges God is doing a great work in India. Operation Mobilisation, in addition to its many ministries has planted 2500 churches all over the country. It was my humble privilege to visit some of the churches. We praise God for what He is doing and always recognise that the Church belongs to Him. Our journey from South Africa took us to Mumbai and then on to Hyderabad.
Regards, Clement

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