Mission

The aim of the Mission Commission is to carry the ministry of Jesus into the world through proclamation and compassionate service.

Our areas of involvement include:

Klipheuwel

• A number of individuals sponsor the fees for children to attend créche

• Sewing classes are run every Wednesday

• Groceries to the value of R1350 a month are provided for the créche

• Ingredients are supplied weekly for the soup kitchen

• Clothes are donated towards the 2nd hand clothes shop

Job Creation

• We are in partnership with several other churches in running a training facility for unemployed people from the Durbanville taxi rank. This involves capital input and volunteers to present the training modules

• The DMC yellow pages, an initiative to encourage small to medium businesses within the congregation, is distributed to approximately 1000 members

Namaqualand

We have identified 6 Methodist Créches in Namaqualand which we have built relationships with over the past 2 years. Our involvement has included:

• A number of relationship building trips

• Building a kitchen at the Rooifontein créche and restoring the Leliefontein créche.

• Providing stationery packs to each school each year

• Subsidising three teachers salaries

• Donating several items, including a Photostat machine, several hundred litres of paint and clothes

• An annual outreach team...

Malawi

• Maralise is a long term missionary sent out from this community to Malawi. She is a qualified nurse working in the Hospital at Nkhoma. Small teams or individuals visited her during the course of each year, to encourage and support Maralise in her various projects. This year we have helped fund a water well and a roof for a local school.

• Pierre Storey is involved in offering engineering advice to the Hospital, as well as running an NGO called "Schools Africa" that has as its vision to build pre-schools throughout Africa

Blue Mountain & Alpha Schools

• Reading support with individual students takes place at both these schools

Greg & Bronwyn Landwehr

• This couple, as sent members of this congregation, have recently completed their 6 months of orientation training at Operation Mobilisation (OM). They have sensed a call to Germany and are in the process of finding a way to take up ministry.