Thursday, August 29, 2013

Thank you CANGRO for bringing us some more tomato plants!





Thursday, August 22, 2013

Thank you to Cangro and Centurion Mall for launching the amazing vegetable plant project at Olievenhoutbosch Christian School. :-)

Getting everything ready

Starting to plant or tomatoes in the tins

Helping Brady to plant his tomatoe

Thank you very  much to all the volunteers involved with this wonderful project


Keep following the blog to see how our tomatoes grow!

Monday, August 19, 2013


Welcome to these American missionaries who are going to spend six weeks ministering at our school.  May you have a blessed time and thank you so much for your service!

Teaching the Gr.0's new songs

Rachel - teaching for the first time :-)

Mary-Kate sure stole the hearts of these Gr. 1's!

Annah handing out sandwiches during break-time

Tuesday, August 6, 2013

Thank you so much to the staff, children and parents of Irene pre-primary who collected money on Mandela Day for our Gr. 0 textbooks for 2014.



Thank you very much to the volunteers who painted our Wendy classrooms on Saturday! Just in time for the upcoming warm summer months :-) 


Monday, August 5, 2013

Prayer requests - August 2013

Our thank-you's to Jesus:

*  Thank you for a blessed holiday and holiday program during the June/July holidays.  The kid's had so much fun with jumping castles, games and treats.  Thank you to all the volunteers who gave of their time during the holidays.

*  Thank you for the generosity of people towards the school and children on Mandela Day.  Thank you for all the fun and food that was shared on this day.  

*  Thank you for a tracksuit donation for all our needy kids in the school.

*  Thank you to the members of Midrand Presbytarian Church who packed food packets for our school's children.


Prayer requests:

*  Please pray for our Christmas party and concert in October:  for enough resources to make it a wonderful day for our kids and for our preparation for the concert.

*  Please pray for our annual school trip at the beginning of September.  This year we are going to Douglasdale Dairy Farm.  Please pray for safety during the trip.

*  Soon we will start to order our textbooks for 2014.  Please pray for enough funds for our textbooks for next year.