Arise New Generation
Portfolio Director: Cheryl Allen
In Africa a child dies every three seconds from AIDS and extreme poverty, often before their fifth birthday. Out of those that survive there are literally millions of children growing up without parents. Most of them, along with millions of others, live in dire poverty. South Africa has countless orphans and child-headed households. The areas greatly affected by poverty and HIV/AIDS are the rural area's where mainly old woman and children live. The middle population having died or moved to the cities for work.
It is a well known fact that at least three quarters of all people who come to know Christ do so in their youth. Arise New Generation seeks to reach out to as many of these disadvantaged children as possible, to reach them with the good news of Jesus and His love, to provide care and resources as we are able, and to develop godly character - equipping children to rise up and live victorious lives in Christ.
To this end our first project in Emmaus, Kwazulu Natal is up and running. We run a play centre where the children come to be cared for and fed on a daily basis. We are also busy preparing a gospel outreach programme that will be able to be taken to schools and presented in rural settings. We want the children to not only be reached with the love of Jesus but be included in a local family of God with ongoing care and teaching. Thus discipling them, as Jesus commanded, and assisting with education and character development. Raising a new generation who will stand for Jesus and against corruption and low moral values.
Practical Work
- We supply food parcels to poor families on a monthly basis
- Children who attend the play centre are fed daily
- We clothe the needy and distribute material goods regularly
- Jobs have been created as play centre staff
- We are busy with early childhood development