Swaziland Blog

(Pictured - Directors of Global Revival Church, and 3 volunteers)
This post is a letter I sent to a lady from Orlando who inquired about helping raise funds for the Moyeni Project
"Hello Jasmine, Thanks for replying. I guess you saw our Ministries web site
I can give you some more background about Mpumalanga Ministries. The two managers (Pastor Wiets, and his wife, Ina) are both volunteers for the past 18 months. Before that they were volunteers in Guatemala. They are extremely dedicated and hard working. The church Pastor, Cleopas Masilela, is a Swazi and also does not get a salary. His wife is a teacher at the public grade-school. We all even pay our own rent. The school teachers are paid about $100 per month and they are Swazis. Same with the 2 cooks. My wife and I are from South Florida and we are working for free and using our vehicles to run all errands. I teach 2 remedial reading classes.
The ministry has very little funding (No government funding). The food for breakfast and lunch for 230+ kids is donated by the World Food Program. It is extremely basic. No meat or fish. It is mostly corn meal, soy meal, beans and rice. The few veggies we buy ourselves out of our own pockets. A Canadian donor provides milk bought from Mabuda Farm every day.
As you may see from our "Wish List" we have big plans, but what is needed urgently is day-to-day expenses money. Wiets and Ina didn't even have enough to pay their landline phone bill and it was cut off last week.
So... any fundraising you can help us with will be fantastic. Even small amounts will make a big difference for our small ministry.
Let me get some ideas together, and you can make some suggestions yourself. I will send another email soon.
Bye for now."