Greetings from a mild and dry Zimbabwe! It was 9 degrees C at 5:30am and it’s now 24c at Midday..so it’s warming up even though this is our wintertime!
Dear Friends of Jabulani, Greetings from a hot, dry and drought ridden Zimbabwe, we pray you are well and enjoying our Lord Jesus Christ. We have had a good start to 2024 with everyone back at school and exams galore on the horizon. Grace is in her O level year and is exceptionally busy studying and doing extra lessons to help her get the required results to continue onward toward her goal of sitting A levels, please pray for her, she is struggling with Math and ICT and needs to really work hard for the required results.
t’s high Summer, the temps are in the mid 80’s and we have had our first rains already. The children have just finished school today for the Summer holidays and Dorothy and I are looking forward to rest and fun having just returned to JABULANI after a wonderful fundraising trip to USA and a quick drop-in to our family in Northern Ireland!
Greetings from Jabulani Zimbabwe!
It’s Autumn now and Winter is fast approaching with colder mornings and nights but still mid 70’sF during the daytime, we are in full swing in our mid-school term and it’s all systems go for our precious children.
Grace, Blessing, Hope and Joseph are fully involved at Maranatha HS, they are studying well and would love to get better results in their exams, please pray they will understand all they are taught and will be able to produce what is needed in the exams ahead. It has been a great few months with these older children, our greatest goal in bringing all our children into our lives was that they would put their faith and trust in our Lord Jesus Christ, so what a joy it was to baptism these 4 in April when our Grandson Daniel visited us from South Africa.
Greetings from a hot and wet Zimbabwe! We thank God for your prayers and love sent in so many ways over Christmas and New Year 2023, we are blessed to have you on our Jabulani team! We celebrated Christmas with a braii and presents, I preached in our Church on Christmas morning and Esther sang a beautiful song “Mary did you Know” while all the small girls were in the Christmas Nativity play, they all did so well, and we are very proud of them.
Dear Friends of Jabulani, we pray you are well and enjoying Jesus! We apologize for not sending out an update for a while but we had had serious challenges and situations which have been very stressful and COVID has been very busy in Zimbabwe, there have been waves of different variants and many people catching the virus and dying but we thank God everyone is COVID free at Jabulani.
Greetings from a wet Zimbabwe! We have had drought in many parts of our country for a number of years so we give thanks to God for an abundance of rain and the blessing of new life throughout the land! Praise the Lord!
We have been in ongoing lockdown now for many months, Dorothy and I have been here at Jabulani since September 2020 and only going out for shopping. Businesses have closed, borders have closed, restaurants etc just like the rest of the world. It has been very stressful but we praise God that COVID 19 has not been as devastating here as in other parts of the world.
Friends of JABULANI, we trust you are well and in good, safe health. What strange days we live in, we travelled back to Zimbabwe on 20 September via Dublin, Frankfurt, Addis Ababa and finally Zimbabwe and had to go to a private quarantine lodge as soon as we arrived for a COVID test and overnight stay while we waited on the results.
Greetings in Jesus Name, we pray you are well and COVID free and are enjoying Gods blessings in your life! What a world we are living in, all our lives have been turned upside down by this virus, plans that were made have all had to change, masks, lockdowns, quarantine, social distancing , sanitizer, are everyday words now...it’s unreal YET in the midst of it all we have seen our God do great and awesome things for us at JABULANI and praise Him for His great love and compassion toward us every day.
Dear Friends of JABULANI,
We trust you are safe and well and enjoying Gods blessings on your life!
All is good at home, the children are online with school work and they are safe and in good health and enjoying these days. It’s winter now and they are freezing but have plenty of warm clothes and blankets, remember cold for Africans is anything less than 65F (18C)
Greetings and best wishes from your Jabulani family! We trust you are in good health and surviving the virus wherever you are in the world. Everyone is well at Jabulani and God has been helping us in so many ways during these difficult days.
Dorothy and I had planned on moving to Ireland for a few months to spend time with our children and grandchildren but all our flights were cancelled due to the pandemic and we had resigned ourselves to stay at Jabulani with our children for the duration!
Dear Friends of Jabulani,
Greetings from Harare Zimbabwe! We have been exceptionally busy with the new school year starting. Having 11 children at school means lots of work with uniforms, shoes, track suits, sports kits, sports shoes, school textbooks and work books etc. It’s difficult enough with 1 child but 11 means lots of running around and most of the stuff needs to be brought in from South Africa... but to see our precious children leaving home for school each day makes it all worthwhile!
