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Ending Hunger in Zimbabwe: Barnabas UK Tour, May-June 2009

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Published: Tuesday 05 May 2009

Ending Hunger in Zimbabwe: Barnabas UK Tour, May-June 2009

Project(s): 91-721, 91-751, 91-806

Country: ZIMBABWE

Two South African speakers, who are actively involved in Zimbabwean feeding and farming programmes supported by Barnabas Fund, will be visiting churches in London, Liverpool, Reading, Truro and elsewhere, speaking from their first-hand experience. They will also be appearing on Revelation TV and Premier Radio. This Barnabas Fund tour of British churches, from 24th May to 7th June, will show what Barnabas Fund is doing to help end the severe hunger of the Zimbabwean people.

For Tour Details click HERE

Food and hope

Previously the bread-basket of Africa, Zimbabwe has deteriorated in recent years to become a place of desolation, hunger and even starvation. But Barnabas Fund is supporting a feeding programme which helps feed 15,000 people each month. Working discreetly through Zimbabwean churches, the food parcels are brought in from South Africa. The cost is just 5p per person per day. Help like this encourages Zimbabwean believers and gives them hope in a seemingly hopeless situation.

Barnabas Fund also supports a Zimbabwean ministry which trains people in a better method of farming that can increase yields ten-fold or more. This enables people to grow their own food and become self-sufficient.

Introducing the speakers

Wessie van der Westhuizen: “… encouraged to believe in a God who cares about them”

WESSIE VAN DER WESTHUIZEN is a local pastor in a church in Johannesburg with a passion to see the lives of the needy and poor changed through the practical influence of the Kingdom of God upon them. This has led to him being involved in feeding and farming programmes in Zimbabwe for the past two years attempting to bring the local people into the fullness of what God the Father has for them. Wessie comments, “The focus of these programmes has incorporated ways to have them spiritually, emotionally and practically encouraged to believe in a God who cares about them.”

Brendan Smith: “The food is literally saving lives”

BRENDAN SMITH, also based in South Africa but born in Zimbabwe, is Barnabas Fund’s Africa Regional Coordinator. He has been actively involved in delivering food to Zimbabwe, as well as in the agricultural training programme. “There is a desperate and urgent need to continue providing food aid to those who are starving. The food is literally saving lives,” says Brendan. “But Barnabas Fund also recognizes the need for a long-term solution to hunger. That is why we are also actively involved through the local churches in a farming project where people are being taught how to farm in the arid conditions of the African bush. We have seen lives saved by the food aid but lives changed and restored by the farming project as believers regain their sense of dignity and self-sufficiency.”

To request a visit to your church during the tour, please contact Mike Dilly 01672 564938 mikedilly@barnabasfund.org

Donate Today

To make a donation to help Christians in Zimbabwe please click to donate online using our secure server and quote one of the following project references:

Zimbabwe: Helping a Starving Nation - 91-721
Zimbabwe: Agricultural Training and Start Up Costs - 91-751
Zimbabwe: General Fund - 91-806

If you prefer to telephone, dial: 0800 587 4006 from within the UK or +44 1672 565031 from outside the UK (Please quote project reference from the above list).

If you prefer to send a cheque by post: click this link for addresses of our regional offices (Please quote project reference from the above list).

Please Pray:

Thank the Lord for His grace and protection in enabling the feeding programme to continue unhindered despite all that has been happening in Zimbabwe. Praise Him for the courage of South African Christians who take the food to the Zimbabwean churches for distribution.

Praise Him for good harvests this year from the farming method. Pray that the farming training will continue to touch and transform lives spiritually as well as equipping people with the knowledge they need to grow enough food to support their families.

Pray for God`s protection over the tour and that it will encourage Christians in the UK to pray and give to help their brothers and sisters in Zimbabwe.