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Outreach programme

 

Anything that connects JL Zwane with the community falls under outreach. This can be anything including issues around building homes for the homeless, securing food for those that have nothing to eat, collecting and distributing clothes to many people without clothes including uniforms for school children, looking for employment, responding to the needs of AIDS orphans (both in foster care and child-headed households) and sometimes supporting families for burials of loved ones. There are two homes that JL Zwane visits and sometimes gives assistance to when such assistance is possible.

A strong emphasis is on learning to love as we have been loved. It is an attempt to alleviate pain and suffering by just being there (a pastoral presence) for those that need us. Due to high unemployment and poverty there are lots of psychological, health and spiritual issues in the community. Some questions are around the nature of God. Who is God and why does God allow this to happen? JL Zwane has a strong sense of call to identify with those that are excluded and unwanted. All members of the congregation are expected to play a role in rendering service to the immediate community through the zones. Members of the congregation, through the zones are encouraged to participate and to be involved in protecting the dignity of the individual. Being and doing what God wants done is what we would want to see happen. A number of those we assist and support end up as members of the JL Zwane family.