Focusing on Clean Water,
Education and Health in
Zimbabwe and Brazil
Water, Education and Health
June Update: Political unrest characterizes Zimbabwe in the wake of the indecisive March elections. Please pray for the people and congregations of Zimbabwe, as well as teams that may be traveling to the country in the coming weeks and months.
JourneyPartners connects resources, people, challenges and opportunities around the world and at home. We focus in three main arenas: clean and available water, education and resources, and health and medicine. Recent celebrations include the construction of a 75,000 gallon water reservoir in Gweru, Zimbabwe; assisting the new Alliance of Baptists in Brazil in the publication of Walter Shurden’s Four Fragile Freedoms in Portugese, and delivery of more than two tons of supplementary textbooks to Jones County Schools in eastern North Carolina. 2007’s work brought three mission immersion teams to Zimbabwe, and included the construction of a hostel to house AIDS orphans in Masembura, the fourth Church Leadership Institute in cooperation with the Baptist Seminary of Zimbabwe, shipment of more than 500 nursing and medical textbooks to nursing schools in several developing areas, the first medical team from Mercer University to Zimbabwe to explore future medical missions, and mission opportunities with Baptists in Brazil and the Republic of Georgia.
Funds from partnering congregations allow this
small organization to link people of faith all over the world, and
assist congregations in making a little bit go a very long way.
Kubatana
Sokwanele
JourneyPartners is a
small not-for-profit, ecumenical and interfaith organization,
established to facilitate connections – international and domestic –
between and among congregations and individuals around the world and at
home, for mutual understanding, relationship, community-building and
service.