On Board with Heart for Africa's Board
Heart for Africa will take its North American volunteers to Africa this year with a renewed sense of purpose and clarity about its goals.
Meeting in Alpharetta, GA, in February, the directors unanimously approved the strategic plan presented by President Ian Maxwell. The plan recognizes both the organization’s roots and its call by laying the cornerstone of Heart for Africa as backyard gardens leading to food security.
By coming alongside Africans in Malawi, Kenya and Swaziland to plant seedlings rich in nutrients, we will be helping these families and villages—who choose too- to move toward a sustainable food supply. By doing so, they will have hope for a future. Bringing that hope is central to why God has called us to Africa.
We will use the three-phase planting model that was piloted in Swaziland last year in Malawi and Kenya. Utilizing drip irrigation and compost trenches, it leads to sustainable rotational gardens.
In Malawi, it’s particularly intriguing because Ian’s research led to a missionary couple that had flourished for more than 20 years by only growing food crops native to Malawi. They’ve dubbed the program permaculture. Isn’t it remarkably logical to encourage folks to grow the plants that God put on that land originally?
We’re excited about the new partnership in Kenya with Glory Outreach and Help a Child Face Tomorrow that will combine our efforts with a medical mission and evangelism followed by discipleship.
Our trips will combine gardens, work with orphans (both in villages and in children’s homes), some light construction and, for trained professionals, medical outreach.
The board left Georgia excited to see what God was going to do this year and thrilled to have a role in His plans for His kids in Africa and North America.
Come join us and serve as the hands and feet of Jesus in Africa.
by: Tim Hunt, Chairman of Heart for Africa Board
Meeting in Alpharetta, GA, in February, the directors unanimously approved the strategic plan presented by President Ian Maxwell. The plan recognizes both the organization’s roots and its call by laying the cornerstone of Heart for Africa as backyard gardens leading to food security.
By coming alongside Africans in Malawi, Kenya and Swaziland to plant seedlings rich in nutrients, we will be helping these families and villages—who choose too- to move toward a sustainable food supply. By doing so, they will have hope for a future. Bringing that hope is central to why God has called us to Africa.
We will use the three-phase planting model that was piloted in Swaziland last year in Malawi and Kenya. Utilizing drip irrigation and compost trenches, it leads to sustainable rotational gardens.
In Malawi, it’s particularly intriguing because Ian’s research led to a missionary couple that had flourished for more than 20 years by only growing food crops native to Malawi. They’ve dubbed the program permaculture. Isn’t it remarkably logical to encourage folks to grow the plants that God put on that land originally?
We’re excited about the new partnership in Kenya with Glory Outreach and Help a Child Face Tomorrow that will combine our efforts with a medical mission and evangelism followed by discipleship.
Our trips will combine gardens, work with orphans (both in villages and in children’s homes), some light construction and, for trained professionals, medical outreach.
The board left Georgia excited to see what God was going to do this year and thrilled to have a role in His plans for His kids in Africa and North America.
Come join us and serve as the hands and feet of Jesus in Africa.
by: Tim Hunt, Chairman of Heart for Africa Board
posted by Donna | 7:00 AM
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