George in USA

Hands at Work in Africa CEO and founder George Snyman will travel to the US in November/December to challenge churches about their role in caring for the orphaned, widowed and the dying, to cast the Hands at Work vision, and to attend strategic meetings with the organisation’s country offices and partner churches.

His itinerary is as follows:

St. Louis, MO, November 9-11

Meeting with Ten Talents Foundation

 

Minneapolis, MN, November 12

Breakfast meeting with local area pastors 10:00am

Hope Church in Apple Valley, MN

(If you would like to attend please RSVP to Dara Hillstrom at DaraJean15@hotmail.com or Kristy Kes at islandgirlKristy@yahoo.com)

 

Evening with friends of Hands at Work 7:00 pm

Vision of Glory Lutheran Church in Plymouth, MN

(Contact Dara Hillstrom if you have any questions: 480-272-2742 or darajean15@hotmail.com)

 

 

Racine, WI, November 13-18

Sunday, November 15, services at 8:30 a.m. and 10:15 a.m. at Grace Church in Racine, WI  

Small group meetings throughout the week

 

Boise, ID, December 6

Sunday, December 6, services at 9:00 am and 10:45 am at Faith Community Bible Church in Boise, ID

 

For any queries or to schedule a meeting with George during his time in the US, please email lauren@us.handsatwork.org or Jed@handsatwork.org.

 

 

 

Recent News

Thursday, September 03, 2009

 

Two new announcements:

- Hands at Work Donor/Volunteer Appreciation Dessert

- Hands at Work Charity Golf Tournament, TBD

 

Hands at Work Donor/Volunteer Appreciation Dessert:

• Date: Sunday, October 4, 2009
• Time: 1:15pm
• Location: Clubhouse at Dublin Ranch in Dublin, CA
• Agenda
  • Welcome
  • Video
  • Devotion
  • Past, Present, Future/ Arise & Build Campaign
  • Finance/ Giving Update
  • Snyman Tour
  • Volunteer Acknowledgment

 

Hands at Work Charity Golf Tournament

• Tentatively: Saturday, September 19, 2009  at Monarch Bay in San Leandro, CA
  
• If interested, contact James Yoo (jamesjyoo@gmail.com)
  

 

 

Friday, August 06, 2009

Yikes!

Has it really been almost 5 months since the last post?  It has, and oh so much has happened. Here's a brief history:

• May 30 - 'Meant to Live', Benefits Concert in Orange County, CA
• June 28 - July 10 - Short Term Missions Team from Wellspring sets off for Mozambique.
• July - Rosewood Care Centers in Missouri and Illinois sends out 16 specially-trained nurses to the Republic of Zambia. You can read more about it at www.nursesforafrica.net/ 

  Day Six - "Heal" from Nurses for Africa on Vimeo.

• July 22 - Hannah Chung is home after spending one year with Footprints in South Africa and Mozambique
• George Snyman's US tour scheduled for Nov/Dec. 

 

 

Saturday, March 21, 2009

Moving Forward!

Hands at Work in Africa (US) is now exempt from Federal income tax under 501 (c) (3) of the Internal Revenue Code. We are now an official public charity! Thank you to everyone for their on-going help and support in laying the ground work for His Kingdom work with Hands. A special thanks to Eugene Chang for all of the time he has put into this application to keep our costs to a minimum. It has been an incredible journey already in the way that God has paved every way for us to do what He calls us to do. His plans will not be thwarted!

We also have a new address: It works just like a PO BOX address. Here it is:

Hands at Work in Africa (US)
237 Kearny Street #105
San Francisco, CA 94108

Please pray for Lauren who is on her way from San Francisco to Dubai to Johannesburg to Nelspruit to attend the Hands at Work Country Offices Conference. There will be much to share and hear and we're looking forward to hearing Lauren's report.

And finally, on May 30th there will be a Benefit Concert for Hands at Work USA in Fullerton, CA. Details to follow shortly. In the interim, please watch this video, 'An Update from Gondola, Mozambique'.

 

 

 

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Wednesday 01Oct

Masoyi Home-Based Care Survey(SA)

Wednesday, October 1, 2008 at 09:48AM

A Grannie works in the community garden at a Care Center in Masoyi, South Africa.With an estimated 5.5 million people living with HIV in South Africa, the AIDS epidemic is creating large numbers of children growing up without adult protection, nurturing, or financial support. Of South Africa’s 18 million children, nearly 21% (about 3.8 million children) have lost one or both parents.

Despite the magnitude and dire consequences of the growing number of orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) in South Africa and elsewhere in sub-Saharan Africa, there is insufficient documentation of the strategies deployed to improve the well-being of these children.

To fill these knowledge gaps, the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief commissioned Khulisa Management Services of Johannesburg, South Africa, to research and write case studies of 32 OVC programmes in South Africa that receive emergency plan funding.

Hands at Work’s Masoyi Home-Based Care project serves Masoyi, consisting of six villages in Mpumalanga Province. Here is the case study of what we do and how we do it.

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Thursday 10Apr

OnTour

Thursday, April 10, 2008 at 03:26PM

George Snyman, founder of Hands at Work in Africa, is touring North America and the UK over the next month and a half. If you are interested in a more detailed itinerary with all the locations that George will be speaking at please email: lynn@handsatwork.org.

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Thursday 28Feb

Hands are at Work in the USAOffice

Thursday, February 28, 2008 at 07:09AM

With much excitement and joy we announce the official registration of Hands at Work in Africa (USA). Hands USA, as we call ourselves, was officially formed last fall, and our team and activities have continued to develop and grow from that initiation.

Our Roots

While we exist to work with all churches across the USA, it was with Wellspring Church that our passion to start Hands USA was born. I, along with my husband, Henry, and our 3 children, traveled with Wellspring to South Africa last July. We had decided to visit Africa as a family after hosting George and Carolyn at our home for dinner while they were visiting Wellspring Church in 2006. We had been touched by their commitment and compelled to look beyond ourselves here.

That same evening after our guests had left, Henry and I made the decision to go, but also to be open to whatever further involvement God might have for me in serving Africa rather than going back to work or school as I had anticipated in the near future. In Africa, I told George about this decision. His response was incredible. He said, " Lauren, we have been praying for a year about someone like you,

 

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Thursday 04Oct

Message from aPartner

Thursday, October 4, 2007 at 05:39PM

When our first team of six men returned to Wellspring Church (N. California, USA) from their eye-opening visit to South Africa in 2005, all of us at Wellspring became introduced to George and Carolyn Snyman, founders of Hands at Work.

For these brothers, that visit was a life-changing event that God used to mark them with an indelible imprint of the faces and lives touched by the HIV/AIDS pandemic. In October 2006, the Snymans had an opportunity to visit Wellspring to share of God's call for them to care for the poor, sick, and dying, and to remind us of God's heart for and the biblical mandate to care for the widow and orphan. Needless to say, this visit was instrumental in serving as a catalyst for those who would join the next team to Mpumalanga , South Africa.

Our next visit came last July and was indeed an opportunity to witness God's works of mercy and compassion through the body of believers in the midst of much suffering and loss.

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