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                                                                                LIFEHOUSE CHURCH IN
                                                                                CHARTWELL
                                                                                The Lifehouse Church has a number
                                                                                of activities on the go and you’re
                                                                                invited to join them either by making
                                                                                a donation of groceries or by getting
                                                                                involved in one or more of their drives.

                                                                                BREAD BASKET FOOD DRIVE
                                                                                To celebrate International Mandela
                                                                                Day, the church is collecting non-
                                                                                perishable food that can be dropped
                                                                                off at designated times from now until
                                                                                17 July 2021. So when you’re out
                                                                                grocery shopping, or ordering your
                                                                                food online, why not add one or two
                                                                                extra items to your trolley – maize
                                                                                meal for making pap, samp, salt,
                                                                                rice, Ricoffy, tea bags, sugar, baked
                                                                                beans, peanut butter and jam will all
                                                                                be welcomed.

                                                                                Email: admin@lifehousechurch.
                                                                                co.za for the list of drop-off days
                                                                                and the times when the groceries
                                                                                can be delivered.
                                                                                CLOTHING DRIVE
                                                                                If you have clothes that no longer fit you
                                                                                or your children (from babies up to adult
                                                                                sizes), consider bringing them to the
                                                                                Lifehouse Church. Please make sure
                                                                                that all garments are clean and wearable
                                                                                – and similarly, please make sure that
                                                                                any blankets that you don’t need are
                                                                                cleaned first before dropping them off.

                                                                                Email: dale@lifehousechurch co.za
                                                                                to arrange the time and place
                                                                                for dropping off you clothing
                                                                                donations.
                                                                                BRICKS FOR BREAD INITIATIVE
                                                                                To assist in the building of the Tiisetso
                                                                                Community Skills Development
                                                                                Centre, Lifehouse Church is
                                                                                supporting the ecobrick campaign.
                                                                                Members of the Thabo Mbeki Informal
                                                                                Settlement are encouraged to collect
                                                                                plastic bags and 2 litre cold drink
                                                                                bottles which will be used as building
                                                                                bricks for the walls of the training
                                                                                centre. The purpose of the centre is to
                                                                                impart essential skills to the residents,
                                                                                to make them more relevant to the
                                                                                marketplace. In exchange for each
                                                                                ecobrick that the participants make,
                                                                                they will receive a food pack.

                                                                                To get involved in any of
                                                                                these initiatives, visit: www.
                                                                                lifehousechurch.co.za/outreach.
                                                                                On 18 July 2021(depending on the
                                                                                Covid restrictions), the donations of
                                                                                groceries, clothing and other useful
                                                                                items will be taken by members of the
                                                                                Lifehouse Church to the Thabo Mbeki
                                                                                Informal settlement, for distribution to
                                                                                families in need.

                                                                                Ubuntu sees people not as individuals,
                                                                                but as part of an infinitely complex
                                                                                web of other human beings. The
                                                                                idea is that we are all bound up with
                                                                                one another – that ‘me’ is always
                                                                                subordinate to ‘we’ – and that no man
                                                                                or woman is an island.
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