Volunteer!
Xhosa Gospel Mission welcomes volunteers to come and help. Several teams of volunteers have come to construct buildings, do outreaches to public schools, train pastors and evangelists, teach Bible lessons, Vacation Bible School, among other things.
Volunteers have had wonderful and touching experiences working with Xhosa Gospel Mission and their staff.
Volunteers have had wonderful and touching experiences working with Xhosa Gospel Mission and their staff.
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TESTIMONIALS
DS: …..It will be remembered as one of the most successful trips to a foreign field. I pray God will continue to use Bro. Hoppy and those who labor with him among the Xhosa people. Here's my summary thoughts on the trip: As I reflect upon the trip to East London, South Africa I find it difficult to express in a few words what God did in my heart. To be teamed up with Quitman FBC, ICP and Xhosa Gospel Mission with a common heart and goal to demonstrate the love of Jesus to a neglected people is quite unique. There's no doubt God put this team together for this moment in time. The building of the orphan house brought us together, but it was the common bond of Christian love among the volunteers, the local pastors and church leaders that we'll remember for a lifetime. The smiles on the faces of the children and the songs they sang with joy inspire me to want to "do it again" for Jesus' sake.
KC: ….This was my first foreign mission trip and all I knew was [that] we were going to the southern tip of Africa and I figured all of the Google pictures I had looked up on East London might be a little misleading compared to what we were in for. …I felt the prayers of my family, church members and fellow Christians. Even when working all day cutting concrete blocks with a bunch of folks I had never met [previously] to singing with the Xhosa children during their VBS lessons, it never seemed like I was a world away from home with the prayer support we received. And once word got out in the village that Jesus was being taught at the mission for the kids VBS the number of kids doubled by week's end. Xhosa children, who often had no shoes and were strangers would come up to me and hug, love and talk like we had known each other all our life. Those children approached me, and I'm a little larger than most, with no reservations whatsoever. This is the same way we are supposed to approach Jesus Christ, with no reservations. These kids were open to anything anybody could share or give them. What an awesome opportunity and responsibility to share our Lord and Savior with them. Everything from the singing of songs, Bible story lessons, to construction of homes was received by them like they were a dry sponge hoping to soak it all in and be full and blessed. I can't imagine having gone thru this life and not having taken this trip. I guess the message I take back from the trip and what so many people of the Xhosa mission churches made evident to me is whether it's in Arkansas or a poor Xhosa village in Africa, whatever our lot in this world, this world is NOT our eternal home. We are all just passing through. Thank you for the opportunity to witness and to have been witnessed to.
DS: …..It will be remembered as one of the most successful trips to a foreign field. I pray God will continue to use Bro. Hoppy and those who labor with him among the Xhosa people. Here's my summary thoughts on the trip: As I reflect upon the trip to East London, South Africa I find it difficult to express in a few words what God did in my heart. To be teamed up with Quitman FBC, ICP and Xhosa Gospel Mission with a common heart and goal to demonstrate the love of Jesus to a neglected people is quite unique. There's no doubt God put this team together for this moment in time. The building of the orphan house brought us together, but it was the common bond of Christian love among the volunteers, the local pastors and church leaders that we'll remember for a lifetime. The smiles on the faces of the children and the songs they sang with joy inspire me to want to "do it again" for Jesus' sake.
KC: ….This was my first foreign mission trip and all I knew was [that] we were going to the southern tip of Africa and I figured all of the Google pictures I had looked up on East London might be a little misleading compared to what we were in for. …I felt the prayers of my family, church members and fellow Christians. Even when working all day cutting concrete blocks with a bunch of folks I had never met [previously] to singing with the Xhosa children during their VBS lessons, it never seemed like I was a world away from home with the prayer support we received. And once word got out in the village that Jesus was being taught at the mission for the kids VBS the number of kids doubled by week's end. Xhosa children, who often had no shoes and were strangers would come up to me and hug, love and talk like we had known each other all our life. Those children approached me, and I'm a little larger than most, with no reservations whatsoever. This is the same way we are supposed to approach Jesus Christ, with no reservations. These kids were open to anything anybody could share or give them. What an awesome opportunity and responsibility to share our Lord and Savior with them. Everything from the singing of songs, Bible story lessons, to construction of homes was received by them like they were a dry sponge hoping to soak it all in and be full and blessed. I can't imagine having gone thru this life and not having taken this trip. I guess the message I take back from the trip and what so many people of the Xhosa mission churches made evident to me is whether it's in Arkansas or a poor Xhosa village in Africa, whatever our lot in this world, this world is NOT our eternal home. We are all just passing through. Thank you for the opportunity to witness and to have been witnessed to.