POSTAL:
P.O. Box 71946
Die Wilgers 0041
SOUTH AFRICA

Office: +27-12-807-1074
Cell: +27-82-522-5319
Email: Thandanani

About Us
The Core Team
Thandanani (from isiZulu meaning "love one another") was formed in 2008 by a core team of experienced vocational church-planters from Africa, Europe, and America.

Our purpose and passion is to facilitate the creation of an African church movement that will meet the spiritual and physical needs of orphans and vulnerable children in the current crisis.

Obviously, our ultimate goal is to reach these children with the gospel of Jesus Christ, to lead them into a personal relationship with Him, to see them grow in Christlikeness, and to equip them with the education and life skills that will allow them to become good Christians, good parents, good employees, and good citizens.

Churches Are The Answer
We believe that African communities, and particularly their spiritually reborn Bible-believing assemblies, have a core value of caring for their own residents and are best suited to care for orphans and children made vulnerable by the HIV/AIDS pandemic. Foster parenting in "forever homes" should be done within these communities, rather than by external, distant, and institutional methods and personnel.

In many cases, however, these African churches and their leaders need discipleship and assistance to develop a God-honouring approach to ministry, obtain property, make capital improvements to the property, create income-generating capacity, build foster residences, and receive training in child care and children's ministry. These are all elements of Thandanani's ministry.

Compassion - Reflecting the Character of God
Throughout the Bible, believers are commanded to care for orphans, the weak, and the poor - those whose plight calls us to sacrifice where they can never pay us back. This is what God did for us in providing us such a great salvation! Compassion ministry should be a core virtue in the life of every believer.

Perhaps the greatest stewardship of the Body of Christ in the next decade will be reaching the 40 million orphans of sub-Saharan Africa with the gospel.

Our task is to seamlessly combine prayer, God's Truth, and compassion ministry into one, as Jesus and the apostles did, followed in more recent centuries by men like Whitefield (who began an orphan home in Georgia) and Spurgeon (whose church began 63 compassion ministries).

How Thandanani Can Help?
Simply put, there are not enough churches to care for all of the orphans and vulnerable children in KwaMhlanga, and the churches that are helping need to be strengthened, to grow, and to reproduce. Churches are faced with either turning away verifiably needy children or over-working their staff. Neither is acceptable.

The mission of Thandanani is to develop stronger reproducing local churches in under-developed areas to build in them a capacity to minister to orphans. In addition to developing orphan care facilites, building foster homes, and training care-givers and foster parents, we will be involved in discipling existing leaders, educating future leaders, supplying resources for churches to do more effective ministry, assisting churches with outreach and other ministry events, and helping them to strategise future growth opportunities.