About Us.
We started our base on the 1st of April 2001. We focus on Frontier Missions, working in difficult, closed and unreached countries through going out to serve and share the gospel of Jesus Christ.
We have already reached out to many countries during the past several years. Our aim is to motivate our students to go to the Frontiers! Some of these countries are Lesotho, Namibia-Himba People group (and the border of Angola), Swaziland, Mozambique (working with the Shangaan people in Xai-Xai), Chad, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea (working with the Fang and Combe people), Argentina, Brazil, Uganda, Indonesia and South Africa.
We are the first and only Afro Latin base in Africa. We run our base in English & Spanish. We are open to students of the entire world. We are a bridge between Latin America and Africa. Latinos come to prepare as missionaries, learn to speak English and go into Africa and the world as missionaries. Also vice versa for Africans to learn Spanish and to go to Latin America. Learning a new language with us is only a bonus!
We run two DTS's every year, 1 February and 14 July. It runs for 20-24 weeks. It is 3 months theory on the base, and depending on where we go on field assignment (outreach), another 2 - 3 months. The SOFM starts every year on the 14th of July and also runs for 20-24 weeks. The SBC (School of Biblical Counseling) starts on the 14th of July.
Just to give you an overview of what we do on the base:
Our base is situated in the town of Bethlehem, Orange Free State Province, South Africa. We are situated on a farm and are now getting out of our pioneering stage into being a more settled base. We are always building new buildings to bring up more facilities and housing as the numbers of staff and students are growing.
a). We have 4 schools during the year.
* A DTS - Discipleship Training School from 1 Feb and 14 July and Prison DTS starts 1 March
* A SOFM - School Of Frontier Missions from 14 July - Dec.
* A SBC- School of biblical counselling starting on the 14 July.
b) We have a Mercy Ministry team that works in the community through a feeding scheme in the poor communities, and doing community development there.
c) A Mobile Ministry team that works in community development in town and the surrounding towns, four prisons, street kids, churches, disabled children, poor and less privilaged communities, schools, Tiboloa (the deaf and blind school), rehabilitation, elderly people, and many more. The base also have a sewing workshop providing training for women without jobs and husbands. This provides an income and way to support themselves and their kids. We also receive visiting teams from other YWAM bases & church outreach groups from all over the world who come with us on outreaches, and help us with all our ministries and lots of work in the communities.
d) We also receive Volunteers to participate in the exciting ministries.
e) We need people to come and help with cooking, gardening, building, carpentry work, leading praise and worship, translators from Spanish to English and vice versa, OFFICE STAFF, event organising and office work as separate ministries for the base.
f) Church planting on farms around the base, also with devotions, sunday services, kids and adult programs during the week.
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