The sanctuary at Old Mutare Mission is packed on Sundays--
mostly with the 2000+ students who attend its primary-high school boarding school.
| Visit to Old Mutare Mission Across the way from Africa University is the Old Mutare Mission. I have a special interest in this mission because my Grandma Walters' first cousin was a missionary there for 38 yrs back in the middle of the 20th century. |
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The sanctuary at Old Mutare Mission is packed on Sundays--
mostly with the 2000+ students who attend its primary-high school
boarding school.
At Old Mutare Mission there is ministry for children who have lost
their biological families.
Instead of the old "orphanage" format, they are raising 80 children in
eight homes.
Each home has a mom and ten children.
The children are then raised with their new nine brothers
and sisters
by their new mother and an aunty who lives elsewhere but helps out
during the day.
The moms are women who either have no biological children or whose
children no longer live with them.
Often they are widows. The moms are making a commitment to live
in the home provided and raise the children as their own.
When they need to take a day off, they can call upon a helper-mom to
fill in.
The baby is the newest arrival in this home.
The homes are built around an open space, which the
children use for outdoor play. (note the playground)
There is also a small community building which the mothers meet in
after the children have been sent to school.
One of the hardest jobs belongs to this recent Africa University
graduate.
She is the chaplain of Old Mutare Mission, which means she counsels the
2000+ students at the
boarding school plus the the 80 children in the orphan ministry plus
all the staff. This keeps her very busy.
She asked me to share with you that their ministry is struggling under
the high inflation rates/economic situation in Zimbabwe now.
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