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Help For Refugee Women

Ashley and Rosemarie Cloete are to very special people I have come to know here in Cape Town
They are missionaries with an organization Friends from Abroad and now work with All Nations. I am privileged to have helped edit Ashley's book on the prayer movement in Cape Town. Yesterday I spent the afternoon with Rosemarie to see how she ministers to refugee women who come here from other African countries. Most of those I met are from Burundi. Before we met them, together, with Ashley leading we prayed for them and for an
evangelistic outreach to another part of the Cape. Our prayer time started with an unusual praise. We thanked God that the Office of Home Affairs to which these women go for help, was moving. This is important because it will relocate to a place that is safer and hopefully, much more friendly to these needy women.All of them have had difficult lives and now live as refugees in a city and among people that are increasingly inhospitable to them.
If any group of women needed to know the love of Jesus, it is these and Rosemarie and her helpers that I met, Rochelle and Trisha delight in showing them that love. Rosemarie and Ashely help them with the bureaucratic steps they must go through to get help and are their advocates when they are treated poorly. They pray with them, counsel them and get them the medical help they so often need for themselves and their children. Without any income, Rosemarie helps them make jewellery (as seen in above photo)and pays them for their work. The women, dressed all their handsome traditional clothes hugged me and they had fun making earrings and things they thought I would like! And yes, I took some home! Because of the work of Rosemarie and Ashely these women can come to a place that is safe and comfortable for them, a chance to escape for a while the sad conditions in which they live. They also hear, and more powerfully, see God's love for them. I love what I do, and even more, a chance to meet other wonderful women in life-changing ministries and I thank God for Rosemarie. Join me in praying for this refugee ministry here in the heart of the city of Cape Town.