The fruit of the Spirit is Love, Joy, peace, Patience, kindness, Goodness, Faithfulness, Gentleness and self-control. Gal. 5.22-23

Mell came from Ganspan, he is a diabetic, he has lost both his legs.  Mell had a very bad bladder infection we had to take him to hospital for treatment, he sadly passed away  the 20 July 2012. 

Gentlecare has been blessed with 50 new blankets, what a joy to have such a privilege, so many in our little town don't even have blankets at night to warm them.  THANK YOU so much to our donors.  In turn we were able to donate 10 blankets to our local clinic for patients, and the rest to the poor.

Ben and Maria are absolute ANGELS they appear when you least expect and surprise you with a car full of cloths and toys, there is not even space for a mouse so full it is loaded.We just want to thank Ben and Maria from the core of our hearts for the love, care and warm hearts they have for Gentlecare, they travel all the way from Johannesburg to Britstown with unconditional love and giving, may you be truly blessed for your good hearts.

Also a huge thank you to all the donors that have given to Ben and Maria, it is such a huge help for the poor.

A few smiling faces for receiving toys and the clothes.

Eric is one of our cancer patients, he has just returned from Kimberly, he has throat cancer.  He now has a tube in his tummy for his food.

                                                               

 Gentlecare is so proud to show the new cupboards in the Women's and men's ward that Besom donated.
It is such a huge help, for our cupboards were exploding with linen and clothes.  Thank you Besom we are truly grateful to you for this amazing project.

 Tommie had off cuts left that he was able to make bed side cupboard for each bed, it all looks so beautiful. 

Tommie building the cupboards in the men's ward.

 We are now able to see what we have with the  space, so nice to be organized.

We would like to just give you feed back about Sarel and Ingrid that was in the last post.

We fetched Sarel in Kimberley on the 17 April 2012 he did not want any treatment for the cancer, he decided to spend the quality time with his wife Ingrid.  Which he so did, he sadly passed away on the          17 June 2012.

Ingrid has decided to stay on at Gentlecare.

Blessing to all our followers until next time much love

Tommie & Ivonne 

Sarel and Ingrid

This week we are asking you to please pray for this family.  Sarel and Ingrid Pretorius, from Britstown.  Ingrid has been in her wheelchair for over 25 years, and Sarel been such a awesome husband always seeing and helping Ingrid with all the house chores, picking her in and out of bed into the wheelchair etc. In short he is the spindle which the Pretorius household turns around.

The sad news is that Sarel has been diagnosed with very aggressive cancer, he was taken to Kimberly Hospital where he had to undergo tests, the surgeons were very puzzled with his condition, HE WENT TOTALLY PARALYZED.  The result cannot walk anymore and therefor everything that he used to do for both him and Ingrid, now has to be done by other people.

Sarel and Ingrid had to make the most difficult decision ever!.... was he going to take the treatment or not.

Sarel decided  not to go for the treatment but spend the last few months with his wonderful and dear wife and friend Ingrid.  The only problem was that they are now both in wheelchairs and need help...

A fairy tale, retirement, house up on the hill in Britstown, turned into a nightmare their 

dream that never came true.  Instead they have to be dependent on other people.  

They are both at Gentlecare and are now having to sell their house.  

Please pray and think of these exceptional people, 

that they will know and feel that they are so special and loved.

GENTLECARE IS BACK!

This is Joanna with Jackie.

Joanna comes from Poland, and she has given a month of her time to help at Gentlecare, we are truly blessed and so privileged to have her.

We thank her from the core of our hearts for a month of pure joy and love.  Joanna is a ray of sunshine and flowing over with so much love to give.  She gave so much love to the patients, that all were so sad when she left last night.  We wish you a path of gold to walk on, a ray of sunshine to show you the way, may you live all your dreams and be a blessing to those who you  touch in life.  THANK YOU SO MUCH Joanna you will always have a special place in our hearts, just like all the other volunteers that have come.

God has only just sent us Angels...

The wonderful story of two broken people who have been living on the streets for 14 years.

They were exposed to so many temptations and bad habits that they became very ill, when they arrived at Gentlecare they made a choice, the choice was to leave all the bad things and heal from the inside.

The healing process was not easy and the recovery road was up and down, and believe me not easy.

With lots of prayers, love, determination and help Jack and Jackie have decided to turn a new page.

We are so proud of them, Jack has started us a veggie garden, and Jackie has started with her art work, she draws amazing pictures with her left hand, her right hand has permanent damage.

We will surly post the drawing when it is done.

They are absolute stars, we are proud of you both.

We would like to thank De Aar Rotary for the wonderful donations made to Gentlecare, they have very good hearts, by donating clothes for the less fortunate.

Joanna, Olga and Shaeeza backing cake for the patients.............

Olga's birthday party.

We would like to thank our staff for always helping us, we appreciate it so much may the sun shine on you all always you are truly stars ....

We end this weeks blog news with Smile he is 21 years old and such a pleasure to have, he was bought to us from Petrusville, he has no family, no one has since inquired about him, he cannot walk barely talks, he calls Mervin we all wanted to eat him up!

Have a wonderful month of June we will be back soon with more news.  God bless you xx

Christmas Lunch 2011

We would like to take this opportunity to first of all thank our Father in heaven for another year, a year of many JOYS and also Many TEARS ....
Some of our patients that recovered and went home, but for the families that lost their loved ones, be assured that they are in a safe place now with no more pain.

We would also like to thank from the core of our hearts Katy Du Toit and family from De Aar for the Christmas gifts and food donation, this family has been doing this for the past three years now, and believe me that you as a family bring so much joy and hope to the patients, may you be blessed in abundance. A huge thank you.

We would also like to wish you all a wonderful and a amazing new year, a year filled with love, life and blessings, may all your dreams come true. Thank you to all our family, friends and donors without you all Gentlecare would not be possible, let us live this year to the full and not take life for granted.
Scroll down and have a small peep of our Christmas lunch and an amazing person that visited Gentlecare..

Our two "Bokkies" Olga and Ingrid Gerhard Engelbrecht the president of Rotary De Aar also made it possible to make the patients Christmas lunch a joy, they sponsored the lunch for the afternoon, a huge thank you to Rotary De Aar. Heinie handing Gerhard a small gift of appreciation from Gentlecare.

Gerhard from Rotary in De Aar arranged for the belly dancers to dance a few dances for the patients, which they enjoyed so much thank you.

The Christmas lunch for Gentlecare 2011 what fun we had........

Father Christmas handing Jerry a present, he unfortunately passed away the next day, very sad. Eric could not wait for Father Christmas to hand him his present, he was so excited about it all

Father Christmas handing out all the presents, what an amazing time it was, to many it was their first and to others it was unfortunately their last.

Karin and Smiley with Father Christmas!

This is Jo de Klee from Scotland helping out for the month of November 2011, what an amazing young man he is ! he came to give Gentlecare a month of his love and time, which he really did in an amazing way. Jo will be remembered by many for he has left a golden foot print in all our hearts. He really gave his all, and sometimes the task was not well but he stuck it out and puss- ed through. we wish you well Jo you are a awesome young man with a heart of gold, take it out into the world and live your dream. Our wishers are that you be a joy to others as you have been to us all.

Marie did not take long to teach him the disky dance......... well done Marie! Ingrid was admitted at the care center for some help, and before we could attend to her Jo had already done what was needed to be done, he was absolutely amazing, he is loved by so many. Jo was able to help with a funeral of one of our very poor people. Most of the terminal don't have funeral policy's, so when they pass away Tommie will help make a coffin and help to bury them. Helping in packing the meat for the care center. Fun time with Heinie, we received some secondhand clothing, some older version of the jockey!!!

Olga was very spoiled by Joe, she had her daily strolls through town and landscapes, she is missing Jo so much. Jo visiting one of the pumpkin houses, we counted 17 sleeping in this house, very hot in the summer and very cold in the winter. Huge eye opener to us all. The A Team Marie, Liesel, Jo Didi and Eunus They are showing off their new uniform! Always having fun with the carers!!! " Look we are protected" ready for the action !

Take care till next time.