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