Who We Are
About Challenge Ministries ICBC Child Sponsorship
Eswatini is the smallest nation in the southern hemisphere, with a population of just over 1.2 million people. Economic poverty is prevalent and the rate of HIV/AIDS is among the highest in the world. Many of the children are orphaned or vulnerable. An orphan refers to a child that has lost one or both parents. The children often refer to their extended family as their parents. Meanwhile a vulnerable child is a child that comes from a poor background. The parents could be dead or alive but are poor and unable to provide adequately for the needs of the child.
Our Child Sponsorship Program is a way to support our work to rescue children, raise leaders and rebuild a community and a nation. Unlike other child sponsorship programs, we go beyond simply supplying essentials like food, shelter and clothing. Our program ensures long-term, sustainable solutions by providing holistic care directly to children in need.
100% of all sponsorship funds go directly to the child, providing coverage for all aspects of the child’s life: home care, food, medical care, clothing, housing, and education. Our program gives emaSwati children the opportunity to thrive, to just be children, and to emerge as leaders in their homes, work, community and nation. We believe every child deserves the chance to have an education and fulfil their dreams.
Challenge Ministries
Hope lives here - Freedom is found here - Changed lives leave here
WIN
To compassionately WIN Eswatini, through partnering with like-minded individuals, churches and organizations;
TRAIN
To TRAIN up a remnant to preserve the future by becoming an accurate representation of Christ being lived out amongst communities;
SEND
To SEND out empowered believers from a restored Eswatini to a world in need.
HAWANE CHILDREN’S HOME
HAWANE CHILDREN’S HOME provides interim foster homes of no more than eight to ten children per home, per “parent.” We take in only the most desperate cases from the Department of Social Welfare. The children are raised in their new homes, knowing that the home is theirs for life. The parents have ongoing training in raising children, psychosocial care, first aid, primary health care, nutrition, agriculture and life skills. Each child has his/her own vegetable garden, access to raising rabbits and fish and is required to prepare meals for the homestead, as well as learning life skills within the homestead.
TEEN CHALLENGE Eswatini ( Men's )
TEEN CHALLENGE Eswatini: Emafini Men’s Centre provides a structured program to work with male youth battling life controlling habits, journeying with them as they battle to break free of their habits. The residential program is a minimum of twelve months long and is a structured, care- confrontational program. The Centre has capacity for 24 residents. We are seeing dramatic changes in the lifestyle and behaviour of those coming through the program.
TEEN CHALLENGE Eswatini ( Woman's )
TEEN CHALLENGE Eswatini: Elusitweni Women’s Centre protects and empowers women and their children who are suffering physical and sexual abuse in the home, school or the workplace. The residential program, also based on the Christ-centred Teen Challenge curriculum provides physical, spiritual and emotional care to abused women, girls and their children.
IN COMMUNITY BY COMMUNITY CHURCH (ICBC
IN COMMUNITY BY COMMUNITY CHURCH (ICBC): An ICBC project begins with planting a church in a hurting community. Each project is led by a visionary, Swazi pastor. In partnership with churches and organisations from around the world, ICBCs further incorporate a pre-school, sustainability programmes, health care and nutrition programs and OVC care. There are currently six active ICBC projects with a long-term vision for 60 locations. Each ICBC will have a unique sustainability aspect serving its own community.
MISSION IMPACT
Teams and individuals from around the world reach the hurting people of Eswatini as the hands and feet of Christ. Our commitment is to provide volunteers with a meaningful experience and an opportunity to grow in a deeper relationship with God through intentional discipleship. Visitors participate in building projects at ICBC sites, plant gardens in communities, assist with prayer ministry in hospitals, attend health clinics and spend time with children throughout the ministry.
POTTER’S WHEEL CHURCH
POTTER’S WHEEL CHURCH: Named after the Jeremiah 18 image of a potter moulding clay into vessels in His house, Potter’s Wheel Church is a place of spiritual worship, a house of prayer and a community for liberated revival. Potter’s Wheel offers a strong life group network (small home groups), access to advanced teaching and well developed ministries for men, women, children, families and youth.
VALUES
FAITH
HOPE
LOVE
FRUIT
TO KNOW GOD, BE TEACHABLE, BE FAITHFUL, BE LOYAL and BE 5th GOSPEL
VISION
To WIN
To TRAIN
To SEND
MISSION
To know God, to be His people, to value others and to change our world.
ICBC VISION
ICBC is an acronym for ministry that is done In the Community and By the Community that the ministry is located in, led by a visionary pastor within the community to include a church, health outreach, sustainability projects, pre-school and orphan homes, and community vegetable gardens.
Our model thus far includes a church plant, a pastor’s house, two widow homes and or homes for orphans, a community vegetable garden, a health outreach project and sustainability projects to support the local pastor and its church. The first ICBC project was established in the Hawane area in 2008.
Our God-sized vision is to plant 60 ICBC churches in the worst affected areas in the nation of Eswatini, to impact the communities with the love and life of Jesus Christ, tackling poverty, dependency, HIV and AIDS in God's way.
We believe that these are the days of Ezekiel, where the dry bones of hopelessness will now be knit together by the Spirit of the Lord for those who live in the love of God and the revelation of His Word.
BULEMBU
Bulembu has an ambitious vision and a large heart. We are a not-for-profit
organisation serving Jesus Christ through community enterprise and community care.
BULEMBU
Bulembu has an ambitious vision and a large heart. We are a not-for-profit organisation serving Jesus Christ through community enterprise and community care.
Our Vision
Raising leaders, Restoring a town for a sustainable Kingdom Transformation.
Our Mission
Restoring hope, equipping lives, building family through Christ-centred community care and community enterprise.
Our Values
Faith. Hope. Love.
Sustainability
Today, Bulembu has a clear vision to become a vibrant, sustainable community. This vision for sustainability includes fostering the development of a new generation of emerging leaders through orphan care, education, health services and commerce. A variety of Community Care programs are transforming the town by restoring basic social services to the community. Utilizing the infrastructure already established, Bulembu leadership discovered many opportunities to build innovative, sustainable, and profitable businesses in the community. Each enterprise is formally a division of the larger charity, with the profits from each enterprise flowing into Bulembu’s Sustainability Fund for the advancement of the vision.
As people from outside of Eswatini recognize the unique opportunity to invest in this town’s vision and partner with the people of Bulembu, a new generation of Swazi leaders will emerge. These young people will become men and women equipped, engaged and prepared to contribute to the transformational work so desperately needed in this country.
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Challenge Ministries Swaziland (started as ‘The Lighthouse’) was established in April 1997 and reaches out to help the children & youth of Eswatini who are hurting, disadvantaged, infected and affected by HIV. Our goal is to encourage and help disadvantaged youth to successfully deal with their past hurts and to grow in self-confidence, understanding their potential, their uniqueness, their value, establishing hope, encouraging tangible goals and living in the revelation of their promise and significance.