South Africa Mission
“Barnabas Team” Report
March 10th to the 20th 2006


Barnabas Team. In back waving, Rodney Smith. Then left to right, down through the pyramid: Scott Quimby, Mauricio La Borde, Shauna La Borde, Kim Goerg, Toni Viau, Mike Reynolds, Carlos La Borde, Stephanie Reynolds, Tina Smith, Cathy Tuzzolino.
We would like to start this report by thanking our HRC family for their prayers and constant support on this project, we are extremely blessed to have such a supportive church family. This project began on November 20th of 2005, when a group of 11 people committed themselves to going to South Africa to support the ministry of Henk and Juanita Van Zyl. We called our team the “Barnabas” team, taken from the example of the life of Barnabas in the book of Acts, who was an encourager (his name even means son of encouragement). The vision of the orphanage is to change the lives of the children; to help them realize that they are not a mistake, that God placed them on this earth for a reason, and that they have a future and a divine purpose. Their vision is to restore dignity to the disadvantaged children of South Africa by demonstrating the love of Jesus Christ by caring for their physical, spiritual, emotional and intellectual needs.

Soccer Camp

Tina Smith with Kenneth from J-Life (Swaziland)

Team Objectives Completed:
  1. Soccer Camp for the kids with the goal of teaching them exercise, discipline & soccer skills. They were provided with soccer uniforms and equipment.
  2. The kids were given a nightly evangelistic, VBS program focusing on the Lord’s Prayer.
  3. The orphanage site required some basic maintenance of building facility as well as some basic construction project: installed shower heads, replaced kitchen sink faucet, cleaned and carpeted nursery.
  4. The team installed a basic computer lab with 5 donated laptops. Some Desktop PCs were recovered for use from storage as well.
  5. The team sent out an exploratory sub-team (Rodney and Tina Smith) for future mission project to the neighboring country of Swaziland.
  6. The team cooked for the entire orphaned.
  7. A total of 12 large bags with soccer uniforms, kids clothes, crafts materials and lots of underwear’s and socks were donated.
Next Page


Shauna LaBorde-new library
Mike Reynolds & Rodney Smith-working on computer lab