When mama Sandra passed away (see my blog no. 009), the ministries she left behind were continued on an ad hoc basis. Annelies coordinated everything well, but not everyone was available every week. So it was a search. There was quite a bit of uncertainty among the volunteers involved about how to proceed. Would everyone continue to help? Who would want to do what was needed to be done? Questions that none of us had the answers to at that time. Especially because the ministry involved three groups of people; the women, the homeless and the families.
Fortunately, Annelies organized a meeting. Miraculously, there were seven different parties at the table, all willing to take a piece. The schedule for the homeless shelter on Saturday morning had already been created and filled. There are four teams that have a turn every four weeks. There were also people present who would like to further build contact with the women. Mama Sandra did this with passion and these women were actually the core of her ministry. She saw them almost every week. I am pleased that this work will continue and that the women will continue to have a point of contact.
We can focus (together with others) on the families in the Village (San Nicolas). This work fits in seamlessly with our personal mission and I am grateful that we can actually step into this naturally.
After the meeting, we chatted for a while and were amazed at how mom Sandra still did everything by herself at the beginning of the summer. Well, alone, with God then. How special is it that God has given her ministry a home in the Hub after that time and has brought all kinds of people on her path who can now take over the work. In this way we can continue to build together what God started with just mama Sandra.
