Christmas Newsletter

Greetings. We want to wish you all a blessed Christmas and a New Year, filled with wonderful moments.

2022 has been a year filled with new beginnings. After closing our shop we have had to look through a different set of eyes in terms of resourcing our families and raising funds.

Our care families have increased by one since September, this is so encouraging for us. No, babies have left our care to forever families, but we have had two new little ones added to our care. We are hoping to see two move on to their forever care before Christmas.

We did a training via zoom in October, we called it “Checking In”, it was a revelatory time, seeing the big hearts of our care families and the enormity of the emotional, physical and financial toll they are carrying to this great work.

We have a wonderful volunteer helping with our social media and have seen a big increase in activity on our accounts. and have really extended our reach. We also managed to attend a Meta Business Suite training which was very insightful and helpful, hence our new business WhatsApp number. We can now sell via this platform.

 

Our NJ clothing brand will soon be sold on the Gift Horse platform, we are trusting for great income generation towards our monthly care family gifts.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Our year-end function was a blast with a visit to the Drakenstein Lion Park.  Seeing the 9 adopted children between us as a small group was so encouraging, and interacting with our babies and families was so heartwarming.

 

 

We continue to be encouraged by all God is doing to make Naomi’s Joy financially stable, and the wonderful people he has brought across our paths to help us.

 

Kind Regards

Jane for Team Joy