Friday, 21 October 2011
The new-look TLC website is finally live!
After months of work, the new-look TLC website is finally finished!
I redesigned and coded the website based on the content of the original website. I shed not a few tears over the stories I read about the children who have passed though the home, and especially those who graduated to heaven much earlier than anyone expected.
I feel the hugest sense of accomplishment and pride over this - more than I think I have for any other project I have done.
Every page, image and piece of copy was created with love and a deep sense of conviction. If this is my small contribution to TLC, then I am proud of that!
Go check out the site: www.tlc.org.za/TLC-DW/index.html
Much love to everyone at TLC, and I pray that God may use this website in any way He sees fit.
Spread the word about TLC!
Friday, 7 October 2011
I need your Tender Loving Care!
My heart is so heavy right now. I have been doing the website for The Love of Christ Ministries for the last couple of months and I have become seriously invested in the work they do and the lives they touch, of both the innocent children entrusted to their care, and the people who make the unselfish and beautiful choice to merge those angels into their families. Pippa's blog reads like a real-life novel, with ups and downs, huge achievements and major blows. The have faced closure more than once and are struggling at the moment. There is so much more I wish I could do for them. There is, I'm sure. I'm doing their website and helping here and there with design, and while I can't contribute much financially right now, what I can do is spread the word.
By doing their website, I have become intimately involved, albeit at a distance, in the lives of those who have sacrificed so much for the children abandoned and forgotten by, and tragically separated from their parents.
TLC is just that. A hands-on, elbow-deep, both-feet-in, living, breathing extension of Christ's tender loving care, made visible on earth. If He asked us to become His hands and feet, these incredible people have indeed taken that call to their over-sized hearts.
If you think I'm being overly dramatic, think about this. What does a typical day look like for you? For me, I am usually woken up by my daughter in our beauiful new home. We cuddle in bed, open the curtains and greet the day. We eat, without worrying that there won't be a next meal, we play without care, I work, she sleeps, we walk, watch TV, swim, cook, meet friends and thank God at he end of each day for each of these blessings.
I can't imagine not knowing which new little soul will be in my care at any time, not having the security of knowing I can feed my child, of seeing firsthand the effects of AIDS on the most innocent, seeing the full extent of human cruelty, pouring myself so totally into the lives of South Africa's most vulnerable families without knowing if I can continue to do so.
What can we do? We can volunteer our time, money and talents.
TLC needs volunteers, desperately. People can volunteer on a part-time basis or permanently anywhere from one month to a year.
TLC needs money, desperately. The Adopt-A-Cot programme allows you to contribute monthly the amount equivalent to 5 cappuccinos towards the expenses of a little resident of one of 10 cots in their nursery. They need food, baby supplies, essentials - things I take for granted will always be there for my precious little girl. And why should the children at TLC be viewed as any less precious?
TLC needs your talent and creativity, desperately.
What do you think we could do to help them? I am more than happy to make posters, e-mailers, viral campaigns, anything with a graphic and witty line slapped on it, to raise awareness. Give me the ideas, the place and the people we are trying to reach, and I will do it. Churches, schools, playgroups, mother and baby groups, social groups, corporates.
If there is any talent you have been blessed with that you can contribute, let me or Pippa know.
If anyone has read this far, thank you. For more information, go to the current website, TLC Ministries. I will post as soon as the new-look website has gone live. Contact them for more info at home@tlc.org.za.
I was going to write something different, but after reading Pippa's blog, I felt a deep conviction to spread the word about this organization who believes that each child has the dignity of being made in the likeness of God, and the potential to change the world. Let's change theirs.
By doing their website, I have become intimately involved, albeit at a distance, in the lives of those who have sacrificed so much for the children abandoned and forgotten by, and tragically separated from their parents.
TLC is just that. A hands-on, elbow-deep, both-feet-in, living, breathing extension of Christ's tender loving care, made visible on earth. If He asked us to become His hands and feet, these incredible people have indeed taken that call to their over-sized hearts.
If you think I'm being overly dramatic, think about this. What does a typical day look like for you? For me, I am usually woken up by my daughter in our beauiful new home. We cuddle in bed, open the curtains and greet the day. We eat, without worrying that there won't be a next meal, we play without care, I work, she sleeps, we walk, watch TV, swim, cook, meet friends and thank God at he end of each day for each of these blessings.
I can't imagine not knowing which new little soul will be in my care at any time, not having the security of knowing I can feed my child, of seeing firsthand the effects of AIDS on the most innocent, seeing the full extent of human cruelty, pouring myself so totally into the lives of South Africa's most vulnerable families without knowing if I can continue to do so.
What can we do? We can volunteer our time, money and talents.
TLC needs volunteers, desperately. People can volunteer on a part-time basis or permanently anywhere from one month to a year.
TLC needs money, desperately. The Adopt-A-Cot programme allows you to contribute monthly the amount equivalent to 5 cappuccinos towards the expenses of a little resident of one of 10 cots in their nursery. They need food, baby supplies, essentials - things I take for granted will always be there for my precious little girl. And why should the children at TLC be viewed as any less precious?
TLC needs your talent and creativity, desperately.
What do you think we could do to help them? I am more than happy to make posters, e-mailers, viral campaigns, anything with a graphic and witty line slapped on it, to raise awareness. Give me the ideas, the place and the people we are trying to reach, and I will do it. Churches, schools, playgroups, mother and baby groups, social groups, corporates.
If there is any talent you have been blessed with that you can contribute, let me or Pippa know.
If anyone has read this far, thank you. For more information, go to the current website, TLC Ministries. I will post as soon as the new-look website has gone live. Contact them for more info at home@tlc.org.za.
I was going to write something different, but after reading Pippa's blog, I felt a deep conviction to spread the word about this organization who believes that each child has the dignity of being made in the likeness of God, and the potential to change the world. Let's change theirs.
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