Service to our elderly
KwaThema - It was a joyous occasion when the Uniting Presbyterian Men’s Fellowship visited the KwaThema Old Age Home, bearing gifts.
Song and dance filled the hall as the men walked in with bags of sugar, rice and maize meal, which make up the staple diet of the more than 200 pensioners who gather at the Old Age Home every day.
“Most of them have breakfast and lunch here, daily,” said Moses Hlatshwayo, a board member for the centre.
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“We are here today as part of our annual men’s conference themed: ‘Laying aside our garments’. In John 13: 1-5, we see how Jesus humbled himself to wash the feet of his disciples, as a servant even though he was their master,” said the president of the Uniting Presbyterian Men’s Fellowship, Rev Musa Majola.
He explained that, in the same way, this act is significant of stripping themselves of any garments that would hinder them from serving the community.
Gogo Kodisang, one of the pensioners who have been coming to the centre for many years exclaimed: “God is faithful. This is exactly what we needed”.
After receiving the gifts, a grateful Hlatshwayo said that even though they are older and wiser, they have learnt a valuable lesson – that with the little they have, they can transform the community by doing good.
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“I am especially proud to see men doing such things. Because it is usually women who are at the forefront of taking care of the community,” said Hlatshwayo.
The doors of the KwaThema Old Age Home are always open to pensioners who want to get involved and donations are always appreciated.
