Community Transformations Ministries

The DTS we have enrolled in is part of YWAM (Youth with a Mission) Ministry called Community Transformations. Community Transformations train and send out missionaries to focus locations (currently Cape Town, South Africa, Boulder ,Co.  and New York City), engaging with long term missionaries and churches to see transformation in the communities we work in. It is run by good friends of our Jeff and Bethany Reid who are full time voluntary staff members with YWAM, to find out more about them and ways to support them head over to their website here.

We will be working in a township called Masiphumele, Cape Town, South Africa:

• Population:30,000
• Average Life Expectancy: 45 years
• Percentage of population known to be living with HIV AIDS: 40% (this is a low estimate)
• Meaning of the word Masiphumele: ‘We will arise’
• Positioned at the tip of Africa, this Xhosa township is ready for transformation!

Community Transformations DTS works alongside long-term ministries in the area to ensure that the engagement with the community has long term impacts. The key long term group Community transformations work alongside are “All Nations“, a ministry in Africa focused on house church planting led by Floyd Mclung and Youth With A Mission, which has a local base up the road from our township.

All ministries which students join or start must be transformation focused and must share Jesus. This means that instead of building a house, Community Transformations will find locals in Masiphumele and teach them how to build a house, sharing Jesus and discipling them as they go.

This enables them to multiply what they learned, provide for their families, and understand that Jesus is not only going to church but is every part of life.

In this one township alone, missionaries on the ground planted 5 churches in the past year, are building a safe house for abused women and children, revolutionizing the school system, teaching principles of business to relieve families from poverty, bringing positive change through sports.

Teams are working with local government to bring solutions to violence and crime. Outreach teams have freedom to build new creative and sustainable initiatives, while partnering with amazing long-term missionaries.

Below is the Vision of Community Transformations:

“Imagine a reversal of AIDS statistics in South Africa or a dramatic drop in crime in New York City. Imagine communities stepping out of poverty because they have been taught how to farm and grow their own food.  Imagine major corporations closing child-r sweatshops because of a newfound desire to treat employees with dignity, no matter what their age or race.”