{"id":705,"date":"2025-11-08T15:29:38","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T15:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.faithandlight.org.za\/victorypark\/?p=705"},"modified":"2025-11-08T17:07:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T17:07:07","slug":"faith-and-light-south-africa-bookmark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.faithandlight.org.za\/victorypark\/2025\/11\/08\/faith-and-light-south-africa-bookmark\/","title":{"rendered":"Faith and Light South Africa: Bookmark"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>FAITH AND LIGHT SOUTH AFRICA<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">FAITH &amp; LIGHT<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">An international ecumenical Christian Association with mentally disabled people and their families and friends, who want to meet together-not as &#8220;helpers&#8221; and &#8220;helped&#8221; but as friends who want to share each others lives.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">FROM JEAN VANIER<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The founder of Faith &amp; Light &#8220;The important thing is to meet and listen to the man, the woman or child who has a mental disability to got to know him or her so that roal bonds can be created between us. In this way we come to know and love each other and NOBODY is left out. We try to carry each others burdens and encourage each other on our journey to GOD.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">OUR PRAYER<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Dear Lord, bless our Rille group, Keep it in your tender care, Make it a real family<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">A Community, In which all of us, Even the weaker, Can be at Home.<\/div>\n<ol>\n<li dir=\"auto\">Lord, help us to keep a welcome in our<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Hearts for all who come to us,<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">In loving them,<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">In serving them.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Help us. Dear Lord, to see You in<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">them.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Speak to us through their lips, Bless us through their hands and Smile on us through their eyes.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Lord Jesus, protect and care for us<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">all,<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Whoever we are,<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Wherever we are, Whenever we are apart, Or in Community.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Bless us,<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Through God the Father,<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">God the Son and<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">God the Holy Spirit.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">AMEN<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FAITH AND LIGHT SOUTH AFRICA FAITH &amp; LIGHT An international ecumenical Christian Association with mentally disabled people and their families and friends, who want to meet together-not as &#8220;helpers&#8221; and &#8220;helped&#8221; but as friends who want to share each others lives. 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