Santa Shoebox Project

Each year around this time an event happens at Vistarus called the Santa Shoebox Project.  Many people from various places go out and buy gifts for the children and put them in a shoebox beautifully decorated by the individual. The boxes contained clothing, toys, sweets, stationary for school and toiletries.

Thank you to everyone who did this special thing for the children. They appreciated the effort and love their little gifts.

Christmas Toy Run

Our annual Toy Run was here again this Saturday, 24 November 2012. Besides the usual handing out of presents and goodies, there was also a K9 squad of the Special Dog Unit showing how they performed. It was absolutely amazing.

The children also enjoyed the tour of the PE Stadium.

 

TV Room Renovation by CHEP

Vistarus was blessed with a make over project by CHEP. They donated all the furniture and tiles that were put in the TV area and it looks amazing. We want to thank everyone who helped put this room together and to our dear friends from CHEP for giving their time to make this project happen. 

 The Start of the Renovation

Final Touches Before the Big Reveal

The Reveal

 The men of Vistarus who did the tiling and lights

 Unveiling for the public to see

Vistarus Charity Dinner

On 27 October 2012 at Summerstrand Inn Hotel, Port Elizabeth Vistarus Mission Station held a charity dinner for the church building project. The night was a success with lots of laughter when the two sisters auctioneers started the auction and threw in a few jokes in between to keep people entertained, and good food and company.

We would like to thank everyone who helped out making the venue look like a dream and made this night a reality. We raised up to R 80 000 with the auction and one of our residents, a pensioner named Jannie Meiring, donated R 10 000 to the church project. He truly is a blessing.

 Some of the wines that were on auction

Some of the art pieces on auction

 The tables looked amazing. Done by Reynette Oosthuizen and George

 Centre Piece

Centre Piece

The two sisters auctioneers entertained the guests and ran the auction.

A special thank you to our sponsors:
Woolworths, Summerstrand Inn Hotel
Ateljee Architects: Church Plans
Avon: Marelie Coetzee
Amdec - Westbrook
BBV Prokureurs
Beacon Island Hotel
Christo Pretorius
Cliffie Oosthuizen: Clover
Cobus du Plooy
Schaefer Attorneys
Venue Draping
West Coast Packaging

To the artists who donated the paintings for the auction:
 Ansie Els
Jason Jaffray
Mart Fourie
Reynette Oosthuizen
Tania Schaefer
Travis Beeton

 Our helpers:
George Ross, Jan Brown, Management of Vistarus, Rudi van Rensburg and
Malissa van Niekerk who printed out all the tickets for us for free.

But mostly we would like to thank everybody that helped made this night a night to remember!!!