'Doing God's work'
GOD’S WILL: Gerome Hendricks, 39 GOD’S WILL: Gerome Hendricks, 39
This Cape Flats couple says God told them to give up their jobs and serve their community.
For the past two years, Gerome Hendricks and his wife Charlene, both 39, have been feeding dozens of kids in their Rocklands community, and assisting the elderly by transporting them to their hospital appointments.
Gerome also helps ex-drug addicts with rehabilitation and helps make job hunting easier for the unemployed.
They are parents to three daughters who help with the feeding scheme, which feeds about 30 children every day.
Gerome says he has no problem getting up at 5am every day to transport the sick and elderly with his Ford Ikon.
MISSION: Gerome helps the unemployed find jobs and transports elderly to hospital
“I have this passion to serve my community. I believe in starting with the children because they are the future. While investing in the kids, you also find it easier to reach their parents,” he explains.
Gerome and Charlene started their ministry in October 2015. Before that the couple had both worked for the same printing company and resigned within months of each other.
“It was the 1st of January 2015, God spoke to me, and He told me to give up my job and serve full time in His chosen ministry for my life,” says Gerome.
“I was so nervous because, yes spiritually it sounded right, but we are only human and I had some doubt, thinking how will my family survive if I don’t work.
“But God promised to supply our every need and so in October my wife left her job as well and we launched Kingdom Foundation Investors.
“I left my job in January 2016 after my boss said ‘Gerome, I think you should go full time into your ministry, your heart is there, so go’.”
Charlene says God provides for their ministry every day. The couple have started their own business in the window blinds industry.
“There is never a day that we don’t have food on the table for our family and the children,” the mom says.
“We are helping the unemployed by drawing up CVs for them and even though we don’t have a printer, we go to an internet café and print their stuff for them at no cost to them.”
KIND: Charlene Hendricks feeds 30 laaities daily
The couple says their door is open to anyone needing assistance.
“We are only responding to the calling God has for us, we don’t want to ask for donations but merely to tell people we are here to help and if you need help you can call call us on 072 199 6672,” says Gerome.