Who are the Grants?

I am married to an amazing husband - Sean - who truly is my best friend.  He is passionate about God, his family and making a difference.  He is a leader in IT training and is an entrepeneur.  He runs his own Web Coaching business from home - Slingshot.  (though he does a fair amount of travelling locally, nationally and internationally).  However working from home means we get to see him a lot and he gets to hear us a lot;)))  He is training his children in the ways of the Lord which is a full time job and they absolutely adore their father.

We have 3 rough-and-tumble-boys (Declan 10, Ethan 9, Chad 7) and a princess (Ruthie 2years - who I insist on dressing in pink but who insists on running around with her brothers like the tomboy she is).  I homeschool them because I have seen the fruit it has bore in their lives.  I don't think its an easy option but for them its the best one.  They are confident, social and outspoken children who share our passion for orphans and who have been involved with this ministry from the start. They have shared at schools and Sunday Schools about what we do.   If it was up to them we would adopt every orphan we meet and they would all move into our house.

I was a teacher before I started homeschooling (high school english, maths, geography), spent 5 years teaching other people's children and then decided to teach my own.  I have been involved in a number of ministries - youth, sunday school, worship,church website, church magazine but it wasn't until I started  iKhaya LikaBaba  - home for orphaned and abandoned babies that I knew that I had walked into "my calling" for lack of a less spiritual word;))

I gained a lot of experience being married to an IT man, as I am sure that some of you can identify with and so I have learnt (sometimes reluctantly) many skills that are web based.  I won't bore you with the details but these skills have been very useful. We have found that together God has equipped us with so many skills that we just want to make available to the body of Christ and to be effective tools in the hands of the One who has called us.

We are a down-to-earth, noisy, passionate, loving and adventurous family - by no means exceptional.  However we have put up our hands and said to God - choose us, we are available.  And so in the same way we are saying, here we are - we are available to help you to further God's kingdom and to touch the lives of orphans and vulnerable children.