Who We Are: The Rehoboth House

After six years of ministry and travel between the USA and Africa a wonderful door opened and the Rehoboth House came into being and shortly after came our e-commerce business.

Recently my husband, Nicholas, I, Sheila and our two children clearly heard the call, just like Abraham in the Old Testament, to leave our home, our extended family and go to a place, to do the work that God had called us to do.

And so we came to South Africa with the promise of Rehoboth, like the story in the book of Genesis 26:22-23, about Isaac reopening Abraham’s wells.

He [Isaac] moved on from there and dug another well, and no one quarreled over it. He named it Rehoboth [meaning "space" or "room"], saying, "Now the LORD has given us room and we will flourish in the land."

In light of this call and promise, we have named our ministry center “The Rehoboth House.”

Located in a Johannesburg community, the Rehoboth House is a place for the creative inspiration of the Holy Spirit to flourish.

Part of the vision for Rehoboth House is to provide a space for artists, crafts persons and others to heal, learn, produce and exhibit. 

I am an artist and craftspersons and I know there is a need but also a scarcity of creative and healing spaces in the city.  Our hope is that Rehoboth House will fill a niche. 

We believe that the works that come forth have been divinely inspired. 

Another outgrowth of our call is that we have set up this e-business, African-art-and-crafts.com.  Because we are passionate about the transformation of Africa we have purposely set up this business as a social enterprise.  We are a for-profit business with a social conscience which is based in our faith in God. 

Rehoboth is not just our story but also the story of the lives of many of the artists and crafts people featured on this site.

Many of these people have faced years of hardship and opposition, wandering and searching for a place to call home. 

Yet each has been created in the image of God and has been given special gifts and talents to glorify Him.

We work with people and non-profit organizations who, like us, desire to see lives transformed socially, economically and spiritually. 

We have seen the difference that our efforts and those of our partners have made in lives of many, encouraging them to hope in God and to work for a brighter future.

We believe Rehoboth is a promise for them as well.