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Introduction: <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

I would like to provide you a short overview of the circumstances that led to an unbelievable period of disappointment in our lives, in order for you to understand the emotions, frustrations and questions arising from this all, up to the end where God dealt with me on this topic. How to deal with disappointment<\/i><\/b>.<\/p>\n

This lesson also deals with the pitfalls when we are disappointed or when we go through trails and tribulations and even trauma. Unfortunately we will all go through trails and tribulations which often leads to extreme disappointment in our lives, more than once.\u00a0 Sometimes it just feels so unbearable, but God takes us through it all and we only learn the valuable lessons, in the end looking back.\u00a0 When we are in the midst of the storm, we don\u2019t see the end of it all and it also seems unrealistic, surreal and as if it will never end.\u00a0 But it does as soon as we are ready to move on and stop feeling sorry for ourselves.<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

Overview: <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

During a period of 18 months<\/b>, we were led down the proverbial garden path by a fellow pastor (a Bishop from the USA) who offered us billions of dollars<\/span><\/b> being available towards humanitarian and community infrastructure development projects in South Africa and even other Africa countries. Yes, you have read it correctly \u2013 billions<\/b> of dollars being available through an International Foundation.\u00a0 Seeing that this was the opportunity we have been praying for, for years<\/span><\/b> – and even having received a prophetic word on this about 4 years prior – we jumped boots and all into this.<\/p>\n

During this period in time, thousands of kilometers were travelled across 6 provinces, meetings held with Chiefs in Venda, South Africa and elsewhere, with community leaders and even owners of commercial businesses and farms for research and identification purposes.\u00a0 <\/b>A couple of suitable commercial businesses and farms were identified to provide the necessary sustainability (finances and food) for the humanitarian developments, such as orphanages and old age homes in the future.<\/p>\n

Business Cases\/Plans with due diligence schedules were compiled and also included the minimum human resource infrastructure (Organizational structure), the annual budgets and equipment required to implement such a vast project. Our leadership team committed themselves to the process and offered to resign immediately from their own day jobs as soon as the funds would become available.\u00a0 Many other ministry groups joined in the process and submitted their respective projects.<\/p>\n

The Plan:\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

The main concept was formulated around the fact that more than 40 Chiefs from the Venda district has given\/offered a minimum of 10ha of land (with a PTO \u2013 \u201cpermission to operate\u201d) to us, to construct the following:<\/p>\n