Gracious Daughters and Jesus Cares
2025 Bless a Sister Campaign
It is our heart, as Gracious Daughters to have an impact on the world around us, to feed, help and educate wherever we can. It’s about blessing a sister in need within and beyond our four walls.
MATRIC DANCE INITIATIVE 2025
Earlier this year, at the Gracious Daughters Gathering we launched the matric dance initiative, whereby we asked for dresses for girls in matric for their matric dance. We collected over 200 dresses. We invited the girls to come and pick a dress, and we had 50 matric girls pick a dress for their special day. We also gifted a goodie bag to take home for their special day. Thank you for all the dresses, all the girls were blessed.
PURSES FOR A PURPOSE
Jesus Cares & Gracious daughters would like to announce our next 2025 initiative called PURSES FOR A PURPOSE. You know that gently-used handbag that’s been sitting in the back of your closet? Well, it’s time to give it new meaning! We’re collecting new or gently used handbags to be filled with essential toiletries. These bags will be gifted to women in need as beautiful reminder that they are seen, valued, and loved.
Drop your bags off at the Jesus Cares office or you can sow financially towards the toiletries either at the Jesus Cares station on the day of the conference or using the banking details below:
Rhema Bible Church
Standard Bank
Branch: Sandton
Branch Code: 051001
Account Number: 021668213
Ref: Purses for a Purpose
Previous Initiatives
2021
Mamma Sanny was blessed with a brand-new, fully functional mobile kitchen for her business. Feeding continues through the Jesus Cares initiative.
2022
Over 100 solar lights, each valued at R600, were distributed across Johannesburg to bring light and hope to communities in need.
2023
We sowed into two impactful projects for women:
Menstrual Cups: Buy One, Sow One
We sowed into women’s lives by making over 500 menstrual cups available for purchase, each purchase directly sponsors a cup for a woman in need.
The ‘Ava’ menstrual cup is made of the highest quality medical-grade silicone, safe, eco-friendly, non-toxic, and hypoallergenic. Each cup lasts up to 10 years.
Rise Up Mentorship Movement
RISE UP is a mentorship movement of mother-doves on the rise — women who are committed to uplifting and walking alongside the next generation.
Many young women have God-given gifts and a strong calling on their lives, but lack the support, mentorship, and affirmation they need to thrive.
RISE UP was created to bridge this gap — to connect seasoned women (mother-doves) with young women in need of guidance, care, and opportunity.
2024
The Department of Correctional Services partnered with Gracious Daughters and our Church to bring a message of Hope and Grace to over 2000 women in four different prisons across South Africa in celebrating Women’s month. We hosted up to 4000 women in-person and streamed live to over 2000 incarcerated women sharing the gospel and a message of hope.
