Thembinkosi crèche is one of the many crèches adopted by Christian Revival Church, which is commonly known as CRC. Every Friday afternoon the youth from CRC visits Thembinkosi and many other crèches in Mangaung to play with the children as part of their outreach programme. Not only do these youth men and women end there, but at time they come with gifts to donate to the crèche. Speaking to one of the youth leaders, Leonard Calitz, he said they have being coming at Thembinkosi for more than six month. “Coming here is the main vision of our senior pastor, Pastor Nyretta Boshoff, who adopted crèches from all over Mangaung” said Calits. Among the youth that came to play were students from UFS and other learners from different school. Calitz added that “we come here to help in whatever way we can and show God’s love. There are specific things that Pastor Nyretta holds close to her heart and we not only come here to play with the kids, but we also help the educators during the week”.

One of the kids’ parents said they are very happy to see people outside their community coming and showing the love to someone else’s child. Mathilda Valashiya, who had been working at Thembinkosi for years, is one of the happy people enjoying the company of the CRC youth playing with the kids. Maria Ramabele, the founder and the manager of Thembinkosi said her crèche has improved since the CRC youth came to her crèche. “They helped me in so many ways and they have even paid for my educators to go to workshops not long ago” said Ramabele. She stated that “I came across Pastor Nyretta through a parent of one of my children and since then my life better here at Thembinkosi”. The CRC adopt a crèche is a continuing programme.