Mandy woke up one morning and wasn’t quite sure whether it was a dream or a vision. What she did remember though, quite vividly, was a village showing many children, of varying ages, strolling through the village or playing some kind of sport or just sitting around talking.

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There were numerous housing clusters with each home housing 6–8 children and a foster mother. There was an admin building, a church, community hall, a school, recreation centre, playgrounds, sports fields, central stores and a communal kitchen, a village square, social welfare clinic, childhood development centre, agricultural area, maintenance manager, volunteers’ and teachers’ accommodation and the manager’s house.

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What made Mandy doubt that it was just a dream was the amount of clear and explicit detail. She didn’t inform Basie about any of this until later.

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Basie approached Mandy one morning and informed her that he experienced something about a children’s village that he was sure was an actual vision and not just a dream.

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What convinced him that his experience was a vision from God and not simply a dream was the incredible illumination of their bedroom and then its extension into the super-natural surroundings he was exposed to. Incredible and beautifully decorated pillars reaching up to the sky and showing no end. Awesome coloured banners of silk that followed the same course as the pillars – showing no end.

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The angelic being that said, “Come, come and see more”, inviting him to be exposed to a heavenly environment. That then led him into the reception area of a corporate building and moving a breathtaking couch in a circular motion, with 8 seats facing one way and the other 8 facing in the opposite direction, until it reached its optimal setting.

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All this was, and still is, frighteningly mysterious yet excitingly inspiring.

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Upon hearing about his experience, Mandy went cold, started shivering and crying. These were tears of emotional relief rather than of anxiety though. The weight and uncertainty of what Mandy was carrying finally found a release and she then proceeded relating her own experience with revelational excitement.

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Because of this awe-inspiring calling from God, Basie and Mandy have been pursuing the establishment of not just one village, but at least one village in every province any many others to follow, as our mission statement shows.