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.

 

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