What a week for Willow Park ....

YWAM are a comin'

A lot has happened over the month of March in relation to Willow Park, it has been such a confidence builder. Firstly I was contacted by Matt Jenkins (the son Colin and Roslyn Jenkins … they used to come to South Pine Community Church) who is currently in South Africa with YWAM; he and his team will be coming into Zimbabwe (Bulawayo and Harare) to do some ministry training and Matt was wanting to know if they could do anything … My goodness, the amount of work that needs to be done around Willow Park is HUGE, the best thing is that they are all eager to do manual labour. They will be joining us for the last two weekends of May, they will be cleaning up and repainting the scullery (wash room for the crockery and cutlery) as well as dig up all the dirt on the tennis court (the court hasn’t been used for about 5 years and there is about 2 inches of dirt compacted onto the old surface). This has been a HUGE answer to prayer as we had only just begun to look at doing work around the campsite and we were wondering who could help us.

Yay ... A new program for Willow Park

The other answer to prayer was the provision of a computerised Property Management System for Willow Park. Currently we are recording all the reservations on slips of paper and then placing them on a large wall calendar, it is quite a large amount of work keeping track of deposits and keeping accurate accounts of future reservations and occupancy. The bonus of having a PMS is that it will do a lot of the hard work for us, such as keeping track of reservations as well as prepayments and deposits, it will help with occupancy and revenue forecasting, working out average room rates, yield management and setting up special rate packages (sorry for all the hospitality jargon), it will make our bookkeepers job a whole lot easier. Let me tell you how we got this PMS. I have worked with roomMaster (the name of the PMS) before at various hotels/motels in Brisbane and it is quite a good system; I tried my contacts in roomMaster Australia but unfortunately they were not licensed to provide the program to Zimbabwe, so he gave me the email address for the US roomMaster. I was a little unsure if anything would come of this request, but it only took one day and I got a reply. Chuck is the Sales Director for roomMaster US and he is also a brother in Christ … what a HUGE answer to prayer when he said that even though roomMaster could not donate the program, he would however pay for the program for us. God has definitely been showing Himself in many different ways and giving us further confirmation that this is where He wants us to be.

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