Dare to Love sings to frontline workers for risking their lives during Covid-19
The power hour is a praise and worship session to let nurses know that they are workers of steal and that they are 'serving heroes'.
For more than a month, volunteers have been singing outside Life Wilgers hospital in the east of Pretoria.
The singing put particular emphasis on the frontline workers, who daily, face the danger of contracting the virus and of transmitting it to their families.
Members of Dare to Love and Worship South Africa visits the hospital every day for an hour, to pray for the health workers.
The power hour – between 18:00 and 19:00 – is a praise and worship session to let nurses know that they were “workers of steel and serving heroes”.
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Co-founder Daryl Hardy said it is their way to show love and support to the hundreds of nurses.
Dare to Love was initiated five years ago, in the Pretoria area. Since then it has grown to cities around South Africa.
Recently, the team visited Mediclinic Kloof to hand over badges and Bibles to staff members.
“We want to challenge the community to get involved in this initiative to support and give a message of hope to these workers,” said Hardy.
They presented over 1 000 badges to medical personnel at Steve Biko academic hospital.
“We pray for God’s protection over each one of them. They all received a ‘true hero’ badge and a Bible.
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“There was so much joy as we sang and worshiped God together. It takes so little effort to love and honour people. Let’s do it together,” he said.
“The idea is to adopt a hospital and spend the power hour.
“It is the most rewarding feeling when you brighten up their faces. They come off a 12-hour shift and then we wait for them outside the hospital and start singing together.
“There is no membership fee, you don’t have to bring anything, you can if you want to bring bread, jam, peanut butter, fruit, old clothing, new clothing, shoes, etc to give to those in need, but the main thing Dare To Love requires from you, is just to show love and spread the gospel of Jesus Christ.
“There’s no excuse for not serving. You’re never too young and you’re never too old to serve your community.
“We know that Covid-19 stopped us from hugging for a while, but sometimes a hug makes everything better,” said Hardy.
Member of Dare To Love, Frikkie du Plessis, urged not only the local community, but the whole of South Africa to get involved.
“Bring praise and worship to every hospital and pray for your frontline workers. There is no reason why you should not honour them,” said Du Plessis.
A nurse at one of the hospitals said their patients were doing much better since they started praying for them.
“Our patients are getting healed and going home because there are people praying outside,” she said.
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