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Mission South Africa: Megan and Eugene Van Zyls' Story
Megan's Volunteer Work With Orphans
The Loss Of Our Precious Son, NOble
The Loss Of Our Precious Son, NOble
The small beginnings....
When Megan Van Zyl was single, she traveled to Cape Town, South Africa to work at an orphanage and a school for at-risk youth. It was there that she discovered her life purpose and mission.
In her own words, Megan shared this about her first encounter with a traditional orphanage:
"Walking into the orphanage I was m
The small beginnings....
When Megan Van Zyl was single, she traveled to Cape Town, South Africa to work at an orphanage and a school for at-risk youth. It was there that she discovered her life purpose and mission.
In her own words, Megan shared this about her first encounter with a traditional orphanage:
"Walking into the orphanage I was most struck by the eerie silence. Looking around, I saw babies laying on their backs, faces expressionless and eyes dim from neglect. They made no noise.
They had learned through experience that their cries for attention, help, food, comfort were constantly ignored. My heart broke.
I reached out and grabbed the smallest baby and held her close. I decided that she would be my baby and every day for weeks, I would go with the mission of holding, interacting and comforting this neglected baby.
After 2-months, this baby grew stronger and started to become very noisy. She became the most clever and funny baby at the orphanage and started to win over the hearts of all of the workers at the orphanage. It was in this season that I decided that I would one day fund orphanage work through my future health business."
The Loss Of Our Precious Son, NOble
The Loss Of Our Precious Son, NOble
The Loss Of Our Precious Son, NOble
After an intensely traumatic loss of their first son, Noble Thomas Van Zyl, Megan and Eugene Van Zyl went through a deep process of transformation through travailing and grief. Noble's name was chosen 4 years prior to his birth, taken from the meaning of Eugene's name, "of noble birth."
After the loss of Noble, Megan and Eugene had severa
After an intensely traumatic loss of their first son, Noble Thomas Van Zyl, Megan and Eugene Van Zyl went through a deep process of transformation through travailing and grief. Noble's name was chosen 4 years prior to his birth, taken from the meaning of Eugene's name, "of noble birth."
After the loss of Noble, Megan and Eugene had several spiritual encounters that brought much hope and comfort. The first came after their stay at the hospital. Coming home without their baby, Megan and Eugene were heart-broken to say the least.
Eugene went upstairs to see all the baby stuff and Megan was downstairs. All of a sudden, Megan heard a loud, travailing noise and she ran to the bottom of the stairs to yell up to her husband, Eugene. She was surprised to see him running down the stairs crying out, "are you OK? I heard you crying." Surprised, Megan responded in disbelief, "I thought that you were crying."
At that moment, they knew that they were not alone and that God was grieving with them. And through the comfort and hope that they received in the time of their greatest need, the legacy of Noble International was born, to care for the orphans in their greatest need and cry the tears that they can no longer cry.
We believe that the redemptive plan of God in the loss of our son Noble to include the rescuing and restoring of orphaned sons and daughters and hope for a legacy that brings transformation to cities and nations around the world captive to poverty, drugs, abuse and abandonment of children to orphanages.