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Sports Day at Joseph Outreach Christian Primary!!!

February 23rd, 2026

Sports day at Joseph Outreach Christian Primary is a vital celebration of the mind, body and spirit, nurturing students in a way that aligns with foundational faith based values. Beyond physical fitness, the event instills Christ-like character by teaching teamwork, grace in both victory and defeat, and mutual respect among peers.

Changes are happening at Joseph Outreach Christian Primary

February 4th, 2026

A big thank you to our supporters who's ongoing generousity gave us the opportunity to make some much needed improvements to our school grounds. Through your kind donations we were able to add our new murals of the characters for our Amos Meercat Primary Program and finally erect a flagpole! We can now proudly fly our Namibian flag!

The 2026 School year begins at Joseph Outreach Christian Primary School !!!🎉

January 15th, 2026

Our Team

Principal's Message for 2026

Dear Team, sponsors, and supporters of Joseph Outreach Christian Primary School,

Welcome to the 2026 school year. I am incredibly honored and excited to welcome each of you, our returning staff, and out new volunteers and teachers and administration to our Joseph Outreach family. Some of you have travelled from different communities and moved out of your comfort zones, all answering a higher call to serve the children and those less fortunate of this beautiful community, and your presence here is an answer to our prayers.

Operating a nonprofit school comes with unique challenges, but it also provides us with a front row seat to witness miracles. What we do here is more than education, it is a ministry of transformation. Every lesson you plan, every encouraging word you speak, and every administrative and general task you complete serves a divine purpose. Together we are equipping the next generation of leaders, thinkers and believers in Africa.

Our theme for 2026 is anchored in hope. on a world that often focuses on scarcity and hardship, as many of you are also all too familiar with. Our school will stand as a beacon of light, hope, and possibility.

Romans 15:13 reminds us; "May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.

This year, my prayer is that our school overflows with that very hope, I challange you to look past the limitations of our resources and see the limitless potential of our students. We are not just teaching curriculum, we are restoring dignity, breaking cycles of poverty, and most importantly building disiples for the kingdom of God.

Thank you all for your sacrifice, your passion, and your willingness to serve. let us step into this new school year with bold faith, expectant hearts, and united spirits. May God abundantly bless our journey together in 2026

Your Sister in Service & Principal

Ms. Annette McCrea Steyn

Top Left: Miss Nokie, Office Administrator.

Top Right: Grade one & Two Students

Miss Sharifa's Grade One Class

Miss Francette's Preprimary Class

Joseph Outreach Christian Preprimary Graduation

December 19th, 2025 🎉

Waltons Fun Day!! November 19th, 2025

Thank you to Waltons Stationary & Cloudy Creations for a great day of fun games & face painting!

A Big Thank You! To our generous sponsors and in collaboration with the Penguin Angling Club & all those who participated in our Fun Walk/Run December 27th, 2025.

Joseph Outreach Christian School

1st & Second Place Walkers

First & second place runners left & right. Our own Miss Doreen came in 2nd Place. 🎉

A Big Thank you to our Sponsors who donated over $3000 NAD in gift certificates and prizes for our winners!!!🥳

Thank you to our Generous Sponsors

Our youngest supporter

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Joseph Outreach Christian Primary School is Now Registered with the Namibian Ministry of Education Arts & Culture

For January 2026

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Happy Heritage Week! Sept 17th -

Sept 21st, 2025

The Students and teachers had an amazing Heritage Day, A big thank you to Anzelize from Cloudys Creations for treating our primary classes to face painting it was a wonderful treat!

August 29th, 2025

Team Building day!!! Time for our hard-working team to have a little well-deserved fun!

Entrepreneurship Day 2025

Our grade five girls experienced running their own small business for the day!

Independence Day Celebrations

Joseph Outreach Primary School

March 20th, 2025

Joseph Outreach Initiative, 176 Jakklesputz Rd. Henties Bay

Head office & Education Facility

The 2025 School year has started!

Here are just a few of the exciting changes that have happened at Joseph Outreach Initiative!

In January of 2025 Joseph Outreach Initiative moved to 176 Jakklesputz Rd. Where we have a new and improved location for our education facility and our head office. This new location provides us with a larger space that is more appropriate, spacious, and safe for our children and our outreach and education initiatives.

Joseph Outreach Afterschool lunch program for the children of the community.

Monday to Friday the children from the community are welcome after school to enjoy a warm meal and juice.

Tuesday and Thursdays afterschool we offer tutoring programs for Mathematics, English and Afrikaans.

Exciting News for J.O.I Academy's 2025 school year!

We are proud to announce that Joseph Outreach Initiatives J.O.I Academy will be implementing the AMS Pre-Primary Christian Education curriculum into our educational program beginning January 2025!

Our Teachers have successfully completed the first training session for the AMOS Meercat pre-primary education program. This program will instill a strong Christian foundation along with the best school readiness program available in Africa. We are all very excited to for the new school year!

PRE-PRIMARY GRADUATION NOVEMBER 14TH, 2024

J.O.I. ACADEMY & JOSEPH OUTREACH INITIATIVE would like to congratulate our first class of pre-primary graduates. It has been a blessed year, and only the beginning of what God is doing in the Henties Bay community! The directors of J.O.I would like to personally thank our teachers and volunteers that have made what we do in our community possible. Thank you all from the bottom of our hearts. God will bless each of you for the time, love and devotion you put into furthering his work with the children and families in our community.

OCTOBER 24TH, 2024

Our Wonderful Supporters come through again!

A heartfelt thank you to Amanda and her team from Walton's Stationary for co-sponsoring our first JOI Fun Day 2024!

The children had a wonderful time dancing, music, face painting and playing games. This was a much needed break after all the hard work they have been put into their studies over the last few months. They were so excited to have a visit from the Walton's mascot. Us older children also had fun 😉!

Here We Grow Again!

August 13th, 2024

A big thank you! to Woermann Brock Hardware, Henties Bay, & Swakopmund!

All of us at Joseph Outreach Initiative would like to express our sincere gratitude to the Manager of the Woermann Brock Hardware store in Henties Bay. Mr. Morne Victor, advocating on our behalf, obtained a donation of building materials worth over R30,000 to build us three portable classrooms for our ever expanding educational program.

Our Namibian Members Mr. Nico Van Wyk and Associate member Mr. Marshall Cloete donated their time and skill to erect the classrooms. Thank you gentlemen for you time and all of your hard work.

August 16th, 2024

Thank you ladies of JOI Academy! Henties Bay Clean up day was a success because of members of our community like you. Thank you for your hard work and participation and for representing Joseph Outreach Initiative in our Henties Bay community. Our Director Rogue-Alaric Coetzee, and teachers, Miss Jenny, Miss Doreen, Miss Macy along with our friend and supporter Lorraine Bosse, joined in to give our town a little beautification. Thank you girls for your commitment to the environment, Joseph Outreach Initiative and to our community.

A big thank you also to Print- Tech for making and supplying our Joseph Outreach logos for this community event.

July 18th, 2024

Thank you once again to Walton's Stationary in Swakopmund for the surprise visit and the generous donation of supplies. We could not continue to do the work we do in the community if it were not for the generous support we receive from our donors. Thank you Amanda and the team at Waltons from all of us at JOI Academy!

June 7th, 2024

It was an exciting day here and JOI Academy today as Joseph Outreach Initiative finally received our long awaited Pre-Primary Registration!🎉 Thank you to our team who worked so hard over the last four months to make this happen!

The Desks have arrived! May 22nd, 2024

Thank you Josef, Owner and operator of Josef Joinery, and our Canadian contributors who so generously donated to JOI Academy to get our children off of the floor mats and into their desks before winter.

The desks for our pre-primary and grade one classes are perfect! Thank you for your time and the wonderful job you did on the desks.

May 7th, 2024

Thank you once again to Amanda, and the staff at Walton's Swakopmund for your continued support of JOI Academy! We are very grateful for the kindness and support you have shown towards our education Initiative in Henties Bay!

May 6th, 2024

Thank you so much! We occasionally have special donor's who wish to remain anonymous. We wish to celebrate these selfless individuals.🎉 Your kind donations to Joseph Outreach Initiative have greatly improved the day to day operations of JOI and JOI Academy. The ladies in the Kitchen were so excited to start their week in a brand new to us kitchen! & Our Office admin could not stop smiling with the newest addition of a gently used book shelf with space for a printing and laminating station! Thank you from the bottom of our hearts for improving our day to day operations and for making our hard working volunteers lives a little easier.❤️

April 22, 2024

Thanks to the generous donations of local business and individuals, we are able to kick our lunch menu up a notch! Thank you so much for your kindness and the donations of soup ingredients, as well as other ingredients that allow us to offer our children and the children of the community a healthy meal everyday! It is greatly appreciated as is evident by the smiles below!

March 20th, 2024: JOI Academy Celebrates Independence Day!

The Children and Staff had an amazing week of guest speakers as they prepared for the celebration of Namibia's 34th Independence, Day March 21st, 2024. Our celebration on March 20th, also kicked off the Easter break. The children were treated with a week of guest speakers who shared information about the diverse groups of people and the history of the making of the great nation of Namibia.

The children staff and guests dressed in traditional attire and we were all treated to a traditional meal of split pea soup and dumplings. Children and parents from the community joined us as the mixed primary class gave a wonderful presentation of their respective tribes. It was a wonderful and educational experience not only for the children but for the members of Joseph Outreach Initiative.

Thank you all for all of your hard work to make this week a success and so much fun for the children.

February 14th, 2024 ❤️

What a wonderful Valentines day surprise! We would like give a big thank you to Joppie, Melissa, and Danie. Distinguished members of the Round Table Organization in Walvis Bay, thank you for your generous donation of school text books for J.O.I Academy, Joseph Outreach's latest initiative.

February 3rd, 2024

Thank you to all of our wonderful donors who are making J.O.I Academy possible for the children of Henties Bay and Omdel.

Thank you to Woermann Brock, Henties Bay for the generous gift card which will be used toward our lunch program at J.O.I Academy.

Thank you to Walton's Stationary in Swakopmund for the generous donation which allows us to give free stationary and supplies to the children that attend J.O.I Academy.

February 1st, 2024

Big things are happening at Joseph Outreach Initiative!

We are pleased to announce that Joseph Outreach Initiative now offers a free pre-primary and a primary education program for the children from the disadvantaged community who were unable to register in public school or who cannot afford private school education. In only two weeks J.O.I Academy has registered 50 children from the community who otherwise would have no access to education.

We are very thankful for the support that we have received from the community. We are truly blessed with a wonderful team of three experienced teachers and seven selfless volunteers, all who are dedicated to provide a clean nurturing educational facility and quality educational programs to those most vulnerable in the community.

UPDATE!!! January 30th, 2024

After much consideration and in response to great need for educational options in the community Joseph Outreach Initiative is pleased to announce that we will be offering students from the disadvantaged community, who are unable to attend school due to over crowed schools in the region or lack of finances, an opportunity to attend educational classes. Pre-primary, and primary daily classes and a tutoring program for grades 3-7 +. We are preparing and accepting registrations this week. We aim to begin classes Monday Feb 5th for our pre-primary class. With others to follow according to the need within the community. This week we are busy registering students, preparing our class rooms and organizing our schedule. Pictures will follow as we get things in order. This is truly exciting! We are truly blessed to have the opportunity to assist the community in this way.

Back to School January 2024

Thank you to our Canadian contributors! your generous donations allowed us to assist 20 families to prepare their children for the new school year! Joseph Outreach is truly blessed to have such wonderful supporters.

Happy Moms.

Back to school is always a stressful time for these ladies. They struggle to get the needed supplies for their children for the new school year. JOI aims to support the children in the Erongo region to reach their educational goals with assistance with back to school supplies, as well as tutoring for youths who need additional educational support.

Wonderful way to begin 2024, a week of fun and games at Joseph Outreach during December holidays.

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First Week of Operations 2024 and future goals

Our first week of operations 2024 at our new facility was a success thanks to a little help from our members who volunteered to work with the children in the activity Centre. We are now preparing for the children's return to school. We are currently accepting donations for school supplies and to prepare for our next project, the soup kitchen. The soup kitchen will supply a nourishing meal to approximately 300 children Monday to Friday. Our goal is to begin operation of the soup kitchen by June 2024. If you would like to donate please visit our donate page.

GRAND OPENING/CHRISTMAS EVE DINNER EVENT, DEC. 24th, 2023

JOI Grand opening and Christmas dinner Event was a blessed with over 300 people in attendance. Approximately 200 children and their families enjoyed a night of worship and word by Pastor Pieter Steyn, and members and honorable members of the Christian community. This was followed by a wonderful dinner of sliced meats, mashed potato's, vegetables and gravy. For desert they enjoyed cake with strawberry sauce, chocolate syrup and ice-cream.

Thank you to all who pitched in to make this event a success and we thank all who donated to make this event a blessing for our community.

A Big thank you to all of the ladies who gave a helping hand with the serving the guests and children, and with the clean up. Much love & Blessings to you all!

December 1st, 2023, A Season For Celebration!

Joseph Outreach New Base of Operations

JOI is excited to announce our new premises which will open Just in time for Christmas!

Many prayers and negotiations have gone into obtaining this wonderful new premises which will be our base of operations for JOI.

Our new location will offer the youth of the Erongo region a nurturing safe Christian environment where they will have access to Christian counselling, a fitness area, soup kitchen, quiet study area and educational assistance. We will also be facilitating weekly gospel services at the location which are open to the community. In the front area we will offer the public and tourist an information area on Henties Bay and its history as well as information of interest on the local culture, as well as future sustainability programs. Below is our new facility with the plans we have for signage. To donate to help us with the cost of the signage, for our upcoming Christmas event or for a donation towards any of our other programs please visit our donate page. Thank you for your support and God Bless!

New JOI Premises

Proposed Signage

October 10th , 2023 Joseph Outreach Initiatives 1st. Community Unity Conference and Dinner!

The seed of unity was sown, bellies were filled and souls were saved!

What a blessed event as Joseph Outreach welcomed Rev. Richardt Hattingh and Evg. Pieter Steyn Senior from South Africa to join us for a two day Unity Ministry Event.

over 300 souls were present over the two day event which joined Youth and congregations in the Henties Bay area together for two nights of Worship, the Word and wonderful fellowship.

Update: August 20th, 2023. Donations From Canada Have Arrived!!! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! ❤️

We have been anxiously awaiting our donations from Canada since May of 2023. Everyone was so excited to receive this wonderful gift! Thank you all for your generous donations. Special thanks to Brother Charles and Sister Kim in Canada who through their efforts raised funds through an online auction, purchased these items, and arranged the shipping to Africa. Thank you Kim & Charles for your prayers and ongoing support of Joseph Outreach Initiative. May God bless you both!

Update: Our "Love on Wheels" program has been limited to families in emergency need, and upon availability. We await the Lord to provide the funding to continue this program weekly. We continue to trust in the Lord for the blessings to pour in which will enable us to procure a premise where we can assist these children and their families in a greater capacity. We continue to move forward in faith. Proverbs 16: 9 "The heart of a man plans his way, but the Lord establishes his steps." While we wait upon the Lord your generous donations will continue to be used to assist these families in need. Care packages will be put together and delivered to the homes of families in need of emergency assistance. Prayer and counseling are always included ensuring both tummies and hearts are full.

July 18th, 2023, Donations for Back to School!

Thank you to our Supporters from Around the Globe!

Education is one of the calls to action for Joseph Outreach Initiative and is included as one of our long-term objectives. We believe one of the key elements for breaking these children free from poverty is education. Until such time that Joseph Outreach is able to provide our own education programs, we will support the children in every way possible to reach their educational goals. Including providing school supplies and tutoring.

We called out for help and you responded! In response to our call for donations to help some of the children with school supplies necessary for their return to school in July, we were able to provide back-to-school items for approximately 20 children, backpacks, pens, pencils, rulers, colored pencils, crayons, shoes, file folders, erasers, glue, pencil sharpeners, and pens. Thank you for your support!

Ps. Pieter helping Frezly with geometry homework.

THANK YOU for your generous donations!!! Thanks to the generosity of our supporters next week we are able to add much-needed protein to the food packages that are handed out weekly as part of our LOVE ON WHEELS program. Which delivers food packages to assist families in need.

May 11th, 2023 Update!!

Below: Thank you to a very special lady who upon hearing the story of one of our families who had recently lost their home to fire, immediately donated these two beautiful blankets to help the family stay warm during these cold winter nights. All of our supporters are such a blessing to JOI and to the families we assist. God Bless you all!

A Big Shout of Gratitude to our wonderful Namibian supporters. Thank you for your generous donations this week. Because of your generosity, this week we can add clothing donations to our weekly Love on Wheels program. We are praying with your continued support we can continue to have monthly clothing donations available to families in need.

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