Elisabeth Syré was born in Hengelo, the Netherlands on 30 March 1941 just before the Germans invaded Holland and war broke out.  Elisabeth and her mother were in hiding from 1941 to 1945. She is a holocaust survivor.  Her family loved Israel.  During WWII her father Sikko Wijbrand Vis saved 23 Jewish children, and he was honored at Yad Vashem, the holocaust museum in Israel as a Righteous among the Nations.

Elisabeth and her late husband finished training at College in England and in Germany.  They were assisted by a European and an English organization to go and teach South African disadvantaged children in 1969 and to assist families who needed help.

Elisabeth has served in the IFCC full-time ministry for over 40 years. She ministered, taught, and was used in teaching and in the prophetic in over 42 countries, invited by Women Aglow International and FGBMFI and their associated congregations.  She is now a lifetime member of Wizo (Women’s International Zionist Organization) in Israel and South Africa.

Her ministry is covered by several congregations in Europe, the USA, the UK, Africa, and Asia. Elisabeth is used in the areas of prayer, healing, teaching the Hebrew roots of the Word, and in the prophetic words of vision, and encouragement and there are numerous testimonies of people being touched by the power of His Spirit around the world through her ministry. Couples that were infertile now have children, friends moved and were blessed. Some were sick and were healed.

As a tour operator, she has taken 49 international groups to Israel.

In 2006 Elisabeth started the Elisabeth Yolisa Children Home in  Masiphumelele Cape Town to have a safe, nurturing environment with foundation phase education for the children. She also has written and composed many songs that were known and sung all over the globe.

Elisabeth is available to minister in your community!

The trip has been cancelled until 2025

due to the War in Israel

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Elisabeth Yolisa Home for Children

Yolisa and Elisabeth have been good friends since 2006 and together established a home to care for and protect orphaned children in the impoverished community of Masiphumelele. The Children’s Home is under the auspices and foundation of Elisabeth Syré Ministries International NPO 046095. Yolisa lives with and cares for the children in the container-made home and her daughter and sister, Vivian and Selena, helps her with the work. The children’s home project relies solely on donations to keep operating.

Our Mission

Recently, the Elisabeth/ Yolisa Children’s Home had their biggest Christmas Party ever! The party was held in Glencairn, Cape Town with large playgrounds for the children to play games and have fun.
We hosted 60 children and 30 adults including 4 volunteer workers from World Vision. The preparation for this day took 2 months and the end result was a huge success.

A huge thank you to all friends and family from South Africa and overseas for your support in the form of cash donations, food, clothing, toys, and much more as well as the following sponsors who contributed towards the Christmas Party, namely-

Veritas and JDI Foundation – Donated all the t-shirts and shorts for the children to wear on the day,colour pencils and a cash donation. Genesis Medical Aid Scheme (www.gmed.co.za) donated 100 teddy bears and Incline Marketing Solutions (www.incline.co.za) provided 100 ice creams.

The local newspaper (People’s Post) came out for the day to write an article on how the home started and how it has grown until now.

Also a big thank you to the company Louis Karol who donated paint to beautify the dwelling place of these children and orphans.

We still need so much support for the project to keep going. Petrol costs are high to get the food from point A to point B and the administrative costs are high too. Two local supermarkets in Cape Town now provide food on a daily basis which is collected and dropped off in the township by volunteers for Elisabeth Syre Ministries.
It has been an extremely busy year with travelling to bring the gospel far and wide and making sure the children are taken well care of.

Christmas party 2014

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