{"id":114781,"date":"2025-05-06T09:35:51","date_gmt":"2025-05-06T09:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/akknyl.co.za\/?p=114781"},"modified":"2025-05-06T09:43:31","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T09:43:31","slug":"our-founder-rev-abraham-kriel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/akknyl.co.za\/af\/2025\/05\/06\/our-founder-rev-abraham-kriel\/","title":{"rendered":"Ons stigter \u2013 Ds Abraham Kriel"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><div data-parent=\"true\" class=\"vc_row row-container\" id=\"row-unique-0\"><div class=\"row limit-width row-parent\"><div class=\"wpb_row row-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_column pos-top pos-center align_left column_parent col-lg-12 single-internal-gutter\"><div class=\"uncol style-light\"  ><div class=\"uncoltable\"><div class=\"uncell no-block-padding\" ><div class=\"uncont\" ><div class=\"uncode_text_column\" ><p>In 2025 vier Abraham Kriel Kinderhuis sy 123ste bestaansjaar. Sedert 1902 dien dit as 'n veilige hawe vir verwaarloosde en kwesbare kinders \u2013 moontlik gemaak deur die lewensroeping van een man.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Oorsprong<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ds. Abraham Paul Kriel is op 1 Maart 1850 in Franschhoek gebore \u2013 die elfde kind van Margaretha Louisa en Jacobus Petrus Kriel. Op 30-jarige ouderdom voltooi hy sy teologiese studie en betree die diens van die Here.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Die eerste kinderhuis<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Na die Anglo-Boereoorlog en die griepepidemie van 1918 het talle kinders wees gelaat. In 1902 stig ds. Kriel \u2019n kinderhuis in Langlaagte, Johannesburg. Hy weier dat hulle as \u201cweeskinders\u201d bekend staan en vestig die eerste erkende kinderhuis in Suid-Afrika.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Uitbreiding<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Teen 1956 kon Langlaagte nie meer die groeiende getalle kinders hanteer nie, en is 80 kinders is in \u2019n veetrok na Potchefstroom vervoer. Hulle het aanvanklik in tente gebly terwyl vier huise, \u2019n saal en personeelverblyf gebou is.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nylstroom Kinderhuis<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Die NG Kerk Nylstroom het toe ingetree. Die munisipaliteit het 20 ha grond geskenk, en bouwerk het in 1958 begin. In 1959 het die eerste kinders hul intrek geneem.<\/p>\n<p>Die organisasie het op 13 Maart 2002 as \u2019n organisasie sonder winsoogmerk geregistreer en op 18 Januarie 2017 hul nuwe naam amptelik geregistreer.<\/p>\n<p>Danksy ds. Kriel se visie en roeping is duisende kinders tot volwassenheid versorg en het hulle \u2019n kans op \u2019n beter lewe gekry.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><script id=\"script-row-unique-0\" data-row=\"script-row-unique-0\" type=\"text\/javascript\" class=\"vc_controls\">UNCODE.initRow(document.getElementById(\"row-unique-0\"));<\/script><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2025 vier Abraham Kriel Kinderhuis sy 123ste bestaansjaar. Sedert 1902 dien dit as 'n veilige hawe vir verwaarloosde en kwesbare kinders \u2013 moontlik gemaak deur die lewensroeping van een man.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":114783,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_thinkrank_schema_form_data":"","_thinkrank_selected_schema_type":"","_thinkrank_additional_schemas":"","_thinkrank_canonical_url":"","_thinkrank_og_title":"","_thinkrank_og_description":"","_thinkrank_og_image":"","_thinkrank_twitter_title":"","_thinkrank_twitter_description":"","_thinkrank_twitter_image":"","_thinkrank_imported_from":"","_thinkrank_focus_keywords":[],"_thinkrank_focus_keyword":"","_thinkrank_robots_meta_enabled":0,"_thinkrank_robots_meta":"","_thinkrank_advanced_robots_meta":"","_thinkrank_exclude_from_search":0,"_thinkrank_exclude_from_archives":0,"_thinkrank_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[71,73],"tags":[76,78,242],"class_list":["post-114781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-news","category-newsletters","tag-recent-news","tag-newsletters","tag-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/akknyl.co.za\/af\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/akknyl.co.za\/af\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/akknyl.co.za\/af\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akknyl.co.za\/af\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akknyl.co.za\/af\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114781"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/akknyl.co.za\/af\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114785,"href":"https:\/\/akknyl.co.za\/af\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114781\/revisions\/114785"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akknyl.co.za\/af\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/akknyl.co.za\/af\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akknyl.co.za\/af\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akknyl.co.za\/af\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}