20 years in ministry

April 20, 2017

We are on a much overdue visit to our supporting churches in the Western and Eastern Cape. Missionaries from NTM (New Tribes Mission/ Integral Vision) usually take 9-12 months home assignment every four years, but being “local” missionaries, we have never been able to make that work for us! We arrived in January and will […]

Conflict and Blessings

August 9, 2016

Our original plan was to travel by road. But when we encountered an armed conflict, God provided a safer option for our return trip.

Reaching another villages… starting this week

March 19, 2016

Reaching other Mwinika villages! How exciting! We are doing evaluations this next week in Hodie where soon a new literacy class will start. (We evaluate the students, since they are more than double what we can take at a time!). But how does the still young Mwinika church know where to go to next? The […]

The Edge

March 19, 2016

The Mwinika church is at a place where the emphasis should be on discipleship. That is after all what Jesus told his disciples: go and make disciples of all nations… Not: go and convert people, nor: go and start a church! Making disciples… It is however easier said than done… no tick lists here and […]

It will last for eternity

December 10, 2015

In 1997 I flew in a small aeroplane over Mozambique. It was my first time in a “fish tin” (that’s how the 8 seater looked like) and a great adventure! We flew from Maputo Mozambique, to Lichinga in the far north of the country, more than 3000 km in all. As we flew over vast […]