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 […]

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 […]

Abar, his new boat and other ventures

October 14, 2015

We visited Abar and Liberia – our Mwinika missionaries – who just started two more Literacy classes. The students are very motivated and we are excited to see the Literacy spearheading the Bible teaching into a new neighbouring people group community. Pray for Abar and Liberia as they are pastoring the small group of new […]

Comfort them

September 2, 2015

If there is a people who know about loss, it is the Mwinika. I honestly do not know one man or woman who has not lost someone close to them. Most people have lost several close family members. children, parents, husbands and wives, friends, brothers, sisters. “…comfort them … by the comfort wherewith we ourselves […]

The Paper Chaser

August 25, 2015

Pray that we may stand

July 22, 2015

After 6 months away from the village (of which only 3 were planned), we arrived back home! I was so excited to finally be back that I asked Francois to stop before we even reached our yard and jumped out to greet my friends! So good to see them again! It will always be a […]

One week and counting?

June 1, 2015

We wrote in our last newsletter about how we’ve been blessed: two vehicles to replace our tired and run down one! Both of these vehicles must however be exported from South Africa and imported into Mozambique. In record time. We have heard the “horror stories” about this process, but are praying for a miracle. Please […]

God answers prayer!

May 25, 2015

Elin and I are at a literacy training week and I was reminded about such a neat answer to prayer… that I want to share it with you although it happened a few months ago. This is about how the Lord answered the first Mwinika missionaries, Abar and Liberia’s prayer in a most tangible way! […]