{"id":746,"date":"2012-09-09T15:30:08","date_gmt":"2012-09-09T19:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/francois-hattingh\/?p=746"},"modified":"2012-09-09T15:30:08","modified_gmt":"2012-09-09T19:30:08","slug":"our-visit-up-north","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/francois-hattingh\/2012\/09\/09\/our-visit-up-north\/","title":{"rendered":"Our visit up north"},"content":{"rendered":"

The visit up north We enjoyed our visit tremendously! How refreshing to tell a joke \u2026 and have everyone laughing at it! \ud83d\ude42 Humour is somehow a very cultural thing and being able to communicate in one\u2019s mother tongue is relaxing and easy. It was also restful, since they, like us live close to the coast. However they, unlike us, have a beautiful local beach \u2013 a real tourist attraction! We will let the pictures speak for itself\u2026<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a> The sunset that met us on our arrival !<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a> The sunset closer up. How magnificent our Lord who made sunsets like these for our pleasure!<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a> Our kids couldn\u2019t believe that their friends can also speak Afrikaans. As we made ready to go, Waldo asked: \u201cMom, are you SURE they still speak Afrikaans?\u201d It very seldom happens here that they can play in their mother tongue! \ud83d\ude42 On this picture, they are playing \u201cemergency-emergency\u201d. Helene (on the right) is the doctor (since her dad is a doctor) and Franco (here the patient) was the ambulance driver \u2013 now met with an accident himself (since his dad often is the local \u201cambulance driver\u201d \u2013 hopefully NOT meeting with an accident!). Heide-Marie was the nurse (since her mom often \u201cplays\u201d nurse!). Amazing\u2026 I only realize while writing this how significant their roles during their make believe play were\u2026 The de Kruijffs have three children 6, 4 and 2 years old, but despite their being much younger than our kids, they all enjoyed endless hours of joyful play.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a> Francois having a stare-down with a local dog! We enjoyed the beach a few times \u2013 most beautiful and fairly private, if the dog would allow us some space :)! All this because of a local missionary couple that owns the house bordering this beach. They gladly opened their place for us to enjoy, seeing this as part of their ministry!<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a> Fun in the water!<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a> Family photo with the youngest two de Kruijffs taken at sunset by their mom. This was a visit of meeting up with long time friends! Another friend (his wife and he are working under the Mwani people on an island close by) and their eldest son came to the main land and we could visit with them too! Our friends went out of their way to make our stay enjoyable\u2026 Thank you Arie, Marie and Theo! The visit ended with a (once a month) fellowship time together with some expat believers. (We met with Ghanaian, Swedish, British, Canadian, Ugandan, Mozambican, African-American and other believers \u2013 how much fun heaven is going to be!). They invited us to share some of the work the Lord is doing here in Mwinikaland\u2026 A privilege to have them pray for us! How great is our God.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The visit up north We enjoyed our visit tremendously! How refreshing to tell a joke \u2026 and have everyone laughing at it! \ud83d\ude42 Humour is somehow a very cultural thing and being able to communicate in one\u2019s mother tongue is relaxing and easy. It was also restful, since they, like us live close to the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":808,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-746","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-family","7":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/francois-hattingh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/francois-hattingh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/francois-hattingh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/francois-hattingh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/808"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/francois-hattingh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/francois-hattingh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/francois-hattingh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/francois-hattingh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/francois-hattingh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}