Lourens Laureti

Compelled by Christ’s Love

November 12, 2018

The First time I met Gabi, was on a survey to the villages of Mar-Mar on the South coast of the Mengen people group. I went there with a few Mengen young men, with the purpose of visiting a few families that have been asking us to come to them and teach them Gods Word. […]

5 Important Questions About Finances.

October 31, 2018

Hi friends Through Gods grace we have reached an amazing milestone and that is being involved in Gods ministry for 25 years. It has been an absolute amazing journey, from Bible School, to youth worker, to support missionary and now church planter amongst the Mengen for the last 12 years. God has used you guys to […]

Furlough = Sanity Check

October 15, 2018

Let’s be honest, we missionaries don’t like to be honest about our insecurities, hurts, struggles and failures. Even though we experience God’s grace in the most amazing ways, and even though we are learning to live in absolute dependence on Him who loves us greatly, we are still learning and growing in the process. […]

Faithfulness

September 21, 2018

Hi Friends As you know, we are back in South Africa after a 3year+ stint in PNG. Our main purpose is to have Madeleen settled in a special home for her called Camphill village. Check it out at – Camphill Village. Marie will soon write more about how she’s doing and also the rest of […]

Harvest is great but workers are few!

January 16, 2018

…….We have a strong call for help coming from the village closest to us, called Muela. For many years we have been praying for them, and now God has been stirring up a hunger amongst them. They have been traveling down to our village regularly with requests for teachers to come and teach them. […]

Translation nearly completed!

November 29, 2017

Hi Friends I have been spending allot of time lately with the Mengen leaders and will send some news about this soon. The really good news is that our translation is coming to its end! Wow so many years of hard work starting to come together. I have not done much on this and most of the […]

Hidden blessings

April 22, 2016

Its only good that I write again today, saying that life here is not all hard and bad. Truth is that there is much good too to missionary life…and sometimes missionaries have the funnest times! We don’t always write this because you don’t want your supporters to see that you sometimes buy a cuppachino with […]

ZAR VS USD

February 22, 2016

Hi friends Let me give you a little peak into on of our greatest battles as missionaries. A friend of mine recently reminded me of the change in our economy – Just take a look at this: Rand against the $ 5 year depreciation 20/01/11 R7,04 22/01/16 R16,44 Depreciation: R9,40 % Depreciation: 134% Yes thats […]

God is being faithful in caring for His missionaries.

January 31, 2016

Dear Friends, Our work with the Mengen people started many years ago. I remember the early days where we struggled to learn an unwritten language. It was an uphill battle, trying to repeat back different sounds and to write things the way we heard them! We were often overwhelmed as we immersed ourselves in the […]

Mengen Church doing well on their own

October 9, 2015

Hi friends Hope you are doing great! We are aprouching the end of our time in SA and have less than 3 weeks left before we start our journey back to PNG. Amongst the Mengen believers things are going on well. Progress in translation I am especially thrilled about how things are progressing with our […]