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 […]

Mengen Translation going ahead well!

July 30, 2015

Hi Friends Hope you’re all doing great. Things here are going well in South Africa! We are again approaching the time to greet and even though it’s still a few months before we leave we are starting to plan and even pack. Together with this comes allot of emotions but I will leave this to Marie to share as she is preparing a bit […]

Introducing Gabby

July 7, 2015

Hi Friends I hope you guys are doing great! Thanks for partnering with us and especially for praying for the Mengen believers. Today I would like to introduce you to Gabby. He is one of our Bible teacher trainees. When I got to know him he was living in a different village about 3 days […]

Please pray for Alex and Mande.

June 25, 2015

Hi Friends Hope you are all doing great today! Another friend I would like to introduce to you guys and ask that you would pray for him is, Alex. He is the older brother of Brus, maybe you can remember him? Any way Alex is also a very special friend of mine and someone I dearly […]