Today I was very privileged to finish the book I was reading while serving somewhere in China. The book is called "To the golden shore" and is the biography of Adoniram Judson, the first missionary that was ever send out by America. I am truly humbled by the life of this man. He left his family never to see them again, he buried 2 wives and 3 children. He was imprisoned for almost 2 years and it took 6 years before the first Burmese person accepted Christ. He spend almost 50 years away from home and gave up everything to serve Christ. I...
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Normal 0 false false false EN-ZA X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 JBAY, the beach, the surf, the ... wind. So we started the first part of our global challenge journey for 2010. What did we do I hear you ask? Well, a lot ! We are currently busy with the Veritas Bible school program. We spend a lot of our time each day doing this course. It is really brilliant, my view of reading the Bible changed dramatically. We spent a lot of our time serving the local community, working very hard doing physically labour and spending time with little kids. It...
Our time in Israel was amazing !!! We stayed in Bethlehem which is in the palastinian territory of Israel. Every day we had the same experience of going through checkpoints as the people of palastine. God showed me how it felt living without freedom. I really have developed a heart for Israel and Palastine. Being in the Holy land was such a blessing. Thanks God.
Hello friends, Here is an update on my journey. Again the pictures will tell the stories. This is our plane that took us to Madrid. We had to fly to Greece via Madrid. In Greece they had a strike so we had to wait on the runway for 3 hours before we arrived in Athens. When we finally arrived we could not found any transport because of the strike and had to sleep on the airport. The next morning the strike was over and we could use the brilliant public transport system of Greece. This is the view from outside...