Participant Blogs

  Dear friends and family. After our mi_istry in Cameroon its time to travel again. But this was the roughest and toughest this year till now but also personally the most enjoyable, well parts of it. If the terms 4wd and mud gets your adrenalin going then this is for you. After our time in Yaounde it was time to head for Nigeria. We stopped over in Bafousam for two nights. Had the opportunity to shortly speak to all the church leaders from the western province at a conference, and also had a long time slot for an interview at a...

The dessert run!! The 4wd dessert run starts. The adventure I waited for. The Land Cruisers where packed and ready to got. Generator, amp, DVD player, projector every thing to show the J_sus film in the dessert. The first well was 50 km away from Tanout. With a local P_stor as navigator we hit the dessert tracks, a few hours later we arrive being welcomed warmly by the Fulani community who live around this specific well. The 70m deep well the only source off water in the area. We walked to the well and watched how approximately 50-60l of water...

  Dear friends and family A short update of our Min_stry in Yaounde with Arsene. Don't have much two write because I spent a few days of the first week in bed with stomach problems and most of the last week with malaria. A friendly lady moved out her home to provide us with a place to stay for the 3 weeks. A group of unmarried women and widows provided food for us everyday. Our time hear was spent visiting small groups and encouraging them, 3 evening leadership seminar at the ch_rch. Two bi_le studies at non beli_vers homes, many visits...

  Zinder Dear friends and family. I am going to skip a few days and kilometers from Ouaga to Zinder and start telling of our time hear in Zinder Niger. Since Morocco this has been our 1 st set ministry and we have been in the area for 3 weeks. Hosted by a couple from World outreach Missions we visited local villages in the area an showed the Jesus dvd followed by evangelisation and explanation of the gospel. As custom has it in Africa on arrival in a village a visit to the chief is protocol. Walking through Dogo we entered...

  Dear readers, thats the situation that most local people of the red sea face. Their income is tourism and those working in a shop, restaurant , internet cafe or hotel will face extremely long working hours 7 days a week with out a break for months.   The bible teaches us to work for six days and rest one day a week, regardless of what you believe resting is part of staying healthy.   Looking to buy food on a Friday afternoon our team members encountered that most shops where close, to realize that it is prayer time for the...

Tell the world that Jesus lives Dear friends and Family. Why am I doing what I am doing? There are many answers to that question, but ultimately the most important reason is that more people hear the name of JESUS. At the moment that is also the biggest challenge and struggle. I said the last time I would write more about Dakar. There is not much to write about the hectic busy city, except that the embassies are no longer where the map shows them or no longer there at all. I respect different faiths and beliefs and agree that all...

  More on Zinder and Tanout A reply from a friend on a last news letter encouraged me to write again. I am so far behind with my update it will be hard to catch up. Our next visit in the district was to a village called Guiduigir about 100 km east of Zinder. We showed the J_sus film at the market square. A large crowed gathered and the people listen intently, we also had a amplifier and the sound traveled far and clear above the generator noise. People sat in front of their houses and shops far away, the projector...

  A Month of blessings We are currently in Senegal, Dakar with Explore Africa  and I want to share the month of blessings behind us. While on Mount Sinai I prayed that God will reveal himself in a big way to myself just as he did to the Israelites during the exodus of Egypt. I prayed that he will open the red sea, give us water from a rock, be a cloud of fire of warmth during the night, guide us during the day and feed us with manna and meat. And thats what he did on our travels to Dakar....

  Dear friends and family. After 600km behind the back the last 60 km being dirt the going really got tough. But that did not dampen the spirits of our two taxi drivers and their 7 seater Peugot 504 station wagons. If i am impressed with a vehicles off road performance then it cannot be to bad. After a eventful day we eventually arrived in Abong. Abong a tiny village on the banks of the Benue river, not a common place for a foreigner  to cross into Cameroon. The border is not even marked on our map. It was through Abigail...

Dear friends, I am currently at the red sea with the Global Challenge expedition team for 2009. There are 3 one year teams for 2009, North Bound, South Bound and Explore Africa. The year started with training on the 12 of January in Jeffreys Bay in the Eastern Cape, the 3 weeks where filled up with teachings, practical preparation and serving at a local school in Ithemba. At Ithemba school we painted a huge part of the outside wall's and roofs. Repaired rotten wood panels on the class rooms, painted class rooms on the inside and cleaned out toilets and with the help...