The chronicals of Marton

Hey friends and family, you are now going to read my first blog. All I can say is - what an amazing experience, even getting to masaai land was an adventure! 2 days with very diverse forms of travel - air, bus,taxi and a 4 hour bumpy 4x4 drive but it was all worth it. The first 2 days we spent getting to know the land and meeting Maasai, what a wonderful, colourful culture and people group. What a wonderful surprise and blessing when they gave us a lamb spitbraai the Sunday evening - it was like they knew what...

A wise man I know said: 'The mind can only absorb what the bottom can endure.' After the past week I think my mind can absorb a lot more because this was a time my bottom was tested and it endured. Travelling from Bangkok to Phuket on bicycles approx 900 km, what an amazing challenge! We started of full of energy - in the hectic Bangkok, travelling till about 12 pm at night. Exhausted we found a space to sleep, under a roof for the 8 of us. The next few days we faced everything: bikes breaking down, doing a visa run...

Thailand   In ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich.   I am sitting on a bus travelling through Thailand, it is around  7 am . The sun is just starting to peak out from behind the mountain. Suddenly I realize and become thankful that I am not travelling with random people or friends - this is family travelling together. If I had to look back over the past 2 weeks, from where we left Bangkok with our bicycles, to where we...

Faith and my journey...  What an incredible life journey Now, I can go on rabbling about how God provided and what we went throught on our Luke 10, otherwise known as n faith journey, but i would much rather share how BIG GOD is and how radical he can be. When we toss away the box we so like to store Him in - "haha what a small box it was". What was our mission? To travel from one country to the next, live for 10 days and be God's hands and feet on this earth - specifically Singapore and...