A few times the past three weeks I've had the thought: “I would rather be here, than anywhere else in the world…”
These few words get new meaning when you are standing amongst the ruins of 72 burnt down shacks! The Red Hill fire-disaster in the Cape Peninsula caught a whole community by surprise, but I was certainly not prepared for what lied ahead of me as I drove along the road leading to the disaster stricken community for the first time.
10 February 2008
“Rain means blessing,” said Clara Miles, Global Challenge (GC) Staff member.
We are standing in the pouring rain, looking over the Red Hill community that was destroyed by fire less than two days ago.
The rain is indeed an answer to prayer as it extinguishes the remaining fires and causes the dust and dry ash to settle.
The unique smell of burning wood extinguished by water hangs in the air.
It’s been an exciting day. The whole CPx (Church Planting eXperience) group from All Nations arrived in the morning to come and aid the community.
Guess what???????
Breaking news on the Malaysia Challenge 2008...
THE RED TEAM WON THE SUPER TASK!
-for submitting the best range of 10 photos of the Petronas towers and fountains at sunset in KL, Malaysia
The Airplane cruised down the runway , I could hear the engines increasing in speed as the noise grew louder and louder.
Then suddenly, just before take-off, one engine cut out. Silence. The pilot stopped the aircraft and taxied back to the airport.
The people who stole part of my heart in Arusha...
Anjelista (Angel), our local vegetable seller and her family - Elijas, Bagite and Esther
My best subject in school was always Biology...and the reason for that is...because there is lots of pictures in the text book!! The Bible does say,: "do unto others what you want to be done unto yourself", so I will not bore you with to many paraghraps but rather show some colourful pictures!!
Waiting for our bus on the pavement in Beijing, Hattingh took out his guitar and we started to sing. Soon we were attracting a crowd with
our singing. My eye caught a young guy to the right of the crowd – he looked shy and uncertain, his face puzzled.
Last week I was walking past the movies at the local cinema and what I saw was a huge shock to me: There wasn&
rsquo;t one non occultist movie that you could watch. Even the movies for family entertainment and children had strong connections with some or other form of the occult or satanism!
In agreement with what I have observed the past two years in the world around me, my spirit has been crying out! I believe we are in a time like no other! I believe that the harvest is plentiful – the labourers few - and that satan is pulling out all stops to grab what he still can!
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