Left: Sunrise from Mt. Sinai Left: Detlef and myself on Mt. Sinai. Sunrise. Below: The Medina (old city) of Fes. Awesome. Left: another picturesque street in Fes. Wayne is looking frustrated and Tinet is screaming at someone.
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The team was now gone somewhere in Senegal on their Luke 10 which left Detlef and myself alone back in Dakar. Because of Morocco being so expensive we were very short of funds. In fact we almost had no funds left at all. Which brought us to the conclusion that we would have to go on our own little Luke 10 as well. Of course there was the infamous Bamako Express. A train running on a piece of track from Dakar to Bamako, Mali dating back to the colonial era. Stories of the train varied from horrifying to...
If there's one thing a hate it's injustice. Our world is packed full of it. But there is one continent that is known for it: Africa. On our beautiful continent you can pick and choose. Which cause do you want to champion? Which problem do you want to face? Which injustice do you want to be redeemed? It's all here. Every single one. If you hate forests being destroyed, this is the right place. If you can't bear the afflictions of animals, come to Africa. But the one that trumps all is the injustice towards human beings. ...
The Centrality of the Holy Spirit We see that the Holy Spirit was absolutely central to everything the apostles did in the book of Acts. Nothing could be done without the baptism and gifts of the Holy Spirit and this was always the one ingredient they were looking for. At Pentecost it was the outpouring of the Holy Spirit that created a wave of miracles and also Peter boldly standing up and preaching. Later on in Acts chapter 8 we see that even though people had given their lives to Jesus through the evangelism of Phillip the first thing Peter...
I was going on a journey around the world but I didn't care so much about going to China or Thailand. I was looking forward to the adventure across the Sahara from Cairo to Cape Town. I even bought myself a map- of Africa. When we arrived for training at the Alabanza mission station in Pretoria (in that first year training basically consisted of a two week get-to-know each other and Anthony Jacobs drilling us in the rain with physical exercises) I constantly looked at my African map. I remember spreading my map out on a table in the barn...
It was a great 6 months. God did wonderful things as he prepared us for our next season in GCEX. We could probably write a book just on that time. God completely changed the way I thought about church and made me realise how crucial it was that church was a part of our mandate. I realised I wasn't only called for missions but for church, that the two is intertwined and that God's people is his church, not the brick-face on the corner. A township called Red Hill burned down and God used us to rebuild about 70 wooden...
While praying and planning for EA 09 God was impressing on my heart that we had to cover the whole continent. While it wasn't possible to enter all 54 (South Sudan didn't exist yet) African nations in one year it did seem possible that we could enter at least one country in each area of the continent. In other words North, West, Central and East Africa. The Cairo to Cape Town route was still very much at the forefront of my mind; but I soon realised that some of the other adventurers out there were talking about three possible...
