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  'Come on,' they said, 'make us some gods who can lead us. We don't know what happened to this man Moses, who brought us here from the land of Egypt (land of slavery).'... Then Aaron took all their gold, melted it down, and moulded it into the shape of a calf. When the people saw it, they exclaimed, 'O Israel, these are the gods who brought you out of the land of Egypt and slavery! " - Exodus 32 - This was written thousands of years ago and might seem ridiculous - how could people just decide to make...

Today we visited a remote village in the middle of the Andes mountains - people who never have or very seldom see any other people than those in their village and has never heard the gospel. What a privilege. We saw how 7-year-olds walk hours of VERY steep mountains, up and down, in the rain and in the cold just to go to school, alone. Wow. We had the awesome opportunity to give them the living word of God!!! We felt God lead us to do a drama about how we so easily make recipes of "How to pray..." Of...

I think I understand better now, why Jesus moved and walked around so much instead of staying in one place - well, at least one of the reasons... We get too comfortable too quickly. Our beds, our couch, our pillow, our food, our family and friends, our language - all these things become our comfort zones. We start finding our comfort in them instead of finding it in the Comforter Himself. Today we saw, served, loved and worked with people who have become comfortable... Comfortable in their uncomfortable state. Comfortably stuck in their poverty of spirit. In their helplessness, their...

Have you ever thought what your reaction would be if you were to live in biblical times, or if you were to meet up with someone from that time? For the last three weeks we have had the crazy privilege of spending time with an Ezekiel, a John of our times... and no, my reaction was not as "godly" as I thought it would be. my first thought was: "Are you serious? This guy?! Is this the amazing man of God? He looks crazy!!" :) And so this "crazy man" challenged everything I see as truth and asks me to...

We humans have very little moments where we feel totally completed. Totally satisfied with where we are or what we are doing with our lives, Cuba is no different - here people dream about travelling and doing all the things their Communist country does not allow them to, therefore moments like these should be written about. This is one of those moments. I am sitting on the back of what might seem like a cattle truck (Cuban taxi) on our way back from giving word at the Cuban seminary. Tonight I sit in total content with a smile on my...

I think i'm only coming to the realisation of what God has called me to as His child now. Saying that - it is still a journey. What it means to say "yes" and what He means when He tells me to go. We spent most of our lives without knowing the full truth about who we are without Jesus, how rotten and evil our true nature really is and also without the full truth about what Jesus really did and what He enables us to do when He calls us. I am finding myself at a place where God...

*Flying to Brazil and having an extra 5 hours in your day *Looking like polka dotted humans because of the 109 mosquito bites on only one half of one leg.. *Living with people who have alligators as pets - and playing with them!!  *People having tortoises as pets - and then eating them! *Jumping off a boat and swimming in the Amazon River *Having a Brazilian treat (Asaii) which stains every part of your mouth purple and having it taste like ground *Losing stranger's underwear into the Amazon while trying to get it out of he rain - and then...

We could feel our hearts beat as we have walked quite a while going door to door during the heat of the day to share the heart of The One that captured our hearts.. Then we met Louise - a 60 year old man who lives in the Amazon in his beautiful wooden house. And so Jansie, Kasia and I along with 4 other local missionaries enter this very humble, hospitable "oupa's" house. Immediately I get 3 words - "Children; Father of many; Man of many questions and pain." All we know is that Louise has not accepted Jesus -...

1, 2, 3 ... 109 ... 135 - this is me counting the cost of what it physically means to follow the heart of Jesus into the Amazon if I count the mosquito bites on only one half of my leg with repellent on!! We knew we arrived in the Amazon when we could feel mosquitoes bite us through our clothes before reaching the terminal! And because of the extreme heat that covers you like a thick blanket. We met with the missionaries at the YWAM base near Manaus. They live right next to the HUGE Amazon River :) They...