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Jordan - Petra   I traveled along the Red Sea and adventured through the borders and I reached Jordan.  Backdrops of mighty mountains flowing down into white and brown valleys of desert. My destination was the remote dead city called Petra, the most important attraction of Jordan. Petra is a secluded site of steep rocky slopes, towering, craggy mountains a mountaineers dream.  Petra is a ancient city carved into solid rock. The main entrance called the Siq is hemmed in by cliffs soaring up into the blue sky. A long, deep and narrow gorge of stunning natural beauty.  Passing through...

And that's it, Peru is already behind us... We had a lot of different activities hear ! When we arrived Peru, we went to a small town called Ferrenafe, where Ronel and Hendrik were expecting us. They are a couple of Missionary from South Africa that works with the people from Peru, and especially the Quechua people. We stay a couple of days there, just to rest a bit after our 50-and-a-bit bus drive ! Then we all went to Trujillo, a city that is around 200km away. There, we had quiet an important ministry waiting for us: we had...

The Lady Is called a Lady for a reason; she isn’t some type of robot that just provides the needs of us filthy men whenever we want something and just see her as a common servant. Moses did describe her in the book of genesis as a helper, but he did not say a lust pleaser. They are a lot more than that...they are delicate, they are precious, and they are God’s Creation....

  Looking over the incredibly green hills just outside of Fes in Morocco, I found myself sitting on the ground in the back yard of a Moroccan family. We were enjoying some Mint tea and waiting for Sunday lunch that was being prepared. Just two days before, we walked down a road, into a village with Emily who navigated a bit. We decided to go into a little village and were welcomed by ‘n local family who didn't know any of us. After about 10 minutes we were warmly invited to a traditional Sunday lunch. So here we were at...

The next episode...:) Q; Whats was the most difficult thing for you in this time? A: Learning God's true character, we can never know everything about our Creator but walking with Him, you get to know some of His characteristics. This has been hard because He shook my world, He showed me that in fact I knew absolutely nothing about Him and really showed me who He truly is. Arriving in Dubai I had a few days to get my visa sorted out, to put you up to date, it was almost impossible to get the visa in a period...

Looking around me I see so much hurt, so much hunger, so much poverty and so many people reaching out for just a little bit of help and I cannot but feel the urgency to address their immediate needs. However, what I have learned during my time in India is that there is a difference to responding to the need and acting on the calling.

On a beautifull day in J-Bay in Ocean Basket making my first ever blog with some brothers an sisters next to an amazing view of the ocean feesting ons some delicious food.

I have the privilege of dancing in (on a trampoline!) each new day while the beautiful New Zealand sun are starting to peek over the nearby hills. This morning  I were just pondering Lamentations 3:22,23 about God's mercy and compassion being new every morning.  And I realized how amazing the full meaning of this verse is! Toward the end of today, a new day will break across the globe in Africa. And all the time, every moment of today, it will be morning somewhere on earth. For God, viewing the earth as a whole, there is no such thing as...

  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...