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I should probably start of by telling you that we did paint Meagan Fox's house, as I stated on Facebook. But where the idea come from that it is the Meagan fox from Transformers, I am not sure. hahaha oeps. 

The life changing part of Canada for me thus far, is when we set of on a semi Luke 10. We are hiking North and with a loop going to the camp where we will be working for a while. In the beginning we got a few easy lifts, It didn't take lang for us to start making good process. Until one stage we waited for a while. I remembered that people have told me stories before, about asking God specific things and make a list of what their needs were. So I wanted to see how much attention to detail God has in my live. 

John 14:13 (ESV) Whatever you ask in my name, that I will do, So that the father may be glorified in the Son.

 

We had a month of walking through warm deserts, climbing high mountains and adventures through the Amazon!

 

Patients, is an on going proses that can never be completed. If a man can wait for 20min before he loses his temper he must be put in situations where he must wait 20min or longer to improve.

There came a time when this man will reach a place where he can wait 2 hours before getting frustrated. This is the point where the next step sucks a bit. In order to improve on waiting more than 2 hours something big needs to happen. Waiting more than 2 hours can change the days planning and get very long.

There was also the idea that, if you are waiting for a long time and loose you temper, you would fail the test but still improved your time limit and the test would be over. Thus the waiting period will be over and that what ever you were waiting for will come to you. with in a very shot time.

This theory was put together in Egypt when Frikkie and I sat next to the road.

Good day everyone So my first blog will be about our hard work at the first project that we are busy with. All the guys have blisters after this week! But we do this out of the love of God! This was probably one of the hardest weeks and that was just a small taste of what is lying ahead. This week we also managed to raise some of the money that was needed to complete the project. I was also for the first time on this very high roof that in that moment I also realised that I am...

After a few weeks in the Caribbean it was time to return to the mainland of South America. Columbia stretches in diversity from high Andes mountain ranges, to coffee farms to tropical beaches. Our time in Columbia was equally diverse as it started with the much anticipated parent visit in Bogota and Cartagena, moving into a backpacker challenge from Cartagena to Santa Marta, ministry in the hot, tropical coastal town of Santa Marta and finishing off in the much cooler Fusagasuga mountain town. The parents visit was a time of exploring, relaxing, story telling and being showered with love, affirmation...

I don't even know what to say, so I am just going to tell you what we did and hope that God will reveal to you the significance of every small detail. One day at celebration we heard that the community are going to fast until the "It's time" prayer meeting in Bloemfontein. We as a team felt led to also fast and so we did. Fasting for me is to kill self, not feed flesh, and give space for Spirit to get fed and bloom. I fasted before (we did a Daniels fast) and never had it been this...

I recently again read this piece by John Stott and would love to share it with you…

“We see with our minds eye the three thousand million unevangelized peoples of this world, who have had no real opportunity to respond to the gospel; the poor, the hungry and disadvantaged; people crushed by political, economic or racial oppression… We see these things: Do we not care?

Just a quick glimpse into what's happening with Orange Team in China! 

 

 

Getting to know Gods character & grace was and still is the most difficult concepts for me to understand, I have to constantly "prove" myself to God thinking that I need to be worthy of His grace and love for me. I am very emotional and overwhelmed in understanding Gods grace. I am trusting God to brake down these walls of insecurities and I am willing to open my heart for Him to work within me. I have realized these past few weeks that spiritual growth can best take place once you are in a vunerable position, once you are...

Our journey to Suriname started a long way back in Boa Vista. Little did I know that when we set off in our overly cramped taxi, that we would be starting an epic 2 week journey to the beautiful land of Suriname. The first leg of our travel was done with 2 overly priced taxies that took us across the Brazil/Guyana border. Soon realizing once we entered Guyana that we had illegally arrived in the country we made a quick u-turn back to the border to get our passports stamped. Then for the second time we journeyed back into Guyana,...