Participant Blogs

Written by: Reynard

God has blessed me with many highs this month. The country I most looked forward to was China, and my experience far exceeded my expectations.  As you are aware, China is a tricky place to share the Good News. We sure had more than our fair share of tricky situations with the police almost on a daily basis, but even through that God put us strategically in positions  where he wanted us. You don't always realize this at the time, but now sitting at the airport-looking back in retrospect-God planned our trip to a T!

                " By the grace God has given me, I laid a foundation as an expert builder, and someone else is building on it. But each one should be careful how he builds. For no one can lay any foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ. If any man builds on this foundation using gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay or straw, his work will be shown for what it is, because the Day will bring it to light. It will be revealed with fire, and the fire will test the quality of each man's...

In April 2003 I was diagnosed with something called Endometriosis.  Doctors told met that the condition can be controled with the pill or hormone injections - but not cured.  I had the operation to remove the growth that was there and took the pill to control my hormones.  My hormones were too strong for the pill and it only worsened the conditoion rather than helping. The sypmtoms that I experienced were extreme pain and discomfort during mentruation, excessive bleeding, irregularity and spotting.  ( And then as the condition progressed - the possibility of partial to total dystruction of the ovaries...

 

Man! Have we had an amazing time! God has really been strengthening our relationship with Him as we build relationships with the people here in Ubatuba. 

At this stage of the journey I could write a blog about almost anything. Endurance would be a good subject... With only 22 days to go I have to bite my lip more every day. Even long suffering or forbearance would fit. And when I see the word ''fit'' I am reminded about some of my clothes that does not fit as nicely as they did when I started the journey. My physical, mental and emotional fitness at this stage is also not something to write home about.   Despite my frustrations and irritations God opened my eyes to see...

Well what can I say…   India is a very beautiful place depending which set of sunglasses you use.   The country side where we are spending the last few days is very beautiful with the Himalayas in the back ground. They don’t seem to be covered with snow since the weather does not really justify snow in a 35 degree region. It however is still very cool compared to the 48+ degrees we had in Kota in the middle of India. This is where we did our main ministry in India and where we worked at the orphanage. We...

Sunday, the Lord's day.  And what a marvelous day we had.  We didn't go to church or spend heaps of time in the Word, but we did experience God in more ways than one. In the Basson's house where we are residing, Sunday is a day where you can start slowly.  We got up at only 9h00.  Some of the guys watched the Bulls/Cheetas game and then the Man U/ Barca game untill the wee hours of the morning.  The late rise was then a geat blessing to those. Each one had his own quiet time accompanied by the usual coffee. ...

Well, what an exciting month, full of adventure and trials… the normal Christian life.

As we arrived the fire fighters where still around. Extinguishing what
was left of a blazing fire that raged through the bottom camp of the
Red Hill community. As we walked through the camp there was the
lingering smell of burnt households and livestock. We where just
overwhelmed by what we saw. The hole bottom camp was burnt to the ground. People had lost everything. We asked a  resident, if anyone got hurt? He replied, no, that the fire happened when most people were at work.

 

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