It’s 2’o Clock in the morning – we have long ago left the dry wind of the Sahara desert. We are speeding through the dark of night and my GPS confirms the fact that we are in dangerous territory. The nearly full moon lights up the Cameroon jungle far away. The route is well known […]
It’s been 12 days at the Angolan Embassy – that’s my passport. I was nowhere close to be allowed into Angola – a county that I have been trying to visit for more than 20 years. The visa application was a nightmare. It was that fine line between – is God opening a door or […]
The year is running to an end at such a pace that I am dragging my feet behind …… breathless trying not to accept the fact that Christmas is around the corner. The fact that I am very very very far behind in my postings doesn’t bother me so much these days. There is a […]
“It’s time to cut down the tall trees…” and with these words on 6 April 1994, a genocide of brutal ferocity and speed was inflicted upon the people of Rwanda. The tall trees comment was the code word for a carefully calculated campaign that saw one million people butchered by the […]
Lilongwe, Malawi. Three determined pastors and a working church planting strategy has resulted in one of the fastest growing church planting movements on the planet—this is Malawi in a nutshell. Harvesters International Ministries and Bibles for Believers under the direction of Field Director Herbie Venter (and other partners), have been planting churches in Malawi since […]
All in ONE day!If there is one thing that is very clear in Africa is that it is no place for lazy people. Through ten days in northern Mozambique there was hardly time to catch your breath as we continually moved through the red dust of Mutarara. It was hot with early mornings and late […]