Pastor Leonides and his wife Kristina met me at the airport. She speaks English but he does not. He has 11 brothers and sisters and 3 brothers work together in the ministry. They call the church, ‘The house of prayer.’ (Casa de Oracion). Johan Maasbach Mission holds an annual Evangelization […]
Daily Archives: 2016/06/28
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The joy of seeing Hilton again I had my first ‘arepa’ maize meal flat bread last night with ham and cheese. It is a typical Venezuelan snack. Roslyn, Raquel’s mom, made it for us. Luis, Raquel and Hilton came to fetch me at Bolivar Airport in Caracas. It was hot […]
Greetings from Jerusalem! I had a walking tour with the pastor Alan through the old city. It is not far from the hotel I picked although the streets are very steep! Jerusalem is a hilly city (worse than PE) so Jesus must have been quite fit to walk around […]
We arrived in Paris where we were met by a very kind lady who drove us across the city to Clamart. There we stayed with Pastor Michel Balverde and his family and ministered in one of the oldest Pentecostal churches in the city. The church and the manse is all […]
Bright sunshine interrupts soft drizzles of rain. Shops close during lunchtime for two hours. People sit in cafés de trottoir (sidewalk café’s) sipping coffee and eating baguettes and read Le Monde (The World) newspaper. There are neat flowerbeds everywhere with red, yellow and purple flowers ranging from cyclamen, lavender, chrysanthemums, […]
My first secretary in Southern Christian Centre in Bassonia, the first church we ever planted, was a Portuguese lady, Maria das Neves. She introduced me to Manuel Bessa who organized the first trip to Portugal in 1988. Since then we have been back several times and have built up wonderful […]
A prophecy given in Scotland was that there was a Shofar that has not been played since the time of the Reformer John Knox! Those who tried to play it failed. Then someone stepped up to play it and it was able to produce a sound! Could this be the […]
Yorkshire towns We held meetings in Luddedenfoot, Yorkshire. You try saying that while balancing on one foot! These English country town names are sometimes so hard to pronounce. Try this one: Mytholmroyd – pronounced ‘Mithemroid’! You don’t know where the one village ends and the other one begins: Sowerbybridge (pronounced […]
Ben Unsworth is getting married to Mary Dahdah. Both completed MBC training and Ben is teaching Miracle Bible College satellite in Birmingham. We met Mary’s family from Lebanon: Nadim (father), Phoebe (mother), Lisa (sister) and George (brother) as well as Phoebe’s sister Sawsan (her name means ‘Lily’ in Arabic). Mary’s […]
A Pastor called Moses had a dream of me without knowing who I was. In the dream I wept as I spoke about God’s love. When I started speaking about love in our meeting he remembered the dream and realized I was the man in the dream. God gives dreams […]
