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, […]
Yearly Archives: 2016
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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 […]
Pastor Nannette in Marikina, Manila brought two boxes of chocolates to share with everyone attending the discipleship class on a Monday night. I spoke on discovering your divine gift. To demonstrate it I took one of the boxes of chocolate from Nannette, who was quite surprised, and gave it to […]
Pastor Jerald & Dixie Freeman pastored Ascension Church in Skiatook, Oklahoma for over 50 years! There must be some kind of a reward in heaven for that! It is called a crown of faithfulness. When he goes on his knees with the prayer requests on a Sunday morning one has […]
Pastor Phil and Priscilla Visagie have seen the hand of the Lord work with them in Port Elizabeth in so many wonderful ways. We rejoice together with them. Their estranged daughter has come back and serves in the church again. Pastor Phil operates a small business and in the past […]
The first time we came to HK as a family we were en route to go to Australia as missionaries. We landed in between high-rise buildings. That was scary to say the least! They moved the airport away from the city to a narrow strip near the sea. We […]
