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Sendingnuus – Madagaskar : The Week 12 May 2024

We took a couple of days after the work team had left to get our house in some kind of order. Moving between the boat and home means that we are forever looking for stuff, but we’ll get there.  I am doing the last Royal Ranger preparation for the current school year this week.  It feels as if this school year went by extremely quickly.  Concert practise is in full swing and Larisdiana asked Victoria to help out as she is almost seven months pregnant.  I am blessed by the fact that they don’t need me to concern myself with the planning of the end of year concert anymore. 

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Sendingnuus: Madagaskar – Gabriel work team

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We said goodbye to the seven guys who gave it their all the past two weeks. We are so grateful for what Jan, Jacques, Ackerman, Joubert, Reuben, Ricus and Joseph had accomplished in such a short time.

The main objective was to remove and fix the smaller box on Gabriel’s stern. It had to be put back in place again and this required some muscle and teamwork.

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Sendingnuus: Madagaskar – The Week 21 April 2024

I have once again lost a couple of days along the way…but it has been BUSY! Dries and I finally got everything to the boat to be ready for the team to start work Monday morning. There were some challenges; it has been almost two weeks that we hardly have electricity, at most five hours a day. It is simply too expensive to run a generator full time, but we had to cart the generator all the way back to the house to refrigerate the meat for the team. Organising drinking water was also a major challenge. There are still shortages concerning vegetables and a Plan B is always required.

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FEBA Konferensie in Korea, 2024

FEBA, wat deur NG Kerk Groot-Brakrivier Gemeente ondersteun word, se internasionale bestuur het die afgelope week vergader op die tropiese en skilderagtige Daebu Eiland, vanwaar een van hulle groot mediumgolf stasies die hele Asië dek. Menige mense word bereik in dosyne verskillende tale. Die kleurvolle geleentheid is ook gedek deur die Koreaanse televisie.

Die was ‘n geseënde geleentheid met die feestelike optrede van Christene wat baie melodieus hulle Christenskap uitleef. Ook die FEBA kinderkoor van Korea, wat optree tydens fondsinsamelings funksies optree, het dit ‘n luisterryke geleentheid gemaak. Die Konferensie is baie goed bygewoon.

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Sendingnuus: Madagaskar – The week 21 April 2024

We said goodbye to Thesi on Tuesday. It was a time of refreshing for us to be together. She will always have a very special place in all of our hearts.

The rest of this week, we shall have to fire on all cylinders. The work team arrives next Sunday and I have so far two days worth of the menu written down. It will be camp style living and cooking…so if any of you have good ideas for tasty meals for ten people, don’t hesitate to share. 😉

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Madagaskar : The Week – 07-04-2024

“For God so loved the world….” 

Lovako team

Our time at Lovako School reminded me again of the fact that God gave His Son Jesus so that all people who believe in Him could have eternal life. From the most advanced and developed countries in the world, to the small fishing village of Ampamata where people are mostly illiterate and live in tiny houses made from palm leaves, God does not exclude anyone on the basis of background or position. Christ welcomes you as long as you come to Him in repentance and faith. This was the focus of the morning devotions and Euphrasie brought the children and teachers back to the profound and life giving message of John 3:16.

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FEBA Kazakstan skep ‘n digitale golf wat mense transformeer!

Argen, 21, is ’n universiteitstudent van Almaty en die jongste van drie kinders wie se ouers geskei is. “My ma het haar bes gedoen om ons groot te maak terwyl my pa heeltemal uit die prentjie was,” skryf Argen. “Ons het nie altyd geld gehad vir goed soos verjaardaggeskenke of vakansies, soos ander kinders by ons skool nie. Ek probeer nie hier kla nie, aangesien daardie uitdagende tye ons baie geleer het… In jul uitsendings praat julle daarvan om aan diegene wat in nood verkeer, te gee, en ek identifiseer baie hiermee. Ek voel God seën my en nou is ek mal daaroor om verjaardaggeskenke aan minder bevoorregte kinders te gee.”

FEBA Kazakstan se pad was tot nou toe nie maklik nie. Buiten die uitdaging van evangelisasie in ’n  hoofsaaklik Moslemland, het hulle ook te kampe met ’n dralende anti-godsdienstige sentiment onder ouer mense… ’n oorblyfsel van Kazakstan se jare as deel van die Sowjet-Unie. Amptelik erken die Kazak-regering godsdiensvryheid, maar tog stipuleer die 2011 Godsdienswet onder meer die volgende: … Lees die res van die artikel hier

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Sendingnuus: Missie Japan – Predeparture Newsflash

Dear Supporter,

Greetings from Kobe, where the Sakura (cherry blossoms) charmed us once again! The dawn of a bright spring was, as always, introduced by (Japanese) Nightingales’ energetic melodies all-around. Our long-awaited departure is coming up soon, so I share just a few snippets about our recent work. Please click on available links to read and see more. 

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Sendingnuus: Madagaskar – The Week

Thesi arrived safely and we have had a wonderful week of catching up and spending time together.  The teachers were happy to see her and somehow it felt as if she never left. she will be here for one more week. We had a blessed Ranger meeting on Thursday and the kids were so excited to learn a new song.  Thesi and I worked on the actions for the song earlier in the week and we felt as if we had a proper workout after all the jumping around.

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Sendingnuus Madagaskar: The week 17 March 2024

We once again have a working kitchen and bathroom on the boat. Dries connected the boatyard’s water supply directly to the boat. So running water all around! The toilet flushes and is connected to the drain which Dries and Norbert finished this week. We had to buy some new batteries and the solar panels do their job which means lights and cold water in the fridge. It took a lot of scrubbing and manoeuvring in a small space and it feels as if I still smell of bleach. I am beginning to think that living on the boat might be more comfortable than our house. Now we just have to get the rest of Gabriel in the same shape.

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Sendingnuus Madagaskar : Update

I clearly lost a couple of weeks!

We have been working hard at the boat and I have to keep up with the Ranger lessons and meetings. As is so often the case, things break when it is least convenient. My quad is waiting for a part which we had to order from Taiwan and the Land Rover has parts coming from Antananarivo. The Landy is still going though, but the quad is out of commission for now. I have to take six different tuc-tucs to get to and from school. I still have trouble walking and doing everything at at a slower speed, is frustrating for me.

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Sendingnuus: Missie Japan – SA besoek om die draai – Groot-Brakrivier 11 Augustus 2024

SA BESOEK is om die draai

Beste Ondersteuner,

‘n Laaste paar verdwaalde sneeuvlokkies word die afgelope dae rondgeslinger deur die winde van verandering. Vroeg-oggend hoor ek reeds (‘n paar weke vroeër as gewoonlik) die Japannese nagtegaal sing. Duidelike en helder tekens van die lente wat oppad is in Kobe. Hoe draai die seisoen aan jou kant, terwyl Lydenstyd verdiep?

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Sendingnuus uit Madagaskar- The week 25 February 2024

I asked Dries which of the following scenarios he would choose: a – to be in urgent need of medical care and end up in a very bad hospital b – to be put in prison because of a false accusation

Let me just clarify, both prison and hospital on our island are indistinguishable from one another when it comes to hygiene and care. He struggled to choose between the two and opted for the hospital one where I leaned towards the prison what-if.

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Madagaskar Sending nuus: The week 28 January 2024

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Rather late than never they say.

The week has been filled with a variety of tasks as the full focus on the boat during the last couple of weeks, put other things on hold.

Dries and Norbert removed the outboard motors from the boat as well as all the batteries which need to be checked and charged. Dries went to school to see how the roof has been replaced and he was not happy, because much of it was not done straight. It is one of our continous struggle; to get people to deliver good work. Dries could not be there to keep an eye on the roof job, with the result that the one side has basically been botched and looks like giant sharks teeth, zig-zagging along instead of lined up and straight. That doesn’t seem to bother anyone and all the classrooms are up and running. Dries would have to replace the gutter system and do some work on the Land Rover, therefore much of February will be spent on that and Gabriel will have to wait.

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