It’s your turn! (add your comments…)

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Happy Resurrection Sunday everyone!  Almost 2,000 years ago, around this time of the year, Jesus conquered sin and death and rose from the dead to prove it!  We thought it would be fun for YOU to just leave comments about whatever you so desire!  It could be a short testimony of God’s deliverance in your […]

What are you living for? (very short blog with picture)

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Yesterday, today and tomorrow people around the world will remember the death and resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth.  His time on earth almost certainly affected the planet more than the life of any other single person, yet his life was only about 33 years long. Back at the University of Texas, a man named Cliff […]

Kids cry about silly things…

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Have you ever thought how nice it would be to be so “taken care of” that you could cry if you didn’t have food put in your mouth the moment it crossed your mind?  Or if you could wet yourself and then cry until someone changed your diaper for you?  Of course I am talking […]

A day in Masiphumelele (Pictures of the family)

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  The above picture is of Asher playing with a boy he had met while we were in the “prayer shack” praying for our outing.  Asher always quickly makes friends with children wherever we go.     This is more of the same, but the sky was so cool behind, I thought I would show […]

Cape Town is ridiculously beautiful!

A view looking across False Bay in Fishhoek

  This is about 4 miles due east of where we live.  Noordhoek beach, the subject of another update is about 3 miles due west of where we live. That really is the color of the water! It’s crazy and still blows my mind every time I see it.   See what I mean about the crazy […]

God is not an elephant…

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  God is not an elephant… Many of us live under the depressing and burdensome notion that God has never forgotten that “thing” that we did in our past.  As a result, we either choose to stop thinking about Him altogether, or we work furiously to try and “make up” for that “thing.” (note: “thing” […]

Malaria, Missions and Eternity….

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He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose. The man who said that is Jim Elliot.  He was subsequently martyred at the hands of cannibals in the Ecuadorian Amazon in 1956.  His death, along with the simultaneous death of 4 other men, all of whom were […]