Looking back

There is nothing wrong with looking back. In fact, it is encouraging. Didn't God instruct the Israelite's to remember the past in order to celebrate Gods faithfulness? When you live your life as a follower of Christ it is good to take a little time now and then to look back and say "Eben-Hazer".

April 2006 Arrival in Africa

Covenant College mission post, we lived our first 365 days in the tiny left house before we built our own.

No electricity so in order to have hot water, this is what we did.

April is a special month in our family. First of all we received two children in April; Joas was born 9 April 2000 and Rhoda 6 April 2002. What a blessings from God our amazing Creator. He has kept them all these years in His hands. Secondly we celebrate our arrival into the mission field in Africa this month. It has been 8 years now that we set foot on the African soil. I never ever thought of going to Africa, I was totally focused on going to Indonesia, yet Gods thoughts are much higher that ours. He makes no mistakes. He made us willing to go to a place I would have never picked myself. Great is His faithfulness.

Homescholing our kids .

The school building where Cees taught pastors from mon-friday and I did kids ministry on Saturdays.

Graduation October 2006

Joas and Rhode enjoyed eating lunch with CC staf (all from one pot).

The CC farm was just taking in the harvest when we arrived, a welcome distraction to our kids as we were still waiting for our school materials (arrived 6 months later so I improvised a lot, like, daily schooltrips to the farm...)

God blessed us with a son in 2008, Obed, born in a local hospital nearby, baptised by Rev. Miti our 'grandfather-friend'.

In 2009 we were again blessed with a son...that make a lap full for daddy Cees during his student-home-visits.

Family pic Dec 2009

Family pic 2014. Eben-Hazer! (To Joas' happiness he is now as tall as his parents...)