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What happened to the Ark of the Covenant?
I am sure most of you will remember the Ark of the Covenant and, like me, you might have wondered what happened to it. Amongst a few other items, it contained the first written text of the 10 Commandments, on stone tablets. If you are not sure exactly what it is, you...
Please pray for Jochi Maidi
One of the mothers of our children's homes has been stricken with Covid19. She is Jochi Maidi and, as you can see from the picture, she has quite a handful with all the children at her safe home in Nelmapius. Can we all please pray for a speedy recovery for her? ...
Letter to a prisoner (Prison Ministry)
I wrote this letter back in the days when I was doing prison ministry. This was in the period 1995 - 2005. At some stage I turned my letter into a pamphlet. Letter writing to a prisoner friend is a good alternative to visiting. In my days visiting a prisoner was...
Christmas: Our Ticket to Heaven!
Dear All, Making and writing Christmas cards before Christmas is an old common tradition. Come Christmas time, I often take an extra turn at our post office, (still) hoping to find some cards in our box. If there are any, I am curious to know: who send them? Is it...
Best Worship Song ?
Prayer for our Farmers
Hennie Pienaar posted this prayer on Landbou Sosiaal. I’d like to share it, it's a prayer from my heart too! My Jesus, My God, My King, My Lord, My Master, My Rabbi, My Physician, My Caregiver, My own Abba Father: In these early hours of the morning that the thief...
Echo
picture: INHABITANTS FROM ONE OF THE HOUSES OF HOPE We, that is my wife and myzelf, and the other directors of Heart for Children, have identified a serious problem regarding our youth. How do we handle the children that have been fostered and that have now grown up...
Jerusalema
I notice that the graph showing the number of new Corona patients is going down, so perhaps it is time to relax a bit. If there is one thing that all South Africans have in common, it is our love for dancing! Some people here even do a dance when they are not happy!...
Persistence!
Our Father’s Loveletter
The weather in Jesus’ time
a) Bathymetric map of the central-western Mediterranean Sea. Red triangle: location of SW104-ND11 core; red circles: marine records used for the comparison; (b) Bathymetric map of the Sicily Channel showing surface oceanographic circulation and core location. Black...
Brrr…….it is getting colder!!
Looking at the results from a weather station where I live here in Pretoria, I find that winter here has been cooler than it was last year. The recorded temperatures in for May & June 2020 each are about 2 degrees lower than May and June last year (2019). The...






