I was temporarily staying in a rented house in Rustenburg, busy moving out, with only a few things remaining – a bed, TV, fridge and curtains. I was supposed to leave for Canada in a few weeks’ time. At 2 o’clock one Saturday morning (6 February 2020) I was surprised …
Our first child, Divan, was born out of wedlock and we got married when he was a year old. My husband, Nico, is however, the love of my life and we were in a long-standing, committed relationship but the pregnancy was unplanned. These circumstances put a lot of strain on …
The confinement of lockdown caught me and the handing out of Bibles was delayed. We were anxious to get away again and to tackle the work we would like to do. The moment it was permissible, we started driving around on weekends to hand out Bibles. Initially we drove from …
All glory to God. Lockdown – We are all in the same boat, exposed to serious restrictions, rules and regulations, influencing our everyday lives. Our tenants notified us in December 2019 that they will be moving out at the end of March 2020. When the National Lockdown in South Africa …
My brother had cancer and I asked God to heal him. In a letter, on 14 December 2019, I promised God that I will be a witness for Him if He healed my brother. I emphasized that it will be an added bonus if he lived and both of us …
Father had to break things in us so that He could love people and we wouldn’t be the ones loving them. Often we want to do things ourselves and we want to serve them and we do it out of our own strength. It took 11 years, living out of …
A few years back Charles and I attended a Worship evening hosted by a congregation in our hometown. Us being present was the first miracle as I received a random invitation on Whatsapp, from someone I did not know that well at the time, on a group that I then …
I am (happily) married, although it has been a difficult marriage, over time it got better. In short, reason being that my husband, the third of 4 brothers, grew up in a family where conflict was dealt with in an aggressive way – shouting and screaming, attack and defence where …
When people look at me they see someone beautiful with whom everything is normally ok and prosperous. Little do they know that I have always been struggling with low self-esteem and inferiority, nothing severe but always in the back of my mind? This causes me to react with hurt and …
For the best part of my school career I attended boarding school. It was compulsory to attend Sunday school every Sunday as well as to attend both the morning and evening church services. In other words I was raised in the Christian tradition. By the end of 1959 I proclaimed …
