Category: Provision
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When the Global Economy Gets the Flu…
(Note to readers: This testimony was written before the lockdown occurred) In light of the current threat and the potential consequences of the corona virus, I was asked to share my story about the effects of the recession in 2008. The 2008 financial crisis started as a result of a sub-prime mortgage crisis which had…
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Time to Move Again…
We were flicking through job ads, knowing it’s time to move on, our season Pietermaritzburg was over, but we had no idea where to next. So I gallantly, out of the blue, said to my husband “what about Addo?”….From a city to …well, we knew nothing of this little hamlet in the Eastern Cape…. Needless…
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Exodus to Little Canaan
Our dream started about 20 years ago when we were on holiday in the Western Cape, dreaming of our own little farm with vineyards. Every year when we went to the Cape for a holiday, our desires and dreams for this increased. Because I grew up on a farm, I wanted to have my own…
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My Story of Hope and Faith
I was born in April and soon after my parents moved to a small town where I later started school. The example that my parents lived was of a loving relationship, respecting each other, showing affection, dealing with differences in a calm, respectful way, discussing and resolving issues behind closed doors. Fighting was not an…
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Boks vir ‘n Boervrou (Farmers’ Wife Gift Boxes)
This nationwide project to spoil the wives of farmers in the drought stricken areas has touched many lives and have blessed many a farmer’s wife when she least expected it but most needed it. In Bultfontein we came across some of the miracle stories related to this project as told first by a farmer’s wife,…
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God’s Provision in my Shopping Cart…
Needing to get a few things for the house, we stopped at a nearby Supermarket. I should just mention that money was tight since I went on pension a few months ago and with my husband, Gert, already having been on pension for some years. Passing by the pet food in an aisle, a lady…
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From the Seed Spreads the Word…
“Show me a farmer who does not have a deep love for Creation and I will call you a liar.” To talk about farmers is impossible without acknowledging the Hand of the Father in their daily lives. As farmers, Kobie and Regina Klerck from Arnoldistad, on the way between Kroondal and Rustenburg, Northwest, needs no…
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Perfect Provision for Freie Christengemeinde, Linz am Danube, Austria
During 1966 Fritz and I visited Linz, Austria, his birth place. Amongst other things, we visited the Freie Christengemeinde (Austrian for congregation), where the fact that female attendance far outweighed male attendance caught our attention. Pastor Griesfelder, the minister at that time, invited us over, giving us the opportunity to enquire about the odd gender…
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God my Provider
There was a time of our lives when we were really struggling financially. We had to get used to new work circumstances and many a time I did not know how we will make ends meet. I had a few chicken and soon a number of eggs too. A neighbour lent me a gadget to…
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Reward in Abundance – Adrie van Aswegen
Adrie van Aswegen testifies to the faithful, abundant care and provision of God and His people while she and Dan, for more than 14 years, have been His faithful servants in the missionfield in Zambia.