Stories of Faith. Moments of Grace. Lives Transformed.

I greet you in the Wonderful name of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Ever since I can remember I’ve been addicted to masturbation. At first I did not watch pornography, but I started watching it at a later stage. I was not as addicted to watching pornography to get me into masturbation, because usually…

Matthew 5: 9 – God blesses those who work for peace, for they will be called the children of God. We are to ask God for the strength and courage to live out His word. To follow the leadership of the Holy Spirit into the good works He has prepared for us. One night I was…

Have you ever been faced with issues and questions that not even Google could resolve? Often these types of issues relate to one’s personal set of circumstances and therefore generic answers e.g.  Google answers do not suffice. I faced such an issue recently. As a teenager I was fascinated by a water dowser (dowsing is…

Carina & Rustin Vigne, Oudtshoorn Carina and Rustin, a farming mother and son due, use a tracker device to keep tabs on their sheep on the farm as they have no one to watch over them. Late at night, after a full day’s work, they must go and fetch the sheep and use the tracker…

As our theme was “A Reason to Believe”, allow me to share a few of the testimonies of the families whom we had the privilege to meet on our way around the Kamanassie Mountain area. I believe that each of these short testimonies prove to us as believers that Father is real and cares for…

Good morning, Beloveds. It is Thursday, 30 March 2023, today and as is practice by some of us, we wear black as we agree and stand together against violence and abuse against women and children. As I was preparing to share this with you, I am led to remind someone that God indeed redeems broken…

When our youngest son, Charles, was in primary school he fell while playing at school and hurt his elbow. After being operated on he developed a problem to keep any food down. After weeks of struggling, doctors discovered that the esophageal valve (slukderm klep) was damaged, and he needed an operation to repair this problem. …

I attended a men’s fellowship, (called X 3de Kamp) where I met an older guy who testified that he never heard anything positive from his dad. He was always put down, told how useless he was and that he could never do anything right. His dad has since passed away and he could never forgive…

We stayed on Leeupoort, close to Bela Bela and I was employed on Swartklip when my son went on a school trip on 9 August 2000. I was phoned at work at 4 in the morning, being told that my son of 13 years had 3rd degree burn wounds over 80% of his body, after…

During 2021 my daughter, Malaika, fell pregnant and immediately was advised to terminate the pregnancy due to growths discovered on the body of the baby. The family decided to make this a prayer issue instead and everyone joined in praying and fasting for a healthy pregnancy and baby. She went for a second opinion and…

How God, the Creator of Heaven and Earth, through His Word, became a reality in my life. I am a sinner, saved by Grace! Ephesians 2: 8-9 (Aramaic English New Testament – AENT). “For it is by His grace we are rescued, through faith; and this is not of yourselves, but it is the gift…

2017 was a life changing year. It’s the year when we took the 7-week-old Daniel into foster care in February and then Leah and Tobi in July, just 4 weeks old. Leah had major health complications and it took 4 and a half years of admissions and multiple surgeries at the Red Cross War Memorial…

Well here goes nothing… While driving around, after buying a bag of drugs, thinking to myself: ”Am I always going to be doing the same thing over and over again? Or can I rather be with my family and those I care about?” If I could just stop using drugs and be a clean, straight…

I woke up during the night, reminded of how difficult times are for Churches and how they are struggling, impoverished by the tuff times, and I started to pray. In a clear voice God spoke to me saying that His people are approaching Him with their firepans filled with all the wrong ideas, offerings and…

Betty’s bay is my husband’s “happy place”. He has spent many happy holidays with his family at their holiday home right on the rocks in Sunny Seas at DeWetsbaai. A few years ago we were fortunate enough to build a house opposite the original family home. It is a special thing to have family who…

“There are like a gazillion examples in the Bible and a gazillion verses that mention walking and there is so much about “walking” that is like life and true to life that it’s almost like, if you stop walking – you die life is movement. Learning to walk holds many lessons for life, there are…

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 by a bugler switching on…

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 first pregnancy. When I…

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 Rustenburg further west in North…

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 was announced to commence on…