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 …
(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 …
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 …
Probably an insignificant day for most, but a day of double importance and real meaning to me. Firstly our country was founded on 6 April 1652 when Jan van Riebeeck arrived at the Cape of Storms, and it became known as the Cape of Good Hope. Since 1952 with the …
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 …
