Tomorrow is Sara’s birthday! The little girl turns four, and that is a milestone. Last Wednesday we took her and two friends to the Muiderslot, a lovely medieval castle in Muiden. It was hot but great to see the three little musketeers running around, paying attention to [...]

Tonight we met with Annemieke & family. She will be living with us next season because she’ll be with the Action program of Youth for Christ Almere, which basically means a one-season of voluntary work for the YfC centre here. So, I have to give up my study room once again, as [...]

I’ve got it – my new phone. Well, to call it a phone would do it no good. It is a multimediapersonalinformation- managinginternettingvideomakingandsoondevice that even comes with a telephone! It took some time and effort to get it, but now it is here and I am [...]

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These are the weeks of the Athletes in Action project ‘Coming Home‘. After two years of missions projects in Greece and Israel, the focus is completely on The Netherlands this summer. All over the country some 60 teams of volunteer sportspeople organise sportsclinics, tournaments [...]

Another sermon outline: the topic of last Sunday was ‘Shema Israel’ – the jewish confession of faith. I think it is fascinating to see God reveal himself as ‘One’ or ‘The only one’ in a time where every people had its own god (see Deut 32:8). Declaring [...]