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Starving Yourself Can Be Healthy
It started from a feeling that God was asking me to fast… after all, fasting is talked about all through the Bible. Then it continued with a realisation that most of the food I was eating was not really good for me. Finally, it all came to a head when I received a book I [...]
100 Years from Now
A poem by Warren Parker It will not make much difference friend, 100 years from now If you live in a stately mansion, or a floating river scowl. If the clothes you wear were tailor made or just pieced together somehow If you eat big steaks or beans and cake, 100 years from now. It [...]
House of Prayer
It has been a long time in coming, but finally we have finished building the prayer house. The bathroom area still awaits completion but will be waiting a while. The important thing is that we can now use the house. For what? Well, obviously for prayer, but also for meetings, counselling, and as a place [...]
Carlos Anacondia in Puerto Madryn
Carlos Anacondia came to Puerto Madryn to run an evangelistic campaign in the city. It was amazing to see the number of people turning up each night at the location which was quite a long way out of the centre. Each night he preached on the love of Jesus and each night thousands of people [...]
Oh The Wind
Oh the wind. Today is a very windy day with strong gusts lifting up everything that is not tied down. My big bottle of Coke is wobbling precariously on the table beside me as I stare out at the impenetrable clouds of sand and dust moving along with the gusts. It is a good thing [...]
Cindy in Brazil
A good friend of mine from my days in New Zealand, Cindy Ruakere, has brought out her third CD and is now at the beginning of a one year world tour. It starts in Brazil, and involves living in a slum and ministring to the people here. Cindy Ministering in Brazil Here is a small [...]
Wedge and Shirley Alman
Our second week in Buenos Aires was a week of teaching by the two people who founded YWAM in Latin America. Wedge and Shirley Alman are a couple who came to Latin America and told them that they could be involved in missions during a time when all of the traditional mission agencies were saying [...]
The Time Between
Well, it has been a while since I updated this blog. What has been happening since Corrientes? Carolina The first and most important thing that has been happening is that I have met a beautiful girl from Colombia. Carolina was a student on the outreach in Peru that I was leading and since returning from [...]
Peru – Almost Robbed
Well, after two years in South America, a land riddled with stories of people being robbed and attacked and various other fear inducing things, I guess it was likely to happen to me at some point. The Situation It was Saturday night, walking with two of the girls in my team to the local church, [...]
YWAM Tarija – An Early Childhood Centre
Here I am in Tarija, staying at the YWAM base here. This base is not like many of the bases of YWAM in that it does not run courses or training. What it does however is something very important for the community. Run by one woman who is occasionally assisted by temporary helpers, this base [...]
Church in the Plaza – Cochabamba
It was only one day that I was able to spend at the orphanage, and by the evening of that day I had returned to the church where I would stay the night before leaving early the next day for La Paz. Although not all, many of the cities in South America have their own [...]
A Country Church Service – Entre Rios
On my last day in Entre Rios, after the plumbing had been fixed and the leadership training had finished, we all climbed into a couple of cars and headed out to a small church in the country to celebrate together. Fineke teaching in the church. The day was wet and raining, and the rivers had [...]
Moto Roto
Ya estoy en Saenz Peña, Chaco. Un tercer de la viaje completado. Empujé por 3 horas a llegar como 12 kilometres. Un amigo me encontró y me tiró hasta aquÃ. Por eso estoy aquÃ. Ha sido un viaje muy lento. Pero estoy llegando. Que pasó? Se rompio la moto cuando llegué al pueblito de Pres. [...]
Leadership Training in Entre Rios
When arriving in Entre Rios, I was expecting a journey into the jungle for several days and perhaps helping out around the mission a little. What I did not expect was to be involved in a three day training course for leaders. But this is what happened. Fineke, a lady from Holland that lives and [...]
Plumbing in Entre Rios
When I got to the mission here in Entre Rios, I was first shown to my room and then shown how to use the shower. It was not that the shower was hard to understand at all, just that there was no water in the shower. To get water for the shower I needed to [...]
Missionary Conference in Virasolo (The Conference)
Arrival Having arrived at the church, we were shown to our rooms. Mine was the pastor’s office, converted to a bedroom with two beds. The girls lived in a house attached to the side of the church. My room was located in the middle of everything. Next to our dining room, immediately behind the stage [...]
Missionary Conference in Virasolo (Getting There)
“Rob,” the message came to me with urgency, “the taxi is outside waiting for you.” I had been talking with my friend Lehman about plans and ideas and had lost track of the time. Mostly packed, I quickly stuffed my computer and associated bits into my bag where they would fit and then raced out [...]
Looking at True Riches
Jim Baker (on video) teaching students at a bible college in the United States started teaching on Revelations but was sidetracked down this issue of True Riches. What follows is my brief notes on what he had to say, based entirely out of scriptures in the Bible. 1 Cor 13:1-13(1) Though I speak with the [...]
I’ve graduated – Can you believe it!
Well I’ve finally made it. I graduated and have finished my course. Reflecting on what I went through during the last five months, there were times that I thought I would not make it. Moments during the course when it was all too much, or my feelings would rise up and cause me to think [...]
Brief Update – Bolivia
Well, after two weeks without any electricity, telephones, toilets (the bush was it the whole time), or drinkable water in places, I am back to civilization again. Right now I am in the process of thumping out a story about all that happened in the mountains and jungles of Bolivia. There is much to tell [...]
Boliva – Back From The Jungle
Well, after three weeks without communication, I am finally back to somewhere that I can access internet. Where I went, there was no electricity, telephones and at times not even drinkable water nearby. It was certainly remote, but also very interesting. The mountains and jungles of Bolivia. There is so much to say that I [...]
Bolivia – Yacuiba
Well, we finally made it to Bolivia, after a 20 hour bus ride and being accosted by a bunch of peddlers at the border. That, and some problems actually getting through the border started our time here with a punch. Border Crossing It turns out that Chileans need a passport to get through the border [...]
Bolivia and Beyond
It has been a long time since I have written, and although I would love to update you on everything, the time is still not with me. Right now, urgency is the thing that presses me to write to you at this time. As you will probably remember, I left Buenos Aires to visit some [...]
A New Church
I am at a loss. Everything in me wants to fellowship with other people, but nothing in me wants to go to a church. I am not against churches however, it is just that I cannot continue to perform this ritual. It is empty and lifeless to me. The people in the church give the [...]