19 april 2015
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After three months in the Netherlands, supporting the family of our oldest, Andre and his wife Wimke, taking care of our grandson Maurits, we thank God seeing how Maurits is coping with his medical treatment. He is a cheerful boy, … Lees verder
26 november 2014
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We wish you all a blessed thanksgiving. There is much we are thankful for: Good health, a healthy and Avery rewarding marriage, the Lords faithfulness in guiding us in our language studies and many, many more blessings to be grateful … Lees verder
15 juli 2014
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Never a dull moment in Suriname. On a Sunday morning while most people were attending the church service, there came a plane. This plane delivered a plasma tv screen and a satellite disk, a generator and 2 barrels of gasoline. … Lees verder
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At the moment the year 2014 feels really new. We look back on a wonderful wrapping up of the end of 2013. 
Mayor event was having our son, Andre, over with his wife Wimke and our grandchildren Carina (6), Yannick (4) and Maurits (2).
They visited us in Kawemhakan the week before Christmas. We enjoyed their visit very much. The children played with the children in the village. 
Every day bathing in the river was an event they enjoyed very much. We were able to have a short trip on the river twice. Quite exiting to find out how the grandchildren would cope sitting for more than an hour and a half in a small canoe that runs over the surface of the river with quite some speed. 
Carina en Yannick knew how to fill in the time chatting with granddad and grandma all the time. 
Andre was happy to fish and cook out in the open in a fire hole with some banana leaves. 
Wimke tried to catch some fish the Wajana way. What seemed so easy watching the Wajana’s catch the fish turned out to be quite a hassle, but she didn’t quit. In the end she succeeded helping Yannick catching a nice fish. The people of Kawemhakan have been encouraged by their visit. Their interest in the people and their culture was appreciated.
On December 24th we celebrated Andre’s birthday the old fashioned way, with a real barbecue. Christmas was a real family gathering with Elsbeth and Rafi and their kids. What a beautiful time together. 
Last week we were busy preparing al kind of formalities for our permit for the coming two years. The next few weeks we will visit the USA attending the World Team Conference in Orlando. We look forward getting acquainted to a lot of World Teamers attending this conference and learning from each other what God is doing in our midst. We will meet with Roy and Margaret Lytle and many missionaries who served and lived in Suriname during the past decades.
Last year we made some videos on different topics. You can visit our Video page under LINKS to watch them all.
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7 december 2013
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The last few weeks Anneke Kempers, who worked as a nurse at Lawa 1973-1980 and who came to visit several years in a row to help with childrens work in the Church, paid us a visit together with Ilse van … Lees verder
16 november 2013
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Last week we returned to Lawa, after a six weeks furlough in the Netherlands. This feels back home again after a beautiful and busy period visiting churches, family and friends. (picture shows Andre, Jiska and Elisabeth all three together in … Lees verder
11 oktober 2012
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Since our last message we had a lot of weeks learning the Wajana language with a special event in celebrating the 50th wedding anniversary of Roy and Margaret Lytle in the bush on the 11th of August. The last two … Lees verder
23 juni 2012
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When we greet someone in the morning we exchange the same question and awnser again and again: Are you awake`? In Wajana ‘Ëwetomam ka’ (Ë = ‘uh’ and e ‘eh’). It is a matter of getting used to also asking … Lees verder
12 mei 2012
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The 3’ of May is already two weeks ago when we write this. Safe and sound in the village called Lawa on the Lawa River. In the mean time we were able to get settled in our present home, the … Lees verder
30 april 2012
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We made arrangements to leave Paramaribo the first of May. Early in the morning someone with a 4-ton truck will pick us up, driving us with our entire luggage to Albina (border town next to French-Guyana). We travel with at … Lees verder