Alright… I know it’s a month into the new year. I had a plan (a New Years resolution if you will) to blog weekly. Way to start off the year Marc by not achieving your goal. You might not be thinking that, but I am. I feel disappointed in myself somewhat because it seemed like [...]

Here are my favorites about South Africa: People :: The people I work with, the Basotho, mission teams that come in. Everyone brings in a different spirit and energy that makes the mission life so exciting and upbeat. Animals :: Even just on our property we have plenty of different animals and birds. But the [...]

(Took this a photo last night) So it’s another day of the cold weather coming in and I don’t think it’s going to be getting warmer any time soon. The windows of my chalet have thin curtains and there are cracks in the floors letting the cold air through. It won’t be long before we [...]

I feel reprogrammed. Not sure how to get my words out of my mouth and onto the keyboard but something in my quiet time today struck me and gave me a mindset that I’m not sure how to compute yet. To be honest my quiet times haven’t completely existed lately. They’ve been short and sweet [...]

Have you ever listened to someone get slammed by a “Bible-thumper“? Whoever they’re talking to always gets interupted when they try to say something. Or the thumper is talking over them so that they can’t hear what they have to say. Everything is spoken out of fear rather than love. Redundantly saying they need to [...]

God is so creative. I don’t know what else to say after watching this. [be sure to watch the whole thing... come on it's only] He’s continuously showing His creativity to me in so many ways; not just in His creations like these but even in the way He uses us in His plan. We [...]

Furlough is on! Now it’s time to get in high gear. Thirty-five days in counting until departure. The pressure is on. OK, I’m trying to come up with more little catchy phrases but they’re just not comin’. Regardless it is getting down to the end of the wire. As I’m sitting in the Bean and [...]

Today I was doing all of my laundry from when I was on my road trip and I noticed my parents have been doing some cleaning in the basement. While looking at the cleanness of the basement, I found some old photo albums that were sitting out. There were a number of photos of my [...]

1Return, O Israel, to the Lord your God. Your sins have been your downfall!  2Take words with you and return to the Lord. Say to him: ”Forgive all our sins and receive us graciously, that we may offer the fruit of our lips.”  3Assyria cannot save us; We will not mount war-horses. We will never again say ‘Our [...]

Last night was the first official meeting that I had to talk to potential partners for going back to South Africa. I believe that God blessed the evening even though I was as nervous as I was. But I learned quite a bit. As I said in yesterdays post, I was partial to actually asking [...]