June 5, 2010. Arrival in O.R. Tambo airport, Johannesburg.
Domestic arrivals with soccer theme
Waiting at our favorite Formula 1 hotel
The prayer room at HIS people church, that we used both times that we were in Joburg.
Lovely prayer room!
My street in Sandton
Nando's
Nelson Mandela Square
JJ
Not allowed to take pictures inside :(
People were dancing on the street even before the World Cup began.
Nelson Mandela bridge
On our way to Bloemfontein
Really cool team from CRC church in Bloemfontein. After 4 years of reaching out agressively to women on the streets, 100 of them had taken the chance to come out and start a new life. There used to be 200 women on the street on an average night, now the streets are almost empty.
YwaM Durban, where we stayed for 10 days.
Washing our dishes!
The guy's room. Cozy.
Great view, great weather.
On our way to one of the many outreaches at the beach front.
FIFA Fan Fest for the first match of the World Cup.
My first Vuvuzela
The witch doctor showed up as well. We got to talk with him for a while.
Daniel & Immanuel, precious father and son who the Lord really touched that night.
One of the prayer rooms in Durban.
Sebabatso and Blaire sharing
Lining up for massage time at the Durban airport, waiting for Justin to arrive
Fun in one of the many malls
Birthday dancing fun at restaurant
Visiting a soon-to-be-planted church in Durban.
In the meantime our van got broken in to and everything of value was stolen.
Getting better and better.
Elizabeth's baptism! Jesus shone a little sunray on her face
Love doing this!
New Life
Took the picture right before they took off :)
Two day trip to Cape Town.
KwaZulu Natal
Aloe Vera
Waking up at the coast in Port Elizabeth.
Whales in the distance
Beautiful Garden Route, even in the winter
Snow is still visible on the mountains from last week.
Santie!
Deep ravine with a small river
Big.
Bloukrans Bridge, home of the highest bungee jump in the world! 216 meters (650 feet)
Entrance to the bridge
All that jumpeth
Getting ready.
Supposedly this could carry 3,5 tonnes, guess it should hold me
Split second of fear
And the smile is back
LOVED IT!
Wildernis beach
Our beautiful girls
And our beautiful men. Why should we just be handsome?!
Cape Flats: Cape Town and Somerset West at night.
We got to stay at an old wine estate that was being renovated for a hotel school. Lovely place
Our kitchen
One of the many great prayer initiatives in Cape Town.
Table Mountain with table cloth
V&A Waterfront
Another Fan area
Sunday morning service in Stellenbosch area
Another property with great dreams to transform the townships with God's love.
Praying over the new property
Three people that I've come to love: Karin, Leonie and Anton
And Gary, Leonie's husband, who took more than a month off work to drive us all through the country and blessed us in so many more ways!
Deepak
Dianna
Elizabeth
Uncle Boet
Samuel loves crosses!
Positioning the turtle for picture time
Township
Blessed by Anton and Karin: an amazing lunch at Sunday afternoon.
Lily
Hannah
The 24/7 prayer room in Cape Town, initiated by YwaM for the 40 days of the World Cup. We were here almost every day. JJ and I usually led worship.
Each coloured label stands for one completed or scheduled hour of prayer.
Testimonies and prayer requests of people in trafficking.
Old street with VOC (Dutch East India company) logo.
We prayer walked these streets and specifically prayed for a club that the Lord highlighted. Four days later it got raided by the police and 34 girls, mainly from Eastern Europe, got rescued and 17 patrons arrested.
Tea time after prayer walk
Table Mountain
Vineyards
Stadium at cape point.
Cape Town's lighthouse
Raising awareness for human trafficking among soccer fans.
Interviewing officials
USA just won...
Sunset
Stellenbosch. Beautiful town, second oldest European settlement, after Cape Town.
Dutch Reformed Church
200 year old restaurant
I can see why my forefathers settled here
Dutch East India Company logo.
Two amazing visionary ladies, initiating many things for the Kingdom that are changing Stellenbosch: work among children, house of prayer, helping prostituted women etc.
One of 14 places where they are doing 4,5 weeks of all day Christian programs with children and youth in the townships, with the help of the community. In total they cared for 14.000 children!
like to try a boiled head? Or the double-headed one?
One project was making a cart for the race at the end of the week.
Another place
Father Abraham had many sons...
Yay for Holland!
Blessed with an amazing lunch!
Santie and Inga
Sharing the vision and what the Lord has done
A third place, a program where children are taught not to give in to people who are trying to use their bodies.
and Father Abraham once more
Jesus leading the way :)
These two amazing ladies invited us to their church for an amazing meal and then washed our feet and prayed over us, just to bless us! Felt so encouraged!
Wildebeest at wine estate/Lion's park near Stellenbosch
Hobby
The whole gang
Our lovely guides
Big five
Visiting the police station and cells in Strand
One weekend they had 40 people in this cell. Mostly open air and no lights.
They so appreciated our prayers.
Another lovely time at a couple's house who again wanted to bless us with an amazing meal. Great.
A BURN night in Heidelberg. We led worship for one set. Much went wrong and the presence of the Lord was there :)
Groot Constantia, one of the oldest wine estates. Napoleon got his wine from here when he was in exile.
The winery
This Dutch van drove all the way from Amsterdam through Europe and Africa to South Africa for the World Cup. Dutch fan's are known as very dedicated
Amazing!
Hi, don't worry, I'm just a penguin taking a shortcut.
Wow!
African Penguin
Penguin tempted to fly like a bird
South Africa's national flower
Dance!
The good news: the club that we prayed for got raided!
Worship and preaching at Sunday morning in a local church
Another amazing Sunday afternoon lunch
The rat/rodent team.
He would eat a hole in the floor in one night! And drag whole Cliff bars from my bag through the whole room right through the hole. That explained that my supplies were getting low.
another answer to prayer: the World Cup month was the worst ever for the sex industry!
another view of Cape Town
Gary!
Stay in shape
Meeting with Steve Swart, Christian member of parliament. Had a great time of prayer as well.
On our way back to Joburg, via Kimberly
Ostrich region.
Big burgers!
Kimberley's big hole, the world's biggest hand dug hole. It used to be a hill, untill they found diamonds. From that moment on South Africa produced most diamonds in the world.
The big hole when it was still in progress of become a big hole
Potty in the mines
The B for Blue cheese, or Blaire
The abandoned church in Hillbrow (Johannesburg) where we stayed for a few nights.
Everywhere security, walls, gates, chains, even inside the buildings!
Huge sand mountains from gold mining in Johannesburg.
Moved to Hebron conference center outside of town for the last 10 days, but continued to minister in Hillbrow, Rosettenville, Sandton and other places
What an amazing place.
Little doggy loves to chase the big dog and the sheep...
And there he is: Jok.
Hebron conference center. Amazing place with an amazing family
Everywhere burned grass. Helps new grass to grow better.
Food area
one of our last worship times as a team, at Hebron
Marching for Independence Day behind the laptop with the music
Sparkles!
Our beloved Canadian leads us
Nicer places have nicer signs...
Prayer walking Sandton business district
Holland!
Finally, others are getting excited about Holland as well, now that we're winning :)
South African Rand. So similar to the Euro's!
Telkom Tower in Hillbrow
Hillbrow. Place of much hurt and darkness, yet targeted by the Lord for good.
Zionist 'church' (sect) praying at high places. They mix some Christian thinking with many occult rituals.
The cop that led us around. The Lord gave us favor with the colonel that leads the almost 800 police in this neighborhood and he ordered that we would get a tour.
One of the faithful workers among prostituted women.
More times of prayer in HIS peoples church prayer room.
Some rare pictures of the many outreaches at night. This one is a whole night camp out in Rosettenville, right in front of the house that is used as the main brothel. Several girls got out during that week! It did get intense at times, but the love of the Lord always was stronger than fear, weapons and lust for money and sex.
Worship around the fire
Evaluation time at Hebron
Triple-layer pizza. Tasted so much better than we had imagined and was actually easy to eat!
Park time
Voortrekkers museum, Pretoria
Blow your vuvuzela!
Once a year the sun shines through the hole in the roof on the Cenotaph (empty grave monument) on the lowest level, on the day that the Boers made the vow that they would remember the Lord's deliverance in battle for all generations to come.
the vow
our neighbors had an amazing game park. A few of our team decided to go and the rest was jealous ever since they heard the stories and saw the pictures.
Buffalo. Very dangerous
It seems to be very rare to witness seeing a Rhino young drink. Even our hosts had never seen it, though they often visit their friends' property.
The light spots are old wounds from their regular fights for dominance
Fighting for food and dominance
Baby Rhino
South Africa's national bird
Jaguar
Black panter
Coyote
Leopard
A mouse was dangling out of one of their beaks
Siberian tiger. 250 kg's, can grow to 320 kg's! (650 pound)
Cheetah
'Tigerman'
Cutie
That's some weight lifting
Soft Lion's paw
Got to play with the cubs for a few minutes!
He fell asleep
Petting the Cheetah
Crocs
Green Mamba
Black Mamba
Croc affection
Baby potato, eh, hippo
Gerhard jr!
Free ride to the cave
Wonder cave (and abandoned mine)
The old elevator
Praying Mary
Beautiful natural pool
Bat
The old rails
Elevator got 'stuck'. For a second it seemed real
Pumba!
Showing off
This zebra starred in some movie
It was cooling down, so the Hippo's came out of the water. Most dangerous animal in all of Africa, kills more people than all the other animals together.
Watching every move of us people and the Lion's, opposite of their fence.
Watching every move of the Hippo's
In line at the airport at the end of our trip together as Exodus Cry...
Leonie and Gary
In the back of a 'bakkie' (Pickup) on our way to worship at a neighboring property
cool deep, our Bollywood star
Last night for the last of our team
And we ate it all plus more
After JJ's video blog the cook said he would prepare Zebra for us, though it wasn't on the menu that night!
Crocodile
A good scare...
