“I heard God say to me in the vision, ‘Stay in the Boat!” When Chantelle stopped me the other day on the streets of Fishhoek, South Africa to tell me about a vision she recently had, my whole body was covered with goose bumps for so many reasons. When my wife and I met Chantelle […]
One of the greatest reasons to live a life of THANKSGIVING is the gift of Seeing the glory of God. Now this doesn’t mean we have to be like Moses and spend 40 days on a mountain fasting and praying to get a glimpse of the backside of the glory of God. We live in […]
There is nothing like a good water balloon fight! It has turned summer here in South Africa and I got to take part in a water balloon fight on our Oceans campus with the high school students. It was an epic battle with kids and teacher’s soaked. The laughter was loud and contagious stopping […]
Can you hear the voice of wisdom? Not always an easy voice to hear especially in our extremely loud culture. But the voice is always there calling out to us if we are willing to silence the other voices and listen. A few weeks ago I hit Psalm 150 in my daily quiet time reading […]
Written by Mike Verkaik What do you remember from your years of middle school? This is a question I have been asking myself after returning from our third South Africa Kingdom Encounter trip with middle school students from Holland Christian. I traveled there with the principal, Tom Strikwerda, who approached me almost four years ago […]
