Your Grace Finds Me

Written by Mike Verkaik, Oceans US Ambassador and Outreach Coordinator Do you know this song by Matt Redman? From the creation to the cross There from the cross into eternity Your grace finds me, yes Your grace finds me Sitting at the kitchen table, reflecting on the people I had met and the conversations I […]

Lessons from my 4 Living Dad’s

Yes, you read the title right. I’m blessed to say I have “4” living dad’s who in the past few months have spoken wisdom into my soul during this season of turbulent seas. Each of them have shared 4 truths that can transform any circumstance, no mater how dark, into a triumphal victory. Last week […]

Easter 2020

The Wild Ways of the Providence of God!

Written by Ray Haakonsen Day 8 of the Corona Virus lockdown in South Africa dawned on Friday 03rd April 2020. As Oceans Ministries we had already received 5 cancellations/postponements of teams booked at Oceans Retreat Center (ORC) for what we were anticipating to be a ‘crazy busy’ March/April period. Corvid-19 changed all that. As Oceans in […]

Finding Radical Faith in Uncertain Times

After an incredible night of prayer and worship last Wednesday a couple asked if they could meet with me the following day before South Africa was scheduled to go on lockdown. In my mind I was thinking they may need counseling or possibly financial assistance to sustain their family for the next 21 days as […]

The Fire & the Family