South African missionary couple Wilco and Lydia Venter were in the right country. But they were not yet on their main mission. Lydia shares how God began to open strategic doors for them in Kenya One of the things the Lord told us before we set out to Kenya, was […]
Testimonies
Our big God adventure: Episode 6 – Water from Heaven
In the last episode of this series Lydia Venter recounts the miracles it took for their family to complete their epic road trip to Kenya. In this episode the missionary family discover they need even greater divine assistance to get through their first few months in a foreign country Entering […]
Our big God adventure: Episode 5 – Finally setting out for Kenya
The Venter family embark on a nine-day trip to their new home country — and experience God’s deliverance, again and again The morning of Monday, the 27th of August 2001, was fresh and crisp with the air loaded with excitement, expectation and gratitude. The Nissan Hardbody Pickup as well as […]
Dream comes true as schoolboy saved on street
In a dream yesterday morning Jeffreys Bay-based missionary Grant Handley walked into a shop with a group of people and felt the Lord wanted to bring freedom to somebody. In the dream they prayed with a person and Grant told him he felt the Lord wanted to bring him into […]
Our big God adventure: Episode 4 — Countdown to Kenya
Episode 3 ends with the news that the Venter family finally left for Kenya on August 27 2001. In this episode Lydia shares on God’s faithful provision during the final countdown to the trip Waiting and preparing for the realisation of the vision to go to Kenya is probably best […]
Our big God adventure: Episode 3 — A ‘scary’ woman takes off her shoes
In this episode God tells Lydia and Wilco Venter where He wants to send them as missionaries but they have to wait 10 years for the right time to go Two days after giving my life to Christ (July 31 1991) I started seeing visions. Please note that I had […]
Our big God adventure: Episode 2 — God sends three angels
In Episode 1 of this inspiring testimony series South African missionary Lydia Venter shares how she and her husband Wilco came to Christ and how He delivered her from racism. In this episode she tells how God added three children to their family before they set out for the mission […]
Mary Katambi: No kidnapper could steal her dreams
Originally published in Christian Today One of 276 girls abducted from their school in Chibok, northern Nigeria by the infamous Boko Haram has just graduated from university – the very thing her kidnappers fought to oppose. “Boko Haram roughly translates as ‘western education is forbidden’,” says Open Doors UK & […]
Our big God adventure: Episode 1 — God saves us and delivers me from racism
South African missionary couple Wilco and Lydia Venter have been in Kenya since 2001. Currently they are working with One Collective in the UK and US to bring food, freedom and forgiveness to the marginalised Kalenjin people in a remote village about 210km north west of Nairobi. In this episode […]
TESTIMONY: Absent from the body, present with the Lord
In June 2017 I had the opportunity to experience this Scripture from 2 Corinthians 5:8 first hand. My hospital ministry team leader, Maureen, called one afternoon and asked if I could immediately go with her to hospital. There was a lady from Windhoek that was very ill in the intensive […]