What happens when you tell God He may not do something — and He does it anyway? In this episode missionary Lydia Venter share her experience of such a scenario Today I want to tell the story of how we got our youngest son, Teday, or True Davis, as he […]
Testimonies
Our Big God Adventure: Episode 12 — From the deep hole of depression to the ‘one set of footprints’
In the last episode missionary Lydia Venter shared how God brought good out of a brutal attack on them. But there were also darker, lingering consequences of the attack that had to be faced and overcome, she writes in this week’s episode For the first month or two after our […]
Holy Spirit encounters in Jeffreys Bay
Grant Handley, the visionary of a recent weekend for spiritually-hungry believers in Jeffreys Bay, sent us this special report September 12 saw a gathering of thirsty and hungry people in J-Bay from across the Eastern Cape. “We had noticed that there was a hunger growing in people for more of […]
Our big God adventure: Episode 11 — How God used an attack on our lives to soften hearts
In this week’s episode Lydia shares a dramatic testimony from the Venter family’s early mission years during a time of turmoil in Kenya The year was 2008. Life in Kenya – as we knew it – looked different, even after the post-election violence started to subside. More than a thousand […]
Our big God adventure: Episode 10 –Election violence, cookies and a poem
Lydia recalls God’s grace during a troubled time in Kenya Up until 2007 life for us pretty much revolved around running Yasha Mission Academy as well as our ongoing work in remote areas. By then we had planted several churches and, because God never called us to pastor a church, […]
Our big God adventure: Episode 9 – How our small playgroup became one of the largest ACE schools in Kenya
In this week’s episode Wilco and Lydia Venter become the answer to their own prayer One of the things that really bothered Wilco and myself, was the fact that so many small kids were roaming the streets unattended throughout the day. It was from then on we felt that the […]
Our big God adventure: Episode 8 – A ministry and a child are born
In this episode God speaks in surprising ways to direct Lydia and Wilco Venter in the early days of their ministry in Kenya We did not yet have a name for our ministry. Although we were still lecturing at the Njoro Bible College, our work in Teret and neighbouring villages […]
Our big God adventure: Episode 7 – Reaching the unreached
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 […]
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 […]