South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
Missionary in Kenya Lydia Venter shares more memorable dog tales Animals have always been a huge part of our lives. In a country where our main task is to make disciples of Jesus in a culture that is so different from ours, we’ve always found it such a happy place […]
Missionary in Kenya Lydia Venter remembers the challenges of arranging a particular birthday party — as well as the great blessing that came out of the celebration The year was 2012 and the month was September. Since May of that year we’d been living with 11 kids under our roof, […]
Missionary Lydia Venter testifies of the good fruit that comes out of obeying God even when it doesn’t seem to make sense In Episode 9 I shared how a little playgroup developed into one of the largest ACE schools in Kenya. Well, it should also be remembered how this ACE […]
Lydia Venter continues her testimony from the mission field in Kenya of what can happen when God’s people act on dreams He gives them In the previous episode I shared how menopause affected my sleep and the manner in which the Lord woke me one night, showing me the exact […]
Lydia Venter shares a testimony from the mission field in Kenya of what can happen when God’s people act on dreams He gives them When menopause hit because of an early hysterectomy, my sleep became greatly affected. One night during the course of 2012, I suddenly woke up at 2am. […]
Lydia shares about some more powerful, defining moments during the Venter family’s missionary journey in Kenya Initially, when we came to Kenya, I became overwhelmed with compassion every time I saw a child living on the street. Because we were also surrounded with needs, poverty and hopelessness in our ordinary […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]