Groetjes

I’m (yesterday actually) proud to tell you that Joyce and me are 1 month together now and still happy, hahaha.

Well, that’s it for now. I wish you a nice day and hope to be able to write more next time.

Je hoeft niet slim of knap te zijn om groot te zijn. Je bent groot als je een hart vol liefde hebt en een ziel vol vergeving. Zoals Jezus, I believe it! – Martin Luther King

Toen ik niet wist dat God degene is van wie ik alles kreeg, was ik een vreemde van mijzelf. Verslavingen maakte mij kapot… Toen Jezus in mijn leven kwam veranderde alles. Het leven met Hem is het mooiste wat er is! – Mary J. Blige

Ik ben overal geweest en heb alles gedaan. Miljoenen lagen aan onze voeten… Maar het bracht geen innerlijke rust en vrede. Daarvoor moet ik tot mijn eigen schaamte bij Jezus zijn. – Sir Cliff Richards

Als het waar is wat Jezus zei, dat Hij de Zoon van God is, dan kan Hij ons nu ook al een vol leven geven! En dat gebeurd mij, iedere dag. – Kayne West

Many of you will know this one already, but still I want to show it once more. First because I love it and second because I’m getting tired of those who make a difference between “coloured” and “whites”. At the end we are all the same, made out of flesh and blood and to dust we will return.

The preparations for ‘Tienerkamp’ are going well, the teaching materials are ready, I’ve found someone willing to cook for us and we have activity leaders. If only I could find 2 more persons willing to help this would be wonderfull…

What else… oh, oké. It’s still a while, but i’ve made a blog for Rwanda. I’ll write everything in there that has to do with it. The preparations of it but also my adventures there. I’m sorry but I’ll write it in Dutch, because it’s for school and I don’t like to translate it 2 times. If you want to see more of it, just go and take a look. http://robinatrwanda.wordpress.com

With a lot of pain in my heart I have to tell you that God opened the gates of heaven to my friend Jérôme. He suffered of cancer and I asked you to pray for him in october.

His life was totaly in honor of Jesus and God. Everything he did was for His glory. He was a living example of how to live. His testimony of life will live in us. Please pray for his family and friends.

We had a lot of fun together and he was always there when you needed him. I will never forget you.

If you want to read (in dutch) the story of another student who went there this year go to http://martijnvandenberghe.blogspot.com or you can see the pictures at http://www.flickr.com/photos/martijnvandenberghe.

So before I can go (in January 2008) I have to fill out some forms, I have to be accepted to go and please… pray a lot so I can go.

See you guys

Chorus:
Hey we bring this to the street, cause they ain’t seen us in the street
But they need this in the street, cause it’s mean up in the street
We’re redemmed of the street that used to clinge to the streets
Till we saw our thirst wasn’t quenched by the scene of the streets

Verse 1:
Hey, this ain’t aimed at the church but you might be incouraged
This is for the folks hurt on the block with the word
See ya playing in the dirt, hoping you can get the bird
Steady sippin on your syrup, wit a dutch full of burb
Let me tell ya what’s gon happen dawg, this is why I’m rappin dawg
You catch time for the crime and then ya trapin dawg
Oh what’s worse, is it could be your hers
6 feet up in the dirt, got yo baby brother hurt
Yea, a worse still when you die, gets real
You eternally separated from God for a trillian
Million, billion eternaty man
Ain’t no number for it, this should be concerning ya man
Look, ya can’t sleep cause ya sin so heavy
Ya sweating in ya sheets cause ya sin so heavy
Ready to die, naw, dawg, you ain’t ready
You don’t truely know what’s on the other side young revin
Is sin equals death, so turn from your mess, believe and confess
Christ is God in the flesh, he died for your debt, he did resurrect
A tool and a vest won’t really save you from death

Verse 2:
They never saw us coming, they had they heads turned
We faced the persecution, we know ?the layen? birds
We know them nails hurt, we know them ?thorns? scared
We know our futures bright, but it ain’t in the stars
We a new generation, who know the worlds hurts
And though we don’t rock suits, we still part of the church
Our souls hurt too, our burdens hurt too
We want the Lord to be gloryfied on the earth too
We wearing dickies, yeah, but we still know the bible
We yelling like David was, ready to start revival
I know some kids in Dallas still in Jr. High
They ain’t tryin to pimp girls, push work, or get high
Yea they jeans hangin low, and they keep they hat cop
But they living by the word instead of living by the block
Gettin trained a disciple, they changed all they idols
From juves in the streets to the God of the bible

Verse 3:
We done redemmed of the streets that used to clinge to the streets
Till we saw our thirst wasn’t quenched by the scene of the streets
So we bring this to the street, they ain’t seen us in the street
But they need this in the street, cause it’s mean up in the street
Chasin cream up in the street, servin feinds up in the street
And the scream that they see makes them feind what they see
To be the man of the street, that’s why we stand in the street
To tell the whole world about the stand of the peace
The god man of the street, slian lamb for the street
That came and died for all the sinfull people in the street
Through him the cycle of the street when man rival in the street
Could be revival in the street, take the bible to the street
Cause his bride should be the street, stop trying to be discret
Why you lunging men and women steady dying in the street
So we pray up in the street, man we stay up in the street
Cause we find our God heart,man it pains for the street

This year it was just that little bit more special than the other 22 years. I had a friend from Switzerland coming over to Belgium to visit me. We celebrated New Years evening together and this is the first time i ever celebrated this with somebody else (not counting my parents).

The pictures are showing my family:

1. Liesel, Thibaud, Emile & Alexander
2. Ilja, Nany, Mattias & Laura
3. Toby & Miriam
4. Mom & Dad