Kurt and Liz, the Danish couple standing in at the church overwelmed me with grace. They brought me to the church building where they are staying in the home of the Danish your worker they are standing in for next to the sanctuary and I got to stay in the sanctuary building in the 'princess room' - the pritty little room with a balcony and a view of the bay with it's spectacular icebergs. Ilulissat is at the mouth of a fyord that has one of the most productive glaceurs (please forgive all spelling problems - the Danish computers jast don't have spellchecks that work for me) in the world, and my view consisted of a beautifull bay with a deep blue see and little Ice mountains drifting accross the view all day long.
On the first evening I was given wale to eat... Deap read meat only vaguely distinguishable from beef. After dinner one of the Innuit leaders of the congregation and her sister that was visiting from Nuuk came to meet me. They both spent a year of their youth one one of the OM ships so they had traveled widely and could help me understand Greenland a bit from an international point of view. They were also telling testimonies of how little revivals were breaking out all over Greenland. The whole evening was just so full of the Highest Praise for the Lord's goodness and breakthroughs inthis nations, that I went to bed with that special peace that comes by hearing of the fruit of faith.
The next morning I wondered out to the bay area and climbed onto a little hill to find an Icberg almost the size of the hill I was on in the water on the other side. This was but a fortaste of what Kurt and Liz showed me in the fjord later that afternoon! Words really fail me in trying to describe such a landscape of stationary violence in ice. They move almost inpercievably and as they melt big pieces fall off them accompanied by a sound like thunder. These sounds made one feel like in a war zone, but when you look at them they don't move. Kurt said when you hear the sound its already a few seconds too late to see the action. And its always on the other side.
It was also in Ilulisat that I encountered the dogs first. Kurt sais there are 11000 souls in Ilulissat, 5000 people and 6000 dogs. It seems as if every family has there own pack of about 10. These dogs are tied to with leads of between 1 and 3 meters to pegs in the ground outside town. Each dog has its own peg and circut and they are mostly prevented from being able to reach each other because of the fighting. They are fed once a day to the sound of the most boistrous jodling from the dogs. In summer 500g in winter 700g. They stay in the same place all year round. In summer they go nowhere. In winter they are used for slays once or twicw a week.
That evening we had dinner with an inuit couple from the church. The fellowship was very sweet and filled with His love. |
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Ilulissat Briefly
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Illulisat
Dan and Gudrun brought me to the airport well in time for my flight, with nice coffee and goodies in a bag to wile the time while we wait for my flight after I checked in. On approaching the checking desk the two ladies behind it asked me if I am Johanna. They said my flight was delayed by two or more hours due to technical problems, but that they would try to get me onto the earlier flight that was about to depart. They checked, and they could, and I rushed out onto the runway with the other passengers leaving dear Dan and Gudrun to take their coffee back home. I’m glad I will see them again on the last night in Greenland.
The flights to Illulisat went well and even though I was on the earlier flight I only arrived 5 minutes before the time that I told Kurt in Illulisat to meet me at the airport. They are also a Danish couple standing in for the youth pastor of the congregation in Illulisat while he is on holiday in Denmark.
This is the second evening herein Illulisat. Its already 23:00 (03:00 am in SA) and I’m off to Qaanaaq tomorrow morning early so I can’t tell of all the awesome things I have seen and what God has done here. Pray that I find internet connection in Qaanaaq and I’ll writh asap.
The flights to Illulisat went well and even though I was on the earlier flight I only arrived 5 minutes before the time that I told Kurt in Illulisat to meet me at the airport. They are also a Danish couple standing in for the youth pastor of the congregation in Illulisat while he is on holiday in Denmark.
This is the second evening herein Illulisat. Its already 23:00 (03:00 am in SA) and I’m off to Qaanaaq tomorrow morning early so I can’t tell of all the awesome things I have seen and what God has done here. Pray that I find internet connection in Qaanaaq and I’ll writh asap.
Nuuk
See how amazing God is:
When I was praying about the rout of this Highway Elizabeth, Lize and Elsa all felt that it should actually start in Canada. One of the reasons for this is that the first rout the gospel took over the Atlantic was via Iceland and Greenland to a point in North America - probably where Newfoundland is in Canada. I did not have any anointing to believe for the amount of money and trouble it would take to get a Canadian visa and rout the Highway via Newfoundland. But, before long Lanie announced that she being sent by her job to Newfoundland for training, and she agreed to bring me a stone from there. This was one of God’s amazing confirmations that He wanted this Highway to go on during a time that my fait was growing thin on the ground – but there was no connection with the church from there, and they did not agree to their stone going, or bless its going…
In the meantime I was earnestly seeking contact with the church in Greenland. Pieter had a man by the name of Errol Martins on the JHOPFAN database as a representative for Greenland at one of the previous ANCJs, but he did not have any contact info. I googled ‘Errol Martins’ and found him to be the head of the YWAM base in Greenland. It took me a turn on some-one else’s blog and facebook to discover that Errol actually lives in Canada and does regular outreaches from there to Greenland. He responded to my request for help by putting me in touch with John of Nuuk. Although John did not respond to my first email requesting direction, he really went the extra mile when I approached him with my accrual arrival date and travel plans. So even though he would not be in Greenland during the time I was here he arranged places for me to stay for the length of my time here.
Dan and Gudrun, the Danish pastor and his wife who collected me from the airport in Nuuk are standing in for John and his wife while they are on holiday. John only told them that I would be coming and that they should accommodate me – they did not know anything about me or my mission. That morning at the church service they were approached by the couple from Qaanaaq who had offered for me to stay in their house in Qaanaaq while they are on Holiday in Nuuk. This Inuit couple wanted to make sure they make contact with me before I left Nuuk again so Dan and Gudrun invited them to dinner that evening to meet me. Also in the house was Joyce Martins, Errol Martin’s wife, who had come to Greenland from Canada to help her friend with a youth outreach, and who would fly back to Canada about the same time as I would fly on from Nuuk to Ilulissat.
So Sunday evening, my first evening in Greenland, I was met and welcomed by believers from the two ‘ends of the earth’ at the beginning of this Highway: Canada and Qaanaaq. After I explained the vision to them Joyce agreed to stand-in for Canada. I gave her the stone Lanie brought from Newfoundland and she prayed for the revelation of the sons of God in Canada and gave it back to me to take to Mnt Zion.
The believers from Qaanaaq also assumed their position as priests for God in the place where He placed them. They gave me permission to leave the 40 stones from Mnt Zion in the north of Greenland, and they blessed me to take a stone from there to go to Jerusalem to cry out for the revelation of the Sons of God.
It was awesome to see how the Lord brought all of this together, because even if I might have know that this is the ideal, there was absolutely no way in which I could have arranged this with human skills.
We spent much of the time in Nuuk around the dinner and breakfast tables wondering about the amazing way in which the grace of God manifests in letting people be blessings to each other. One of the amazing pictures that emerged looked like this: Dan and Gudrun, who are now pasturing a congregation in Denmark, were the missionary couple who was at this congregation in Nuuk before Johan took over. They were in Nuuk 24 years ago when Errol Martins bade his first visit to Greenland. They where the first believers he found and they opened the door for Errol and his family’s ministry in Greenland. The Martins family spent more than a decade in Greenland after which they returned to Canada to face a very difficult time during which they nearly gave up on Greenland. God’s answer to their prayers came in the form of a connection with another couple with a counselling ministry who are pilots and able to fly wherever they need to go in Greenland. It was this Errol and this couple’s outreach to Qaanaaq that saw the couple, in whose house I will be staying, saved among the first born-again believers in Qaanaaq 3 years ago. It was also one of the first times that Joyce Martins returned to Greenland after the hard time they had on their return to Canada. And it was Dan and Gudrun who opened the door for her - just as they had done for Errol in June 24 years ago.
These things excite me so much! The testimony of His awesome deeds in our behalf comes with so much healing and restoration to the teller and the hearer. ‘They were saved by the blood of the lamb and the word of their testimony.’
When I was praying about the rout of this Highway Elizabeth, Lize and Elsa all felt that it should actually start in Canada. One of the reasons for this is that the first rout the gospel took over the Atlantic was via Iceland and Greenland to a point in North America - probably where Newfoundland is in Canada. I did not have any anointing to believe for the amount of money and trouble it would take to get a Canadian visa and rout the Highway via Newfoundland. But, before long Lanie announced that she being sent by her job to Newfoundland for training, and she agreed to bring me a stone from there. This was one of God’s amazing confirmations that He wanted this Highway to go on during a time that my fait was growing thin on the ground – but there was no connection with the church from there, and they did not agree to their stone going, or bless its going…
In the meantime I was earnestly seeking contact with the church in Greenland. Pieter had a man by the name of Errol Martins on the JHOPFAN database as a representative for Greenland at one of the previous ANCJs, but he did not have any contact info. I googled ‘Errol Martins’ and found him to be the head of the YWAM base in Greenland. It took me a turn on some-one else’s blog and facebook to discover that Errol actually lives in Canada and does regular outreaches from there to Greenland. He responded to my request for help by putting me in touch with John of Nuuk. Although John did not respond to my first email requesting direction, he really went the extra mile when I approached him with my accrual arrival date and travel plans. So even though he would not be in Greenland during the time I was here he arranged places for me to stay for the length of my time here.
Dan and Gudrun, the Danish pastor and his wife who collected me from the airport in Nuuk are standing in for John and his wife while they are on holiday. John only told them that I would be coming and that they should accommodate me – they did not know anything about me or my mission. That morning at the church service they were approached by the couple from Qaanaaq who had offered for me to stay in their house in Qaanaaq while they are on Holiday in Nuuk. This Inuit couple wanted to make sure they make contact with me before I left Nuuk again so Dan and Gudrun invited them to dinner that evening to meet me. Also in the house was Joyce Martins, Errol Martin’s wife, who had come to Greenland from Canada to help her friend with a youth outreach, and who would fly back to Canada about the same time as I would fly on from Nuuk to Ilulissat.
So Sunday evening, my first evening in Greenland, I was met and welcomed by believers from the two ‘ends of the earth’ at the beginning of this Highway: Canada and Qaanaaq. After I explained the vision to them Joyce agreed to stand-in for Canada. I gave her the stone Lanie brought from Newfoundland and she prayed for the revelation of the sons of God in Canada and gave it back to me to take to Mnt Zion.
The believers from Qaanaaq also assumed their position as priests for God in the place where He placed them. They gave me permission to leave the 40 stones from Mnt Zion in the north of Greenland, and they blessed me to take a stone from there to go to Jerusalem to cry out for the revelation of the Sons of God.
It was awesome to see how the Lord brought all of this together, because even if I might have know that this is the ideal, there was absolutely no way in which I could have arranged this with human skills.
We spent much of the time in Nuuk around the dinner and breakfast tables wondering about the amazing way in which the grace of God manifests in letting people be blessings to each other. One of the amazing pictures that emerged looked like this: Dan and Gudrun, who are now pasturing a congregation in Denmark, were the missionary couple who was at this congregation in Nuuk before Johan took over. They were in Nuuk 24 years ago when Errol Martins bade his first visit to Greenland. They where the first believers he found and they opened the door for Errol and his family’s ministry in Greenland. The Martins family spent more than a decade in Greenland after which they returned to Canada to face a very difficult time during which they nearly gave up on Greenland. God’s answer to their prayers came in the form of a connection with another couple with a counselling ministry who are pilots and able to fly wherever they need to go in Greenland. It was this Errol and this couple’s outreach to Qaanaaq that saw the couple, in whose house I will be staying, saved among the first born-again believers in Qaanaaq 3 years ago. It was also one of the first times that Joyce Martins returned to Greenland after the hard time they had on their return to Canada. And it was Dan and Gudrun who opened the door for her - just as they had done for Errol in June 24 years ago.
These things excite me so much! The testimony of His awesome deeds in our behalf comes with so much healing and restoration to the teller and the hearer. ‘They were saved by the blood of the lamb and the word of their testimony.’
Monday, July 14, 2008
SMS 4
2008-07-14 15:28:43.0
God is really looking after me!About to leave Nuuk for Illulisat. Church there will get me@airport. Pls pray for meeting..My new Greenland cell nr: +299224199.J
Relpy
2008-07-14 04:03:37.0 27836807557 Boodskap gekry, sal bel. Werk jou epos en internet nog? Jes 22: 20-24, Jer 29:8-9, Zech 10:2-8. Lief jou! Ma
2008-07-14 11:19:40.0 27828800001 Bless you with much favour around you. With a shaper insight and wisdom as ever before to brake open rich spiritual ground. Jansie ek sien n prentjie asof jy besig is om grond voor te berei soos om diep te ploeg en skielik kom jy op baie ryk vrugbare grond af. Bly bid en seen jou. Rina
2008-07-14 12:34:50.0 27824610460 Ek bid v jou liefde
2008-07-14 16:23:41.0 27827529994 278200700211007 Ons bid dat alles goed sal verloop. Geniet elke oomblik daarvan. X
God is really looking after me!About to leave Nuuk for Illulisat. Church there will get me@airport. Pls pray for meeting..My new Greenland cell nr: +299224199.J
Relpy
2008-07-14 04:03:37.0 27836807557 Boodskap gekry, sal bel. Werk jou epos en internet nog? Jes 22: 20-24, Jer 29:8-9, Zech 10:2-8. Lief jou! Ma
2008-07-14 11:19:40.0 27828800001 Bless you with much favour around you. With a shaper insight and wisdom as ever before to brake open rich spiritual ground. Jansie ek sien n prentjie asof jy besig is om grond voor te berei soos om diep te ploeg en skielik kom jy op baie ryk vrugbare grond af. Bly bid en seen jou. Rina
2008-07-14 12:34:50.0 27824610460 Ek bid v jou liefde
2008-07-14 16:23:41.0 27827529994 278200700211007 Ons bid dat alles goed sal verloop. Geniet elke oomblik daarvan. X
Sunday, July 13, 2008
SMS Update 1 2 & 3
2008-07-13 21:07:59.0
In Nuuk, Greenland. 4Hour time dif. Pastors met me@airport &arranged dinner with CanadianYWAM leader & the Inuit couple of Qaanaaq inwhose house I will stay. J
2008-07-13 12:11:50.0
Had good flights via Cairo & Vienna. Awesome time of Danish blessing last night-Blog. Now I fly Copenhagen-Greenland. Pls pray for time with believers tonight.J
2008-07-11 17:10:49.0
I'm off to Greenland tonight. The 3rd highway starts from there 22/7. Love Johanna aka Jansie
+27825298668 jansiefourie@yahoo.com http://7highways.blogspot.com/
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2008-07-11 17:11:48.0 27833667863 All the best - praYING For you love b
2008-07-11 17:13:12.0 27727407096 Baie baie seen vir jou Lief v jou Carona
2008-07-11 17:14:42.0 260966555609 My dearest JANSI- may The Way be your way. Love you will be praying. Miss you much. Welma
2008-07-11 17:15:30.0 27842266713Blessing and safe journey to you. May each step of the journey be filled with a knowledge and experience of our Lord, Jehovah Jireh, when do you plan to return, and will we get progress reports?
2008-07-11 17:18:51.0 27845000068Prepare the Way of the Lord make straight a highway for our God. (HE IS WITH YOU) SHALOM morag
2008-07-11 17:26:32.0 27836010793 Hi Jansie, baie voorspoed. Ho\nmy asb ophoogte. Groete Danie
2008-07-11 17:28:17.0 27845883647Mag jy gseend wees! Ek ga j mis.
2008-07-13 06:39:08.0 27823731358 Bid vir jou. Liefde, Annelise
2008-07-13 12:28:36.0 27828510614 HALLO JANSIE,EK STAAN NET IN VERRASSING, OM TE SIEN HOE ONS VADER BAIIE SAG-TE EN VROULIKE VROUE, MET EKSTRA 'KLEIN'HARTJIES; SOMMER IN EEN OOMBLIK IN LEEUS VAN JUDAH,KAN VERANDER, WAT MET DURF WAAGMOED, SOMMER DIE WERELD-SELF BEGIN AANPAK, VIR DIE KONINKRYK!!!!!!! EK BEWONDER JOU EN IS TROTS OP JOU..!!!MAG YHWH JOU RYKLIKE GUNS SEEN GEE, OP ELKE TREE VAN JOU PAD!! BID VIR JOU,BAIE LIEFDE, RIANA. XXX.
2008-07-13 21:09:39.0 27836331919 Bid vi jou jansie. R
Jy vertrek vanaand! G'n wonder ek voel jy word vorentoe gedruk. Mar het nie besef dis al tyd. Immanuel n Sy uitgekose engele!Sal bid! Baie seenwense n liefde. Denise
Blessings and safe journey to you! May each step of the journey be filled with a knowledge and experience of our Lord. Johovah Jireh, when do you plan to return and will we get progress reports?Lisa Mcnair
Sterkte vir die trip. Geniet dit baie. Mag jy 'n baie geseende tyd he! Rika
Baie lief vir jou baie baie seen v jou Corona!
hi! Yansie. i received yr msg. thanks 4 every. i will always remember u.i'm on my way to goodland. Susan (goodland)
My dearest Jansi - may The Way be your way. Love you will be praying. Miss you much. Welma
Copenhagen - Nuuk
Its 21:36 in SA nou, but here it is 17:36 and bright day. I'm sitting in the empty church sanctuary of the congregation that agreed to host me at the computer normally used by the sound guy. In 20 minutes the dinner guests will arrive to meet me and the pastor's wife is upstairs cooking.
I'm in Greenland and I think this fact has actually blown my mind...
Nicklas took me to the airport at 6:30 this morning. As we drove allong the quiet Sunday morning streets I had the impression that I could see many ancient Normen standing in expectation, longing for the Kingdom of Peace. The norman blood in me seemed to respond to the soil and I felt a deep identification with the longing.
Everything went well at the airport and I had some time just to sit in a corridor and look at and pray for the hundreds of people rushing up and down to catch their flights. Just before I boarded the plain I felt directed to tell the soil of Denmark that he is comming and that it will not be long anymore.
During the flight the I struggled to enter into the presence of the Lord, and the Lord showed me that I was experiencing some of the effects of blood covenants made by my ancestors in Denmark. Even though this might have happened more than a thousand years ago, it still had an effect on me. Once identified it was easy to repent and the deliverance plunged me into a deapth of intimacey with Him that i can't remember experiencing before.
Appart from eating and drinking whatever they wanted to give me, I spent most of the 4 hour flight to Kangarlusaq sleeping. In Kangarlusak I had to wait 5 hours for a connecting flight to Nuuk. I journalled a bit and slept some more. After a one hour flight I arrived in Nuuk where i was collected from the airport by the Pastor and his wife and brought to the mission house.
I'm in Greenland and I think this fact has actually blown my mind...
Nicklas took me to the airport at 6:30 this morning. As we drove allong the quiet Sunday morning streets I had the impression that I could see many ancient Normen standing in expectation, longing for the Kingdom of Peace. The norman blood in me seemed to respond to the soil and I felt a deep identification with the longing.
Everything went well at the airport and I had some time just to sit in a corridor and look at and pray for the hundreds of people rushing up and down to catch their flights. Just before I boarded the plain I felt directed to tell the soil of Denmark that he is comming and that it will not be long anymore.
During the flight the I struggled to enter into the presence of the Lord, and the Lord showed me that I was experiencing some of the effects of blood covenants made by my ancestors in Denmark. Even though this might have happened more than a thousand years ago, it still had an effect on me. Once identified it was easy to repent and the deliverance plunged me into a deapth of intimacey with Him that i can't remember experiencing before.
Appart from eating and drinking whatever they wanted to give me, I spent most of the 4 hour flight to Kangarlusaq sleeping. In Kangarlusak I had to wait 5 hours for a connecting flight to Nuuk. I journalled a bit and slept some more. After a one hour flight I arrived in Nuuk where i was collected from the airport by the Pastor and his wife and brought to the mission house.
Saturday, July 12, 2008
Cairo - Vienna - Copenhagen
I slept really well last night because of the little sleep I had the night before. But they wok us at 4 for breakfast and we landed at 6 in Cairo. It was already 24 degrees just as the sun was rising.
I had to greet Elizabeth, who went on to get her connection to Jordan, and surrender my passport and boarding pass to the Egyptian border control. In their usual mysterious fassion they let me and the two other South Africans on their way to Vienna sit in the waiting area for 3 hours before we could get our passports and go and enjoy the transit zone.
There I started my embroidery, and when I put on my new littly IPOD for the first time my spirit rose to puer happyness. I could ´see´ the angels dancing to the Fisher Folk singing that the joy of the Lord is our strength. I enjoyed the chinese on theit way to Morrocco and the Sudanese and the Ghanayans.
In the Transit area I washed my hair and subsequintly forgot my wet towel on the flight to Vienna. In Vienna I listened to a teaching about the covenants of God and felt very clearly that I would have to pass there again and go to Hungary before I go the Switzerland and Italy.
The food on the Austrian Air flight to Copenhagen was wonderfull! Even though it was already 8pm when I got out of the Airport it was still light and Denmark looked as if someone had washed it to a gleam. Nicklas met me at the airport and brought me to his house, where his father joined us to pray for me, give me a stone and send me with their blessing. It was all so beautifull and awesome and amazing - words just doesn't seem to describe the flow of the favour and the blessing apon blessing.
Tomorrow we leave for the airport at 6:30 am. I'll reach Nuuk at 15:30 their time, 19:30 ours...
I had to greet Elizabeth, who went on to get her connection to Jordan, and surrender my passport and boarding pass to the Egyptian border control. In their usual mysterious fassion they let me and the two other South Africans on their way to Vienna sit in the waiting area for 3 hours before we could get our passports and go and enjoy the transit zone.
There I started my embroidery, and when I put on my new littly IPOD for the first time my spirit rose to puer happyness. I could ´see´ the angels dancing to the Fisher Folk singing that the joy of the Lord is our strength. I enjoyed the chinese on theit way to Morrocco and the Sudanese and the Ghanayans.
In the Transit area I washed my hair and subsequintly forgot my wet towel on the flight to Vienna. In Vienna I listened to a teaching about the covenants of God and felt very clearly that I would have to pass there again and go to Hungary before I go the Switzerland and Italy.
The food on the Austrian Air flight to Copenhagen was wonderfull! Even though it was already 8pm when I got out of the Airport it was still light and Denmark looked as if someone had washed it to a gleam. Nicklas met me at the airport and brought me to his house, where his father joined us to pray for me, give me a stone and send me with their blessing. It was all so beautifull and awesome and amazing - words just doesn't seem to describe the flow of the favour and the blessing apon blessing.
Tomorrow we leave for the airport at 6:30 am. I'll reach Nuuk at 15:30 their time, 19:30 ours...
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