This week I made my first home visit to a group of Rohingya women. Until now, I had only been present during group gatherings, where we taught the mothers about their baby’s development and the…

Guest blog written by Carolien Weijs. Herke and Carolien are traveling through Asia for three months with their three children and stopped by to visit us in Penang!

There they were—one of the main…

Quick Visit to the Netherlands

In early March, I spent just over a week in the Netherlands on my own. What a rollercoaster of emotions and mixed feelings that was! But first and foremost: I had a…

Small beginnings…

The kids had almost a month of Christmas vacation here, and we were all happy about that because, from the moment we arrived in Penang, life had been moving at full speed. Finally,…

Benjamin James
 

When we first moved here, I found the book Heaven by Randy Alcorn in our house. Over the past few months, I’ve read it regularly and finally finished it. Each chapter was so rich in…

October has begun.
Every new month here feels a bit strange. A little further away from our ‘old’ life and another step deeper into our new life. Sief and A-L had their birthdays last month and are…