SPESIALE NOOD VERSOEK/ special needs request

Maandagaand 25 Junie 2012

Goeie naand broers en susters in Christus

Good evening brothers & sisters in Christ

In ons laaste e-pos met Phillip se Mei nuusbrief, het ons vir julle vertel van die probleme wat hy ondervind met die vloedwater wat deur sy huis spoel op die Moken eiland van Ko Phayam. U kan na die Nuusbrief tab gaan hierbo om sy vorige nuusbriewe te lees waarin hy die bou van sy huis op die eiland beskryf.
In the covering letter of Philip’s last newsletter, we told you about how he was struggling with the flooding of his house on the Moken Island of Ko Phayam. You can go to his Newsletter page above and read all of his newsletters in which he describes the building of this home on the island.

Dit is huidiglik moeson seisoen in Thailand en hulle ondervind buitensporige hoë springgetye wat plaasvind tydens elke nuwe maan.

It is now monsoon season in Thailand and they are experiencing exceptionally high spring tides – occurring every new moon.

As iemand wat aanvaar is die Moken gemeenskap, was Phillip ‘n stukkie grond gegee waar hy toegelaat is om sy huis op die eiland te bou. As gevolg van beperkings wat materiaal, tyd & arbeid betref kon hy slegs sy huis op grondvlak, met ‘n sementblad as vloer bou – anders as die huise van die res van die plaaslike mense wat op stelte gebou word.

As a belonger in the Moken community, Philip was given a small area of land on the Island, where he was permitted to build his home. Due to limitations in respect of materials, time & labour, he only managed to build the house on ground level with a cement slab for the floor – unlike the raised houses of the local people.

 

Phillip, en die kinders wat tans in sy sorg is (terwyl die ouers op die see uit is om seekos te vang vir periodes van tot 6 maande) word nou deur die vloede uit hul huis gejaag min of meer elke 30 dae.Alles op grondvlak word deur die stygende waterweggewas - omstandighede wat bykans onleefbaar is

Philip and the children he is now caring for (while their parents are on the sea fishing for periods of up to 6 months), are now being flooded out of their home every 30 or so days – everything on ground level is being washed away with the rising waters – conditions that are near impossible to continue living under.

 Die enigste alternatief wat Phillip het is om sy huis af te breek en dit te herbou op stelte sodat die vloedwaters onderdeur kan vloei en hy en die kinders kan droog bly in die huis.

The only alternative for Philip is to break down his house, and re-build it on stilts so that the flood waters can wash underneath and so he & the children can then remain dry in their home.

Phillip kan ongelukkig, vir verskeie redes, nie hierdie taak op sy eie aanpak nie. Hy tree op as ouer vir tot 13 kinders op ‘n keer. Hy voed hulle, vervoer hulle na en van die plaaslike skool waar hy hulle ook onderrig. Hy is alleen – daar is beperkte mannekrag (volwasse hulp) om hom by te staan met die fisiese bouwerk. Phillip het ook beperkte fondse om die materiaal wat hy benodig vir die bouwerk aan te koop aangesien die totale koste om na die kinders om te sien slegs vanuit sy maandelikse vennootskap bydraes kom.

Philip however, cannot undertake this task on his own for many reasons – he is parenting, feeding, transporting and teaching (at the local school) up to 13 of the Moken children at any one time. Then he is alone – there is limited manpower (adult help) to assist him in the physical building. Philip then also has limited funds available to purchase the required materials for this project, as he is carrying the costs of looking after these children from his monthly partner contributions only.

 Ons het in ons vorige e-pos aan julle genoem dat ‘n klein groepie mense (op baie kort kennisgewing) vrywillig aangebied het om ‘n ‘Ramp Verligtingsekspedisie’ te onderneem om ‘n dierbare, getroue vriend en Koningkryksdienaar te help sy huis op stelte te herbou – weg van die vloedwaters.

We mentioned in the last e-mail to you that a small group of people volunteered (on very short notice) to undertake a ‘Disaster Relief’ expedition to help a dear, faithful friend & Kingdom servant re-build his home on stilts – away from the flooding waters.

Sedertdien het hierdie ekspedisie ‘n werklikheid geword en rig ons vandag ‘n uitnodiging aan julle om te belê in hierdie onderneming.
Since then it has certainly come together and our invitation to you today is to invest in this undertaking.

Sommige het alreeds gereageer om met ons in vennootskap te gaan om sodoende werklik deel te kan hê in hierdie geleentheid om die voortbestaan van die sendingpoging van SY Koningkryk op die Ko Phayam eiland te vestig.

Some have already responded to partner with us, so as to have a real part in this opportunity to ensure longevity of the mission’s effort in establishing HIS Kingdom on the Island of Ko Phayam.

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Daar is egter steeds tyd vir julle om te reageer op hierdie spesiale behoefte projek – om by te dra tot die koste van die materiaal wat nog benodig word om die taak af te handel, of om by te dra tot die koste van die bouspan.

Die begroting tot dusver is vir 4 mense wat gaan vir ‘n tydperk van 3 weke. Dit sluit in vliegkaartjies, akkommodasie, plaaslike reiskoste en etes:

-R11 000 per spanlid (vliegkaartjie R8 000) X 4 = R44 000 – R18 000 (reeds onderneem) = R26 000 nog benodig

-Bykomende boumateriaal vir die huis R10 000 – R5 000 (reeds onderneem) = R5 000 nog benodig

However, there is still time for you to respond to this special needs project – either by contributing towards the cost of the materials required to complete the task or by contributing towards the costs of the building team.

The budget thus far is for 4 people going for 3 weeks, which includes airfare, all accommodation, local travel costs & meals:

–R11 000 per team member (air ticket R8 000) X 4 = R44 000 – R18 000 (already pledged) = R26 000 still required

–Extra building materials for the house R10 000 – R5 000 (already pledged) = R5 000 still required

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Die span beplan om Sondag 8 Julie te vertrek en keer terug Saterdag 28 Julie, sodat die huis gelig en voltooi is voor die volgende springgety.
Tyd is dus uiters beperk en ons vra dat u asseblief by ons Here hoor en sal reageer teen Vrydag 29 Junie om 12h00 aangesien alle ander reëlings gefinaliseer moet word.

The team is planning on departing Sunday 8 July and will be returning Saturday 28 July, so that the house is lifted and completed before the next spring tide.
Time is thus very limited, so we ask of you to hear from Our Lord and respond to us by Friday 29 June at 12H00, as all the arrangements needs to be paid and finalised.

Betalings kan direk in Phillip se bankrekening gemaak word:
Payments can be made directly into Philip’s bank account:

ASB KONTAK MARK 082 459 9754 VIR PHILIP SE BANK BESONDERHEDE

PLEASE CONTACK MARK 082 459 9754 FOR PHILIP'S BANKING DETAILS

Ons dank u / We thank you
Seën in Christus, die Verlosser van al die Nasies
Blessings in Christ, the Redeemer of all Nations

Arno, Mark & Paulien
Philip Van Wyk – Stuursel / Sending Cell

We just love the Thai

DRIVE-THROUGH WINDOW: Vendors wait for customers at a roadside market

Thailand: The long and winding road trip

Peter Malherbe | 29 April, 2012 00:19

The Thais do proper road trips like nobody else in the world

Until you have tasted a blue-candyfloss pancake, sipped hot tea from a plastic bag, said prayers to a tree and slept alone in a sex motel, then you haven't travelled. Well, not in Thailand, anyway.

In South Africa my road trips always seemed to be defined by travelling time. The first question on arrival would be: "How long did it take?" And I'd reply: "Five hours, 36 minutes from the Germiston off-ramp to Umhlanga." Then I would go into things like roadworks, speed-cops, the mist at Mooi River and the bad drivers.

That's not the Thai way. The trip does not get you from A to B - it's a fabulous voyage of discovery that starts the moment you turn the key in the ignition. This I discovered during an 18-hour trip across the kingdom, accompanied by a Thai family. We drove from Krabi in the south, through Bangkok, to Buriram, a small town in the northeast. You may not have heard of it, but Buriram is well known in Thailand for its ferocious football team, "The Thunder". And more than one maiden has set off from one of the platteland villages here to seek easy money in the bars of Bangkok.

Driving across Thailand at any time can be risky, attempting it around the annual Songkran festival is sheer lunacy. Songkran is the Thai New Year and, although it falls on April 13 each year, festivities can run for a week either side. And that means a massive water fight in which people wielding buckets, huge spray guns and firehoses douse each other. Even elephants join in the fun, spraying everyone to their hearts' content.

It's fun when you're in party mode - but a nightmare if you are hoping to get to your destination safely. Motorcyclists lose control of their bikes, over-excited water-throwers leap in front of the vehicle and visibility is down to a metre or two. It is a driver's nightmare. What can you do but grin and bear it?

But I digress, let's get back to the big trip. I knew things were going to be different when I tried to pin my fellow passengers down to a departure time. "After we get fish," was the reply. The fish in question were to be bought at dawn and then packed in ice in polystyrene containers as a gift for relatives upcountry.

In South Africa we have lost the tradition of arriving with "a gift from home". It may be that few of us have gardens anymore, but, having grown up on an Eastern Cape farm, I have vivid memories of setting off on journeys laden with home produce. We would never have left home without a box of lettuce for granny or a tin of rusks for Uncle Eddie.

In Thailand, the custom survives strongly. If you are travelling from the coast, seafood (in all its forms) is a no-brainer. We added a bag of pineapples, which they started harvesting just as I was ready to depart. Until the last minute, you never know how many people will be making the trip. They say that to judge how many Thais you can fit in a vehicle, you count the doorhandles and then times by four.

We ended up with six and got going at midday. I had planned to break the journey in Bangkok, 10 hours into the 16-hour trip. Little did I know it would take longer than that; I had not counted on the shopping stops.

Our first purchase was a bag of pancakes from a roadside stall. Everyone knows the pancakes are a secret delight of southern Thailand's highway system, but only the experienced know which stall serves the best.

We had passed at least a dozen rickety stalls before my friend's wife yelled: "Stop!" With the pancakes, you get a bag of candy floss, available in lime green, yellow and blue. It was blue for us.

Now, putting a pancake together in the back of a pick-up is difficult. Trying to eat it without getting the vehicle covered in sticky sugar is virtually impossible. But you learn to live with the stickiness, along with the smell of thawing seafood seeping out from the polystyrene boxes.

After eating, you need to drink, so soon we pulled up at a roadside market. Here the hot drinks are not served in a cup and drunk at tables, but served takeaway style in a plastic bag with a straw attached. Sipping steaming hot tea from a plastic bag is a real art - and one not to be tried while speeding down a bumpy road.

ONE NIGHT PAST BANGKOK: Buriram, a small town in northeast Thailand, was the destination

I soon realised we would be stopping every 100km or so to enjoy some treat or other. Scores of Shell Ultra City-like operations line the highways, but we shunned these clean supermarkets and takeaway outlets in favour of forays into small towns or villages to scoop up treats at stalls and markets. Among the culinary gems on hand are chunks of barbecued chicken, massaman curry, mango and sticky rice, sliced dragon fruit and desserts made from odd combinations, like coconut milk and beans. Of course, each purchase is packed in that hardy carrier of all things, the plastic bag.

And, of course, there will be at least one stop at a temple or shrine to get good karma for the trip. For travellers, it is especially handy when a roadside tree is put into service as a shrine. The tree is usually adorned with long strips of bright cloth or paper and, as pretty as they are, the Thai Buddhists take them pretty seriously.

When we finally hit Bangkok, it was after midnight and I brightened up at the sight of 24-hour KFCs, hotels and Tesco mini-marts. My suggestion that we stop for the night was met with horror. "No, we have fish," was the reply. My suggestion that we could replace the ice to keep the fish fresh was met with puzzled looks. No, we would sail on through the night.

We finally hit the outskirts of Buriram at dawn, just as the farmyard roosters were welcoming a dusty new day. As my sleepy cargo tumbled out and kids rushed to seize the boxes of smelly shrimp and squid, I announced that I would find a hotel with airconditioning for a few hours' sleep before returning to join the family. Nobody seemed offended that I wouldn't be dossing down on one of the sleeping mats or hammocks - that's what foreigners do.

And that's how I ended up in the sex motel. "New resort open," said the sign. After checking out the room and discovering it came at the bargain price of 350 baht (around R85), I signed up and finally slipped into bed. I failed to notice that the room did not have any windows, but I could not help but notice my naked body reflected 100 times in the mirrors that surrounded the bed. One of me is enough to cope with, more than that is a sight for very sore eyes. A real nightmare.

Only in the morning, while I was using the free wi-fi to check my e-mail, did I realise that my neighbours were changing rather regularly. The penny dropped. This was one of the legendary short-time hotels, where customers spend two or three hours in the throes of passion. The real giveaway at these hotels is that parking bays come with curtains, behind which you can hide your car from prying eyes.

Sadly, I had nothing to hide. I wonder what the staff made of the strange foreigner who spent so many hours in a room by himself surfing the Internet. Poor man, they must have thought.

When you read this, I will probably be preparing for the return journey. Believe it or not, bugs and insects are popular "exports" to the coast, so goodness knows the cargo I will be carrying. And there could be one or two extra passengers on board. I don't mind at all. One thing I do know is that we will be stopping for a heap of candy-floss pancakes again. I can't wait.

The journalist, Peter Malherbe

Bronkhorstspruit praatjie

Donderdagaand 19 April 2012

Philip het gisteraand die geleentheid gehad om sy sendingsverhaal te deel by 'n home cell van Lewende Woord in sy geboorte dorp. Hy en sy stuursel was hartelik onvang deur 'n groepie gelowiges wat almal verwelkom het met 'n warm houtvuur. Toe het hy vir ons gebid in Thai.....

 

Philip se verhaal is van 'n Afrikaner boer wat saam met die Almagtige Skepper op reis gegaan het Thailand toe en hoe die Skepper Sy liefde deur die man se lewe uitstort aan 'n agtergeblewe mense-groepie in sudi-oos Asia.

 Hy het ons vertel dat hy reeds op skool sy roeping ervaar het en hoe sy lewe ontvou het toe hy die Vader se liefde in sending ontdek het. Die stappe en jare van voorbereiding en hoe dit hom op die voor-linie sendingveld bebring het, waar hy nou alreeds 4 jaar in Thailand is.

Terwyl hy ons van sy lewe vertel het, het daar fotos' van die Ko Phayam eiland en die Moken mense gewys. Omdat Philip saam met die Moken bly, het die ouers hul kinders by hom begin los om te versorg, terwyl hulle op die see uitgaan om 'n bestaan te probeer voer. So het hy 'n 'belonger' en dienskneg geword. Op die koop word Philip toe sommer ook 'n ouer aan Moken seuns wat nog nie kan verstaan dat die liefde deur Philip, hul eie Skepper sin is nie.
Ons het aan sy lippe gehang.... dis verbasend om te hoor dat een van ons eie mense so naby aand God kan lewe daar doer ver in die sea gypsy slums ......

Nou is die vraag: wie van julle voel geroep om deel te word van die hele sendings-poging in ons Vader se Koningkryk?

Philip en van sy stuursel, met Marcel en Marcelle van Lewende Woord

PS: hierdie praatjie was Philip se enigste publieke terugvoer en het op baie kort kennisgewing plaasgevind - sorry ne!

Donderdag 29 Maart 2012

Philip het toe werklikwaar hier in SA aangekom!

Die feit dat dit amper al 'n week gelede is en dat hy nog glad nie gerus het nie, is omdat hy nog net besig was met papierwerk, visas, paspoort hernuwing, banksake ens.

Ons voel ook die reenweer maar Philip kry sommer baie koud! Dis net sy mooi tan wat verklap hy dat waar hy die tan gekry het, is baie warmer as hier by ons..

Sy hart trek 'n punt vir die seuns en die gemeenskap wat hy moes agter los om hierdie SA trip te doen, want dis waaroor hy praat en dis waar sy hart is.

Ons lag so want hy se vir die werkers op sy pa se plaas lyk hy nou so 'lelik 'omdat hy so maer is maar vir die Moken is hy nou baie 'mooi' sedert hy so 'maer' geword het...!

Ons sal laat weet hoe die res van sy tyd lyk terwyl hy nog in SA is, miskien kan ons 'n lekker braaivleis reel voorat hy weer terug vlieg...

Philip kom SA toe om te rus

Julle het seker al by nou gehoor of gelees dat die laaste jaar op die voor-front 'n veelysende tydperk was. Die gevolg is dat STAMP die hele span nou 'n breek gegee het. Dus kom Philip kuier in SA om te rus. Dit beteken dan ook dat hy nie verpligtinge onderneem nie, totdat hy eers behoorlik uitgerus het en dan dit van daar neem.
Ongelukkig beteken dit dat daar dalk kort kennisgewing gegee sal word indien geleenthede ontwikkel. Dus is daar nie 'n agenda soos met sy laast SA terugvoer-kuier nie.
Ons sal ons bes doen om sy stuurders in SA op hoogte te hou indien daar terugvoer gedoen gaan word.

EN DIE LIEWE YSKAS.....
het toe baie vroeg in Februarie in Bangkok aangekom - waar dit nog steeds in doeane sit ..... ai, nou moes Philip sy paspoort aangestuur om dit te vrygestel te kry ... en ons hoop hy kry dit terug betyds om SA toe te vlieg...

Father, give the Moken a desire for YOU Lord!!

We ask Lord in Jesus name, that the Moken people will call from within their deepest being out to YOU:

I will love You, O Lord, my strength.
The Lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer;
My God, my strength, in whom I will trust;
My shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.
I will call upon the Lord, who is worthy to be praise
(Psalm 18:1 – 3a)

Father, we ask that the souls of the Moken people to hunger and thirst after YOU Lord!
Have mercy upon the Moken people oh great King of Kings….
Revive and awaken the dead in spirit oh Lord of Lords….
Father, bring Your abundant LIFE to the Moken people, as of this very day in Jesus name….
Let the Moken people’s hearts return to You, their Ancient Creator and True God of their own forefathers….
Father, have mercy and grace upon their souls in Jesus name…...

hoe om a frieskas thailand toe te stuur..

Dinsdag 27 Des 2011, Oli Tambo......

So kom dit dat ons Taaiboer 'n gas frieskas nodig het op die eiland vir sy nuwe hout huisie.  Hy is nou 19 dae aanhoudend op die eiland en in die Asia hitte bly die kos nie so vars nie....  Ons vind toe uit dat die pryse is baie goedkoper hier in SA as in Thailand vir amper dieselfde grote frieskassie.  Die dat ons die blink gedagte gehad het om net darm te kyk of ons hierdie 'pakkie' ook met geleentheid kan oorstuur....

 Nou maar ja, ons is reg om daai 31kg frieskas saam met Carla Bezuidenhout oor te stuur Thailand toe as 'spesiale bagasie' .....

Van links: paulien, Alida (Carla se ma) en Carla, dan Johan Beukman en sy familie, en heel regs is Louise & Arno

Amper is toe nie stamper nie.... Etheopian Air wou toe nou nie vergunning maak vir hierdie effense groot boksie nie.
Nou gaan ons dievolgende opsies begin navors:
lug-vrag so R5000 dan is die frieskassie daar binne 8 dae....

OF

boot-vrag vir R1600 dans die frieskassie daar oor 83 dae....

Ons sal julle op hoogte hou!