Category: Videos
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Amazing Grace Graduates!
Miracles do happen, dreams do come true! It’s with great joy I share with you news of Grace’s graduation. CONGRATULATIONS GRACE! What an effort! She was one of only two in her department to receive a special Dean’s Award for outstanding accomplishments – beautiful! When you know the back-story, it helps understand why I write…
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Am Grateful Martha can Die in Peace…
THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU! A number of you have written in asking for an update on our appeal for a new vehicle. So this is reporting back to you that all the money came in – hurray – and we’ve ordered a spanking new Toyota Hilux, so can now put Martha out to…
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A Land Flowing with Milk and More Milk!
I love sharing beautiful Burundi stories to counteract so much bad news. My friend Evariste started a stunningly effective cow project a number of years ago, which has totally transformed his community. Having lost 72 of his family members in the 1993 genocide, he got the opportunity to study in Germany before returning and responding…
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No Longer An Orphan In Burundi…
I challenge you to watch this and NOT have tears in your eyes by the end. It’s so beautiful and powerful. Try not to watch it on your phone but instead on a bigger screen, with the music loud, and feel it… Wow! And please share… Incidentally, they have an urgent ministry need right now,…
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Learning to Dream in Burundi…
This film is under 5mins and is beautiful. Even my kids out here, who get to see poverty, have NO IDEA how fortunate they are. Do share this with as many kids as possible. May it make us all much more grateful for where we were born and our lot in life…
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Running for Glory After His Parents’ Murder…
He was about to run in the 1993 World Championships 800m final in Toronto, when he received a phone call informing him that his parents had been murdered and their bodies dumped down a latrine… Here is Nkaza sharing some of his truly remarkable story. He’s a national hero because of his sporting achievements, and…
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Beaten but Unbowed in Burundi…
Emedi is one of our team who engages pro-actively with Muslims in Burundi. I was in the bush yesterday, and observed new mosques springing up all over the place. The Muslim missionaries offer food and medicine to desperately poor people, many of whom are happy to convert if their immediate physical needs are met. Emedi…
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Bleeding but Unbowed in Burundi…
This is the story of my buddy Ephraim’s near-fatal return to Burundi from the Congo. God had told him to come back to his nation to preach forgiveness and reconciliation. Even when taken by rebels and tortured, his faith remained unshakeable that he would survive to do what God had called him to. Despite being…
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She Started Her Life Down A Toilet…
The above short film is a beautiful update on an extraordinary life journey, well worth 5mins of your time. It’s part of a series we’re doing telling stunning stories of triumphant faith under fire from Burundi. You hear so much bad news, but there’s great news in the mix as well! We want to pump…
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Screaming Injustice
God wants us to get angry. Injustice is wrong. This is a very raw and stirring challenge to be willing to share the pain and actively do something to transform situations as Jesus would have us do.
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Total Surrender
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZU8EjYY7PI This is the true story of one woman’s price of surrender.
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Living Sacrifice
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfVg1XdJGR4 Take a journey up a mountain to slaughter a goat and a lamb. What goes through your mind as you raise your knife to kill? What does God want from us?