A spectacular beginning ....

A spectacular beginning is very much protected ...

On the 2nd of January, in the evening, Carine took Patrick by car to the bus... for Patrick had to work on the nightshift. Just when he got out, the bus passed them... Carine drove quickly after the bus, with flashing lights and sounding the motor horn... the bus stopped and Patrick went across the road. He still said: "careful when you drive back..." Carine drove into the drive in front of a house in order to turn back. When she was driving for a while on that road, she suddenly saw a dead red cat lying on the road. She swerved to the right and turned rather quickly again to the left. All of a sudden the car started to drive her, instead of she driving the car... Carine kept her eyes meticulously on her traffic lane and tried to adjust her driving... there was an oncoming car which she was in imminent danger of making a beeline for... it passed her... Carine cried to God for help and she came to a standstill on the other traffic lane, just behind this car that had been oncoming... Thanking God for His protection, she came home wide awake... her year had started in a really spectacular way...!

Recovery from a severe burn out

“For what we preach is not ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake.” (2 Cor 4:5)

I was doing for over 30 years all kind of leadership tasks in the church of Jesus, when a concurrence of events led to a complete mental crash. I entered unexpectedly and unwantedly a period of burn-out that would last several years.

I was relieved of my job as fulltime pastor and I was obliged to stop my involvement in Christian Flanders. I did not preach anywhere for over a year, although I had been doing this for years throughout the whole of Flanders. I even felt written off by God and fellow human beings. The civil society declared that I was incapable to work.