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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.

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Unexpectedly a new job

Jan lost his job May 2016 by mutual agreement with his boss. He could not handle his job in construction anymore due to severe back problems.

In July 2017 the hernia has gotten so worse that certain nerves in his right leg were not functioning anymore as they should. Jan was urgently operated on his back. Rehabilitation went by reasonably smooth.

In the fall of 2017 Jan and Ann attended our weekly church meeting. Jan Sjoerd Pasterkamp spoke that morning on the spiritual authority of a man.

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Praying with the neighbours, with results!

 

Carine and Patrick have a nice testimony after praying with the neighbors:

“Alessio, a two year old boy is the grandson of our neighbor. He was only a moment alone in the kitchen of the restaurant of his daddy and grandma when his mama was upstairs. Jerisa, his mama, heard a noise in the kitchen. She ran downstairs and saw that her little boy had splatters drain cleaner on his skin and clothes. She tore the clothes from his little body and speeded to the hospital in Bonheiden.

After having received first aid for the burns Alessio was transferred to the University Hospital in Leuven. Quite soon the physicians were talking about skin transplant. After two weeks in the
hospital the doctors noticed a slight improvement in the large burn under his left arm. His mama asked if she could take Alessio home for the weekend. She kept the agreement not to take him
outside.

Patrick, Lies and I could visit them that Sunday afternoon. Jerisa said she hoped for a favorable ruling from the doctor that only a limited transplant would be needed. Alessio was standing right next to me. I touched him just a moment and said a simple prayer for a speedy recovery in Jesus’Name. Sunday night Alessio returned to the hospital.

On Monday our neighbor told Patrick that the doctor said the burns had healed wonderfully well and Alessio could go home. A skin transplant wouldn’t be necessary anymore!
What a joy there was in Alessio’s family… and what is so special is that our neighbor acknowledges Jesus in this.”

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