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Unbelievable that our colleagues and friends are in the midst of it. And unbelievable that we are heading there in just four weeks!

Thousands of refugees are crossing the border at the other side of our Europe. The place where we are heading: The Croatian, Serbian border. It is all over the news. The Dutch news, the BBC.…

This morning at 6.30 Laurens our little four years old now, came laying next to me and said: “”Light is wrestling with darkness.”” He said  it in Dutch of course, so he said acctually: Het…

The refugees in the park in front of the train station in Budapest, where asking for something to sleep on, the concrete is so hard, and also some medicine, the scabies are so itchy, and…

Snapshot 1 The evening fell in the Roma village when we were about to close the final Bible club evening. We got a few bags of apples out of the car and shared them with…

Thank you very much, for standing with us on our journey, this blog is just a short impression of the days that the kids here had the UNA Festival. Tomorrow a day at a nearby…

On the morning of the fifth of August, a few days ago Jelle said: It is not busy in the street. Where is everybody? We live in a city, so we expect at least some…

Na ons bezoek aan het Romadorp, waar ik verder geen plaatjes maakte, kreeg ik deze groenten mee. Zie je die zwarte tomaten, gekweekt van zaad van de moeder van de vrouw die we bezochten. Ik…

I really LOVE being on the road, downsize our belongings and everything you find important in a few bags and GO! Unpack in a tiny clean, basic apartment and start playing doll house again.. now…

Where there are laundrylines, there are people and there is life! Waar waslijnen zijn, daar zijn mensen en daar is leven!                            …

Most of the time, I trust and know that we are on the right track, moving to Croatia, to support the team working with Roma churches. That is in short the reason why we want…