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A collection of personal pictures and stories 📸 📚
A collection of personal pictures and stories 📸 📚
Dec 2024 to Feb 2025
Dec 2024 to Feb 2025
Christmas + 31st Birthday @ Home
Christmas + 31st Birthday @ Home
A welcome home
A festive season of fun with Mum and Dad
Winter walks
Debriefing the year at Ffald y brenin with Danny 2.0
A Family United
A Family United
1 Cor 12:31: 'And I will show you still a more excellent way'.
The St John clan all in Norfolk
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Investing in the grandkids, and receiving in return!
You never regret a swim 🏊
The Revival in Us
The Revival in Us
Shared a room with Luke @ Send UK.
Our God redeems!
Sat with Tom on the 1st night; Reminded of Ashburnham '23 and the exponential fruit of the kingdom.
Send UK '25; I have seen with my own eyes that you will come to your people. Revival is here.
5am prayer sessions in the Goodery van 🔥
While enduring a long wait for my SA Visa, I am learning to be content in all circumstances and to rest in God's timing.
God highlighted this as I exited the Visa center and turned onto Worship Street.
This wait did allow for a special visit from Sharissa, my lovely girlfriend, and I have had time to rest and prepare for the upcoming season of relationship and SBS.
Sept - Dec 2024
Sept - Dec 2024
Discipleship Bible School,
Discipleship Bible School,
Potchefstroom South Africa
Potchefstroom South Africa
Big brother; written by Matti after dropping me at the airport.
God sat me with all the Norweigans on the flight!
Surprising Leon in the airport
Welcomed in by my DTS Team Leaders - Jes and Makaio
DBS Goals ✅
Daily reading with my small group; Lungi, Johan, Leon, and Ted ❤️
Back to basics
Braai with the bois 🥩
Undertaking regular 🇿🇦 training with Gideon
FLOOD WEEK STATS
God is on the move in Potch
A MOG in his natural habitat 💪
Setting up for EXALTED
EXALTED
Andy and Gabe;
men leading a generation of soldiers into their calling
DBS family ♥️
"Friday's are for the boys" -
Maintenance crew 🛠️
Friends becoming family
The brotherhood
The brotherhood
Pro 27:17 'As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another'
Pro 27:17 'As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another'
Leon's Bible Overview Presentations
Cross-fit and weighted-vest runs 😅
'A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity'
Pro 17:17
Weekends away
Weekends away
A 2nd visit to Carien's farm; their ostrich and a heap of corn
Sky-diving for Makaio's birthday!
Weekend in Bloemfontein with John, Amber, and G
July and August 2024
July and August 2024
South Africa to Norfolk
South Africa to Norfolk
John's bachelor party in Bloemfontein
John's bachelor party in Bloemfontein
Awesome to watch the Springboks in action
D9!
D9!
(The best room)
(The best room)
My DTS roommates Michael, Ruan and Hannes
Celebrating a successful lecture phase before we all went on outreach
Celebrating a successful lecture phase before we all went on outreach
Legends
DTS finished in early July and I was lucky enough to have 4 free weeks to travel around South Africa.
Thanks to the hospitality of my friends from DTS I got to visit the Western Cape, Durban, Bloemfontein, and Ermelo. There are plenty of stories and memories from each place and it was great to experience some of the real side of South Africa and its culture.
Returning Home
Returning Home
Flying into the beautiful Norfolk - it gets me every time and I love praying over the land on the final stint of my journey.
Thanks Hannah! 🥰
Thanks Hannah! 🥰
Family footy in the garden
Family footy in the garden
The kiddies will beat us one day soon...
The Stag!
The Stag!
Saturday the 10th of August
Man hunt at its finest 😅
Man hunt at its finest 😅
2 Timothy 2: 3-5
Share in suffering as a good soldier of Christ Jesus. 4 No soldier gets entangled in civilian pursuits, since his aim is to please the one who enlisted him. 5 An athlete is not crowned unless he competes according to the rules.
Not off to the best of starts
Not off to the best of starts
The boys halted proceedings to scan the turnip field for Matti's lost iphone. 🙈
Matti successfully snuck home, albeit through an unforgiving bog or two. Champ!
Manhunt, bbq, volleyball in the sunset, late night bioluminescent swim, prayer, wholesome wrestles, fire-side chats, meteor showers, and an early morning sunrise swim.
Praise the Lord!
The son of encouragement
The son of encouragement
Sunday the 11th of August
1 Thessalonians 5:11
Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing.
Tough choices -
Tough choices -
Mum chose Mr. Light Blue Collar and Barney he was named.
Mum chose Mr. Light Blue Collar and Barney he was named.
1 Samuel 30
6 And David was greatly distressed, for the people spoke of stoning him, because all the people were bitter in soul, each for his sons and daughters. But David strengthened himself in the Lord his God.
The Wedding
The Wedding
Matti and Hollie St John
Matti and Hollie St John
Sunday the 18th of August
Bless the Lord, for He is good, and has abundantly poured His goodness upon us.
An amazing day celebrating the union of Hollie and Matti.
I shall perform the vows that I have made before the Lord!
Matti and Hollie said "I do"
We responded "We will"
And God resounded "I will"
Psalm 61:8
So will I ever sing praises to your name, as I perform my vows day after day.
Psalm 56: 10-13
This I know, that God is for me.
In God, whose word I praise,
in the Lord, whose word I praise,
in God I trust; I shall not be afraid.
What can man do to me?
I must perform my vows to you, O God;
I will render thank offerings to you.
For you have delivered my soul from death,
yes, my feet from falling,
that I may walk before God
in the light of life.
The Grandkids ♥️
The Grandkids ♥️
Hot choc with Han
Hot choc with Han
Garden antics with Gabe
Garden antics with Gabe
Fire-side songs and smores
Fire-side songs and smores
My first attempt at plaits 🙊
My first attempt at plaits 🙊
They'll be good one day girls!
A visit from David
A visit from David
7 years later - still 🏃 in the rain
7 years later - still 🏃 in the rain
24th - 25th of August
From Nanning to Norfolk; great to get another weekend in with David. We enjoyed the blue skies of Sunday after a wet 'triathlon' on Saturday.
Squat jumps, push-ups, sprints, swims, a cycle and a burst tire to add to our adventure.
India is waiting for you Mr. Mabey - Run well.
Granny's Funeral
Granny's Funeral
Pat Humphrey passed away on ... I had the privilege of seeing Pat in the hospital before she died and was amazed by her clarity of mind that remained with her right up until the end. There is great comfort in death when we know that Jesus has gone before us and prepared a room for us in Heaven. Granny died in peace, and her funeral was a testimony to the salvation that we find in Jesus alone.
It was also profound seeing Mum, Becky, and Hannah representing the family, which made me appreciate how God has designed our family to have strong women at the head of each generation.
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