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Corona gives new opportunities to help

Published: 18 May 2020
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Categories: Help, Home, Reuse

Due to the corona situation, many children cannot attend school. For (missionary) families with children at home, there is a shortage of computers to be able to allow them to work all at the same time. In March, we received a request from Youth with a Mission (Heidebeek) who came to pick up 8 computers for several families. Pastors and youth workers came with a simiilar request. At Hands to Serve the team is temporarily a lot smaller because of the Corona – for the safety of everyone – but we try to help as much as possible with the people who are there.

  • Collecting 8 computers – spread out in a row to prepare for use
  • A happy computer recipient at home
  • Pastor from Rotterdam coming to pickup computers

Newsletter Winter 2019

Published: 9 December 2019
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“Our own body has many parts. When all these many parts are put together, they are only one body. The body of Christ is like this.”
1 Corinthians 12:12

God’s reality is often different to what we would expect His reality to be. He calls us to cooperate in a world where it’s increasingly popular to do it all yourself…

The complete newsletter is available below. You can also download it here as a PDF. In Memoriam

Cars and more

Published: 6 June 2019
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Dear Hands to Serve, a warm greeting from the other side of the globe! We are missionaries working with Wycliffe Bible Translators in Papua New Guinea and are coming to the Netherlands for a few months.

  • Hands to Serve car for missionaries

We’ll be picking up a car from you soon. Hopefully several other things as well. We hope to be able to watch TV in the Netherlands via our laptop. Unfortunately, the screen is very small. If you happen to have an external monitor, we could certainly use it. We are also looking for a printer to produce our newsletters, sermons, and presentations that we will be giving.

  • Explanations when we lend a car
  • A printer and a big screen

Computers for children in the Philippines

Published: 5 June 2019
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Recently we were able to send computers to Cebu City in the Phillipines. PASUK is a Christian Development Organization, that offers education to children in poverty, among other things. Every child is unique and valuable. We were able to help them with 12 computers, keyboards, and other practical electronics. Children can develop their talents so that they – in turn –  can help others. We packed three large boxes. We used baby clothing as packing material. This comes in handy by the young mothers there. We took the boxes to a transportation company who shipped them to the Phillipines. Take a look at the PASUK Foundation’s website to see how they are helping children. The stuff is on its way. Please pray that everything will arrive safely at its destination.

  • The equipment for this project
  • Filled boxes
  • Weighing for 60 kg per box
  • Loaded
  • Heavy boxes with computers

Newsletter Spring 2019

Published: 21 May 2019
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‘It’s Him again’

“…a sound of sheer silence. When Elijah heard it, he wrapped his face in his mantle, and went out and stood at the entrance of the cave.” (1 Kings 19:12-13)

We serve a loving God and Father who does not force us to do anything. Just like with Elijah he reveals Himself in the silence and not in the fire and earthquake. He allows us to make our own choices based on his guidance and our Love for Him…

The complete newsletter is available below. You can also download it here as a PDF.

Our God is a God of surprises!

Published: 28 March 2019
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Who else could have planned this? Steve (Who has been the leader of Hands to Serve for 50+ years) travels to the UK, meets a lovely lady and falls in love….

Subsequently Steve went to the UK and married Helen, he is now going to live in the country of his birth. Helen is a woman after Gods heart and also Steve’s heart!

Wedding cake for everyone

At Hands to Serve we have been privileged to see this process happening during the last year and you can imagine how happy and thankful we are for what God has done in their lives.

Oma came too!

After the official wedding in the UK and the honeymoon in France, we were able to finally congratulate them in person here in the Netherlands. They had a wonderful reception in Oud-Beijerland and in Steve’s church in Rotterdam the next day, the pastor prayed for a blessing over their marriage.

Steve speech

With the UK as his new home base, Steve will be doing English P.R. for Hands to Serve, because preaching Gods Word is one of the most important things in his life as well as talking about Hands to Serve.

Wedding invitation Steve and Helen

Published: 15 February 2019
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After more than 50 years of faithful service to the Lord in the Netherlands, Steve has decided to move back to the UK. God brought a new love into his life. He and Helen plan to get married in February 2019. Here are the details of the wedding service:

Newsletter Winter 2018

Published: 19 December 2018
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“Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock.” Matthew 7:24

On the Internet you can find many movies about storms, which destroy homes or they are demolished by large mud flows. You sympathize with the owners as…

The complete newsletter is available below. You can also download it here as a PDF.




Computers for Oosteuropa Zending

Published: 17 May 2018
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There was a request from ‘Oosteuropa zending’ (Eastern Europe Mission) for computers to be used in their Dutch office. We had just been given a stack of computers from a school which matched exactly with their need.

Of course we also gave them the screens, keyboards, mice and cables they needed.

 

 

 

 

 

They came by to collect it all.

We could also help them with a color laser printer.

 

 

 

 

Their system admin will now install all these computers in their office.

 

 

Easy loading with the fork-truck.

 

 

Happy missionary with a laptop

Published: 17 May 2018
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  • Can you fix my friends computer? The laptop is broken. She is working on the mission field, sent there by our church.
  • Today it is Tuesday, when does it need to be ready?
  • She is leaving for Africa this coming Friday. You think you will manage?
  • The laptop is really defective. An electrical shortcut on the inside. Is a different laptop also okay?
  • More than likely. When can that be ready?
  • I shall do my best. – A few hours later – Here is a good working, newly installed laptop!
  • This is not always so easily remidied, but today it just happened.
  • I give it to her and ask her if she could let us know if this laptop is a good replacement.
  • Being so happy with this laptop it works so fast, and it has so many options!