Tag: church
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1908-11-29 Elizabeth to H. Beekhuis
Read More: 1908-11-29 Elizabeth to H. BeekhuisSunday, 1908-11-29. From Elizabeth Stuit to H. Beekhuis. Woldendorp, November 29.1908. Dear brother and sister, We received your letter with the news that a little son was born to you. Are you feeling better dear sister? Rientje just is not improving. She is very short of breath. Jan now also gets medicine drops and has…
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Dear Kees and Hittie
Read More: Dear Kees and HittieMy children said: Dad must still have something to do, and gave me a computer for my 60th birthday. You didn’t know that for quite a few years in the past, I wrote a Dutch page in a Dutch-Canadian weekly.
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~ Sunday Afternoon
Read More: ~ Sunday AfternoonMaaike had only invited no church people for coffee after the morning service. After all, they already had visitors. On top of that, none of their friends smoked anymore, and they certainly wouldn’t have appreciated Opa’s eternal pipe. If only they could have sat outside.
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~ The Weather Turns
Read More: ~ The Weather TurnsI would often go and play the organ in church now. I preferred that to studying. I wouldn’t pass the final exam anyway, even if I threw myself into my studies. Rehearsing four years of study material from unfamiliar textbooks was an impossibility
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~ The Sign Cap
Read More: ~ The Sign CapThe only joy I experienced during those long study evenings was looking forward to Saturday. The little farmhouse had become my actual home. The silence of the uninhabited world at the bottom of the dyke calmed my soul and the happy girl created a joy in me that lasted throughout the week.
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~ Can’t We Have Some Fun?
Read More: ~ Can’t We Have Some Fun?t’s just a sad state of affairs in Canada these days. We are in the midst of a recession, and there is so much division in many churches that some people want to exit to form even better churches. This must be done with seriousness.
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~ Klaas Pot
Read More: ~ Klaas PotMy wife and I come to Canada every other year to visit our children. Thus, we have gained many friends in Canada as well. Mostly older people who belong to the same church as our children’s families. The only exception is Klaas Pot.
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~ Little Brother from Scheveningen
Read More: ~ Little Brother from ScheveningenMy grandson who is studying to be a pastor in Grand Rapids knocked on my door. He is a somewhat shy little man and it took him about an hour to come up with the purpose of his visit
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Hoofdstuk Drie
Read More: Hoofdstuk DrieSoms kreeg ik het gevoel dat ik in Canada beter paste dan in Nederland. Daar was ik het middelpunt van belangstelling, en hier ben ik maar een oude man die vaak over het hoofd gezien wordt. Dat ligt ook aan mezelf hoor, want ik trek me in Nederland hoe langer hoe meer terug. Ik zie…
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Hoofdstuk Twee
Read More: Hoofdstuk TweeZondagmorgen, zes uur…. Zoals gewoonlijk werd ik ook deze morgen weer vroeg wakker in de mooie kampeerwagen die Pieter ter gelegenheid van de vakantie gehuurd had. Ik moet wel zeer diep geslapen hebben want ik had het snurken van Maaike en het gepiep van Gerrit niet eens gehoord. Want dat was het eerste wat mij…