My family and I are in a transitional state at the moment, we’re going to plant a church in Salzburg, Austria in three months time. We are going to leave behind a thriving community church with a super leadership team, great friends and family. Sons and daughters in Christ. Then there are the peripherals, rugby, cricket and braaivleis(barbeque). Sunny skies and 365 days of golf.

Bloemfontein was our home for the last seven years and what a time it was. Simon Garfunkel penned this song and it catches the heart quite nicely;

TIME IT WAS AND WHAT A TIME IT WAS

A TIME OF INNOCENSE, A TIME OF CONFIDENCES

LONG AGO IT MUST BE, I HAD A PHOTOGRAPH

PRESERVE MY MEMORIES

THEY’RE ALL THATS LEFT ME

So in everything there is a beginning, a genesis if you will, and an end. The great thing we have is a never ending relationship, as we are all partakers of God’s eternal life through Jesus Christ. We will have eternity with one another. How cool is that. So it is not good bye at all, rather, as we say in South Africa till Now-now.