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Visit of our daughter Elsbeth with her husband Mat and their 2 year old daughter Zoe

2011-11-19T06:18:00.000-08:00

November the 4th they arrived on Amsterdam airport for a visit of 2 weeks. Ank and I (Wil) saw them back after 2 years. We have been to the USA when Zoe was just one month old. It was so good to see them all back live. Of course we had contact by email and skype, but this is BETTER.

Arrival of the Kilwein jr - family at Schiphol (Amsterdam airport)

For us as grandparents it was special to see our granddaughter Zoe. She saw us on skype many many times and talked to us in englisch and dutch. Yes she does understand dutch very well. Elsbeth talks dutch with her almost all the time.

The first weekend our daughter Maaike with her family came also to Houten. Many hugs and kisses and tears. Especially when Elsbeth met her nieces and nephew. What an emotions!

Elsbeth with niece Channah and nephew Joshua

Elsbeth with nieces Channah, Sarah-Lynn and sister Anneke

We talked a lot and had a lot of fun. We went for shopping, for Elsbeth likes to shop. By the way, so do all the K-girls.

The next weekend we had a real family reunion. We came together with our 5 children, 3 in-laws, 4 granddaughters and 3 grandsons. We had a wonderful time together. We met in an old renovated farmhouse, which had 7 or 8 bedrooms. A big kitchen and room for the children to play.

We were so blessed to have nice wheather, not only for that weekend, but the whole 2 weeks were wonderful! The Father is so good!!

The K-familys

We made a lot of pictures. Many of Zoe of course, now she was for a very short time with us !!!
She is very cute and smart as well. We can't wait to see and talk with her on skype again.

Zoe "I AM A POPSTAR"

They left to go home on the 18th. Emotions again....
We'll see you all back soon !!!!!!

If you want to see more pictures, here is a link:

http://www.mijnalbum.nl/Album=JLUR7CBX

Enjoy !!!!

Mini HouseChurch Conference in Georgsmarienhütte - Germany

2011-09-27T07:59:00.000-07:00

We had a wonderfull time together. We went to Georgsmarienhütte (near Osnabruck) on Saturday 24. Thomas Jahnke (see picture at the left) was with us. He did a great job with the translation – it was his first time in doing that. In the afternoon Mieke van den Bosch, yes is Dutch helped with translation too. She is living in

Germany

for 28 years now and actually saved for just about a year. We had a time of teaching, Q & A and at the end of the day time for communion prayer.

During the day we had different people, some just came for the morning, some came for the whole or just the afternoon. At the end we were with about 18 people. We were glad to meet again with some we met last conference in NL, but also some who me met in april 2010. That was a good reunion.

Sunday morning we met for breakfast and fellowship. We shared a lot of stories, when we met the Lord and so on. Some funny stories, but also serious.

All by all a good time.

(in this pictures at the right Wolgang and Karin Dierker)

If you want to see some more pictures

(Mieke van den Bosch, Renate Stauber, Heidrun&Thomas Herweg)

Mini HouseChurch Conference in Georgsmarienhütte (Germany)

2011-09-22T12:22:00.000-07:00

Next weekend (24-25 september) we are in Germany for a mini HouseChurch Conference. We will meet Renate, Heidrun and Thomas again, who have been to our HouseChurch Conference in the Netherlands in 2010 and 2011.

(sie photo)

We expect to meet new people. Ank will teach about Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Of course we will have time for Q & A.

Visit to France and Lithuania August 2011

2011-09-09T10:11:00.000-07:00

The first week of August we, Ank and me, daughter Anneke, son Carsten en granddaughter Channah, went to France. We were guests of Samuel and Michèle Batota.

They live in Bar, which is part of the Correze, about 500 km south of Paris. Our navigator did a good job and brought us exactly to our destination. The Batota’s had rented a “gite” for us to stay at.

We spent a lot of time together: walking, talking, we even did games. We also visited towns in the neighbourhood.

All in all a very good time of fellowship and had time to relax.

For pictures click on the link below:

http://www.mijnalbum.nl/Album=INQ7BQXX

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I went with John Fenn to

Lithuania

, Friday August 12. Early in the morning we went to Schiphol to fly to Vilnius, the capitol. We arrived at 1 p.m. It’s not a big airfield, so it did not take long to find the two persons who came to pick us up: Valda, our contact, we know her for over a year now by email and skype and Deividas (David), who had his car with him. Deividas is the one that translated us during the HouseChurchConference. We went to the apartment of a sister in the Lord, Jadvyga. She lives in a ‘grey’ apartment building, built in the Soviet period. There we met our second contact: Tadas. He had prepared a wonderful meal en we enjoyed it together.

(in this picture Tadas, Valda and John)

Before going to a Youth meeting that night, we first visited the old centre of the town. On our way there it suddenly started to rain, a heavy rain and thunder. So we went to a parking garage, part of a luxury shopping mall. (A big contrast with other things we saw). After 10 minutes the heavy rain was over and we continued our way to the centre. Vilnius has a beautiful cultural centre with beautiful buildings, one of them the presidential palace. Also universities, cathedral, etc. and some of them were restored which has cost a lot of money.

Then to the youth meeting. There were about 25 youth. They were very interested to hear about ‘heaven’ and ‘angels’ experiences of John. He talked almost 3,5 hours and answered many questions.

On Saturday off to the ‘camp’ where the conference was held. It was a former bungalow park, situated by a lake. In the middle of nowhere, but my cell phone worked! Tadas showed us the house where John and I were staying. It was very basic. A small room with a sink and (cold) water, another room with couches and a chair and for both of us a bedroom. Toilets were in the central building. Tadas suggested not to use toilet paper so it would not become clogged. There was another toilet in a tent nearby with a ‘hole in the ground’. You did not have to flush the toiletJ

Soon the first guests arrived. Fortunately a lot of them spoke English otherwise it would have been very hard to understand each other. Lithuanian is a very unique stand-alone-language.

Almost 50 persons were present at the first meeting (children included). The people were expectant to receive a lot this weekend. John shared about the basics of housechurch, what and what not to do etc.

During the meals and also in between I was able to talk to a lot of people and made many contacts. I have email or skype contact with some of them. They are also on facebook.

On Sunday, Ieva, a girl 18 years old, asked if she could be baptized. We decided to do that at the end of the afternoon. Then some one else wanted to be baptized too. When we came to the lake there were a total of 6 longing to be baptized, including 2 boys of 10/11 years old.

Time went really fast and we had to say good-bye to the people present to leave for Vilnius so we could take the plane at 6 pm the next day, Tuesday, to Amsterdam.

It was a wonderful time and a great experience. At the end of the conference people asked if we would like to come back next year. I am definitely planning to do that, together with Ank. They approved on that.

For pictures:

Link for Lithuania / 2011 august 12-16 / visit Vilnius etc and HouseChurch Conference included = 164 pictures

http://www.mijnalbum.nl/Album=NSI3FSBB

Link for Lithuania / 2011 august 13-15 / HouseChurch Conference = 84 pictures

http://www.mijnalbum.nl/Album=SKZMUBVA

Link for Lithuania / 2011 august 13-15 / HouseChurch Conference / pictures made by Alfonsas Rameika = 72 pictures

http://www.mijnalbum.nl/Album=8HERRDVD

For a short impression of the worship:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K96j3CeTSLE&feature=youtube_gdata

and

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mDAdIq-A_Y

AND

Did you know that Lithuania:

- has 3 million inhabitants?

- 1,5 x larger than the Netherlands?

- was the first country of the former SU which joined the EU?

Wil Kleinmeulman