For awhile, I struggled to wake up with a sense of joy for the upcoming day and then more recently, I experienced something I never have before… a series of panic attacks. Some setting me back for weeks. However, God, in His faithfulness gave me a revelation regarding peace. What is peace? How do we …
Save A Life While Gaming
Ryan and Hermie Smit (Director at City Team Ministries in San Jose, CA) discuss how the method of showing God’s love to those around us does not matter, rather the important fact, is being open to being used by God….whether it’s video gaming, playing golf, etc., all our hobbies and interests can be used to …
Gray Family Missions Update – December 2018
Merry Christmas from South Africa! This is a quick update on what God is doing in our lives! To view the blog mentioned in this video, click here!
Christmas, Bibles & Songs of Joy
After four weeks of being back in South Africa (December 2018), the strain of uprooting our family and moving overseas had started to take its toll. Moments arose when I questioned whether we heard from God or “had bitten off more than we could chew.” Then last week, we received a call from Mma Patricia, …
Christmas, Bibles & Songs of Joy!
What a blessing it was to see 40 staff members of St. John the Divine Orphans and Outreach in Mohlakeng receive bibles for Christmas. Some had been praying for bibles for months! Their joy was contagious! Psalm 89:1 “I will sing of the loving kindness of the LORD forever; To all generations, I will make …
Love Who You Are and What You Have; and You Will Change the World
Ryan shares on the topic of “Love who you are and what you have; and you will change the world’ during the August 2018 Passion Talks International in San Jose, CA. (Published on Dec 8, 2018) Will you live up to your potential? Will you change the world today, tomorrow or the next day? I used to …
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Children’s Christmas Dance Celebration
St. John the Divine Orphans and Outreach in Randfontein, South Africa -whilst hosting their annual Christmas party for close to 400 children some of the young girls broke out into dance!
House of Praise
After being in eight different houses in the space of eight weeks (since leaving California), we were ready to put down roots again, at least for the foreseeable future! However, with Christmas and summer (in South Africa) approaching, housing was very limited and very costly. We were staying in a temporary Airbnb, when through a …
Up, Up & Away
I was frustrated. Everything in my left-brain dominated personality had fought against the logic of waiting. Although, we had clearly felt from the Lord to wait until God’s exact timing to purchase our airline tickets to South Africa, my “common sense and wisdom” did not appreciated the fact that we had to wait until two …
Unstoppable Six-year old
It was freezing! The first snow of the year fell just enough for Ryan Jr. to catch one on his tongue. He was so excited. Snow=Winter and Winter=Christmas and Christmas=more Legos! On our walk to Starbucks, for our father-son date, we said “Hi” to a “new friend” asking for money at the traffic light. We …