As our slogan states: our vison is not just limited to our to our town, but it is worldwide. We started with ten years in the Philippines, but also after moving to Holland we have had many times that we’ve been involved in ministries outside this small country. The ones that ‘stick’ the most in our memory are the trips to Russia to teach churchleaders (7 times in 4 years) and now recently our involvement in the European stafftraining that is taking place every summer in Spain.
On this page we will share some of the stories from the thirty plus years of ministry in different places of the world.
Explo 1985
This was quite a busy time, but a great experience. CCC decided to organize a worldwide conference with live satelite connections linking all sites together for daily periods of two hours. That long ago such a technical feat was a novelty and a first amongst christian organisations. In the Philippines it was decided to focus all our attention and organise one national conference, for all ministries and agegroups at one venue: Manila. Ultimately it became five simultaneous conferences, spread out throughout the Metro-manila area with about 10.000 people participating! And in the evenings, everybody was gathered together in a big stadium for praise and talks by the main speakers – and for the satellite broadcast that came from a different place in the world every evening. Being in charge of the transportation it was ’my job’ to get everybody back to their sleeping quarters after that (at around 2.00 in the morning) and for that we rented a whole buscompany. Every night there were 100 buses lined up in front of the stadium that fanned out from there to many places in the city to drop everybody off . It was the biggest project I’ve ever been involved in, but definately also one of the most fun ones!
