Okay, so yesterday was my niece’s 2nd birthday! (Happy Birthday, Mariné!) My parents drove 12 hours to be with their first and only grandchild; (just for the next 7 months, then she’s getting a little brother or sister). They had…

              Hey Friends,   You all know that we are moving into the Christmas season. You can see all the decorations and all the advertisements in all the Shops and on the television and the radio. Here in Swaziland it…

Has it been this long since we’ve updated our blog? Sorry friends! Okay, so right now Swaziland is the place to be! Things are happening here and we are excited about it. God has something up His sleeve!   We…

Hallo dear friends! Sorry that we are so slow with updating our blog! We are still traveling all over South Africa and we are doing well. We have had a couple of busy days, but we also had some awesome…

  Hallo dear friends! Hope you are all doing well. We went to church Sunday and at the doors they handed out a poem. It was in Afrikaans, but I tried to translate it to English. It touched us and…

Finally! Another update from the Gerbers!   Yes dear friends, we are doing well and we are having an awesome summer (winter for us) here in Africa. If I have to sum it up in a few words: We were…

BEATING THE DRUM        Hallo dear friends and family! No, we have not been eaten by lions or trampled by elephants! Nor have we forgotten about our blog! We are “Beating the Drum” in Zambia and life for us…

Wow! What a weekend! I was on my way to Swaziland and decided that I was going to spend two nights with my brother and sister in Johannesburg. I was very excited, because I have not seen any of my…

During the weekend after Easter we had the wonderful opportunity to go and visit some dear friends in Nashville, Tennessee. We met John in Swaziland during Beat the Drum in 2004. John and his wife, Debbie, live in Murfreesboro with…