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 Daniel Huisman   Hi my name is Daniel. I love God with everything I have and work as a full-time Missionary and a fulltime volunteer to help the needy people wherever God leads me in the world. The whole world will be reached by the gospel of Jesus Christ (Matt 24:14) Mt 4:19 And He said to them, Follow Me, and I will make you fishers of men. Mt 28:19 Therefore go and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 
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My Life StoryI am 46 years old and still happily single.
Born in Holland and I grew up on the mission field, and now I am 26 years in fulltime mission. As my parents tell me, my dad
went alone into missions from Holland for the first time when I was 6 weeks old.
Well I would want to leave as well with a little baby crying all
night long. But no, my mom told me that I was a nice and quiet baby.
Actually many people still call me quiet.
When My mom would stroll me along in the stroller when I was a baby,
people would stop my mom and say "Oh what does your son have
beautiful eyes." As a baby when I received the blessing by Pastor
Vader Karel Hoekendijk, he prophesied that my eyes would see
the coming of the Lord.
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| After a while my mom and I took the 6 week trip by boat from Europe
across the Atlantic, and joined my dad in Saint Laurant, French
Guiana in South America.
Look at me in my bed at age 1 in Saint Laurant in
1963.
As you can see the mosquito-net over my bed, it wasn't there to
protect me from mosquito's really, but from Bats. My mom would have
terrible nights sleeping, because she would wake up hearing the slightest
noise, fearing that a bat would enter my bed. She would spend
horrifying moments untangling bats from my net and throwing them
out. After that one year adventure working with the South American
natives there, my parents couldn't extend their visa and had to go back
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We lived in Holland for a year, until we went across the ocean again to live on the beautiful island of Curaçao.
In the meantime I got a little sister, her name is
Caroline. She is really blond with blue eyes. By the time I was 15
she caught up with me in school and we were in the same class. When
only after half a year her best friend in class found out that we were
brother and sister, asked us really surprised, "What? are you
brother and sister?" Even though she knew we had the same last name
and went home in the same car.......
The island of Curaçao is the biggest of the 6 islands of
the kingdom of the Netherlands.  Go to Curacao with Google Earth
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When I was 7 years old we moved to a huge beautiful
300 year old country-house Mount Pleasant.  In this house I grew up.
With a lot of animals on the farm and a beach nearby. When we arrived in
1970 only the Country House was there and we had a lot of cows and
goats. 10 years later there were 10 more buildings with 10 vehicles.
When I reached the age of 16 I asked my dad if I could buy a 50cc
motorbike, to my surprise he said yes, so I started working a lot in my
free time to earn money to buy the bike. We still had the farm then and
the milk factory, so it was easy to live and work at the same place. My
life turned around having a motorbike, suddenly I could go wherever I
wanted and seeing my friends having a girlfriend on the back of their motorcycle, I also
started longing for
a girlfriend. And I finally found a nice sweet girl. We were a
group of young bikers with some parents camping out on the beach when
suddenly at 3 AM everybody started throwing each other in the water, then
she came to me and asked me to throw in a friend because he threw her
in, So I went up to him but we were just as strong so I said, "just fall
in the water because she asked me to throw you in" and he did, so I went
running up to her with my arms wide open saying "What do I get now" and
to my surprise I got a kiss right on my mouth. So from then on we
couldn't
let go of each other. In the meantime my dad closed the milk factory when
the UHT milk came on the market. Then I felt Gods calling to work for
Him. So I took on the responsibility of car
mechanics and maintenance when I went fulltime in 1982 in the mission of
my parents. My girlfriend and I stopped seeing each other since she was
not so keen on me working as a volunteer. The view of the country house to the left and to the right is the new church.  To the left is the Children-home.
Two of my brothers got married with the pretty young Dutch missionary girls
from Holland working in the Children-home. 
Mijn taak in Hebron was om de kinderen naar school te
brengen een aantal jaren. Elke morgen moest ik er vroeg uit, maar de
leidsters waren al veel eerder al bezig op de kinderen klaar te maken.
Ik werd precies om 5 voor half 7 wakker, gezicht wassen kleren aan, en
zo achter het stuur in de bus. Vanaf het landhuis nam ik dan ook vaak
mijn broertje en zusje mee en soms ook anderen, en dan naar beneden
rijden en de kinderen ophalen. Ik heb er een keer een video van gemaakt,
ik zal heb eens op het internet zetten als ik tijd heb. De kinderen naar
school brengen ging meestal iets beter dan ze ophalen om 12 uur. Het was
wel een zware taak om te rijden en tegelijkertijd de kinderen rustig te
houden. Zo had ik toch eigenlijk alle grote kinderen van Hebron onder
mijn hoede voor 3 kwartier heen, en 3 kwartier terug, dus anderhalf uur
per dag moest ik voor de kinderen zorgen, en tegelijkertijd sturen. 1,5
x 5 dagen in de week = 7.5 uur, dus ik had de kinderen als het ware
bijna een werkdag per week onder mijn hoede. Het was heel moeilijk om de
kinderen rustig te houden, maar na verloop van tijd is het mij gelukt,
prijs God. Ik heb geleerd om de kinderen elke dag te zeggen wat ze
moeten doen, en als ik het 1 dag niet deed, dan ging het weer mis. Wat
zei ik dan tegen de kinderen? Het waren meer de 10 geboden; 1) Zit op je
stoel. (met nadruk op zit) 2) Je rug tegen de stoel leuning aan (Dan
konden ze niet voorover leunen en aan elkaar komen) 3) Je tas op de
grond (Dan konden ze er niets uit halen om mee te gooien, of zelfs met
de tas te gooien) 4) Handen binnen houden. 5) Hoofd binnen houden
(Anders dan hingen ze zo uit het raam) 6) Schoenen aanhouden (Ja het
gevaar dat er met schoen werd gegooid was er groot, ik heb wel eens
moeten terug rijden omdat er een schoen uit het raam werd gegooid) 7)
Shirt aanhouden (Ja het was wel eens zo ondragelijk warm, dus doorrijden
bracht altijd wel wat koeling) 8) Snoep voorin leggen bij mij (Snoep van
een jarige klasgenoot gekregen, werd meestal in de bus helemaal
opgegeten (voor het middageten) of afgepakt door anderen met het geruzie
en gehuil erbij) 9) Stil zijn (Maar mijn stereo installatie hield zo wel
stil) 10) Lief zijn want Jezus houdt van jou.
My job was to drive the children back and fort to school every schoolday. It was a heavy task to drive and to keep the children quiet at the same time. So I found that telling the children every day; Sit on your chair, your back against the back of the chair, your bag on the ground, hands and heads inside the windows, keep your shoes and shirt on. To tell them to be quiet and don't fight and don't throw with your bag or shoes or throw them outside did not help. I think seat belts would have had the same effect if we had them back then. But it all went well. O and of course a warning once in a while that I would stop the bus and put the naughty one out on the street did help as well. Also I drove the "Karavana" into the villages.  Even evangelistic meetings we had with the Karavana. |
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