Bill Hebner

     Middle Park Camp      As we complete the take-down of the 2016 Middle Park Camp I must admit I am trying to figure out where the summer has gone.  (Normally in Wales it is on a Tuesday) (Kidding) More importantly how everything was setup, used, taken down and stored with such precision.  I can only attribute that to the remarkable team that has grown over the past 9 years of summer camp here in Middle Park now under the leadership of Howell & Nita Hodgett.   Not only was the Wales National MP3 camp held, but new to our calendar the Sporting Marvels group from the Rhonda Valley, the Farmers Community Network prayer meeting and a wedding.  Most work was completed this year by not only our regular volunteers but also a concerted effort by a group of local farmers who have adopted the camp and see its value in the local Christian community.  I must admit that as I washed the dishes for the MP3 camp and facilitated pr...

‘Stop the world I want to get off’….. no, not really.  I love the adventure! I must admit the pace is a little more than I wanted and the scheduling at best has been a little chaotic.  However, over the past 3 months so many great things have happened to help the poor and the needy in South Africa, Gambia, Kenya and yes, still in Wales, that it has been worth the step of faith from the safety of YL. I will provide an update for each. Our change in season is in actual fact more of a personal seasoning… Releasing the skills we have developed over our adult lives to do more to make a difference in the world for which we were appointed bond servants to the most high God.  Our lives will always be about HIS ministry, His work and for His glory.  Thus, the name of our new venture into humanitarian and low cost housing solutions for the poor - Hebner Innovative Solutions (HIS). Though we are no longer part of a larger national charity it does not make wh...

All times are his season, the fruit of his hand. His mercy lie waiting in the son of man.... Way back in the 80's, new to the Christian faith I was still wondering, 'Lord What', 'Lord When' and 'Lord How', do you want me to spread this amazing gift of salvation. Like any young believer I was anxious to get on with this adventure and make my mark for Him on my new world of colour.   But, as the years pass by we develop an understanding that is not about the rush of youthful energy quite so much as it is about learning to wait on Him to guide us into the next seasons of life.   That HE must become more and I must become less rings true in scripture and in all believer’s lives.   Pouring our lives out as a fragrant offering as Paul talked about, ready to go anywhere, any-time as a bond servant of the most high God.   Not rushed, but with a 'relaxed concern' as Frank Tillipaugh talked about in the mid 80's.   I believe that God has now brou...

PART 1 of  2 Over 20 years ago Stephen Covey in his book the 7 habits of highly effective people stated that if your life is a hammer you will see everything in life is a nail.  In all my travels I must admit that this has proven true.... If you are an engineer    ...you see everything as a structural problem If your pastor                 ....everything is a problem of the heart If you living in a Township           .... you see everything with a survival instinct, living day to day with no thought of the day after tomorrow...  Each of these views has been shaped by life experience via education environment and peers creating a specific truth... but then again…what is truth...   In order to see truth we must intentionally remove ourselves from the biases we live for example:   Over my past 3 months in Africa I ...

  TRUST  This (Proverbs 3:5,6) was one of the first verses I committed to memory as a young Christian.   It summed up just about everything I believed in according to my new found faith …. The whole nature of becoming a bond servant of Christ and the need to jump spiritually and say "How High?" and "W hat direction God?" on the way up.   This may seem unorthodox to most in our intellectually conservative world, but it is what the nature of obedience to the Holy Spirit is all about.   And it is how I have chosen to live life. So with this philosophy intact, I sit in a 1 bedroom flat 900m from the 2015 YMP project.   Listening through the night to the grumblings of a community faced with Xenophobic threats and uprisings that are growing due to outside sources…   At the same time I am trying to clean off my suit to meet with the Lesotho education minster about containerized schools while sitting in coveralls as I plan to try my had on some w...

 Click for more pictures and info   November has found me in a rural community just outside of Mtwapa Kenya.   The goats here out number the white residence about 100 to 1.   I am here with the Hope for the Nations charity, to build the two story residence for women wanting to break free from the streets and prostitution.   It is a beautiful community, quiet and just a little away from it all so it seems.   This is in contrast to the constant traffic jam that makes up the main roads through and to Mtwapa from Mombassa.   An 8 mile journey that should take 20 minutes but often is well over 1 hr at best.   The street is peppered with somewhat abandoned hotel builds for the European tourist trade, now left empty due to the recent rash of terrorism in the area.   This is unfortunate as the friendliness of the majority of the people rivals that of our dear friends in South Africa .   They do not have much, but are willing to help to...

I know this world is temporal, and some day we will enter into eternity, finally realizing the scope of the beauty, variety, love and peace that it entails. Still, I can’t stop thinking about how much more can be done here on earth before then.   We were all called to be His workmanship, to do good works in Christ, to spread the good news of Jesus Christ, to help the poor, to be creative, to laugh, to learn…. To deepen .     I am a "doer", and with that I so often wish that I could do and experience everything.   I have come to realize that most people end up doing nothing, paralyzed by either trying to do too much, or fearing that they have chosen poorly.   Since taking some time to play golf last month, the world has opened up many new and expanded opportunities.   I figure I have 15 more productive years on the Hobbs meter before the Lord is done with me.   But what does He want that to look like, and am I willing to let Him shape that? ...