Our time in Indonesia shines through in the name PerMISI Home. The Indonesian word ‘permisi’ is often used in interactions with other people: when you are standing at the door and are waiting to be let in, and when you wish to leave. It is a clear signal for coming and leaving. On top of that, it also means: “May I have your attention, please?”
The word MISI also reminds us of the word mission, while Per indicates that not all missions can be lumped together, but that every individual mission receives attention.
PerMISI geeft weer wat ons zendingshuis is: een komen en gaan van mensen, waarbij we voor elke gast persoonlijke aandacht hebben. Passend bij hún missie.
Board members:
Dik den Hartog (chairman)
Gertjan Haase (penningmeester)
Rhodee Linthorst (PR & communicatie)
The board can be reached via e-mail: organization@permisihome.nl
Treasurer:
finance@permisihome.nl
Pieter en Anja zijn het beheerdersechtpaar en bereikbaar via de algemene contactinformatie op de website. Zij zijn het eerste contactpunt bij vragen over PermisiHome.
Chamber of Commerce: 78124727
Pieter & Anja van Dijk spent years abroad, gaining experience and knowledge in various cultures. They would love to share this knowledge and experience with you.
PerMISI Home is a place where missionaries can feel at home. Whether they are staying for a longer period or just a few days.
Pieter & Anja would like to help and support you during your preparation, leave, and return to the Netherlands.
We are Pieter and Anja van Dijk and we had the honour to serve on Papua for 12 years. We would like to serve as instruments in God’s hands to carry out his work. That is why we and our children, Tjeerd, Harm and Hanne, left for Indonesia in the summer of 2007 to work for the MAF (Mission Aviation Fellowship). There were several years of training in the United States beforehand. We lived on the island of Papua and worked for the MAF. Our son Tom was born there in June 2009.
At the start of 2019, we returned to the Netherlands for our children’s schooling and the upcoming birth of our youngest son, Yuda. Pieter now works as a flight instructor at Mission Aviation Training Center (MATC) in Teuge, the location where new MAF pilots are trained. He also travels to Papua twice a year for a month to work there as a pilot.
We are convinced that our mission did not end when we moved back to the Netherlands. That is why we open the doors of our unique interdenominational mission house in the Netherlands to people preparing for, doing, or repatriating from cross-cultural work in the kingdom of God.
The purpose of PerMISI Home is based on the Bible, and has added value for people who feel the call of Jesus’ assignment: ‘Go ye therefore, and teach all nations’. (Matth. 28 verse 19)
This means that PerMISI Home sees the Bible as the infallible Word of God and wants to stand in line with the Early Church, the Reformations as worded in, among others, the Westminster Confession of Faith and the Three Forms of Unity.
The guests who are temporarily living in PerMISI Home will increase the effectiveness of and employability in their work for the kingdom of God. We define work in God’s kingdom as everything that helps to communicate and manifest the reign, authority, and governance of God through Jesus Christ, so that many may receive the redeeming and personal knowledge of our Lord, Jesus Christ.
Call us! PERMISI HOME
