News and updates from Téo van der Weele
Blog 6: My quest for spiritual covering
Coming Home in Rom Spring 2010 In Spring 2010 very early in the morning, I was woken up by a voice in my room: "Téo, Téo"... I opened my eyes, looked around who was calling me. Then the Voice continued: "Téo, I want you to become a Priest." By now I was fully...
Blog 5: My quest for spiritual covering
Furthering my search for spiritual covering I knew from experience that people looked a bit strange at my style of work. I was a loner in the Evangelical world and ahead of many secular workers the late Seventies and early Eighties of last century. I had understood...
Blog 4: My quest for spiritual covering
Returning home in 1975 I started working with Open Doors, a ministry that worked in Eastern Europe, smuggling Bibles. Together with Jan Pit, We went once to Budapest. We had written travel instructions where we would have to deliver our Bibles. Driving with a...
Blog 3: My quest for spiritual covering
My quest for Spiritual Covering (3) As I am writing this, my youngest brother lays in the hospital, possibly permanently damaged due to some massive bloodclots in his brain. We don't know if he will live much longer. He is only 71 years old... As the time before me...
Blog 2 : My Quest for working under spiritual authority
My Quest for working under spiritual authority Working as a missionary I had a Sunday school class. The Surinam school system followed the Dutch school custom where children would be free from school on Wednesday afternoon. So once a week I went looking for...
New Blogs part 1: My Quest for a Spiritual Covering
Dear Friends, Corona has an effect on everyone, it has also on me. My inspiration dried up. I prayed and watch the news. Here follows what has been growing over the lasts months. At least 4 installments! My Quest for a Spiritual Covering I know I have...
Health news from Téo
Dear friends, Much has changed since the Corona virus came to the Netherlands! I will be on. Juli. 1: 83 old. I am one of those people who have to be careful. I don't think that I can survive a Corona attack. The leadership of the Hartberg Monastery wanted more...
Video recordings of a Conference in 2015 – Session 3
This is Session 3 of Teo's 2015 Conference in California. Be Blessed!
Video recordings of a Conference in 2015 – Session 2
This is Session 2 of Teo's 2015 Conference in California. Be Blessed!
Video recordings of a Conference in 2015 Conference – Session 1
This is Session 1 of Teo's 2015 Conference in California. Be Blessed!
Video recordings of a Conference in 2016 – Main Session
This is the Main Session of Teo's 2016 Conference in California. Be Blessed!
Video recordings of a Conference in 2015 – Teo’s Background
This is a Video on Teo's Background recorded in 2015, during a Conference in California. Be Blessed!
It has been a long break. Here is my update.
The Netherlands is now on the third place on the ladder of the percentage of people who died as a result of the Corona crisis, after Italy and Spain. In the midst of these manifestions of death, We have a deep sympathy with those fellow Europeans who lost so many of...
Lessons that I learned in this trip in Iceland.
After a long absence I am back to write in my blog again. I am so grateful to the Lord for His help in my life. The Corona-virus naturally has also my attention. I will have to be very careful in the coming weeks as I am one of those older people with heartfailure...
The Protestant problem of understanding Charismatic Roman Catholics.
The Protestant problem of understanding Charismatic Roman Catholics. It has been a while that you heard from me. I was stuck in my struggle with the issue of Mary and had to first work this out. My background is charismatic evangelical/Protestant who became Roman...
A Surprising Seminar
I attended this weekend (20-22 September 2019) a 'Holy Spirit' seminar. One Indian lady, Elsi and one older gentleman, Justin were leading this. The second Indian lady had been in Germany already for nearly 50 years. Elsi started to talk about spiritual gifts,...
Looking at history – What I appreciate in the Evangelical world
Finally, here is a new installment to my blog. The summer had so many new opportunities to share and talk. Now I am again in Hartberg, (Steiermark, Austria). I expect to return home October 15th, the Lord willing. I am aware that I am getting older and that my time...
Chapter 14: Introducing the topic of abuse in Egypt
I was invited to Egypt 15 years ago. As they knew of my ministry with sexually abused people they asked me right away not to speak about incest. They told me: "that doesn´t happen here". The next year I got another invitation and they encouraged me to talk about...
My Story – Chapter 13: Do you want to help?…
Do you want to help? Some rules that might help you to be a help, rather than making an abuse survivor feeling even more miserable: 1. You might have sensed that there is something terribly gone wrong in a person's life in the past. Start with finding out what went...
My Story – Chapter 12: Challenges when working in The Culture of Abuse.
One of the challenges for people who are called to help people who suffer under various forms of abuse is: how to understand their words and actions. To understand the subconscious attitude towards helpers, as seen through the dysfunctional ´glasses´ of the counselee,...
Grateful for the Resurrection of the dead
In our statement of faith, we say: "I believe in the Resurrection of the dead." This last day we change our focus from the here and now towards the future. Life today is NOT an accident of nature. There is life because God has a Secret Plan. There was a family...
Grateful for Ancestors IPSICC 2018
Thursday Grateful for Ancestors IPSICC 2018 There have been two types of ancestors: the leaders of God´s Kingdom, who lived before us and our physical ancestors, The last ten years I have been looking at the Church fathers how they preached the Gospel. How they...
Gratetfulness for Biblical Truth Part 2
Blessing The concept of Blessing is: speaking right words. We bless with faith that Jesus is there and comes in their situation: whatever that situation might be. We use words to which a person can respond. When someone is grieving about something, don´t...
Gratefulness for Biblical Truths
We live in a time that people say: well, that is your truth, my truth is different. A booklet by Dr. N. T. Wright: "PAUL FOR TOMORROW´S WORLD," notes: "acceptable differences and unacceptable differences." That idea helped me to get a bit more clarity in the...
Helping Through Blessing – a teaching that impacts lives
I gave pastoral seminars in the Netherlands, once per month I shared in five Saturdays my insights. It grew into a series of 3 courses a total of 15 days. My practice with HTB was just practical, I learned to fine-tune it as I went along....
From Kolding (DK)for the Ipsicc school program. – Teaching notes included –
Dear friends, I am at the moment in Kolding for the Ipsicc school program. It is twee heavy work in 6 days 2x per year + lots of homework, but a great way for anyone who wants a Danish Government Recognized Degree (BA and MA) to be a legal psychotherapist, working...
Tueday June 12 I am allowed to go home
Dear friends, The Center-GP just stopped by. Because of the prayers of many, I am allowed to go home June 12. The healing started to increase rapidly since Saturday. I can sit now for an hour without pain. I could limit my medication to 2x 500 instead of 3-4 times...
Getting through some dark moments.
This was quite a few tough weeks that I went through. My back pain started to become really bad 6 weeks ago. So I was so happy that neurologist recommended a pain block. They inject something in the spine that stops the swelling of the nerve and also it stops the...
I am so grateful! to the Lord and to all the praying friends around the world
Thank the Lord!!! The procedure of the pain block in my spine went well. It hurted initially a bit for about 3 seconds, that all! I am so grateful! to the Lord and to all the praying friends around the world. It took about 45 minutes, and both de MD and I were...
Important note concerning Wednesday, 30.Mai, concerning my health
Dear friends, . I was Thursday in the Pain clinic and expected to be helped. That was a bit too quick. First, they explained what was going to happen and what I needed to do before that. They also informed me that there is always a risk involved when they get...
An update on my health situation: Dear friends and prayer supporters,
Thank you for your interest you have shown in my life. I need to update you on my health. After a great weekend in Iceland Feb.1-6 (I worked way too long. hours...) my health started to deteriorate..I think I went too quick to Austria (23rd of Febr- 17 March) and...
Dear friends: A brief health note
People have been asking how I am doing and what is happening in my body. My reply has been: everything is fine, I have my strength back, I walk each day at least 30 minutes often 40, as church is 20 min. away and when the weather is reasonable I go walking. In the...
“I can´t forgive”
Having an abusive past myself, topped off by a Dutch soldier who put a gun on my eight-year-old head in 1945, shouting "if you don´t tell where your dad is, I will kill you". My mother heard my death scream. She raced towards me and pushed him away while shaming him....
Dealing with rough issues
I went for a week of silence to the monastery where we will have the Basic Course (13-14 January). It was not so easy. Great doubts about who I am and my future plagued me. Then I was part of a group of 8 ordained ministers, praying together. A beautiful way to guide...
Subordination to Joseph in the Holy Family by Dr Taylor Marhall
The modern feminist/socialist objects to the traditional Israelite structure of the family: the male father is the head of the wife and the children. Instead, we observe the media’s depiction of the father is a comical dolt. The children laugh at him. The mother goes...
Poem 2018
Another year possibilities chances choices - Another year new questions seeking answers fog ahead - Another year concerns vision shrouding danger warning - Another year following Him wherever through it all - Another year Old promises reformated new...
Looking forward towards 2018
Thank you for the slow mail and email Christmas and New Years greetings. I was in Sweden with my oldest daughter Judith and her husband Oystein and their children. They have a large log house there, an old parsonage. Different friends came to stay there as well. There...
My warmest greetings and prayers for your in 2018!
My warmest greetings and prayers for your 2018! May the Lord allow you to experience much grace, with an infusion of His power as you search Him with all your heart.
My schedule until february
My schedule: Dec. 21-28 I am scheduled to be in Oslo and Sweden with my oldest daughter and her Norwegian family. My youngest grandchild Willemijn who lives in Utrecht travels with me. Jan.4-15 I have plans to go to Hartberg (Austria) where my former colleague Dr....
A wonderful thank you…
The 4th of Dec. I was at the cardiologist who was extremely happy with the tests and my reports. I can come back in a year... Thus a wonderful "thank you" to the Lord and to the many people who with their prayers have supported me during this important periodin...
Thoughts and news from Téo
In the end of June, I moved back to the Netherlands where the Lord miraculously gave me an apartment. The 25th we had a goodbye party in Tulln, Austria where I lived. About 40 people told in a 1 1/2 to 2 minutes what the Lord had done in their life through my...
I came across a brief explanation of the meaning “to suffer for Christ”
Dear friends, I came across a brief explanation of the meaning "to suffer for Christ". It has helped me to comfort suffering people with these words. Love, Téo To Complete the Suffering of Christ Nick Hardesty • March 4, AD2015 “Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your...
Looking forward to the news and updates from Téo
My name is Jeanne and my idea was to provide Téo a platform where he can share his journey with us. A week ago, I've seen him after almost 10 years and it was so good to catch up. This is why I came up with the idea of a website. I am running my own website...