About Us

A little bit about us

We are career missionaries in South Africa. We have a combined 15 years of missions experience and have worked in 30 countries. We work locally in South Africa and lead Titus Project for the African region. A ministry of Youth With a Mission, Titus Project trains and takes Africans to Africans with Bible teaching in places where it is not accessible or affordable. Our vision is to empower Africans in the word of God and mobilize them as missionaries through training, financial partnership, and mentoring. Aside from that, we are very much in love and currently pregnant and adopting at the same time. Yes you read that right! If you clicked your way here because you were curious about, read more here.

HOW WE BECAME MISSIONARIES

I was often asked what I wanted to be when I grew up. Unlike most kids however, I listed off 5 or so career choices, followed by the clause, “anything but a missionary.”

Since I was 4, I wanted to be a journalist, hoping to one day work for NBC or CNN. I dreamed of traveling the world and telling the stories of people from every walk of life. In hindsight, I see God took some of my initial dreams and modeled them into a completely different passion.

In 2001, after high school, I unknowingly began my work in missions with Mercy Ships. What I thought was going to be a few months of service, drastically changed the course of my life. I say I got my calling somewhere in the middle of the Atlantic, probably on a day I vomited from being so seasick. I returned home with a long layover in New York City, took a hard look at the studios I once wanted to work for, and realized I was not the same person.

From that point on I went to work throughout Asia. In between limited showering, sleeping in bamboo huts, and getting bacterial dysentery, God further solidified that missions would be my way of life. I’m hooked now.

When was asked what I wanted to do when I grew up. I usually told people I wanted to be a fighter pilot, or race car driver, something fun and exciting. I calmed down a little as I got older and by the end of High School I decided on engineering. I wanted to go to the University of Massachusetts but before I did I thought it would be good to get out of the house for a while, go see the world. For some reason I thought that going on a short term missions trip with YWAM would be a good way to broaden my horizons, so I did in the fall of 2002.

Years later, my little “getting out of the house” trip was hijacked by God who turned it into a burning passion to see God’s kingdom established to the ends of the earth. I maybe never became a race car driver, but I have been in wild taxi’s in Asia. I may never have become a pilot, but God has had me on more flights to countries than I can count. I might not be an engineer, but between working on this website and videos for our ministry I have more time behind the computer than I ever wanted.

God has given me a specific call and passion to see His people know Him better by knowing his Word. Missions has been the exciting adventure where every day is worth living.

HOW WE MET

We met in 2003, while we were both working with YWAM Montana. We separately traveled the world doing missions. For 3 years we saw each other but never had a real conversation. Then one day in Dec 2006, we bumped into each other on a flight. We sat next to each other and talked the whole way. Marysol was being polite. De Wet was thinking there was real chemistry. He asked her to breakfast after the flight, Marysol turned him down. Six weeks later, De Wet asked her to go ice skating. From there the story of De Wet’s non-stop, all out pursuit begins. Marysol wasn’t initially interested, but he was adamant. Its a great hilarious story of falling in love. We knew of each other for years, but had no idea we could have such friendship, chemistry, and shared values. While we are very different, we compliment each other well. We got married Jan 12, 2008. Eight days later we moved to South Africa.

IN A NUTSHELL

DE WET, born and raised in Uitenhage, South Africa and moved to Massachusetts with his family in 1999. He entered a career in missions in 2002. He is spontaneous, free spirited, wild, kind, a consummate gentleman with an infectious laugh.

MARYSOL, (formerly Rodriguez) born in Miami is the daughter of Cuban immigrants. Her family later moved to Nashville. She’s been in missions since 2001. She is a quirky, generous, organized, intelligent, feisty Latina who is incredibly loyal.