Participant Blogs

Spending time in a dusty town in the middle of China, spending time in the Snow Mountains, freezing to death and eating ice-cream all in one day!

Written by Paul du Plessis, compiled by the whole team.
9:30pm .... Masaiti..... FCE
WE are here!!!!!
The challenge was awesome, but now we have to wait for our other team-mates. God was with us all the way!!!!
Last night we were on a bus from Livingston to Lusaka. That was pure luxury. 122pm we received cool drinks and snacks!!!, better service than in SA. This morning at 4am we arrived at Lusaka, where it was still dark. We unloaded, and we searched for Marks Travel bus. We found another bus, but to our dismay we didn’t depart as we would have liked to.

This is our first off weekend. It started with a boys/girls night on Friday evening, but the others will post blogs on this.
We then also had a off day Yesterday and today (Sunday) we have off again. Great!!

What I want to write about is the prayer walk we had today. At 9Am we all got into our small groups and head off in different directions.

 by Herman 26 March 2008

We have been traveling for the past two days and have now finally arrived at our final destination for the rest of our time in China.

We were informed on Monday morning that we should be ready to leave our hotel at any time to start our journey to our new town, where the Orange team would spend there days in China.

The last few days of training has really been great! We have been talking about who God is. Firstly God the Father followed by God the Son with God the Spirit to come.

It was with a small group session talking about God the Son where we had to read 1 Peter 1: 18 - 20
God truly talked to me though this and showed me a side of Him I never thought about.

On Sunday 24 Feb we had a great day! Just think mud and pancakes?
It was Marcel’s birthday!! This meant we had nice pancakes with chocolate source.
This was in fact not the best part. A few days earlier we started to experience water problems. So on Sunday morning just after breakfast we headed out and started to inspect the water pipes looking for some kind of problem.

 

On Wednesday 27 Feb we left for a Zambian village in the middle of nowhere, to far from anything for Paul to even run to. We went to 5 different villages in our 5 different teams.
Our experience at this village was really great.

We all had great food to eat and lots of it...

Just some fun!