Participant Blogs

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With tears in my eyes and a song in my heart I realised that this is what I want to do for the rest of my life! It's hard to verbally express God's love so putting it into deeds seems easier. In a way it feels like I'm overflowing with His love and He's pouring it into the lives of the woman around me. God permitting I want to keep on doing this and being this for the rest of my life! It all started in Malaysia; on our last day there we had a course on discovering and developing our...

By Jana Dippenaar / Yellow Team

So it seems that being yellow means you eat a lot? And really well! At first we were all amazed at what one can eat with a R8 per person per day food budget. Thanks to Royco pasta sauces meals needn't even be all spicy and hot and with fresh food markets all around and mutton prices extremely cheap even traditional boerekos is possible! China is a chef's paradise? But this is not at all what God had in mind when He sent us to the heart of China. Improving my cooking skills will have to wait for later because right now God is treating us!!

Upon arrival in Kuala Lumpur I was super excited to move on to Thailand... Not even a 14hour train ride would've been able to put me down... I wanted to visit Thailand because I wanted to see the beaches, I wanted to have Thai massages, I wanted to scube dive, I wanted to buy cheap clothes.

After experiencing nothing but blessing upon blessing in China, Yellow Team realised that that suffering would have to follow. Not because God wants us to suffer, or we deserve it, or blessings are usually followed by suffering, but because ... Well I don’t really know why, I just knew that it can’t carry on going that well all year long.

GC leadership has this strange way to give it away. Somehow we always anticipate when a challenge is on its way. It might have something to do with the sly smiles on their faces or how they manage to change a subject when it gets to close for comfort. The India Challenge was no exception! When our lecturer announced that we should close our eyes and listen carefully, Ann and Anthony could hardly contain themselves. One can hardly blame them, they knew what was ahead and this challenge is worthy of a few giggles. First we helped the locals and...

How dark is the so-called dark continent of Africa?

Why was it in the first place called a dark continent? To be honest I’m not quite sure… But living in a traditional, local Zambian village opened my eyes and heart to a light that shines real bright!

Written by Jana

On route to our final Chinese town the man we met on the bus insisted we have to come meet his son. The son could apparently speak good English – if good English means being able to say “yes”, “no”, “thank you” and “no understand” this statement was very true.  As we enter the town – the man commands us to get off at the first robot.

 

So Here we are at last yellow team alone just what we wanted, we are in a Hotel in some town east of Lanzhou and it is a really exciting and dodgy town that we are in.

God, thank you for yet another day. Thank you for  how you bless and love ME, thank you for MY family and friends. Please be with ME today, lead ME, guide ME and give ME strength. I pray for MY family and friends, please bless them and may they love You. (Because that would make MY life easier) God, please provide for MY every need and protect ME from any and all evil. Thank you Jesus, I love You. Amen. This is more or less how my everyday prayers sound. Notice all the I, ME and MY's? When was the...