I want to know your heart!

Imagine living in place that has a thick cloud constantly hovering over you (that is pollution and dust), a place where dust storms and different heats are your seasons, a place where honking and swerving to the right and left is a constant part of driving, a place where stories of persecution and someone passing away that you know is normal, a place where women need to be aware and covered to protect themselves, and a place where rioting and unrest is felt. There are so many words needed to explain this country of Egypt. We’ve now been here just...

How can you possibly be the same person after a year like no other... a year of ministering to the poorest of the poor, a year of simplicity, a year of community, a year of your purpose only being Jesus and loving people? How? Arriving in America, walking through the airport, looking at people from my nation and hearing people speak the way I speak...I couldn't stop smiling while thinking, I am about to meet my family after a year of not seeing them. This isn't normal for the person walking beside me, to be so excited for one simple moment. Yet...

Flying to Ethiopia, as we reached the altitude safe enough for us to "go about the cabin", I wondered if God would do just as much as He did in Egypt. Or even if it was possible to be as impacted and shaken as I was in Egyp,t but one moment later I knew the answer... He would do even more in the countries to come and this was still just the beginning. As we flew to Ethiopia I met a man named George. George is from the Congo but is now living in Sudan and flying to Ethiopia for...

Aloha, my name is Thandie Dumisani, and one week from this Monday I will be heading to join Global Challenge Expeditions. I am overwhelmed and amazed at what God has done and is going to do in my life. I have no idea what to expect ahead but I do know that God has drawn me to this point and I also know this; as I think about this journey ahead, my heart begins to ache for several things. But all is explained in Isaiah 55: “Ho! Everyone who thirsts, Come to the waters; And you who have no money,...

    I have nothing But you are my something. I may have nothing to eat, But at least I have feet to walk the street. I am humbled you call my name, May I love you and bring you fame. I will give you all Because you’re my life, purpose, and call. Alhthough people call me poor I have abundantly more. So here my friend and come, Eat what I have don’t leave some. Wait don’t go take this to Take my favourite things they’re just for you! I have nothing, But YOU are my something. Although I may...

    Bump after bump, turn after turn, hill after hill... "Is this road ever going to end?" As we traveled from the doctor back to the compound, through the land of the Maasai people, these were my thoughts. We have had quite an interesting, intense, and different time in Maasai land and in Kenya, these past weeks. Then again I am not sure what place hasn't been interesting, intense, and different. As we started in Nairobi, we first went from visiting a family in one of the worst slums in the world, then after a few days, we had...

As we Global Challengers continue on in our training all I can do is stop and sit in silence... I didn't know that so much could happen in such a small amount of time. That I could experience these emotions or could be challenged so quickly physically and spiritually. As I arrived in Jeffrey's Bay tired and without a bag I really didn't know what i was stepping into. During these couple of weeks we have done several things, all in which have stretched me in some way. We have done a local challenge which entailed, hitchhiking, playing with local...

Forget it! I am done! I can’t take it anymore! The honeymoon is over and the real life has begun. Why is it that there is a constant struggle? There is an unspoken struggle in life that has always been there and is so often not worked through and ignored. I am at a place, in this journey, where there is struggle. It’s struggle that’s always been there but it just hasn’t had to be worked through. Everyone no matter who they are gets irritated about something. They get hurt by the way someone says or does something, they think...

Throwing his shoe he jumped back at the sight of a spider, the size of his hand. This was not just any spider but a spider that when bitten makes the inside of your body burn, poison spreading throughout it.   This actually really happened at the beginning of our time in Zambia to Wayne, our team leader. It really is a miracle that he didn’t get bit, but to me it is also something that really reflects the time in Zambia and brings together something I have learned and seen this year, in so many ways. As we took...

Why Me?? Why?? Why did you grow up in a western country? Why did you get to go to school, get a family who has all they need, get a bed to sleep on and your own room? Why did you grow up knowing Jesus? Why did you get food everyday for three meals a day? Why did you get parents that are still alive? Why did you get to live in a place of oppurtunity where you have options? Why ME??? Why not the african kid sitting in the slum? Why not the orphan depressed and abandoned? Why not the...