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SKIP A MEAL and SAVE A LIFE by making a donation of R60 (the cost of a take away meal)!

We want to secure food parcels for 1000 people at R60 each; which brings us to a total of R60 000.

THE FACTS

1. 5.4 MILLION PEOPLE ARE AT RISK OF STARVATION
2. 1.3 MILLION IN CRITICAL NEED
3. 280 000  SEVERELY MALNOURISHED CHILDREN.
4. VILLAGES AND SCHOOLS ARE BEING ABANDONED IN SEARCH OF FOOD.
5. PREGNANT WOMEN AND BABIES ARE DYING BECAUSE MOTHERS ARE TO WEAK TO DELIVER THEIR BABIES.
6. WE NEED YOUR HELP.

"Just keep your eyes on the horizon," was the advice I followed on the 3 hour ferry trip to Zanzibar. The boat kept on launching itself over big waves, tilting dangerously from side to side. Inside me my stomach was doing the same tilting and sloshing against the sides. It wasn't very pleasant to say the least. Today, after 11 days on the Island, I'm back in Dar Es Salaam after surviving another grueling ride. This time I kept my eyes on the TV in front of me and Jason Bourne whacking a few bad guys around.   But what...

Global Challenge X has started!

With anticipation and eagerness we look forward to this year! We as team can’t wait to get to know one another, we can’t wait to get to know God! To see Him, to experience Him! We as team can’t wait for you to get to know us…

When we listen to Jim, Floyd and even Joe they always hammer on the principle and importance of obedience. And even though we agree with them, yet we struggle to enforce it personally, corporately and as a discipline to others. What we need to realise is the true importance and gravity of obedience and the massive role it plays in the kingdom of God. We’ve not spent time thinking of that much. Heb 5:8-9 Even though Jesus was God’s Son, he learned obedience from the things he suffered. In this way, God qualified him as a perfect High Priest, and he...

Twee keer ʼn week sit ek saam met ʼn paar matriek seuns. Ons kuier oor die lewe, geloof, ʼn Bybel versie of twee, en as hulle wil dan bid ons. Van hulle glo in Jesus en van hulle is uitgesproke ateïste. Niemand van hulle is ooit regtig in die bui om te baklei oor geloofsake nie en nie een van hulle probeer ander in die kerk kry nie. Om die waarheid te sê, kerk is effens van ʼn dooie punt by almal van hulle. “Ek sal eerder in ʼn boot sit en dink oor God, as wat ek in die...

[video: 100x100] The URN (Urgent Relief for Niger) Project - DONATE NOW ONLINE Just in: Read the newest update from the field at this link: http://www.gcex.org/index.php?option=com_myblog&show=urgent-relief-for-niger-project-update.html&Itemid=156 “...they will never be hungry or thirsty. Sun and  desert heat will not hurt them, for they will be led by one who loves them. He will lead them to springs of water.” Isa 49:10 During a 28 hour bus ride from Ghana to Burkina Faso, we were listening to the news that kept blasting over the speakers. When asked for the interpretation someone nonchalantly translated that they were speaking about the food crisis...

  We had no set up ministry in Senegal. So nobody was waiting for us anywhere (Our next place of ministry was only 3 countries later in Zinder, Niger). This is quite a daunting feeling since you then have to find all the transport and accommodation on your own.   My plan was to travel to Dakar, the capital, and from there send the team out on their own following only the principles found in Luke chapter 10 in the Bible. Usually quite an adventure.   But now we were still on the border and the day was growing late....

Gone was the comfortable bus and train rides of Morocco and even to a degree Egypt. We were now in the land of trying to see how many people you can fit into small spaces. Our travels to Nouakchott was in two Mercedes-Benz taxi's. We would now complete the journey from the capital to the Senegalese border in one Renault station wagon! Including all our bags.   Somehow they convinced us it was an 8 seater. And it really was, just for very tiny people. Two or three bags fit in the back (of course the door had to be...

I went walking this morning. To my right was an open sewerage channel, a haven for malaria and other diseases. Following the channel it led me to an open field. Supposedly the soccer field. Plastic bags lay scattered all over the place, and along the rim burning heaps of garbage. The smell of burnt plastic in the air. The smoke dwindling from the garbage lazily drifted up past the palm tree till it faded in with the morning mist. A cow stood idly on one heap, munching happily away at the junk- plastic bags, old mango peels anything it could...

Last week Thursday, the 15 th of April, history was made when GLA sent their first group of men to participate in the epic Mighty Men Conference in Greytown.  In the company of 14 warriors the three teachers were: Major General Johan Oosthuizen, First Lieutenant Paul du Plessis and Lance Corporal Willem Taute. They were accompanied by Private Thomas Schulz and Chaplain Wilbur Wright. The pupils were all foot soldiers from the 32 nd Battalion: Lawden van Niekerk, Johann Linder, Xanavan Dennis, Gareth Collins, Dillon Collins, Ntokozo Lethina, Liwonga Zinto, Johan van der Merwe and Enzio Pelman.   The excitement...