Participant Blogs

I would love to introduce to you Jerry and Christy, as well as their 4 children ages 11, 9, 7 and 3. This family comes from a continent not too far from Africa. However, they do come from a cultural background far removed from that of Africa, particularly the Ethiopian one. Ethiopia is an African country in its own world with its unique ways. As most people know, Ethiopia has its own calendar and its own time; I don’t think any other country can get as unique as that. It has a rich coffee culture mainly expressed on a daily...

Don’t renovate the hate
That separates
But restore the core
Of what Christ spake

Resurrect the circumspect
Of words
that uphold the bold
My soul is sold
Not to the words of this world,
The cold

Red means stop, green means go, but ORANGE means GO, GO, GO!!!

This is how the orange team kicked of 2008.  Bringing a fresh breeze as the first Orange team ever in the history of The Global Challenge, we are determined  to go into the world in a God-seeking life-style, sharing the Good News with the nations, going out to serve and love the people as followers of Chirst.

Our journey of finding the R690 000 for the Augmentation fee has placed me on a journey of my own. It fascinated me to see how the Lord provided the money. We were constantly praying, waiting and fasting for the money.  But one thing we didn’t see coming was that the Lord had already somehow provided money within Global Challenge to pay the fee. We were always expecting it to come from the outside, for someone mysterious to walk up and write us a cheque. Meanwhile the Lord had already provided what we needed- we only had to open our eyes...

  While Detlef and I hitch-hiked across Senegal and Mali the rest of the team were somewhere in Senegal busy with their Luke 10.   Wayne led the team and they took Luke 10 very literally. Taking just enough money to get somewhere into the interior of Senegal and then the train from there to Bamako.   The intense heat in the interior caught them off-guard, as did the poverty of the people. They ended up in a small village where nobody had much food left. Spending a few days there they basically lived of the Mango trees. Here they...

ITS A RACE!!

Famous last words? Never!

r The start of a life-changing experience! The race has started! Meet the crazy, excited, no-clue-what-in-the-world-is-happening
RED TEAM.

Detlef and myself were walking the streets of Marrakech yesterday when suddenly, towards my right, a young Moroccon man suddenly started beating a girl. He first hit her through the face with his open hand and then kicked her on the leg so that she buckled under the force. I was over there in a flash and pushed the guy away repeating: "You dont hit a girl like that." He kept on pushing back against me, saying something in Derija (the local Arabic dialect). Meanwhile the girl started crying. By then a middle-aged Moroccon lady and her husband arrived and...

During the last three months Red Hill has become inextricably part of our DNA. It is as if the air we breathe and the words we speak all carry some hidden meaning about this place, this township.

  Even though Senegal is mainly a Muslim nation the levels of persecution in the country are very low. The pressure we felt in Morocco, Egypt and Mauritania to stay under the radar was now suddenly relieved and it felt great!   But walking around St. Louis we felt other pressures mounting. Especially that of poverty. It was evident all around us, clearly seen in the big number of small children hanging around the streets begging. We then randomly met a Muslim man who was working with some of the children's homes in the area and took us to some...