Participant Blogs

During our time in Russia we were placed into different groups and one group stayed at the camp sites and the other group had the opportunity to go to orphanages.  I was privileged enough to be in the group that went to the orphanages.  At the first orphanage we visited we helped with some renovation work they were busy with.  During this time I noticed that they just wanted us to paint over old paint without scraping the old paint off.  While painting I just felt this sense that this happens so often in our own lives.  Sometimes the old...

                                          Welcome to the lime teams journey to Egypt.  What an interesting and different culture we experienced here.  Our first couple of days was really cold and we thought that Egypt will be extremely hot.  We fist visited the beautiful place called Anafora.   This whole place was build around symbolic bible themes and how exciting and interesting everything was.  From the waters and the buildings they all had certain meanings.  It was a wonderful place just to spend in God's presence and see the beauty of the desert.                          These photo's show some of the beautiful places...

                                                             "Sanctıfy yourselves, for tomorrow the Lord will do wonders among you." (Joshua.3:5)  While we were still in Israel the North Bound girls prayed together to ask God His will for our last days in Israel.  Most of us felt that we wanted to spend some time alone with God seperated from the noise of the outside world.  We talked about ideas of just entering the desert and spending time with God there but God had other plans.  We were so blessed by going back to Anafora to spend some...

                         Starting on this GCEX year I constantly heard about his idea of a Luke 10 journey.  I did not really understand what they were talking about.  Through time I realized that somewhere on our journey we will go out on a faith journey explained in Luke 10:1-12.  This journey would consist total dependance on God and His plan were to go, stay, eat etc.  We had to follow in God's path for 10 days and hold on to only one comfort and that was your faith in God. I would like to share this experience with you and...

                " By the grace God has given me, I laid a foundation as an expert builder, and someone else is building on it. But each one should be careful how he builds. For no one can lay any foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ. If any man builds on this foundation using gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay or straw, his work will be shown for what it is, because the Day will bring it to light. It will be revealed with fire, and the fire will test the quality of each man's...

 In Revelations it says that the devil will be defeated by the Blood of the Lamb and the word of our testimony.  Thus with this statement I start the hardest blog and testimony to write but also the most freeing and life giving experience.  So please read this if you long for change and long for God to change your life because this story shows of God's grace and His love to never leave nor forsake us.   This testimony I write about myself and what God broke down in my time spend in Guatemala.  During our time in Guatemala...

                      "The harvest truly is plentiful, but the laborers are few.  Therefore pray the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into His harvest" (Mat. 9:37-38) We serve a God that has so much love and mercy.  It is so clearly seen in the passage where He gives the servants the order to wait before they remove the harvest and the weads that was planted by the devil inside the fields (Mat. 13:24-31).  God gives the same chance for both to grow so that the good harvest will not be lost.  His mercy and love streches so far that...

                                       The Nile    The Pyramids                      The first country, the first true journey.... I realized by entering the first country that the journey has finally started.  Breaking out of the habits and comfort zones would be hard but focusing on God and making Him my all will be crucial.  There was so much to learn about cultures and religious practices.  Where to start was on everyones mind.  Learning more about the Muslim beliefs and also how to include Jesus into our stories (ISA). Personally I found Egypt very tyring because there was always a lot of people around in...

                        The Wall stands big and tall across the country Dividing Fathers, dividing mothers Many are afflicted Many are in need of change Many cry out, why...how.. So many just ask for division to stop   The land is ripped apart Nabors fight against nabor Who is right and who is wrong? Where is the love...the mercy But still they build the wall Bigger and Higher   There is no time or place for partiality Father God how can this be for a land You love so dearly Division and hate is setting in There is fear and anger...

     Our Time in Thailand began when we were greated at the airport by this friendly family.  Isaiah the pastor with his wife Malai and little daughter, Nam Home and Son, Nam Pouh.  They came all the way to take us to the little island we would be spending most of our time in Thailand.  To help serve at a little christian refuge for girls that were abused and mistreated.  On this little island we did some other work and had the huge opportunity to build the toilet of the first church.  I will take you through our journey...