Participant Blogs

A crossroad is a place where you are forced to stop, reassess and consider the direction you are going. Our team's time at the church in Al Mafraq, which means crossroads, was such a time. Each one of us stood at a crossroad. We had time to stand still, take in the view (which was beautiful by the way) and consider which way we are going. God used this time to lay foundational truths in our hearts. He took each one of us on an adventure in finding our identity as His children, depending on Him and drawing closer in...

Yes I know what you are thinking: “GP posted yet another blog.” O well, what can I say, I LOVE IT!!! ; ) Bringing it back to this blog. When You’ve felt neglected, rejected, USELESS, not worthy, lonely and all those other bad stuff I want to encourage you to start paying attention right about…NOW. Last week I got the privilege of feeling and experiencing God’s love, BUT in a TOTALLY different way. Unfortunately, due to safety reasons, I can’t say anything about what I did or what happend exactly, but I’m asking that you will just trust the Lord...

They said "#imagine", and we asked "what can we do?".... craziest commitment ever It's almost like a really bad poem that ends beautifully with a lot of life lessons in it. Work hard, don't stop. Offense is a choice, don't waist food, don't get attached, you need friends, good friends. And you are gonna need a moment. Growing is something we can do on beautiful days, you know? Like a day you too would sing about. But I do not care so much for those days because windy, bad, sunny, crazy warm, not beautiful days you can grow on too...

It is cold and rainy. Someone's singing in the background, while the street is going crazy with hooters and sirens. Outside it is busy with people going up and down and with their body language you can tell that in this place they flourish on a "every man for himself" basis. You have to bounce around all the rubbish to make your way from point A to point B. The coffee smells and tastes funny and the food is absolutely delicious. Welcome to Jordan! Each one of our team members, going through their own joys and struggles. Everyone kind of...

"Oh Lord, let's sit on the highest mountain." I want you to touch my eyes and open them to the nations. There are so many, but so little time. You look at me with an expression on your face implicating that I have to give more thought to my previous statement. Time? Time is a man-made concept . ''My love, you've got all the time in the whole world, because the world is mine and I give it to you. The world and the nations are your inheritance." Psalm 2:8 "Look.'' He pointed over the nations. ''What do you see?''...

15 Maart 2017 Adventure bound We are a team and our adventure has finally begun. Adventure bound exists out of 6 girls living life together for 4 months. It is so exciting and so much fun. The Lord really blessed us with an amazing house. This journey is going to be amazing, but I know that it is going to stretch me and challenge me in many ways. An area in which I know I have to grow a lot in is time managment. I am not aware of time and I know that it can be frustrating for people...

It's like that Father to daughter, daughter to Father conversation that goes something like "Dad my life is falling apart!" "No it's not here is some cake" kind of thing. Yes this is crazy. Yes I am freaking out and yes it feels like my life is a movie but it is okay. I am okay. God keeps blessing me in crazy ways like we got one week to go home and when I went I did not know how I was going to get back to Jeffreys Bay, and then God just provided. It was through people I did...

“Jesus reveal Yourself to me? I’m asking You to please show me Who You are.” ALRIGHT MY SON, JUST BECAUSE YOU ASKED AND HAD FAITH IN ME I WILL. VISION, VISION, VISION. Yip, Jesus is really working with not just me but our entire team. He is also in this time and space of the world busy revealing Himself to people of all religions. The time here in Jordan is really an indescribable experience and God is really busy revealing Himself to me. He is giving me visions about the past and even the future. Not only that, I am...

Sitting here, staring at a screen and trying to think of words that I can use to fill this blank space. Trying to find the words to describe what Jesus has done in my heart and all the things I have experienced during Training 2017. As I think back, I am absolutley speechless and all I can do at this moment is praise God because he is truly amazing!!! I wrote a poem (more like a descriptive paragraph) in training, I think it is a good way to kick start this new thing, called blogging and to share some of...

So here it is. Our first official team Westbound blog. After sending some as forerunners, our whole team finally arrived safely in Turkey.  Training has been both challenging and exciting. God is doing a new work in our hearts. God is continually busy breaking our boxes and we are very excited to see what He has in store for us as a team this year. Sunday evening we will be in Jordan. God is calling us to be completely dependent on Him. He keeps showing us that He is faithful through meeting our financial, physical, emotional and spiritual needs. Fifteen...