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   God told Abram: “Leave your country, your family, and your father’s home for a land that I will show you." Genesis 12:1 MSG   Walking with God starts with a simple 'yes'. Everything else is provided in the journey. You just don't know when or how. Soon you start to learn that you walk by faith and not by sight... With the world's eyes we are blind, but now we truly see.   Coming to Global Challenge was much like this. I heard the Lord speak and I chose to obey. What lies before me now, I do not...

The world is telling you a lie. The world's image of perfection is NOT what we must strive for. We must strive for being in a relationship with God. Strive to get to know Him. For God is perfect and in His eyes we are perfect. No person could ever be perfect like Him. I have a ring that symbolizes the way God sees us: * There is a small flaw in the jewel (we all have flaws) * There is a small crack in the body of the ring (our physical body is not perfect and never looks the...

HEY!!! So blog nr1 motivated me for blog nr2 well actually Jesus motivated me. So yeah enjoy reading this amazing testimony of what God did in my life this morning ( yeah yeah I could not wait for tonight I had to right it now ) So this testimony started 3 days ago. At the celebration the Holy Spirit started to stir something inside of me, but I couldn't figure out what this weird feeling was inside of me ( God are you coming to take me home? ). After a while I just let go and let God speak...

Honestly I am not a writer but I will just talk about what the Lord has placed in my heart and something He has been challenging me with for the past month since I arrived, in South Africa, for my training. I am an introvert. I love my personal space. People don't always excite me. I mean they do for like 5 minutes and then I am like oh my gosh ,what have I gotten myself into. So being at Global has been a great challenge for me. I am around people 24/7. Being around so many people has exposed...

This has been a hard and painful process, because I have been a young Christian with my own fixed ideas of who this God is. The biggest mistake I made was to try and box Him and His power in, with my small human mind. The first thing He showed me about His character is that I know nothing and that it is pointless to try and understand Him fully in His perfection. He showed me a fraction of Him and that, I am still processing. He showed me that He is faithful even though I am not. He answered...

First and foremost: I have no idea what I'm doing in regards to writing a blog, so please forgive my first attempt at digitally diarising my adventure with Global Challenge expeditions throughout this year.  Roughly a month ago I left the comfort, food and safety of home to join the ranks of Global Challenge, and in concordance with my 18 short years on planet earth, I can say that I have never made a better decision in my life! Sure the menu may lack some protein and variety, but what Global does offer is far more filling...It is food for...

God amazes me almost everyday even when I doubt him. He gave me my dream job working as a doctor at Zithulele, a rural hospital near Mthatha, for about 2 years. I absolutely loved the opportunity to serve my community and support my family which is very important to me. Then at the end of 2016 I felt God calling me to travel with Global Challenge Expeditions for the whole of 2017. I struggled with this because it was against all the plans I had made for myself. I planned to move to Port elizabeth to specialise and settle down....

Hello my beloved bretheren, I would like to say "Here is David," but I can't because its my first blog, and the first blog of my life. We will see what will happen... I would like to jump right into a special phase in the first month of our training in Jeffreys Bay. The Get-to-know-each-other-time was already over and suddenly we jumped into some kind of Get-too-know-each-other-even-better-time. I'm not allowed to talk about "Survivor“,  but what I can say: “Suffering connects” ;D After that we had the privilege of regenerating for two days in a remote school hostel in the...

I love my home. It is where family is. It is where I grew up and was given grace in the process of growth. It is my safe space and place of rest. It is a place of sharing. Home is more than the walls and the things inside it. It is where adventure and discovery occurs...which brings me great joy. Walking into Global Challenge has given me exactly what I believe to be like home. I've only been here a month but already I have been challenged in my doing and thinking. I learn a lot about Jesus and...

"These last few weeks felt like running a 100m race with God."- Pieter van Zyl (Westbound 2017 Team member) I couldn't agree more.  These past weeks we learned so much, it feels like Jesus is taking you on a race. You go through some thorns, but you run over them; you conquer them. Yes, there are tears, but they also turn into tears of happiness and triumph. In this race you learn so many things. How to trust God for your finances, knowing that you can do nothing out of your own, but only through God's strength. You learn to...