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A year ago, I had the privilege to embark on a 10 month journey with once strangers- now family, with the vision and purpose to share the Love of Jesus whilst adventuring through hills and valley's, oceans and forests, skylines and aeroplane flights. He has blessed us with beautiful people along the way who loved us as if we've known each other forever and people that made saying goodbye so incredibly difficult. My heart has been broken for nations, people, families, abondoned children. I've been faced with my own selfishness and my biggest insecurities. I've been healed and set free...

During the year I have frequently suppressed the following questions:  Do I believe?  Is there really a God? Is this just a way for our brains cope with circumstances and make sense of things?   I’m very passionate about apologetics, especially when it comes to atheists.   Don’t let anybody ever fool you, and don’t fool yourself, by saying what atheists believe is stupid and how can they believe that we come from apes?, etc.   They have a lot of good reasons for saying what they say and they can back it up with facts.   There is a...

Fear of rejection Fear of dissapointment Fear of not being enough Fear of not being captivating Fear of losing God Fear of falling back into the world of lies the enemy kept me in bondage for so long All these fears, one by one, kept on creeping back into my heart this last country of our journey. All the fears God has given me victory over. All the fears I have been set free from. All the hurt I have been healed from caused by these fears, slowly tempting me to shrink back into the lies I once believed defined...

So many times I have ask myself, Who am I?   A question I failed so many times to answer, but did I even think how important it really is to know who I am?   We are all longing for something in our lives and what we long for defines who we are .   So many times in life I have longed to be a person that is good and acceptable in the eyes of the world that I became someone God never intended me to be. I became someone that wanted to be apart of the world...

New Wine. In the world there are more than a hundred Types of wines. The general process of making a bottle of wine from seed to bottle can take three to five years. The seed by itself can’t do anything and tastes bitter. It needs the soil to sprout and the ground to feed on. The Farmer needs to give it water to be able to grow and to prune it to produce the best grapes. The grapes go through a couple of processes and finally are bottled to be enjoyed on a warm summer or cold winter evening with...

To say that I am an animal lover is a mild understatement. My team knows that if I'm lagging behind its generally because I've found something fluffy to pet along the way. Now there's this one pup here in Mcleod Gunj, that I labeled 'trouble maker' from the start. I could've named him scar face from all the stories I'm sure he'd love to tell. I chose Bono instead. He has a constant expression of concern on his face, doesn't smile much and loves to growl at the rest of the pack. But for some reason, Bono and I clicked...

Back where I belong   Back in December of 2018, my sister and brother in-law announced that they where pregnant. It was such blessed news to receive. The entire family was so happy and thankful for the news and praised God. We all knew that it would be a difficult road ahead and that without God, it would be impossible.   I had a difficult start to the year and had to allow God to teach me to keep my focus on Him and not on things I want. To stay focused and trust in God and His will for...

So what was the challenge? Travelling across 2000km in 5 days with no travel money. 2500km, 28 lifts and 1 train later we made it! 😬 In our prayers before our journey, the three of us had a theme of the ocean, horizon, sun on our faces and wind in our hair. I believed that God wanted us to purely enjoy the road trip that he was taking us on. Just take in all of His glorious creation and acknowledge His presence along side us. We met wonderful and generous humans, we laughed, we sang, and no, we didn't cry!...

Two team mates and I were heading back to our camp site at the Sea of Galilee. We weren't sure of the bus number we should take so we asked around but no one spoke English. A bus came by and we showed the driver the ticket of where we had come from. He told us a number in the 300's and the name of the stop. Feeling confident with this info, we sat waiting, chatting a bit, and investigating the number on each bus that headed toward us. Each number that stopped, was a single digit. This doesn't seem...

But Jesus replied, "My Father is always working, and so am I." -John 5:17 This is a famous verse that a lot of people know and I have heard it multiple times in my life. But only in Russia I truely believed and saw God's work in action. It all began in the streets of Moscow after a long day of walking to get our visas for Cuba. I got a picture in my head and immediately knew it came from God. I loved that God is still speaking to me, but in a way I was a bit scared...