Participant Blogs

Oh my word, he could at least have said thank you!! The way we as humans expect 'thank yous' is crazy, it's reminds me of us being made in the image of God. He wants our praise and for us to glorify Him, but as soon as we make ourself the main one, the god, AKA self hasn't fallen yet, we expect that praise for ourselves. I need to get to a point of totaly doing, without expecting any gratitude. Furthermore we don't need praise from people at all! When you want praise you live for yourself. Romans 2: 29...

I've been staring at this blank screen for too long, typing, back spacing, trying, thinking.. I wanted to have a cool start for my blog you know. But..let me use what God taught me this whole year. Be Real. Spontaneous. Soooooo this Blog will be about my Thailand and Malaysia experiences. We first experienced the lovely Bangkok and then traveled to Chang Mai , knowing our 'Luke 10' is waiting there for us. We were divided into smaller teams and then sent out to survive and spread the gospel for a week without anything except the clothes we were wearing....

Indonesia_ Bali is filled with an indefinite number of  statues everywhere, so many gods, so many burning essence sticks, so many little plates with offerings, so many temples, so many lost souls.  Isn't it easy for me now to just quote the Bible, judging them for all these man-made, dark-side inspired idols. ‎I Find myself sitting in a taxi staring out the window trying  not to make eye contact with all these immense  statues dominating the place.  The bags all around me limits my movement so all I did was  pondering on the beliefs of the world. It came to...

I don't like washing dishes.... I like paper plates, and soft hands. Yet, here I am, dramatically staring at a caboodle of dirty pottery thanking God for this joyous occasion. What happened to me in a time period of 6 months???   It's the sixth of June 1:32 AM. Our team is sitting on a train station smelling like two days of continues traveling.  The train got delayed for a few hours as it needed an engine replacement which I believe God was controlling it like a play train set. We waited for a long time, drifting around, trying to...

I was ready to save the world! Superwoman suit - CHECK. Last year just the thought of doing this adventurous Global Challenge gave me an electron bombardment! I got emotional and anxious as I really have a HUGE task to fulfill.  A few months later I'm sitting here vividly realizing I was the one getting saved and that this year was basically giving myself fully over to the King of kings to change me into the new being that He promised to change me into.  Everything I ever wanted to be was inside of me all along-Jesus. All I had...

I'm lying on the floor, staring at the white ceiling of a plastic container, the commotion stopped, the little girl that brought me to her mother left, the laughs of miscommunication turned to silence and all I hear is the footsteps of people on grew mine rocks.  Jesus what am I really doing here? I was there, next to a far pregnant mother of four staring at her as she just fell asleep from exhaustion . Only in this silence I experience a little bit of the reality being a refugee, losing your husband, not always due to the war,...

As a kid, the realization that the Supermarket name 'Pick-n-Pay' (used it so often) actually means 'you pick something and then you pay' was major! I was so proud to figure that out. Now it's a similar situation. That I experience the Challenge in the name Global CHALLENGE.   Turkey, lovely Turkey. I dont know if they were overly cautious seeing 10 tents (mostly orange) perfectly pitched in a public park, but the Park security the Police and the Metro Guards didn't need to team up. Why did I choose to sleep on the side?  so that they can shake...

I don't know what my heading means it just looks really cool.   This First Month being on the Journey was complete Transformation of who I am. Romans 12: 2 says it so well - "...but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think." Firstly I prayed to God to get Him to see things my way and to join the plan I have envisioned.... BOOM, doesn't work that way. His ways are higher!!! And to look back now my human plans are not even Glorifying Him. I'm in Awe. He took away all...

A Second Hand Paradise   I came here as Me, as Myself, as I, and i'm leaving with a desire for me to be so filed with the Holy spirit so that people can  only see the Christ in me. Even if you never get to know my name. I will love you .   To make a perfect clay sculpture, water is used for smoothing out the rough edges...Thank you Jesus for being the perfect artist at work, using my tears of all emotions to perfect all the edges to become an image of You.     May I...