Participant Blogs

We just came back from an Indian tribe in the forest, just outside Ubatuba.  What an experience!   As Gehta said:  “They all look like Pocahontas!” We played soccer with the boys in the rain, told the creation story to the kids – for the first time – and helped bake bread.  But a story shouldn’t start at the end, so let me jump back a few days.

 

South African soil is our home for not much longer... It's crazy to imagine what we' ve been through these 7 weeks of training! God has been so amazingly faithful!  It's with an amazing joyful spirit that we charge into the nations!

February has really been a teaching filled month. After our time in the Transkei, we appreciated the little things so much more, a carpet, flushing toilets and butter with your bread! If one thing, this challenges you on simplicity living – this is a lifestyle I want to adapt in every area of my life. Global Challenge is not just a gap-year.

It is said that every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.  With that in mind, I start my preparations for GCEX 2011!  But who am I and how did I get to be so blessed to be chosen for the journey of a lifetime? As you can see on the home page, my name is Linel le Roux.  Born in Namibia and proudly bred in South Africa!  At 25 I'm enjoying my first retirement, that from ship life.  After 2 years of serving as a butler on a cruise ship, I'm convinced that I love the traveling, but...