Participant Blogs

Hello LORD.   I am here again, amaced by your greate love and grace! Thank you for the wonderfull time in Maasai land.   We went there with the expectation of building a kitchen. But you came and gave us more!!!  Not only did we do good work on the kitchen but we finished a tool shed as well. And all this through your work done through us!! I Love you my GOD.   Every where we go you gave us the apertunety to talk to people, just randome people and fellowship happend.  We went to church with the local...

The Centrality of the Holy Spirit We see that the Holy Spirit was absolutely central to everything the apostles did in the book of Acts. Nothing could be done without the baptism and gifts of the Holy Spirit and this was always the one ingredient they were looking for. At Pentecost it was the outpouring of the Holy Spirit that created a wave of miracles and also Peter boldly standing up and preaching. Later on in Acts chapter 8 we see that even though people had given their lives to Jesus through the evangelism of Phillip the first thing Peter...

  When you think of Africa all that comes to mind are lions, pride rock, and dry landscapes. This is not the case. On a 17 hour bus ride you have time to really look at things. Inside yourself and outside the window. Africa is lush. Green. Humid. Unexpected. The bus promised air con, just like the hotel, and all it was was an old school open window. Unexpected. But now we know. Our definitions of things back home are influenced by western culture. Definitions in Africa are influenced by functionality. An air con is a mechanism that moves air....

A weekend away with Dad, the Ultimate Trip advisor A surprise weekend away with your dad, of course you are not going to pack a change of clothes, money or your cell phone! You just jump in the car and enjoy what he has planned right? We were sent out on a Luke 10 journey, just like when Jesus sent out 72 disciples to heal the sick, tell people that the kingdom of God is near while staying at a person of peace and accepting their hospitality. At first I was shocked that we were doing this but also excited...

Hi.   Who would have thout that going out with only the clothes on you, so menny opertuneties would open up. God realy provided, not only spiretuly but he sent people on our way to pray for and God did real greate thing in peoples harts.   Go and read only the first 5 verses of Luke 10! And you wil see there as well God working.   We never slept out in the cold! The Lord was good. Praise the Lord!   LOVE YOU LORD!

Two weeks left. And we have been stretched so far. I thank the lord for all the work he have done in my soul and mind. Also recreating me. Prise the lord.   I can see how he is going to do greate things throu me in the nations.   Praise to GOD!!

A happy and satisfied Global Challenge team put their paintbrushes and hammers down on Friday evening, after a week of intense sanding and painting to help build the GLA Ecocampus School in Jeffreys Bay. The Ecocampus vision: to raise future leaders with firm core values who will impact and serve their community and beyond. As part of our first big project, everybody got jobs allocated to them, from making food, to financial management, to raising awareness, to fundraising through sponsorships, "blikskud" and busking. At the school building site during the day we had the chance to develop our building skills,...

An exciting update from the GLA eco campus construction site! We would like to give a shout out to the small businesses in Jeffrey's Bay- Beesland Slaghuis, Vyeboom Takeaway, RS Fruit and Veg (Croix Street) and  Mengelmoes Kardoes We would like to thank them for their generous donation of food items. As a food supplier to the public they understand the value of providing good food to a working growing population. Thanks to their generous gesture of sharing, our team of 34 Global Challenge Participants, are being strengthened to carry out some of the outfitting practical work, being done on...

Jip!   So stil in training! God is doung greate things. 35 years old and stil so menny to discover about myself.    I thank the lord for his pations with me.    I think the challenge is more in my emotions than to go out to the nations.  Lord shape me, break me, make me, recreate me. May only you and your holly name be known out there. Thank you for working in me.   Amen.

Morning.   Training stil is tuff. And so much info to process. We are tired and the Lord still profides the energy we need and we are getting fullfild with his spirit.   Lord I thank you for your love and grace.   Amen!