Participant Blogs

Kenya I really do  not know how I can explain what has happened these past few weeks. To put this into words is quite a challenge for me. Part of our descriptions of traveling this year was to get outside of our comfort zones- so, challenge accepted! Here I go... In Kenya, I received a large slap in the face when I realized level of difficulty was actually a large . It was like a battlefield. An "inner battle" I would call it. I feel like I went through a mid-life crisis- twenty years too early in my life. I...

  We just finished our first trip into the Nations... It was an interesting journey because of, for example the Kenyan buses, (Matatu) and all the people who want to sale you stuff all the time because you're a" Mzungu" (white person), the time we had to work with the kids at school, the prayer room we started, etc... But I want to focus my first blog on something different... I think the best challenge I had, was to try to apply what we learned during training into my daily life of team-member from Hidden World... Its a big challenge...

Hello everybody greetings from South America! I've had a fantastic time in Africa and can't wait to come back! So far on the journey I've done my best to really experienced the culture of the people living here and I think I've done well. Being a part of the good team makes this task easier as it allows me to go into the local markets and get the real local experience. Our time in Kenya was very cool there was a range of events we participated in including, helping at a local school, building a prayer room, and constructing a...

"Someone asked will the heathen who have never heard the Gospel be saved?" "Its more a question with me whether we -- who have the Gospel and fail to give it  to those who have not -- can be saved." Charles Spurgeon   If there is something I can take out of our Africa journey, it would be Gods heart regarding the great commission. The whole of heavens army and all the witnesses are eagerly awaiting on the completion of our mission. The whole time here it felt as if we were being cheered on to complete the race,walking in...

I would love to report the first taste of travelling was a local cusine made by a friendly stranger in the side of the street who couldn't help but allow a friendly 'mzungu' to taste what she was making BUT unfortunately my first taste of travelling was the previous nights dinner  :( The excitement, the heat, the heat and did I mention the HEAT got the better of me! You would think 2 years of living in Manguzi would have perpared me for the humidity and heat! So there I was in Legho 'hotel' where of the five rooms 1...

After seven weeks of training our journey started and we left South Africa to discover east Africa.   We landed in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania, slept there for one night and then travelled by bus to Nairobi, Kenya, the next day.   Talk about Africa at its best: the airport in Dar Es Salaam is not a closed building, but just a roof on pillars and it reminds me of a big garage where I would store farming machines in. The shops look like market stalls and every taxi driver in town tried his luck on the wide eyed "muzungus"....

Hey friends and family, you are now going to read my first blog. All I can say is - what an amazing experience, even getting to masaai land was an adventure! 2 days with very diverse forms of travel - air, bus,taxi and a 4 hour bumpy 4x4 drive but it was all worth it. The first 2 days we spent getting to know the land and meeting Maasai, what a wonderful, colourful culture and people group. What a wonderful surprise and blessing when they gave us a lamb spitbraai the Sunday evening - it was like they knew what...

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....