Participant Blogs

I love Panama! This place is just too good to be true. Pastor Bill and his wife Anne are definitely treasures who God placed on earth to shed some light on His kind of love. Awesome story: The church has a sign saying "God loves Tourists". Pastor Bill has a lot of testimonies about how 'random' backpackers or other tourists would come to church at service. We have been doing the coolest things  here. Panama is in holiday season and is known for it's diverse nature. It's packed with scientists and photographers (Germans, Aussies, Asians). Yesterday on my run I...

We do not get to choose how we start out in life. We do not get to choose the day we are born or the family we are born into, what we are named at birth, what country we are born in, and we do not get to choose our ancestry. -Konyenikan Hidden World was in Costa Rica the past 10 days. We were hosted by Teen Challenge. It is an organisation that focuses on rehabilitation for drug addicts and prostitution. It has intensive Bible courses and support. Teen Challenge is spread over the world. God told the organisation in...

You lead me to where my trust is with out borders, literally God lead me for the past 42 days over 7 countries with hardly any money or contacts. God prepared the way so long ago and with an ear to hear His voice. We saw His plans come to life by steping in obedience. God was the plan and there was no plan B. Graham Cooke says - there is absolutely no security in what God is doing... He does life different everyday, speaks in different ways and you can never put Him down to our comfortable 1, 2,...

When I started with Global Challenge I said: I am giving up a year of my life to serve God and to work for Him. I am honestly sick and tired of that mindset! This is not "just one year". This is part of life. Giving up and over to God is not needed for just one year. It's not like: Wow okay I give up one year and then I can live the rest of my life in the way I have planned. NO! I don't just give one year. I lay down my whole life. It's not just one...

The Hidden World Guide to Central America:   Step 1   First, you're going to need to take a leap of faith and fly to Mexico with no contact and no plan. There you will meet an immigration officer who just so happens to be a pastor of a great big church. Wait for the invitation, and off you go to Mundo de Fe Cancun where your host, a complete stranger, will welcome you and your team of 11 to live with him and his family for 2 weeks. In this time you can expect to get very little sleep...

I asked God to make my bag lighter on Luke 10, because it is really heavy. God told me, 'No'. My bag is heavy because it represents how people carry their own weight. God wants to give me a heart for those people who don't give their things to God and doesn't know that it is possible. On Luke 10, Johannes would help me put my bag on my back and for that moment it would be easier. Talita also pushed me up a hill for 5 meters. The thing is people can try to help you, but it doesn't...

Turkey , Macedonia , Kosovo and 4 days in Malaysia. What a wonderful time! Having the opportunity to serve in love and strength, filling afflicted hearts with a peace that does not come from you . But wait there , comes from Him , He has filled me . What insane! Going to a place where you are uncertain of what will roll at the same time come to a place where you also do not know WHAT will roll but knows that his Father is in control of everything. We saw from the turkish beauty to the conflict between...

    Our journey kicked off in Cancún, Mexico, where we had to travel for 10 days and meet up with the rest of the team in Guatemala. My group got a lift to Merida which is a big city in Mexico where we spent our first night sleeping at the bus station where we got chased away at 12pm. We found another bus station where they let us sleep.    Early morning we started hitchhiking towards Campeche. The lady we got a lift with was actually on her way to Cuidad del Carmen which was even better for us....

Mexico was a big fiesta. We arrived without planning food and accommodation, but ended up having an air conditioned bedroom and a huge dish of tacos the first night. Our man of peace was a passport control official when we found out that he’s a pastor, inviting us to a conference at his church that evening. We took a taxi straight from the airport to the conference, arrived with our luggage, dropped it in an office and joined the fiery congregation.  We were taken in by a man and his wife, Armando and Milly and little did we know that...

How big is the probability to go to a country not knowing where to go, where to sleep, what to eat, what to do, but finding everything prepared?! That's exactly what happened to us in Mexico. Gracias Señor - Thank you Lord! We believe in God and not in probabilities, God had everything prepared, the whole 2 weeks in Mexico seemed like a present, showing just a drop of God's amazing love. So many times we got invited to eat in restaurants, people of the church were bringing us so much food that in the end was enough left to...