Good day, friends and family from a cold land down under. The last 7 weeks, Work Your Way 2015 spent working on sheep farms doing lamb marking. Global Challenge expeditions has been working with Noble Management Australia for the last 5 years. Each year, the Work Your Way group spent about 2 months with the Willersdorf family. This year, we lived with them for about 6 weeks, travelling around New South Wales and Victoria. Working with the Willersdorfs was a great experience. They are dedicated in what they do, working sheep with a lot of...
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Wide open spaces, a strange, familiar landscape, country music playing " loud-az" in their "utes" (utility vehicle). Strange accents with words that take a while to get up to tabs on. When someone would ask or tell you something enough times, you stop asking, "what" and just say, "yeap". This island of a continent is Australia and is largly underestimated! It is our saving grace for the year as we would need to work with sheep on farms to pay the for the rest of the year's travels. On our arrival in Sydney we where organized a place...
Australia what a Country. I can understand why so many of South Africans would consider it a home. But, more than that we have met the culture of farmers and life stock managers. A family of 11 siblings 8 are still staying with their mother. This is where I have learned more of what selfless living really is, always looking out for others. In this home we started every day with the Psalms and discussion of GOD'S love, grace and power. And even more than that, this family lived it out, the word of GOD. I could not...
The world turned upside, not because it changed, because JESUS changed me. Scriptures, prophecies, dreams, direct words from God, these were all part of God's plan to set my soul on fire and make me burn with hunger for more of Him. Thank You Jesus, for none of this was my own doing, but by Your grace alone. The result of God's plan: Face down I laid. Dumbstruck, flabbergasted and paralysed. Praising God. Silently crying out in desperation. For what God reveled to me, changed my life. For the first time I saw. Before I only heard and knew of...
The world turned upside down, not because it changed, because Jesus changed me. Scriptures, prophecies, dreams, direct words from God, these were all part of God's plan to set my hart on fire and make me burn with hunger for more of Him. Thank You Jesus, for none of this was my own doing but by Your grace alone. The result of God's plan: Face down I laid. Dumbstruck, flabbergasted and paralysed. Praising God. Silently crying out in desperation. For what God reveled to me, changed my life. For the first time I saw. Before I only heard and knew...
Thailand In ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich. I am sitting on a bus travelling through Thailand, it is around 7 am . The sun is just starting to peak out from behind the mountain. Suddenly I realize and become thankful that I am not travelling with random people or friends - this is family travelling together. If I had to look back over the past 2 weeks, from where we left Bangkok with our bicycles, to where we...
Work Your Way 2015 had an amazing time in Vietnam. We stayed in a home stay with a vietnamese family. Got to work with the international church in Vietnam. We painted some houses and gave english lessons in parks. Vietnamese people is amazing and we got to experience the culture everyday. From riding with motorcycles through HoChiMinh, eating street food and experiencing the Mekong delta. We have some amazing testimonies of the lords grace in our lives and others. we are currently in the beautiful city of Singapore and leaving for Australia on Monday. Thank you for everyone's...
Thailand Or as I would describe it, taailand. Because as one of my team mates would say - "The team leader got this crazy idea of cycling from Bangkok to Phuket". Yes, we got the cheapest bicycles we could find - half of them single speeds - and we travelled, with our luggage, for 6 days from the capital to the renound island of Phuket. We had a week to spare before we would join with the Asia Centre Foundation. So the idea came to cycle from Bangkok to Phuket. A gruelling 860 kilometers. After coming overland...
A wise man I know said: 'The mind can only absorb what the bottom can endure.' After the past week I think my mind can absorb a lot more because this was a time my bottom was tested and it endured. Travelling from Bangkok to Phuket on bicycles approx 900 km, what an amazing challenge! We started of full of energy - in the hectic Bangkok, travelling till about 12 pm at night. Exhausted we found a space to sleep, under a roof for the 8 of us. The next few days we faced everything: bikes breaking down, doing a visa run...
With Maasai dust forming in the background and cattlebells sounding onwords Kenya takes its place in our past now a memory set in stone as the Fort of our Savior's Name cast in stone of deep Stil waters and an atmosfere of equal lay behind as we spread wings again pointing to the stars they wait burried an age ago with secrets left. Learnt so much and changed equaly much. *
