Participant Blogs

PROUDLY SOUTH AFRICAN IN THE SNOWY HIMALAYAS!* Today was a new experience to a lot of us! We had the day off (it was Charmaine‘s birthday), spent about R55 and we were all off to the Himalayas to go on a bit of a hike to experience the true Himalayan experience… SNOW! An hour an a half ride through the mountains in the Indian jeeps (Mahindra) we were at our drop-off! It started raining! Now the question was… to go on this 3 hour hike in the rain to see snow, or to go back to town and sit in...

Hi everyone! We are safely in Delhi! WOW wow WOW! We have just had supper on the  roof of our "hotel"... Smyle's Inn! We cooked some pasta on our little petrol burner while listening to all the tuk-tuk hooters outside! this feels like another planet! the taxi driving today from the airport was something i tell you! they dont use lanes or indicators! just if someone comes to close, they hoot! TOoT tOOT! tom morning early we are heading out to the train station where we will be heading to Shimla until the 7th! we all did some shopping today......

Ons is veilig in Deli Indië Dit is heeltemal 'n ander kultuur - dit is net mal (die straatlyne en robotte help niks) maar dit is baie baie lekker. Ons is 3 1/2 ure voor SA Tyd Ons is nou my een van baie markte in een van die gangetjies in strate. Ons ry more 05h45 met die trein na die Himalaja Berge - Hierdie is vliegtuig aarmee Span vetrek het van Jhb Lughawe

"We know that God causes everything to work together for the good of those who love Him and are called according to his purpose" - Romans 8:28 I defintely experienced that!! On the 23rd of december (2 weeks proir to when we had to depart) I decided and applied for Global Challenge. 28th of December I was accepted. 12 of January I arrived in Jefreys Bay. NOT KNOWING WHAT GLOBAL CHALLENGE REALLY WAS. Global challenge is a God-seeking enviroment, only for rhe glory of HIS name!! I found myself in Christ, in these past 4 weeks, still in a healing and...

 Life-changing Guatemala   Dear friends and family in Christ.   I want to thank you all for your continuous prayer for me and for our group!   I appreciate it so much and I don’t think we know how much of a difference prayer makes in our battle against the forces of evil.   Guatemala was a life-changing experience!   We were hosted by Ben and his congregation here in Panajachel, one of the most beautiful places I have ever been.   During day time we work at various work sites, I work at Nimmer and Jenifer’s house.   The...

Hallo al die mooi mense.   Ek wil sommer net eerstens baie dankie se vir almal se gebede en omgee,  julle kan weet dat dit ´n huge verskil maak!   Portugal was ´n amazing experience gewees! Ons het by mense gebly van die local gemeente in Massana.  Dit is so paar kilometer buite Lisbon .  Die mense was so goed vir ons en het ons op hulle hande gedra.     Ons het Fatima gaan besoek, dit is ´n baie baie groot Rooms Katolieke Kerk.  Daar was ´n diens gewees toe ons daar was.  Die kerk glo dat Maria daar aan...

Wow ! A lot can be said about what I have experienced the past 17 days relating to traveling, moving out of your comfort zone, living out of a backpack, humus and pitas, sleeping in airports, buying stuff, losing stuff and ... how God manifests himself in all of this.  Yet it is the difference in cultures that fascinates me the most. One can get so caught up in a habitual way of doing things and even be so arrogant as to think that your way is the high way, that you completely miss fundamental characteristics of the GOD of ALL nations.   This...

Congratulations!!!! This is the real thing... Your first Challenge!!! Use the instructions... See you in Johannesburg, Kempton Park on Monday afternoon at 16:00... You are on your own!!!!! But are we really on our own?? Of course not!!!!! The challenge:  Teams must get from Jeffrey's to Jo'burg and deliver their "gift", which is a fish called Jubal, to a house in Kempton Park, preferably alive!!! *with R400 per person (includes food) = R2000 *may use your cellphones during this challenge *not allowed to use people we know *travel by overland, not allowed to fly We got a lift from our...

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Deur: Benescke Botha Die Chinese bamboesriet. ’n Plant wat met ’n klein saadjie in die grond begin. ’n Plant wat na ’n jaar, buiten vir ’n klein groen stukkie uit die grond, skynbaar omtrent niks gegroei het nie. In die tweede jaar waarin die plant met water gevoed, beskerm en selfs met kunsmis behandel word, is daar steeds min groei. Só ook in die derde en die vierde jaar. Dit is dan, in die vyfde jaar dat iets vreemd met die plant gebeur. In net ses weke skiet die bamboesriet (wat voorheen nog net ’n paar sentimeter bo die grond...