Participant Blogs

    This is the blog for the first 2 weeks of Russia. If you wanna hear about the time in the village for the rest of the time, check with Sabra!   For two weeks we were in Krasnoyarsk, Russia. Northbound was split up in this time, so it was Riaan, Tiaan, Dedre, Sabra, Robynne and I.  Our contact there is a sweet family from Australia.   We  helped out at an english camp for about 25 kids aged from 6 to 16. Global challengers were in charge of helping the kids learn more english and a sharing time every...

The journey of grace started in Russia and by the end of Cuba while sitting in a coffee shop drinking coffee that tastes like sea water and being told to keep quiet by the waitress because we laughing too loud, God concluded the first part of an unending series of His grace. A friend asked me what grace means to me... Well everyone says, 'by the grace of God I can be here today,' then obviously  it's the power of God that allows good things to happen to us and through us... Clearly I didn't understand, so I asked  God to...

After spending more or less 3 weeks in both Turkey and Israel, it almost seemed a bit of a steal to only spend 10 days in Russia, but what a full 10 days it was.   After spending the whole day practicing our drama in the Ben Gurion airport in Israel and waking up at 3:30am to check in at the airline counter, it's needless to say we were far from fully functioning by the time we landed in Moscow that afternoon. Two busses and 3 trains later, we arrived at the hosts house to be greeted by the information...