Participant Blogs

  While in Zambia, we had the opportunity to go to the local village school, and each team had a class to “entertain.” The red team was lead to teach the kids to keep their eyes on Jesus - no matter what. We assembled all the brown toilet rolls to make binoculars as props for each kid. (To the dismay of some, I robbed everyone’s full rolls of their carton bit-hehe!) The teaching went great-it looked like the kids had immense fun jumping up and down. We gave them a prerogative like: “When you are sad,” and they would eagerly...

 

 

Even though our time in Hong Kong was very short, it was very powerful and impacting. Like we would say in Afrikaans "dit was kort maar kragtig." We had the great privilege to stay with Albie's aunt and uncle, who are South Africans that moved to Hong Kong about 9 years ago. They were such a big blessing to us. They impacted every one of us so much, through their unconditional love and their way of giving and sacrificing so much of themselves and their time to us, without expecting anything in return. They opened up their home to us and made us feel part of their family, even though they never met us before and didn't really know us. We were completely undeserving of their love and blessings. We learned so much from them, just through the way that they live and do things.

I think i'm only coming to the realisation of what God has called me to as His child now. Saying that - it is still a journey. What it means to say "yes" and what He means when He tells me to go. We spent most of our lives without knowing the full truth about who we are without Jesus, how rotten and evil our true nature really is and also without the full truth about what Jesus really did and what He enables us to do when He calls us. I am finding myself at a place where God...

You know the feeling you get when you see something appealing in a person, and you want it? You know it when you see it. Maybe not at first, but gradually it penetrates, awakening desire for you to be someone similar. It may be a certain characteristic that stands out - something you admire. And you start seeing it as you come into regular contact, sharing in the person's good company. The very aura this person gives off is reflected in the way they go about every day activity - a combination of settledness, contentment and overcoming. The notion of...

13 February 2008 - Red Hill

Today William, one of the residents I’ve been building a relationship with, suddenly said to me: “Your God must be pleased with what you’re doing here.”
Here’s my opportunity I thought. We got into a conversation about God and it came to the point where he said his favourite book in the Bible was Israel. “Israel?” I queried. “I don’t know that book.”
So he took me into his newly built shack (his shack was the very first one after the fire) and showed me his Shona Bible. William is from Zimbabwe and so speaks Shona.
When he showed me the book, Israel, I realised he mistranslated it and he actually meant, Isaiah.

The long awaited Luke 10 journey...

Stepping out in faith has been the focus of our year and never have we seen God in control as much as we saw in one specific week. We recently had our Luke10 journey which lasted for a week. We started in Mersing, Malaysia and would meet our team again a week later. Luke10 in the Bible is where Jesus sends out his’ 72 disciples to go to towns without anything with them. Going to where God was at work was our aim. We were split into two teams for the week. Before we set out we prayed together to...

      Isanbul - A place of contrast.  Located on two continents, a city of many worlds.  The place that dominated continents.  The meeting point of cultures and civilization.  A capital of culture, an inspiration, and a true Turkish delight.  It's hard to describe a city with so many years of history.    We arrived at the place wish soon turned in to my most memorable adventure destination so far.    Settling in to our hostel, and getting a good night of rest (that only lasted until 5 in the morning due to the multitude of world renowned mosques...

I have come to the conclusion that i am a messy fractal, planted in the centre of the world, soaking up everything it sets before me. But that is why i have experienced His love. Because He wants me in the midst of my messy roots. Pulling them out one by one, replanting and reorganizing. Watering and nourishing. Until the mess isn’t rotten anymore. Until it’s a beautiful and organized mess. Until i am His mess.  I rejoice in the choice i have made of stepping into the freedom that Jesus offers. A decision that has to be made day by day -...

To my English friends, Im sorry for the Afrikaans, let me know how interested you are and then I will translate... :-) Hierdie is my Geestelike journey op met die Himalayas, opsoek na sneeu wat ek nooit gevind het nie...  Dit is dalk lank, maar dit is wat God met my gedeel het gedurende die journey... Super Super Super!!! 'n Mens se journey saam met God begin iewers, aan die voet van 'n hoë berg.  Mens begin die pad gewoonlik saam met twee of drie mense wat jou ondersteun en moed inpraat en jou op die pad hou.  Aan die begin...