Participant Blogs

    In a little town callled Santa Catarina (1 hour's walk from Panajachel), we assisted with a building project for a family we came to love dearly.  They gave their hearts to Christ before we left Panajachel but still need a lot of prayer in their walk to maturity in faith.           

   We can only describe the day we've had so far as absolutely crazy, bizarre, hectic and very intense (fun!!). We set out this morning at 8 o'clock, with one A4 paper stating detailed tasks for the day - to be documented by photographs as proof.  The first couple of tasks we managed to do quickly: Sand papering a wooded balcony while reading Luke chapters 1 -  3 out loud, decoring a cake and washing out first of ten cars for the day. Then we went in search of the elusive "Sandkasteel", convinced that we must find a sand structure on the beach. After jogging and...

There is just one thing that i realised from my time in Cairo and that is how thankful each one of us that grew up in a Christian home/community can be.  We have got ALL the resources necessary to read up on anything that we need or want to but still we as Christians (South Africans) moan and groan and complain about everything.  For us it is an issue just to walk to the bookshop, buy a book and read it where here in Egypt there just isn't ANY Christian bookstore. We complain and struggle to wake up at 5 in...

When one has the privilege of visiting India, the one thing that everyone will notice is the extreme poverty that drenches this country. Last month, in India, we witnessed a lot of people in need of homes, food, parents and most of all in need for God in their lives! Over 89 million orphans, of the 120 million orphans in the world, live in India. When we went out into the streets of Delhi, we were surrounded by hundreds of beggars that ran after us. These people hardly stay alive, and the only hope that they live for, is that...

God has such an awesome way of rewarding you...for just nothing...just because He can and want to! I had the privilege to play bass, again, for the first time since January, on stage with awesome sound, lights and the wildest 5 string Guitar!!! But it is not about the bass, it is about God that blesses you! We have a drama, and that is available to you on the site! Check it out! There we showed the people in 5minutes what God wanted from the beginning of time, till Jesus came for us again! It is the same drama as Lifehouse...

After spending 3 weeks in Thaliland, we only have one day left in this beautiful country. We are sad tpo leave, but are also looking forward to our next country - China and what God will do there.

As I sit sipping my Turkish apple tea and ponder on the last few weeks, I cannot but rejoice in the Lord! After visiting SA for six weeks due to pneumonia I rejoined my team and for the first time this year without a cough. I only realised once I was healthy again how long it has been that I have been sick... It is similar to when we live in sin, we never see how deep we are in it until we are free from it and look back to see how far we've come. God's intention for us,...

The truth is my friend, we are all just petals in the wind, broken off from beauty, and now scattered across the world. Whenever you feel alone, or like building up a hidden tower, remember, we will always be part of the same wildflower… Raised up in a hidden forest by a caring Gardener, to send His fragrance into a world who has lost His splendour.  "Lord, make my petal last longer… I need to save them… make me stronger!"  "But child, it was never your job to plant. Just display a glimpse of the beauty of what My hands...

So my question for the time in Turkey was this.... After you have let yourself down and let the people around you down and have realized that you are not so great or immune to certain things that you thought you were,  what is your first thing that you do? Do you go to your parents? Do you go to your friends? do you ask advice from a magazines Dr Ruth? Do you go to Opera? Or  do you fall on your knees, repent and pray that God will lead you and give you strength and pick you up again?...

It scares me to think that all I’ve known for the last 12 years of my life will change so drastically within the next few months, but at the same time I cannot wait to see where God wants to take me. At the beginning of this year I came to the realization that God is way bigger then I initially thought He was, and although I’ll never really be able to fully grasp how great He truly is, I’ve decided that I want a life that experiences as much about Him as possible and encounters Him in as many...