Participant Blogs

  I'm sitting in awe as a new day breaks over Mexico. Thinking back over the last ten days my heart can't formulate any words or songs to describe what it feels.  God's ways are beyond words and  beyond understanding; His plans cannot be contained in human minds! And still He allows us a glimpse of His glory! Our first six days in the small town, Chicomuselo, in southern Mexico, was filled with God displaying His power to draw people to Him. People were healed and set free when we prayed for them; some committed their lives to Him. And above...

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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...

   1...2...3... blok my self  how do one start to say how much you've fallen in love with these kids and how they experiance Gos Love from you,  Well  what does a 13year old boy see when he look in the mirror, does he see the worrier that God created or the man  flying or the great father he is gonna be oneday, all i know that these kids realy made me look back to my child wood and just wanna be young and enjoy all the fun things that there is... no worries because God has got my hand, and...

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?...

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 GCEX 2009 was the ultimate, or so I thought at that time. What an experience. Little did I know this was only the beginning of my journey with the One that loves more than I could ever imagine… Since December 2009 my journey began again. I had to completely readjust to everything. My eyes were opened to new things and new adventures awaited just around the corner. In the coming months, I saw clear that there was a great responsibility that came from all these experiences. Enormous life changing things were...

I was ready to save the world! Superwoman suit - CHECK. Last year just the thought of doing this adventurous Global Challenge gave me an electron bombardment! I got emotional and anxious as I really have a HUGE task to fulfill.  A few months later I'm sitting here vividly realizing I was the one getting saved and that this year was basically giving myself fully over to the King of kings to change me into the new being that He promised to change me into.  Everything I ever wanted to be was inside of me all along-Jesus. All I had...

If the trip would have to end now, it would have been worth while.

  "Alive, alive, alive forever more My Jesus is alive Alive forever more"     This is what is still echoeing in my ears after my time in India. What an awesome privilege to be part of this time and to see the change God is busy with in India - and especially in the kids of India.   In India there is about 86 million orphans and street kids at the moment. This is the harsh reality of the era we are living in. The Lord remains faithful though and He will equip people to work with these kids and...