Participant Blogs

Today, the Blue team was faced with a challenge. it started last night at about 11:00 pm and continued this morning at 4:40 am. It all started with a dance; thats right, and Africans song and dance

We started building on Saturday- and to our surprise, were able to put the walls up in just 2 days!!

 23 April 2015.       Independence day- A day of celebration, music, dancing, partying all decorated with blue and white flags.     Walking down the highway in Tyberias I saw two men in a little white Kia, their faces looked like home! It was oom Wikus and Hennie hooting all the way! Excitement bubbled up in me, after not seeing loved ones for so long! We ended up eating Mc Donalds on top of the hill we pitched our tents on (it ended being someone's farm, haha) Our first two nights in Tyberias ended up being sleepless, because...

Coffee with Discontent Seventeen months ago I got married and moved to rural Maasai land, Kenya. My husband has lived here for 15 years and is semi local by now. Before I moved, I realized that many things that had been life giving to me - like playing in a band, having philosophical conversations and having “me- time” - will probably not be available. In fact, I realized that I will not be having female friends for a long time and that communication with people back home will be limited. I would have other things though – a husband, beautiful...

     Hatting and I traved to the teams the past week.  This is some of the pictures we took.  Hope you enjoy it.   On our way to meet the teams. Snow and mountains everywhere.  Overlooking the landscape.  Amazing!!!    We saw this man everyday gathering the towns garbage.  His smile touched my heart. Small boy eating ice cream and waiting for his father.   Me and Arial playing.   Every part of the land is being used.  Mostly you see woman working in the fields.   A lady we made friends with.  We enjoyed eating at het restaurant.  Hattingh always...

  Dahab (and Egypt) has been taxing in particular. Strangely it was not the country where we traveled the most --- even though Dahab is a 10h mini-van drive away from Cairo... Dahab is a tourist city with tourist-traps (and those who are in the game of "trapping" you) to be found everywhere...But it must be one of the most remarkable landscapes I have ever seen. The desert on your one hand and the bluest waters of the Red Sea on the other is something to behold. There are no white sandy beaches. Pebbles lead into the ocean (icy cold...

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Two, almost three full days of traveling takes a lot out of a man and our first night in Mae Sot, we just wanted to sleep.  Before taking us to the house where we would stay, the lovely people at the hospital blessed us with green mango and chilly-salt.  At first a freaky combination, but after the second bite, heavenly. We were taken around the block to our house that is shared with about seven 20-year olds.  They are Karen boys living in refugee camps and are here to study medicine.  They were very curious about their new house mates...

Philippians. 2:1-7 “So if there is any encouragement in Christ, any comfort from love, any participation in the Spirit, any affection and sympathy, complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind. Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others. Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not...