Participant Blogs

Normal 0 After breakfast the man dropped us off at a point in the road where the vehicles must drive slower due to lots of speed bumps in the road.   We stood there, in the suffocating heat for a long time, praying and trusting for a lift to the next town.   We got a lift on the back of a pickup truck to Mapa where we were dropped at a t-junction.   After about 20 minutes we got a lift to a small café a few miles on.   We drank a cool drink and tried to hitch...

"Did I not tell you that if you believed you would see the glory of God?" - John 11:40 One week of our journey has passed, and I am already in awe of the glory of God. The last few days I've had the privilege to meet some truly amazing sons and daughters of our Lord and King. And I am filled with such an excitement of what is to come.   We are currently in Jeffreys Bay, South Africa for our training before leaving to Egypt on February 24th from where we will continue around the world. About 60...

At the beginning of 2006 I travelled for the first time to Guatemala. This was just a few moths after a hurricane hit the town of Panajachel and we found many families without a place to stay.

India is hectic.   For the first week, we were in Delhi, doing some serious bible studying.  Then we took a train to a big orphanage. Our goal there was to repaint the inside of the boys hostel and to provide a new set of undies for each child, along with chilling with the kids, and hosting an evening program every night. Except for one thing..we didn’t have any money to do this         So we scraped,  sanded and painted in faith, trusting that our Father is The Provider.  And after only 5 days of fund raising...

Good day ladies and gentleman, fellow gentiles and people who accedently followed this hash tag. Global challenge training has been the best time of my life! And that is the truth! i learnt the meaning of life! Yes I know 'what a 'cliche'. A young adult finding herself and the meaning of life during her gap year, but dear unknown reaaders, this is a whole diffirent experience from other life defining gap years. i quote the lyrics from that Hillsong song "I found my life when i lay it down". now i get that it might sound proud, but bare...

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...

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...

When we came in for landing at Auckland, New Zeeland the words in Genesis came to mind: “...fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground.” The New Zealanders sure grasp this. And I thought that even though everyone does not have a relationship with the Lord, we are created in God’s image, and He gave us the knowledge and know how to rule over nature and subdue it without destroying it. Staring out of the small airplane window I...

During our whole time in Morocco I was thinking ahead to our next country: Mauritania. One thing bugged me: the visas. It was possible to get our Mauritanian visas in Rabat, Morocco, but according to the Mauritanian embassy in South Africa we would be able to get it on the border. Knowing of the disconnect that so often exists between embassies and border controls I wasn't entirely comforted. Especially since it was Mauritania, the border was in the middle of the Sahara and I had read stories on the internet of guys coming up against the fluctuating rules at that...