Are you coming to the war? Where fire burns and fear is great. There is no means of escape. Where Death is like a lingering shadow tracing behind His victims. Horrible things have happened here. This is where life and death meet face to face, in a battle to see who will win. This is the birth place of chaos and destruction, this is war. Today I saw a different life. A life filled with fear and anguish. A life that was consumed by flames. Today I saw true hopelessness. Today, I looked into the eyes of a war refugee. ...
Participant Blogs
Global Challenge Missions Blog Archive: These are real blogs, from real people, bringing real change...
Uncertain future, certain God.
Our journey back to South Africa was undoubtedly paved by the hand of the Father. The moment we heard the seriousness of Corona, we as teams were called to meet together at a central place in Brazil - a house in the mountains near a very small town. ...
Led to Lead
I'm leading a team this year! In less than four years God has come and radically changed my life for the better. I believe that each and every single one of us are led to lead. In other words Christ leads us to lead others to him. What a privil...
Would you jump with me?
I remember standing at the edge of a cliff. Looking out at the big wide blue ocean. Looking down and seeing a beautiful scary blue unknown. My heart pounding in my chest like the sound of an epic climactic drum solo. Should I jump? Should i let go of...
Into the nations
Hello, my name is Johan Bruwer. I am on the brink of a 10-month journey where I will see and be a part of the establishment of God’s kingdom in the nations. I believe that the great commission is not an option to be considered, but it is a command to...
Discovering God
After finishing a blog on how God changed my mindset, about things I did not like doing and showing me other wise, I was not convinced that that was what I was supposed to share. After some amazing teachings this past few days and spending some...
"The land of smiles"
Thailand!! Wow it's an incredible place! Filled with beauties that only seeing in person can be understood! It definitely lives up to its phrase "the land of smiles" everyone here is just amazing. This country is special for me! We started in Bangkok...
Hidden World in The World
And just like that we were saying our good bye's and getting on a plane, watching South Africa disappear beneath us and bidding it farewell for the next 8 months. Hidden World is officially in the nations. It still seems unreal to us. 8 weeks ago we ...
Thanking food friends
An exciting update from the GLA eco campus construction site! We would like to give a shout out to the small businesses in Jeffrey's Bay- Beesland Slaghuis, Vyeboom Takeaway, RS Fruit and Veg (Croix Street) and Mengelmoes Kardoes We would like to th...
Break an Egg, Build a School!
The Global Challenge Expeditions Team of 2015 has created an initiative to increase financial support, called the Break an Egg, Build a School Challenge . This challenge is to create a video of you breaking an egg in a creative way and donate at www....
CHINA - Margot Prosch
The bus driver took us back to the town we had come from. There we got onto another bus that took us to a little town, next to the Yellow River (we do not post the actual names of towns we visited in China. Hence forward this town will be called "The little town by the Yellow River").
The land of spice, rice, colour, fabric, tea, rickshaws, idols, people, people and more people…Walking around in Delhi in the summer is not for the faint hearted. The scent of cow dung, incense, curry, chai tea, exhausts fumes and decomposing trash floods your senses and you struggle to absorb it all. It takes time for one to understand India and enjoy her, her mysterious beauty and her effortless glamour. Some never get the chance to grasp who she is and learn to love her and her people. They don’t know what they’re missing… On this four-week journey trough India I got...
work Your way in Astralia 2010, enjoy :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FL3k8xbP_40
There are a few things that if you come to Brazil you should never forget: your swim suit, your rain coat, your smile, and your alarm clock . This little town of Ubatuba is crammed full of over 102 beaches. I have been here almost two weeks and I am ashamed to say that I have only been to about two of them, and I have yet to make it into the water. (rest assured, it will happen) Now, it being rainy season and all here, it can be kind of a downer to be walking down the street...
As it goes with all pioneering journeys...we travel without a plan and purely by Faith. A lot of people don’t really grasp how this works or why anyone would want to do something like that. They also don’t really understand why we would go to a country or place without any pre-arranged accommodation etc. Boy, did the authorities in the Cayman Islands NOT understand this concept!! And thus began our adventure on the island of Grand Cayman...
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Our bodies have been described as temples of the Holy Spirit and as clay in the hands of the Potter. It is an awe-inspiring, intricate tool for the Kingdom, made according to a blueprint designed by an Almighty God.
Sitting atop a building in the Middle East, with intimidating hills staring at me from a distance, I wonder why we're, most of the time, rushed..? The hopeless running after things which are seemingly thought to be unseen, though we can measure its worth by just an up and down look. Nice jewellery by the way... It spills over into more of us, I mean, aren't we sometimes like that with God, such a desperate searching for deeper and more. But actually when we rush Him and get frustrated, its more about us than Him. And more - things...
The GC Team exploring London Spending time with my housmates, Ida and Nicolene Enjoying lunch with Yana and Veronica, my work colleagues from STA Travel My sister and her husband Megan , my sister's daughter
The past week we have been here in Israel backtracking Jesus last few days of his walk here on earth, and it has been an AMAZING journey. We have been to the mount of olives, the garden tomb, the "western wall", and just plainly exploring the streets of Jerusalem where He walked, lived, suffered, performed miracles and preached. We are staying in a Hostel in the old city on top of the roof, so every morning we have the MOST beautiful sunrise that we can ask for in the whole world over the Lord's city, and when i look at...
