Participant Blogs

Due to the nature of this blog I have to break it into the below parts so it will make more sense in reading so here we go: 1.The last week in Fuza 2.Our first challenge (a 1 day Amazing race type adventure) 3.Time in Bogota 4.Next stop Venezuela?? 5.My time   Last week in Fuza: So the last week in Fuza was spent finishing off all the building projects we were busy with. The last weekend before we had to finish we had 5 Students from Bogota that came to join us in the work. We had till the...

This was an amazing opportunity we had to share the Gospel at a Buddist festival in Thailand. God opened the doors for us and He touched so many lives. We praise Him for this. What an awesome God we serve.

We are coming to the end of our time here in Thailand, and the last few days I have been thinking a lot about everything that we did here and all the people that we met and so forth. It made me realize one thing about myself, I am so focused on where I am going, that I forget about today!! I am always looking at where we are going next, how we are going to be ministering to the people when we get there, how awesome it is going to be over there and how we are going to...

Words of a famous book from Louis Giglio but got such a more profound meaning to me the last couple of weeks!! Exodus 3:14 I AM WHO I AM is sending you out...''  It all started a while back when I went up mount Sinai. I went up the mountain and came down, not with 10 commandments, but a great encounter with God saying to me, I did not only send out Moses, but I AM WHO I AM is also sending you out celeste... So leaving Egypt, going to Israel, I had this I AM WHO I AM at the...

              During one of our prayer sessions in Panajachel (Gautamala) we came across this river that flowed all the way to the Lake here in Panajachel.  I truly experienced that God wanted to tell me something special about this river.  We continued on with praying and I just truly sensed that God wanted to remove all the durt and filth within this river.  The river symbolizing Gautamala.  While doing some bible study I truly experienced this bible verse to be the word God wanted to share with Gautamala and our time here.  "And he showed me a pure river of water of life,...

Our bus ride to Niamey didn’t start well. It was overbooked and since we weren’t that adapt at squeezing into small spaces and rushing to open seats most of the team found themselves squeezed onto the back seat. I found myself sitting in the front of the aisle next to the driver. In West Africa they sell water in sealed-of plastic bags as opposed to bottles. It was extremely hot and we were sucking those bags dry in the dozens, our bodies seeming to slurp up every drop of moisture available.   Finally, late in the afternoon we arrived in...

    Waaaa who would have thought that the first sentence off a blog can take 10 minutes to think of. Neither did I, but I guess I just wanted it to be the right one, but this one will do. Well I will get straight into it. Road to the Promised Land was quite an experience both spiritual and physical and in 40 hours we had a little taste off what took Israelites 40 years.  (Exodus 16:35) Thank God it was hours and not years otherwise I would be writing you this when I would be 60. It all...

How God took a screensaver and made it our reality, just because we were content.

Trevor, the photographer I worked with for years, only wore khaki, the green version of khaki. This was his brand, his style. And to finish off the colonial era explorer's look, he brandished a pith helmet in the same colour. We were in Gent, Belgium, reporting on a flower show for the magazine Garden and Home. People would look, point, and comment: "...Meester Leevingston..." Our editor asked explicitly for close ups of the Belgian King and Queen, the patrons of the flower show. I said ‘yes', as was my natural inclination. To find out later that that is easier said...

Russia amazingly consists of 9 time zones!