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CHALLENGING,EXCITEMENT,ANTICIPATION,NERVE-WRECKING,UNCERTAINTY,EXHAUSTING ... are some of the words flashing in your mind when faced with a challenge. But above all,you have a EXPECTATION to see God work and provide in miraculous ways.   The New Zealand Challange started on Monday morning 07:00 and our team finished at 00:00 in 4th place. We had varies tasks that had to be completed during the day. I will list a few: 1. One team member had to catch a fish from a kayak.   2. Fill an empty bottle with sea water using a tube with holes in.   3. Built sand castles   4. Play a game of...

  Dear Friends,We are on the last stretch, heading homeward! We just completed the ministry time on Zanzibar and will start our trip down to SA in the next two days.The last few weeks God has been reminding us as a team to finish strong and has given us the scripture from 2 Timothy 4:7, "I have fought the good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith."We know, with His grace, we can finish well.While on the island Anna-Marie visited us. She was of great encouragement to the whole team and also came to facilitate the...

Our journey took an unexpected turn due to the civil unrest in Venezuela and we were detoured to Santa Marta. The team has had a great time just pouring out what we have received, serving with La Esparanza chuch and South American Missions.    And what an interesting time we've had! The South-Americans have quite an outward focused culture. Since that first week in Sao Paulo I've been amazed by the sense of community facilitated by living on your front porch and in the streets. As a result, outside-church seem to be the order of the day. We've had church...

Just as winter threatened to close in on us we hopped over the equator! Since we began our travels it has been full of adventure and fun. Here are a few of the many "forever moments" I would love to share with you. Forever moments are those moments that you would like to last forever. God giving us the word that we would go up to Christ the Redeemer staue in Rio and then actually going because of miraculous provision! Realising we are not visiting churches but actually going to Copacabana beach and a tour around Rio with pastor Markos.......

Even though we have left Santiago, Cuba over a month ago, and new memories and visitors have filled our days, I think our whole team keenly look at pictures of Cuba and just smile. The kind of grin you give when you find a childhood picture of yourself or when you see an old couple share an ice cream. I think this update is so overdue, due to the fact that describing our experience in Cuba is as wonderful, complex and diverse as the country itself. For starters, Cuba is a communistic country, but as our Cuban friends explained to...

Hi everyone the red team is in Jerusalem Isreal together with the rest of the southbound and northbound teams. It is a real blessing to be here and we have explored the city and visited the mount of olives, the garden tomb, the wailing wall etc. We are also going to Bethlehem tomorrow. It is amazing to see and experience the places where  Jesus walked and lived. The Red team is or 3 of the 4 is sick at the moment and we really need prayer for our health. Other payer requests is that you will ask God to direct our steps as we travel...

God is faithful!  This is all that I can say after what happened last night.  Henro and Welman were out with the scooters when they ran into some Aussies down at the beach.  Apparently the one guy commented on Welman’s hair by shouting “Napoleon Dynamite”… some might find this funny.  Welman laughed (he found it funny) and they started chatting with them.  The end result was sharing of the Good News to the lost and they blessed us with 2000 Baht in return.  God is good. We had the morning to catch up on some backed up journaling, emailing and...

Going through this year I have rarely been on farms. Now, farms are where my heart lies and where I belong. Before we went to Australia I was longing for the farm life. My whole being was longing for the mud, dirt tracks, tractors, bikes and the outdoors. Little was I expecting the treat God would provide for me… We worked on an outdoor adventure school where there was caving, abseiling, high ropes, horses and of course dirt bikes!!! We had a basic training in all of these ‘courses’ so that we were able to help with upcoming camps. I...

(I wrote this while we were in Bosnia i Hercegovina in July 2007) 

 

Being faced with some major decisions about my future, a friend has asked me one simple yet complex question:  “What would you do if fear did not influence your choice?”  And of course this question has started one of those major thinking cycles in my head.

I used to fear that lies I told would rise to the surface and make me fall. I used to fear that I would never be enough, not for anybody not for myself. I used to fear that what I did in the dark would come to the light.   That's who I used to be, that's what I used to do. But then I met Jesus, I stood face to face with the biggest truth of ever have to face. To be honest, I couldn't face it. I fell I fell face first to the ground. How do you...