Participant Blogs

Renowned for its spices, beautiful tropical beaches and corals, Zanzibar is also famous for its notorious slave trade. What the slave traders used to determine which slave to sell at the highest price if they survived the harsh conditions The Island boasts of its 90% edible vegetation and a rapid growth in tourism. While that is so, we bemoan the less than one per cent Christian population. Even though slave trade was abolished hundreds of years ago, spiritual slavery and bondage is rampant. Traditional churches are vegetated and most clergy seem enervated. It's difficult to carry out work of our...

This a real photoblog so I am sorry for all the internet costs!  I am in China so it doesn't really cost anything. :-)Sit back, imagine and enjoy! We were in Russia (Siberia) for a bit longer than a month. Each week we were in a different city. When we first entered Russia we were shocked by how depressing and broken all the buildings and cars seemed. Buildings were without paint or painted in dull colours. Cars were falling apart and many were missing bumpers or was dirty and bumped. The roads were also falling apart and to drive faster...

Place: London Time: 8am-4pm The Mission Objective: Preach the gospel at a venue. Bring back at least 5 pounds. Budget: 5 pounds Team 1: Hanno, Erns, Dirkie Team 2: Frikkie, Schalk, Ruben Team 1 Hanno, Erns and I went to a map at a bus stop. Just to see what is in the area. We felt God is sending us to the Salvation Army. We went there to see if we can preach to somebody there. It was not open yet, so we had 2hours to walk around in London. We were on our way to Kings Road. We saw...

8 x 8 = Sitting on my dad's lap

By: Marlene Putter

 

I was a greenish eyed curly blond hair little girl at the age of 10 when life's problems and questions started creeping into my life.

 I realised that people wear shoes everywhere – even on the soft green grass – and within a few years that will be expected of me. I saw the little boy begging for money outside the McDonalds, and I wondered about his life. My friend told me that Santa Clause didn't really exist and I had a hard time convincing her. I started to question why people are always in a hurry to get to the next place while they just arrived a few moments ago. I wondered why people didn't work for fun but for money. I had to eat all my vegetables before leaving the table with mealtimes. And with all of these things swirling around in my mind another big problem hit me – the eight times table.

 

So we sadly finished India and moved on to a much deserved rest in London.   But what was our plan and what did God want from us during our time in India. This has been the question on my mind for the few weeks that we spend in India. Most of us had some sort of sickness during the time in India and personally I think it blurred our vision for India and therefore we did not keep our focus on  God and what his plan is for India. We did what we set out to do and with...

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Yes.... I live to tell the story! Believe it or not =) Being the person that I have been for the past four years, it was quite something to adapt to a whole new way of living. From being a forth year student at the University of Pretoria, living in a residence, having a strict class schedule, studying for tests and being a modern day student to adapting to a life with 36 other students in something I can call a 'very-close-to-my-personal-space' living, was something I had to get used to - and fast! Through the process of getting to...

In the red team we have: Nic (Team Leader), Andre, Mareli and Natasha. By tomorrow we would have travelled 3 countries in i day, and eaten edible fruits of the promised land.   We are currently doing our first challenge,   This is the red team SIGNING out!!

As light amidst the darkness we went out with our hearts excited to apply what we learned the previous 4 weeks. We all got into a bus ready for some of the most beautiful but also spiritually dark places in South Africa. Two weeks of hard labor and great ministry opportunities laid ahead of us!   Our Distant Islands team All our journey groups went to Coffee Bay and Canzibe. The first week we went to Coffee Bay where we served at a Christian primary school. The school was on the top of a hill and it overlooked the whole...

What is a Christian? Somebody who goes to church every Sunday or who "knows" who Jesus is... Or is there so much more to it?  The Bible says that we must not be lukewarm but either warm or cold. This implicates that God would rather have us cold then lukewarm. Just "knowing" Jesus will not suffice. You need to have a living relationship with him.  God wants us to really seek Him in everything we do and to listen to His voice... even if it while your studying or working or doing whatever you do. Just spend some time with Him and ask Him what...