We are the Pathfinders We have spent the past two weeks passionately exploring, encountering and experiencing God's grace.... We started our journey with a challenge, J-bay 2 Joburg.....please see the Orange Team blog for more information on that :-) here after we made our way to Egypt. We have spent a week in Egypt, WHAT AN EYE-OPENER!! Cairo was an experience on its own...very dirty and chaotic. Then the Garbage City and the Garbage City Church was a highlight - this is exactly as the names states, a church built years ago in the dumps because the Christians were...
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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....
Closing the chapter on Brazil and opening up to Colombia. From building relationships to digging holes. Global Challenge will make you do it all! I love it! We stayed over one night in Bogota, with some of the missionaries, Mark and Joyce. Lovely couple from America. They work with the Indian tribes, there are about 65 different tribes, learning their language and culture and then sharing the gospel with them. It takes about 5 or 6 years to learn their language. Translating the bible can take anything from 15 years (for the New Testament alone) to 52 years...
The Great Wall Ready, set, take off.......Many people asked me before leaving, am I ready, how do I feel, am I excited?? Waiting for 6 years or more, to enter the promise of China on a long term/full time basis and now becoming a reality. The answer was mixed. The familiar feeling of I'm leaving what I know and the people I know, to the unknown. The mixed feelings of excitement and I can't believe I'm doing this...the dream becoming a reality! That's where the step of faith comes in. We discover by experience and at first hand. And Him...
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Israel, Palistine and all things tense. I do not claim to be an expert an will not attempt to explaine the intigrate details and complexities of the political situation in the Middle East. However standing in the mist of these countries and crossing the wall that devides them, seeing both sides and and grasping a fresh the gravity of the situation is what is on my heart. There is a wall, it is deviding and it is opressing, two grous of people are hurting and what they need is JESUS. This is not about picking sides or having a right...
So this is the half way through the journey, 4 months gone, 4 more to go (excluding training and debrief). So this is the update on Fred blog, my attempt to try and share what has been happening to me and not just what has been happening on the journey. So find below is a few stories/ranting/realisations, major and minor, profound and funny. Identity Thank God for establishing more and more of my identity in Him. And that He is still imparting in me more and more. I am a Son of God. I am His beloved. I am in...
Throwing his shoe he jumped back at the sight of a spider, the size of his hand. This was not just any spider but a spider that when bitten makes the inside of your body burn, poison spreading throughout it. This actually really happened at the beginning of our time in Zambia to Wayne, our team leader. It really is a miracle that he didn’t get bit, but to me it is also something that really reflects the time in Zambia and brings together something I have learned and seen this year, in so many ways. As we took...
Tunisia We arrived in Tunisia at a very crucial point of the country's history. We arrived at the end of the Revolution, a time when people were celebrating their new freedom. We were welcomed by a very peaceful environment. We experienced great hospitality through the locals that we met in the relatively short time we spent there. I think that one of the biggest lessons in Tunisia, as it was our first foreign country, was that God is the only constant when all is stripped away. We found ourselves in great unfamiliarity and couldn't look to alternative...
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Waking up in the middle of the night after a bad dream, God lead me to pray. In my time praying I just experienced God wanting to do something different in the team, hitch-hiking. Here is what happend that had a BIG impact on me: As our time in Costa Rica came to an end, I felt God leading us as a team in n certain direction. I felt Him saying we should hitch-hike from Costa Rica to Guatemala and NOT to buy bus tickets (This was actually a blessing, because bus tickets would have been $130 per person). So...
