Participant Blogs

We can't always finish what we started, but sometimes you actually get a second chance.  Let me take you back to 2011... Olanga Island.  If you've been following our blogs last year, this name might ring a bell.  Before going there, we heard it's a beautiful island in the Visayas Region of the Philippines, but the community is very poor, with many families earning only $1.00 (R7.00) a day.  The whole island is made up out of coral rock.  They told us about the school inside the church and how the kids needed a safe playground. Southbound 2011 started this...

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...

Hi friends & family - thanks for visiting my blog and supporting my upcoming journey! As you know, I'm pressing the pause button on life as I currently know it! No more rushing for and squashing onto the train and tube during rush hour traffic, no more 9-5 behind a desk in an Investment Bank, no more automatic access to lattes, facebook, gmail and the world wide web :) Instead there'll be 13 countries, 5 continents, 15 kgs on our backs in 80 Days! Japan, Malaysia, Bali, Laos, Sri Lanka, Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Portugal, Spain here we...

we walked up Mount Sanai walking up there was amazing. It took us three hours maybe more but the whole time wlking up there i kept thinking how did Moses ever do it, and what more was there that God wanted him to see or lose  before He came into His precence. you lose the sence of time and really start asking God what you need to ask like : am I on the right path or am I seeking you like I should..? we are bound to each other by choice, but what choice are we bound to God...

God has been so faithful.

n

After sending out hundreds of emails to various corporate bodies in South Africa, amazingly Pick & Pay responded!

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...

 A certain man lame from his mother's womb was carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple to ask alms from those who entered the temple; who, seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple, asked for alms.  And fixing his eyes on him, with John and Peter said, "Look at us." So he gave them his attention, expecting to receive something from them.  Then Peter said, "Silver and gold I do not have, but what I do have I give you:  In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk."  And...

It’s a warm and sunny Sunday morning as Bernard and Freddy embark on a journey where the living God became even truer in our lives. A journey which will be part of our lives forever. Before we went on our Luke 10 journey, God gave me a promise in 1 Kings 17:14 which says:” For this is what the Lord, the God of Israel says: There will always be flour and olive oil left in your containers until the time  when the Lord sends rain and the crops grow again!”

What a privilage to deliberately choose to give up control and security and to go into the world and preach the good news!!!!!! Honesly, as I made the decision to join global challenge, fear kicked in and I reasoned with myself about the advantages and disadvantages of my decision.  But I realised that God speaks to your heart, and that although He always gives you a choice, He is thrilled when you first seek Him and His will.  I am just a regular girl with a normal life, sometimes not even reading my bilble, but I want God to change...

How blessed are we to serve to a God of mysteries. Not only does it keep things interesting (to say the least), but it teaches us to constantly surrender all our worries over to him and trust Him with it all .   We had such favor at the Macedonian Embassy in the first week of our stay in Turkey whilst applying for our visas, we were sure they would be approved.    Lesson 1 - do not rest your trust in things of this earth.   When returning to the embassy 2 weeks later (on Tuesday the 22 March),...