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Mozambique/ Zanzibar Journey

Phase One

I've always liked and preferred Land Cruisers. We owned one once and in my dreams I always see myself driving a Land Cruiser through Africa.

Yet, such is God's irony, and humour, that he sent me on a mission trip with a Land Rover. The vehicle I was taught to fear.

We are currently serving at an orphanage in India. We are building into their lives by teaching. And this is a letter that one of my girls wrote on an assignment I gave them. Age 13 Too My Dearest Friend, Jesus, thank You for giving me this good wonderful day to send you a letter. I am so thankful to you. Jesus, why you are my light? Sometimes I can’t understand why you are my light? Now I understand when I read your Holy Scripture in John 8:12 and I come to know that, You are the light of my...

‘A refreshing yet bumpy experience of diabolical roads and lush green landscape’

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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...

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...

Of course being in London you see a lot of the royal family. Deep down most people want to be part of the royal family. You maybe dream of marrying prince William and to follow in the footsteps of princess Diana. With so much authority and money at your disposal you can change the world. Maybe you dream about being the king and to rule the country. It could be great - everyone looking up to and wishing they could be just like you. I wondered about the royal family and their responsibilities and most of all their hearts. Being...

  2 Chronicles 29 tells how the first thing Hiskia did to restore the country was to clean out the temple - this cleaning was not only to remove what was impure, but also to literally take a very dirty temple, and clean it out. This is something I've learned throughout this year and once again during our first week in Egypt: What a glorious, holy task cleaning is to God. This was the first thing He placed on the heart of a king who sounght out His will! Cleaning can be seen as an insignificant job, but in both...

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...

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 is our mission?

 

As Global Challenge, we travel around the world in a God-seeking lifestyle, serving the nations and spreading the Gospel of Jesus Christ.  In the different places we visit, we come alongside the local churches or missionaries and try to serve the local communities in any way we can.