Participant Blogs

Assignment: locate an empty space in a small town and furnish it as a restaurant Time frame: 3 weeks Obstacles: language and limited budget Modus Operandi: Chinese frasebook, a lot of hand signs and creativity Mission: possible!   So there we were. Three team members in a tibetan town in rural China.We had to find a place to hire as a restaurant, and to furnish and decorate it to function as a pizza restaurant. Normally not too difficult, but considering the location quite a challenge! But we were up for it! God really prepared the way for us. We were...

Training ended on a high note Thursday evening and the Global Challengers of 2013 are ready to go! The Commissioning was so special - we gathered at Global Junction, with almost the entire Global Challenge community in attendance. We had a fantastic time swapping stories and memories from training while eating the mouth-watering food they prepared for us. We also received our Global Challenge gear, which really finalized it for me: I am now ready to go into the nations!

In 8 weeks of training, Global Challenge has transformed my whole way of thinking. Not only in my spiritual life, but in everyday living as well. I realised that my way of living is not in any way the standard of the rest of the world's. I was so consumed with the everyday routine, that was passed on from one generation to the next and finally to me, that I never even imagined that things could be done differently in other parts of the COUNTRY (nevermind the world). Spiritually these 8 weeks has enriched how I read my Bible, how...

Our time in Panama was split in two - the first few days in Gamboa, a beautiful, tranquil cul de sac little town on the Panama Canal with pastor Bill and the last few days in buzzing Panama City on the 15th floor of a hotel with the vibrant YWAM students. Gamboa is situated in a lush green jungle, where sloths hang in trees and howler monkeys cry out loud from deep within the jungle. Here we had the great opportunity to do prison ministry and pray over a notorious political figure who was charged to life sentence in jail...

We experienced a lot in these last few days. We slept like logs in the evenings, because we had a “strenuous” schedule. We had to do a lot of awesome activities as part of our challenge.

Its the 12th of January and Basecamp 2009 has started! Explore Africa divided up into two teams and together with the other ten small teams of North- and Southbound, started to explore Jeffreys Bay in an amazing race.  We had to take variuos pictures at different places as allocated on our task paper.  The finishline is in sight and and Explore Africa Team 1 is going strong. Only ten more cars to wash and a tasty snoek to braai!   Go Explore Africa!    

When we arrived in Peru, we did not have any information about what we would be doing while we were there. There was a lot of change. We could not even imagine what we would be doing the next day. Each day was a surprise. The Pastor that we were working with had organized that we would distribute Bibles and present dramas in schools. The first day we did a drama and gave the Bibles out to the children. But sometimes, we did not have the opportunity to do a drama and share the gospel, we were only able to...

Since I arrived in Jeffreys Bay I have learnt so much about God and who He is. Training has been such a great blessing and it is such a great privilege to be able to dwell on God's word and be in the presence of other young people who are seeking God's heart. Every day I am learning more about what it means to die in ourselves, and it is a continuous process but I trust that this is something that God will help me with throughout the year.  I have also learnt so much about the freedom that lies in...

  It all happened so fast, because it felt like yesterday where we arrived in this warm country. One moment we were still in an air-conditioned airplane, but the next we were outside in the heat. What lied ahead was something which everyone was a little bit afraid of. We went to the Himalayas for a week to do a VERITAS course, just to escape the heat and the noise of Delhi. We arrived there and had the best time there, and God really treated us a lot! We saw the top point of the majestic mountains and it was the...

Col3:15 "And let the peace that comes from Christ rule in your hearts. For as members of one body you are called to live in peace. And always be thankful." Okay, yes, the pink team did make history!!!!!!! We won our first challenge. I think by now everyone heard how awesome our race from Kuala Lumpoer(Malaysia) to Phukhet(Thailand) was and how God provided for us all the way. A few highlights were riding on elephants, the Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpoer and the amusement park, but most of all the people. The people blessed us so much. They gave us...