Participant Blogs

Panajachel is a little town in Guatemala. The vibrant streetlife eccoes the evermoving waters of the lake and the women -all still in traditional dress- carry themselves with the same silent grace with wich the volcanoes rise in the distance. It is here, amidst this coulerful array of life, that we found ourselves living for about a month. 

  For King and Country has a song and the lyrics goes as follow: To every soul locked in a cage in the prison of your past mistakes there is no time left to waste, you can make a great escape. We were made to run wild. This pretty much describes the past 19 years of my life. Fear has made its way into the deepest parts of my heart. Fear of failing. Fear of not being good enough. Fear of missing out. And a deep seeking of acceptance. Before Global I never realized how much emotional weight I have...

Today was our first day of wandering around in Cairo, and it was awesome! We whent to see the pyramids, experienced the markets and we are planning on going for a boat cruise on the nile tonight, and all this with less than R100! Not going into the pyramids though, but we could get to within about 200m of the pyramids.  We arived in Cairo yesterday, but before that we where spoiled at a desert retreat! It was amazing and the friendly people there treated us like family with large home cooked meals! With our departure in South Africa we...

We finished our last exam on Saturday the 6th of December and with that 12 years of school has come to an end. It was a great privilege and opportunity to do Home School and a blessing learn values over such a long time from their lives. The years passed in a blur!! All came to an end far to quickly, now a new world awaits us. We decided to take a Gap Year and serve the Lord Jesus in the nations of the world and in doing so, listen to what the Lord Jesus specifically call us to do...

Guatemala - More more more!! We arrived in Guatemala City on the 17 th of May and from there we chicken-bussed our way to a beautiful touristy town called Panajachel, on a lake between some volcanoes. We were received by a modern-day-proper-follower-of-Jesus, ridiculously-on-fire-for-God couple, Ben and Lilly. Each night we received teachings from Ben on baptism, spiritual warfare, casting out demons etc. and we also got our hands dirty and went out and practiced these things!  Ah I love these people!! Our time with them meant so much to me, I am changed for ever! I just want to be...

Coming back from Luke 10, it was so great to see the rest of the team again, but still I found myself alone in the corner, many times.  Just reflecting on everything that happened and trying to make sense of it all.  What am I saying?  How can I ever try to figure God out??& nbsp; I don’t need to understand His will to do it!

 

This is a testimony so close and dear to my heart...

This week was the most wonderful week ever. In this six weeks I have been with Global Challenge I have grown a lot.

"Hey, Jeremy you want to write a team blog for us?"-Carmen-Ann

"Um....yeah sure, I have no idea what I'm going to say..."-Jeremy

"Just update them about what we do."-Carmen-Ann

"Oh...have we done anything?"-Jeremy

"No, not really but we making head way."-Carmen-Ann

One month ago, we sat/lay on the floor of Ben Gurion Int. Airport not knowing what to expect from Israel and having no idea what lay ahead. Today we sit in the same airport, wearing the same clothes as when we arrived (washed, of course) but our hearts are completely changed.   To put our Israel experience into words would be a great injustice as there are not nearly enough words in the English vocabulary to explain each one in detail.   Israel in a nutshell from each one of our teammates looks a little something like this:   David...