Participant Blogs

  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...

Acho que até agora o nosso desafio fora outrso tem sido dormir aqui no Brasil... não por falta de cama, ou lugar , mas por falta de tempo.O pessoal da igreja Ágape (minha igreja :)..) é muito animado..até demais...construir relacionamentos aqui está sendo muito gostoso...o amor de todos por nós...o carinho...em poucas semanas estão quase todos do south bond falando português...é muito bom!! As familias se juntando..quebrando barreiras..diminuindo as distancias..o Senhor é maravilhoso.. tem falado muito conosco e trabalhado muito em nosso carater..aprender a depender dEle é a melhor parte...Todos os dias é uma lição nova...acordo todo dia com uma...

This is for any mom who's girl came home with the crazy idea of joining the Global Challenge...

26 March 2008 - by Yellow Team
 
Have you ever felt your tummy making spirals and flip flopping while you wait for your supper bill? It's not really the best of feelings, is it? This is exactly how we felt after sharing one of the best meals we've had with two locals. Wesley, Tjaart and Margot - the more active three in the team, met our friends while playing soccer with the scholars at the local school. On our last evening in the town of which name we're still not sure we invited the boy and his brother to have noodles with us. They suggested local lamb.

   Our prayers before coming to Colombia included lots of rain.  Thinking in the terms of spiritual rain, it turned out to be drops from the sky as well, and plenty of it!  Now, as everyone who has been a child knows, when you mix water and soil, you get:  MUD!     With this in mind, after a long day of digging holes and opening up pipes, the Yellow team, having the advantage of being on top of the hill, decided that a “friendly” attack on the Blue and Silver teams, working down under, would be a good idea…...

2 months of Australia, 1 of Tasmania! Half of the team is here on the island, doing volunteer work at farms and houses, the other half is at sheep farms, raising founds for the rest if the year and maybe an extra country! (Muller still with us in Spirit) There's time for going out on the streets, and time for working, "embrace the season you're in" or you'll never live fully.. Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted. Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth. (‭Matthew‬ ‭5‬:‭4-5‬ NIV)

The last time you heard from me was when we were at Stephan’s place in Hatyai in the south of Thailand.  Since then so much has happened.  I shall try to keep it short as I run you through Angelo, Henro and De Necker's adventures. Sunday the 8th marked the start of our Luke 10.  That meant that for the duration of the journey we had no access to personal or team money, no extra clothes than those that we were wearing and no plan.  We did have Bibles, toothbrushes, passports, I took the computer for blogging purposes and I...

We spend the last two weeks in the Transkei. The first week we were in Coffee Bay where we helped to renovate a small Christian school. While we were building, fixing, painting and moving around things in the school and the house of the lady who started it, God was doing the same in the houses of our souls. We had teachings on Spiritual warfare and deliverance, where we learned to face our sins and mistakes and to give them to Jesus so that He can free us. We were filled with the fullness of the Holy Spirit so that...

Back in Jeffrey’s Bay it seems like have been away for at least a month! Reality is that it was only two weeks, but looking back at everything that I experienced, all the ways I have grown and how God has changed my heart, time must have stood still at some point! 

Why Me?? Why?? Why did you grow up in a western country? Why did you get to go to school, get a family who has all they need, get a bed to sleep on and your own room? Why did you grow up knowing Jesus? Why did you get food everyday for three meals a day? Why did you get parents that are still alive? Why did you get to live in a place of oppurtunity where you have options? Why ME??? Why not the african kid sitting in the slum? Why not the orphan depressed and abandoned? Why not the...