Participant Blogs

  Its Friday night and its my second last day at home before i embark on a journey of a lifetime! I am feeling very excited but also rather nervous. Packing a backpack of 15kgs for a year takes some hectic planning!! I am looking forward to getting rid of material baggage and walking in the Lords fullness. For me the greatest sacrifice this year will be leaving family and friends and missing my closest friends wedding. I have been asked to be her bridesmaid but i know that this year is not about me but its about greater things that still need...

A journey to never forget

I don’t believe in sin

Training Coming to Global has been my first big 'shift' in life, since I was homeschooled and never changed from hometown before. Not only has my physical circumstances changed but my heart and mind has reached some 180 degree changes as well. Our God is always eager to work in us and His grace is enough to do the work. During the first week of training we had a survivor camp. (But I never even knew that Global students has a survivor camp.) It was unforgettable. The first night I thought that I was going to die from the cold....

I don't have any words to describe my feelings. I'm so overwhelmed. First I was afraid and didn't know what to expect in Laos, but it turned out pretty good. This two weeks was a journey of patience for me. I spend some time with God to find out what His heart is for me. Then He came and show me that He is going to give me more and more challenges in life and on my journey and that will be the challenges that's going to make me grow closer to Him ! I had some challenges and with...

  I have never experienced a unity such as this. There is so much love in our team and overflowing joy. The other day we had a full on glee musical moment! Possibly the moment I am alive for hahaha! Kosovo is so good for the team. Every Time we get, what we think is sidetracked, God has an amazing different plan for us. (We didn't get our Chinese visas) We dedicated our year to be servants of God and He is using us. So far every time this happened the people we 'end up with by default' mention that...

There we were at the bus station in Nakhon Sawan with 3 tickets to Mae Sot and money to spare.  We were overjoyed, but that still didn’t solve another problem… we have not had a wash in almost 2 days and in the humidity of Thailand, well, you would not want to sit next to us on that bus. Luckily in this part of the world they do not use western toilets.  They have those “gat-in-die-grond” toilets with a bucket with water and a scoop next to it.  We each picked a cubicle and our bodies soaked up the fresh,...

23 November 2008 Flight from Johannesburg to Egypt 24 November 2008 Spent a day in Egypt - what a day it was. Johannesburg traffic is nothing compared to Cairo traffic.  In South Africa we have 3 lanes but in Cairo they have 5  and to make it even worse they just ignore the white and yellow lines.  All the cars are scratch and bumped but still they don't have road rage - what a good quality.  You can pay me R1000 000 and I won't drive there.  There is no traffic lights or stop signs.  You literaly have to hold your breath...

I dont really know what to say..........! But what i do know is that i am really enjoying myself!I have met the most amazing people and friends in this small period of time.Every day i am learning more and more....!I believe this year is going to be a amazing walk with God for me!I cant wait to go to Egypt i am so looking forward to it.And yes thats about that for now.........!P.S i love you all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The second North bound challenge started with 1 grapefruit and 1 mission; to get to the Sea of Galilee as quick as possible!!! A welcome surprise awaited our blue team as we met up with Anthony who was to give us the rest of the tasks. We heard that we would be challenging with an extra team member. His name.......Trent! Just to explain a bit: Trent is a guy we met while traveling in Israel. He is from Canada and is a youth pastor there at his church. The last couple of days he has been traveling with us and we have really...