Participant Blogs

Africa Africa... Imagine with me for a second, going to school and working really hard to overcome the poverty your family lives in. Working hard in school so that you can do something with your life and finally getting a good job on a plantation. As you stand there washing your clothes maybe thinking about how you finally made it out of the poverty, you see rebels with guns come out of no where and your friends run. They surround you and kidnap you, putting you in a truck. Your life is gone. You have no one and are being...

Were to begin, where to begin...... Our time in Guatemala was spent on a few very different things and so much happened that I can not give a chronological exposition of our time there, but broke it into pieces, from the crazy to me (with me of course the least crazy :P ) Triking Triking, where to begin... The best description that I can give is that you take a bike; grind off the back end; weld a round steel bar to the back with a rod and two small wheels with no traction in it and try to fit...

When I think of India, I think of poverty, a sense of hopelessness and a nation in desperate need of a savior.   These where some of the things I firs noticed when I entered the country.  That was all I saw until we arrived at the orphanage.   The children welcomed us with warm smiles and lots of love!  We staid with them for 2 weeks, giving and receiving love while painting their school. I was amazed at the amount of faith the children had and how they didn’t let their circumstance hinder their relationship with Christ.  I got a glimpse...

After a long time of no blogs from my side, one is finally going up again! Today is our last day in Panajachel. Tomorrow we embark on our Luke 10 journey from here in Guatemala to go and see if we can reach Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica with no funds. After a lot that has happend in my life I decided not to write a blog about Croatia simply because I could not put it into words! It was wonderful, yet horrible. It was so good for me, but it took so much from my side. It was one...

  So, without further due... here is what happened on the rest of the Yellow team's challenge... as we promised! After putting up our previous blog, we left Kuala Lumpur at 24:00 that morning, on our way to the Thailand border, still on mission: get to Phuket and pitch our tents on Nai Yang beach. We travelled there 7 hours and crossed the border at 07:00 without any delays. First stop in thailand was Hat Yai,  a town aproximately 10km from the border post. Wewere very excited to finally be home 9well not quite yet) to our home for the next...

Thousands upon thousands of Senegalese slaves were transported to the House of Slaves, from where they were to be sold on the slave market to their future owners. As they were transported to the island where the House of Slaves were situated, they saw the last sight of their beloved continent and country. I can imagine the sorrow, bitterness and hatred the slaves must have felt towards the people that have captured them into the slave industry. In the House of Slaves the sadness and the gloom is still hanging over every room where the slaves were kept. There is a...

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Transkei... what a privilage! The journey began with a "blikskud" in Port-Elizabeth where 44 students raised R18000 in 3 hours for the TRANSKEI AIDS PROJECT.The North-Bound and Work-your-way teams stayed in Mahosheni just 18km from Coffee Bay. We slept in traditional Xhosa huts (with a chicken named Betty), took "skottel" baths, ate African stamp mielies and played with the local kids... The main projects for the week was to build a rondawel, a stone house as an AIDS clinic, to create a Veggie-tunnel and to dig a "longdrop". If we had to highlight only a few of our best memories...

Name: Debre é Kluge Age: 25 Religion: Christian Weight: NEED TO KNOW ONLY Time at agency: 4½ years Mission : Fighting the enemy, being a bearer of good news, making sure my co-super secret spies’ armour are A-OK (they check mine too on a regular basis – standard procedure) Report from the field: Since departing from SA 5 months ago, the enemy has been on the move. We have seen him deceive multitudes in China, Malaysia, Thailand and India. But hope remains. Our Commander-in-Chief has been with us personally since day one, providing our strategies, strength, and in every physical...

I think I understand better now, why Jesus moved and walked around so much instead of staying in one place - well, at least one of the reasons... We get too comfortable too quickly. Our beds, our couch, our pillow, our food, our family and friends, our language - all these things become our comfort zones. We start finding our comfort in them instead of finding it in the Comforter Himself. Today we saw, served, loved and worked with people who have become comfortable... Comfortable in their uncomfortable state. Comfortably stuck in their poverty of spirit. In their helplessness, their...