Participant Blogs

No money, no phones, just the clothes on our backs and our Bibles...that is how we were sent out on our first Luke 10 mission. Four of us hitch hiked to St Francis Bay last Friday. Not knowing where exactly to go, we walked through the streets, intentionally looking for people to bless and pray for. Not by accident we stumbled across a youth group gathering that evening. We met Rachael, an American missionary, who invited us into her home for the weekend. We wanted to bless her with prayer, fellowship and encouragement, yet we were overwhelmed by the way...

The rest of China has happened since our last team blog and we have had an absolute blessed time! Our team is so thankful for what we have seen, learnt, experienced and what God did in our lives through all of it! Pictures will surely help the most in sharing our Yellow Team-time with you, so here are a couple of thousand words :-) At the Potala Palace in Tibet .   Invited to lunch with local friends.   A day out...also initiated and arranged by the local friends.   Yellow Girls*   Yet another household we got invited to.   Sally...

I can't believe we are actually done with training. Wow, God blessed me so much in such a short time...I can't wait to experience him in 11 different countries!

The Tropical pilgrimage continues Some time has past since our last sea gull letter exchange. Since then, I have sold the flock of sea gulls and have climbed aboard a dung Beatle who promised to take me overland. After our boat trip on the Amazon, she docked in Manaus, Brazil. My band of travel companions were welcomed by friend of friends who took us in for the night. We slept on blowup mattresses, on somebody's second floor. In the morning shopping was done for three days worth of road snacks. Gathering ourselves we took a day long bus ride. The...

One thing we experienced in an abundance during the last three weeks was how God loves to provide every single thing we needed. And sometimes even more than only our needs but even what we desired without any real need for it. God as our provider. This may sound familiar for you - so it was for me as well - because I heard a lot of teachings about this. But to experience his love and care for me in a daily way was something totally different. It was and is just mindblowing!!! Here are some examples: On the sea...

Wow, it is finally here, Global 2020! How did I get here? In retrospect, it's a humbling feeling looking back at your life, marveling at the Lords work!  Realising how loving and supportive the people around me have been on my journey but moreso how gracious and loving the Lord has been when I deserved His presence, blessing and love the least. I am amazed by the beauty and privilege of being part of the Lords plans! Making heaven busy, and bringing heaven to earth. I am left in wonder going into Global 2020, wondering where the Lord is taking...

During our time in Kuala Lumpur, the school had a movie fundraising event and we got to see the movie – Chronicles of Narnia:  Prince Caspian.

It has been a long time since my last blog and in the time it took me to blog again we changed countries! We went from Thailand to China, and what a shift that was! While we were in transit, we spent the night on Shanghai train station and we realised that it was Sunday the 19th - and everywhere were posters advertising the F1 race in Shanghai, today! We couldn't believe it and so we decided to go and see if we can watch some racing! We got to the train station and saw just one other tourist. We ran up to...

  8 days, 8 flights, 8 countries, 8 airports, chicken buses, jeepneys and many hours of transit hearing about how we must watch our baggage! Oh yes it sounds a little over exagerated but it really isn't. That is exactly how we got from Panajachel, Guatemala to Lapu Lapu City, Philippines. Travel team always sounds so exciting but there is always a huge amount of time involved. Leaving Guatemala I was excited to step out in the new understanding  of the authority I have in Jesus Christ. My main expectation was to be able to testify of what God had done...

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...