Participant Blogs

  While Detlef and I hitch-hiked across Senegal and Mali the rest of the team were somewhere in Senegal busy with their Luke 10.   Wayne led the team and they took Luke 10 very literally. Taking just enough money to get somewhere into the interior of Senegal and then the train from there to Bamako.   The intense heat in the interior caught them off-guard, as did the poverty of the people. They ended up in a small village where nobody had much food left. Spending a few days there they basically lived of the Mango trees. Here they...

Welcome to the Pearl of Africa… Walking into the nation of Uganda we were greeted by this sign. I don’t know why Uganda was originally labeled this but I do know I have found reasons why it should be. A pearl is formed through an intense process that isn’t easy or simple but once it makes it through the process you have a beautiful pure ball that we now wear and that is expensive to purchase. War, rebels, child soldiers, aids, orphans, poverty… There are still 9 districts in Uganda healing and trying to recover from the trauma from Joseph...

    Our journey kicked off in Cancún, Mexico, where we had to travel for 10 days and meet up with the rest of the team in Guatemala. My group got a lift to Merida which is a big city in Mexico where we spent our first night sleeping at the bus station where we got chased away at 12pm. We found another bus station where they let us sleep.    Early morning we started hitchhiking towards Campeche. The lady we got a lift with was actually on her way to Cuidad del Carmen which was even better for us....

The blue team has been scattered over Malaysia and Thailand this month.  Some who went to Thailand gave English at a University.  Others help to build some houses and the rest who staid at Malaysia are helping at a school for underprivileged children with odd jobs and teaching. 1 Corinthians 12:12-14 For just as the body is a unit and yet has many parts, and all the parts, though many, form only one body, so it is with Christ, the Messiah, the Anointed one. For by one Holy Spirit we were all, whether Jews or Greeks, slave or free, baptized,...

We're staying in a quaint little town called Dahab at the Red Sea with small little restaurants all along the coastline. I's a touristy town with Egyptians bargaining for best prizes everywhere... "Welcome to Egypt!" rings in your ears every day and wtih that the sound of an Imam screaming towards heaven 5 times a day - the cry of Egyptian's hearts. In the longing of their eyes they cry out for love and forgiveness and most of all hope. Who will tell them of a living God that IS love? Who will be the messenger of hope? I had...

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...

The journey began on a Friday 4 February... and what a journey it has been! It has been some of the most amazing days of the year thus far. We helped build a rondawel, we learnt to speak Xhosa, we prayed, we made new friends, we dug a toilet, we prayed some more, we dug a vegetable garden and we worshipped BUT most importantly we were part of what God is doing in Mahosheni changing the lives of the people for all eternity and making Mahosheni a city on a hill that cannot be hidden. We asked some of the...

Kenya and beyond                  I'm listening to Reggae and classical guitar music simultaneously as they compete for my attention, both expressions of changing and merging cultures found Kenya and beyond I'm listening to Reggae and classical guitar music simultaneously as they compete for my attention, both expressions of changing and merging cultures found in the Distant Relatives Eco back packers our team is staying in. After two weeks in Tanzania and serving in Kenya our team has had a couple of days to debrief, lighten our backpacks and take final sips and deep...

Welcome to my first blog!  We had the privilege to experience a lot during the training time, but I just want to share two of my highlights. The survival week was one of my favourite times in traning. The fact that we had every day challenges against the other teams to get food changed my thinking about it, we should be thankful for our daily dishes and it is a privilege to have enough to eat. I enjoyed my teammates and the fact that we did everything together as a team. Luke 10- journey: We had the task to travel...

Every Luke 10 faith journey looks different. The single similarity however is the golden thread of God’s greatness that is weaved into each adventure. This greatness is often displayed in the provision, protection and extraordinary miracles God does through ordinary people. With the memory of my previous 3-day journey from Mthatha to Jeffrey’s Bay still in the back of my mind, I felt slightly nervous hearing about the next level of trust: 7 days (and 7 nights) relying on God to lead, provide, cross a pretty broad language barrier and use us to display His glory in a foreign land...