Participant Blogs

As we entered Peru after a daunting 56 hour bus ride through Ecuador, we left the tropics behind for miles and miles of desert coastline. Oom Hendrik and Tannie Ronel, 2 South African missionaries, welcomed us into their safe haven home with their playful, black hairless puppy, Ruby, to get some much needed rest before starting our busiest ministry point of the year in Trujillo. Wow, what a warm welcome we received from pastor Abner, Kelly and the Peregrino church with a big SA flag welcome banner, a slide show which made us proud to be South African and many...

It's clean, life giving,it changes. It's made by You, for You. It's an outcry of joy: Your Son is alive Sorrow is also present in every drop because Your sons & daugters denies You everyday. Gracefully joy returns with vengence as your children returns to their Father. Don't ever stop purifying, overflowing, blessing. Rain on me, open the floodgates of heaven. Please wash me away until only You remain! Amen, Amen, Amen...  

"He is not here, he has risen." Looking back at Israel, I realized that we have been blessed more than we could ever have dreamt or imagined. We went to Israel only for 1 week, but it is a week that I will never forget. We might think that it is hard to live in South Africa, but we have no idée. Jews and Moslems fight over land and their religions. The capital city Jerusalem is torn between the Jews and the Palestine. In the midst of everything, they miss the only thing that really matters, our Savior that was...

For the past 3 weeks we have been exploring Cuba. Travelling between Havana and Santiago, we experienced the flavours and colours of Cuban food, shopping, worship, socialising and God's hand in it all. I wrote down a few tips and tricks we learnt during our stay. The budget traveller's guide to Cuba Accommodation: Throughout Cuba, foreigners can rent rooms in the locals' houses, these are called Casa Particulares and are marked with a special sign which indicates that it is 'legit'. Be sure to do a lot of Casa Particulares-shopping before settling, as their prices and quality differ. God was...

India was a beautiful platform to start off as our first country. We learned some valuable lessons and really experienced God’s favour and provision for the team. What was really interesting and heartbreaking about this nation was that most of the people are looking for something to worship, but are blinded to the one and only true God. It was a challenge to see the person as a person and not the idolatry. But fact is that they are God’s people and it’s His country and He loves them. We have been so privileged to be part of God’s story...

Atatiaia After arriving in Sau Paulo the big team split up into two groups, as you all know the green team stayed behind in Sau Paulo while the Yellow team went on to Atatiaia.  Picture an orange and yellow painted house in a nature reserve on a mountain with an amazing view of the valley below, capouchen monkeys swinging around in trees that towers over the house and hummingbirds swiftly flying past not afraid to sit on your finger to drink from the sweetend water on the porch railing. It was a wonderful experience as we went to visit many...

  For 12 days we stayed in a church in Gamboa, across the panama canal. One of our verses for the year is Isaiah 55:5 'Surely you will summon nations you know not, and nations you do not know will come running to you.' Everyday, huge ships travel through the Panama canal from the other side of the world and we got to watch them sail past. They didn't exactly come running but instead these nations came slowly sailing past us. It was Gods word spoken in the beginning and we got to see it being fulfilled and that's exactly...

Date: 02 March 2009 Place: Anafora / Cairo, Egypt   Our time in Egypt began with a climate shock. We expected to experience warm weather conditions, but instead our layers of jackets emerged. During the first few days we stayed 50km outside of Cairo, called Anafora, studying and dwelling into the Bible. Learning so much about our great God. Then we left for Cairo.. and experienced Cairo to the fullest in the first 2 days. These 2 days we explored the city and experienced the Egyptians way of living… also looking for a souvenir. We had close encounters with their...

 

Waiting actively on God, seeking His will and well waiting, is really rewarding!!!

   Israel oh Israel, you were such a interesting country. We arrived here not knowing where we are going, but God took me on one incredible journey. I was in for a big surprise when I thought that Israel was just a boring country full of people stuck in history.    In our first week I hit rockbottom, we had some really tough times and I started to miss home a lot. But I learned that it's only when you hit rockbottom that you realize that God is the rock. Luckily we all made it through that first week, and...