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Little boxes on the hillside, Little boxes made of ticky tacky, Little boxes on the hillside, Little boxes all the same. There's a green one and a pink one And a blue one and a yellow one, And they're all made out of ticky tacky And they all look just the same. And the people in the houses All went to the university, Where they were put in boxes And they came out all the same, And there's doctors and lawyers, And business executives, And they're all made out of ticky tacky And they all look just the same. And...

  Take a deep breath of Kenya, and your senses highten. The people are a integrated part of this land, constantly busy day and night. The arrival in Maasailand was truly breathtaking... In isolation we where able to appreciate the full measure of the creation. Even with the wildest expectation of what the Maasai would be like, we were still amazed. We arrived at night after induring the taxi for 160km from Narok at a village with the name of Olkoroi between the Maasai Mara and Kilimanjaro. The near death experience of getting to Maasailand was an expedition on its...

Kosovo Another unplanned country but it was the most liberating time I've had in sometime. Not working to hard physically so I had time to work on my mental state, like where I was with God and what's going on my life that I need to look at with his help, I found a book that I had as a youngling and it was about living for the kingdom after we die and how the stuff of earth is worthless. The fear of God is what I'm striving for ! I didn't know but in this country God started a...

If I speak with fluency in another language but have not love.  I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.  If I wear the national dress and understand the culture and all its customs so that I could pass for a national but have not love, I gain nothing.  Love endures long hours of language study and does not envy those who stayed at home.  Love does not exalt his home culture, is not proud of his national superiority, does not boast about the way we do it back home, does not think evil about his new country.  Love bears all criticism about his place of origin and believes the best about his new place of ministry.  Love endures all demands on personal time. 

How to "Walk Like an Egyptian" in Cairo...

  Hey everyone   We are currently in Morocco and I must admit that it is awesome.  The people here are great and the weather cannot be better.   Our first few days were spent in Fes, right inside the old city.  We stayed at some of the South Africans living there and got to see such a lot of the place.  One of the workers in Fes took us prayer walking on Friday and in the process we were invited by some of the locals for Sunday lunch.   Sunday lunch was one of the most memorable lunches ever.  Not...

"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...

There are points in my life that I can’t deny what I feel led to do. With that, every obstacle, hurdle, and challenge become something that may be hard to overcome, but there is no longer a question of whether I can overcome them.     Last November, I was hanging out with God. We were talking about things that were happening then, but also I was asking Him about what goals He wanted me to work towards in the future. He began showing me that I needed to participate in Global Challenge. Immediately I came up with a list of...

Wow Nanital I never thought I would be sooo cold in India, but here I am in a place of Gods beauty and it is breath taking.I have had the most amazing time here experiencing Gods love,and seeing it through all that have breath praise the Lord. we have had prayer walks and even Lize in our groupgot baptized today. God is Good. We have had a time of rest in God and experiencing His Love all around us... we have been truly blessed here...both spiritually and physically. it is going to be sad to leave India but who knows...

"I came that you may have life, and that in abundance."   31 days, 28 travel-buddies, 3 countries, 1 awesome God! I was given one month of life, the source of it and what makes it a gift. The past month in Africa was one of adventure, prayer, learning, changing. And rain. Lots and lots of rain! Both physically and spiritually, drencing me in God's love and leaving me soaked and rinsed from the grime that unnoticingly covers our hearts over time, to reveal a changed, unrecognisable new person.   As the drops fell from the sky in Maasai land...