Participant Blogs

We are sad to tell you that one of our red team members, Johannes, will not be able to travel with us any further this year. Johannes returned to South Africa, and plan to work among the broken and hurt people of Johannesburg. He is also looking forward to spend some real quality time with his family, as it is the first time in 3 years that he has this opportunity. As a red team we release Johannes with all our blessings and pray with him that God will reveal Himself and that his heart for the lost in Johannesburg...

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...

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...

Red Hill, Cape Peninsula

09 February 2008 

Raging fires across the Cape Peninsula have destroyed houses and left people with nothing.
 The runaway fire did the most damage in Red Hill, an informal settlement, where at least 55 houses have been burned down and more than 90 people have been displaced.
 “All I have left is the clothes on my body,” says Wonder. A single guy living in Red Hill. His house was completely burned to the ground while he was at work.
 Global Challenge (GC) Staff who is working with All Nations in the area decided to visit Red Hill and access the damage.
 “We were completely shocked at the extent of the damage,” says Stefan Kleyn, GC Staff member.

Davis, aka The Ambassador greeted us with his white smile and a dashing white suit on Sunday morning. He was ready for church. Marié and I ran some last errands, I all the while thinking how the heck is this guy going to keep his white suite white. Why would he even bother with one? It won't stay white, I could guarantee him that. Everything is dusty in Busia, Uganda. Even the tar road has a thick layer of dust making it unrecognizable – and we were far away from the tar road anyway. We were to go on The...

What do you really know about China? Beijing is the capital and host of the 2008 summer Olympics. Just about everything is “Made in China”. Locals speak a funny language and have a really weird alphabet. They aren’t open to the gospel of Jesus Christ.  And the closest you’ve ever been to speaking Chinese is shing, chong, sha! Is that about it? That’s about as much as we knew until about 3 weeks ago. So here is what we’ve learned since…

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...

Something that I have learned from my team this year is the value of family, especially being able to enjoy meals together around a table, preferably a long table. We have had many special moments. Serious moments, sad moments, but most of all a lot of very funny moments. The table is a place where you can sit down, relax and be yourself with the people you love. Through the year God has brought many people from the outside to sit at our table. They would sit down as strangers, but they would leave as family. I believe the table...