Participant Blogs

The Lord sent us to Blimbingsari and we are so blessed to be here. God gave us a place to connect and encourage the people here. We are working/playing in an orphanage in Bali. We are working threw  a lot of teachings and it opened my eyes to new things that will take with me thou life. The time gap between this blog and the previous blog was full of everything. Enjoy reading.

6 weeks ago, if people asked me, why are you doing Global Challenge. My answer would have typically been something in the line of: "I am determined to find God and revelation" or "I want to take my relationship with God deeper and gain wisdom and favor" or even "I want to change the world". Those are typically seen as a pretty honorable answers to the question. Well at least that is what I thought, but never have I been so wrong... After hearing stories, surviving a couple of days in the bush, building a road, trekking the Transkei, Luke...

The joy, frustration, excitement, exhaustion, thrills, scenery and divine appointments all contribute to an unforgettable experience.    Here follows a brief overview of our Africa traveling experiences thus far.

 

  Identity book in Jesus Christ Northbound has arrived in China for a week, and tomorrow will be the final destination of some of our teams. We have no clue what we doing, but we never do because God is in control. No-one speaks english here besides us, and anonymous people. So far my Global experience has been amazing to say the least, not only because of my great team members, but most of all it's because of my God in heaven!! We had a prayer morning asking God to really show us what His perfect will for us as...

On a steaming hot summer day, *Alida* sits under the Mango tree in Shinganga village. Aged 35, mother of three, grandmother of one - her heart aches, because her husband wants to bring another woman into the house. *Alida* lost her father at 8 and her mother at 13. She had to leave school at Gr. 5, because there was no sponsor for school fees. What was a girl to do? So she married very young and became a mother. Together with her sister she rests her head against the tree. They dream of a better life. They believe there...

Looking around me I see so much hurt, so much hunger, so much poverty and so many people reaching out for just a little bit of help and I cannot but feel the urgency to address their immediate needs. However, what I have learned during my time in India is that there is a difference to responding to the need and acting on the calling.

People kill, and people are dying
Children hurt, can you hear them crying?
Do we practice what we preach,
Or do we turn the other cheek?
Father Father, help us
Send some guidance from above
‘Cause people got me questioning,
Where is the love?

Black Eyed Peas - Where is the love?

 

Recently, a book titled Principle Centered Leadership caught my eye when I visited my Mom.  Stephen R Covey captured my attention quickly in the first chapter and very soon I came across a line he used that almost jumped right out of the page and was highlighted in my thoughts ever since.
“The challenge”, he said, “is to be a light, not a judge and to be a model, not a critic.”

  Dear friends and family. After 600km behind the back the last 60 km being dirt the going really got tough. But that did not dampen the spirits of our two taxi drivers and their 7 seater Peugot 504 station wagons. If i am impressed with a vehicles off road performance then it cannot be to bad. After a eventful day we eventually arrived in Abong. Abong a tiny village on the banks of the Benue river, not a common place for a foreigner  to cross into Cameroon. The border is not even marked on our map. It was through Abigail...

     

 After experiencing many miracles traveling from Colombia to Peru, via the Amazon I must add, we arrived in Chiclayo.  To mention but a few, we slept on the pier waiting for our 16 hour speedboat ride on the Amazon; ran out of petrol and drifted in the Amazon for about 2 hours, which ended up in a praise&worship session on the roof of the boat; slept inside a locked airport, all by ourselves; overnight bus ride from Lima to Chiclayo – which only cost us R70!