Participant Blogs

The Ultimate Challenge What a wonderful challenge!! Thank you to my partner in crime, Gerhard Heyden , for all the hard work and preperation that went into the New Zealand challenge.  We make a great team!    Each team got a Iwi Maori tribe name!    1 Team member had to paddle to Tor Bay and catch a fish!!   2 Team activities on the beach!!!    Go team go!!!   GCX team 2008     

To be a mom is not easy.  NO I don't have children of my own!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I babysit, our new friends here in China, children.  I just realize to be a mom is very hard work, but it is also fun.  The parents went away for the weekend.  We spent some time alone with the three children it was fun. Some other things that I learned during our time here: How do you forgive someone that hurt you?  Do you forgive but always think back off it or do you want to do something back to that person?  Think for a moment how God forgive us....

  Ever wondered what happens on a Challenge where you would have to travel a couple of thousand K´s in a couple of days? L anded in Mendoza, Argentina we had 6 days to get to Peru, Lima – this is the raw uncut MINI series of what happened enjoy - THE LIME JOURNEY     [video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lP6plkoCWuA 400x400]   [video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWnzY9mZNws&feature=channel 400x400]   [video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kt7biNpOTxk&feature=channel 400x400]   [video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MT0YEVPfgxQ&feature=channel 400x400]   [video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiQrPiB99J4&feature=channel 400x400]   [video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgMx_cccK_g&feature=channel 400x400]   [video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_sbh7e7JwM&feature=channel 400x400]   [video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8bW5pbFPII&feature=channel 400x400]   [video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsgBcEsoqCk&feature=channel 400x400]   n [video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIpV0VYJhDk 400x400]   [video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koKiLciYCRs 400x400] [video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGVVYUwVUIA 400x400]   [video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kyw0khYfGMc&feature=channel 400x400]   [video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgjNDWGi55c 400x400]  

Check out the map put together by Danie... its our travels thus far! the colours shows if it was by flight or overlanding with bus or hitchhiking! :) Enjoy! Hope it is clear enough! GOD IS GOOD!

[video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UaK_82PgCk 640x480] The Amazing Amazon Adventures continues to the western region of Brazil. We are literally walking in the footsteps that God has set out for us. Thank you for your prayers. Much Love

We have been working for the last couple of weeks in a small town in Guatemala called – Panajachel. When I say work I mean building. I have learnt a few things and one of these many new talents is to lay bricks. Well a week a go I got the challenge- “lay 3 bricks” – quite easy when you think about it. And I was so eager to work I accepted the challenge immediately. Not knowing that a few people have tried to lay these 3 bricks and because of uneven foundation and so intense retries these 3 bricks...

After Langkawi it was a 1500km hike to Kho Chang, a Thai island close to the Cambodian border.  After only 33 hours, numerous lifts including a 10h one from southern Thailand into Bangkok on the back of a twin cab Hilux... tight squeeze, we were on the island and met up with South Bound (one of the other GCX teams).  So while everyone worked, went on fishing and snorkelling trips and had good food, I was admitted into hospital for Dengue fever.  I started feeling feverish in Langkawi, but thought it was just too much sun.  After 4 days of...

Reality check!!! As this is a journey based on a God seeking lifestyle I firmly believe that this year isn't just a year', but part of an intergril season. A season in our lives where our attitudes are moulded, characters shaped and actions initiated according to God's will for each individual. So where does that leave me? SAME SUZI... BUT DIFFERENT :) But what God did reveal to me and what I would like to share is that of Romans 13... My choices (as God gives me free will) may not always lead to or be sinful- but they do...

We dedicate this video to NG Vaalrivier Vanderbijlpark to thank them for their contributions to our team and our travels as we spread the love of Christ throughout the world. Thank you! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyKX64yr8uo

It took one phone call to change our entire situation; one phone call completely changed our position, changed our spirits and changed our attitudes towards God. These last three days has been an unimaginable experience into the work speed of God, God-speed; a time of being awestruck in the reality of what happens when you wait on the LORD, and He starts moving.   The summary goes something like this: I swam in the Amazon with the locals where piranhas were caught, ate alligator meat, slept on the roof of the boat with my tent and got wet, bathed with...