Participant Blogs

Sahlep n.  a traditional winter warmer, a common beverage in Turkey.  The powder of Sahlep is sold in a ready-to-prepare form, to be mixed with cold milk or water, boiled until it gets thick so that it can really sooth our sore throats and take away that cold during the blistery winter days. The dust of cinnamon makes it even more pleasurable.  It is thick, it is sweet, it is comforting.    I would like to use this delicious drink, made out of orchids, as a metaphor to describe my time in Turkey:   As we arrived with a lot...

Brazil is insane cool. This must be my favorite place. It is beautiful and we are with a youth group that NEVER leaves. Each night the team thinks we are going to bed earlier (10 pm) and then we hear… the bell. We open the door and person after person walks in. Then we make dinner and most of the times desert is included. They will cheer at anything and loves card games and soccer games and LOVES worshipping. And we get to join in it all. I love the body of Christ. They just want to know the Father...

The best host family ever!! Melanie, Johan and Liné. Early morning view from home    Visiting the Tor in chilly July weather!   Naeun and I - one of my 8-years-old group at the winter camp!   Debree and I hanging out with Liné at Starbucks! They don't call it challenge for nothing!!  

hey there every one what up, guys the 1st week at global chalange was amazing and full of fun. we had an adveture race and rebuild an skool and their toilets. hard work but rewording.well God is working in amaZing ways and in people's lives please pray for us and the conteys and for finances. thanx and Godspeed pj

Hi, Angelo Petersen here! My Luke 10 experience. When we (De Necker, Henro and I) arrived in Mae Sot(In Thailand next to the Myanmar border) we didn’t know what the Lord expected us to do. We heard about a farmhouse school and we wanted to go and seek out our ‘man of peace’ there. But we couldn’t find it. Then we took a moment to pray together and ask the Lord exactly where he wanted us to go. We then found a hospital and felt we should go there and pray for the people there. We then found a nun...

                                                        Guatemala Going camping Preparing for an awesome Tryke Session. Page 2 It is so hard to put into words when God comes and wrecks your mind with totally new revelation that changes the way that you perceive and think about life. Guatemala and the work that God did there surely changed me and the group, realizing how vast and amazing his Grace is, what it truly means to be a son and...

My Journey began in 2013 as soon as I heard I’m accepted for Global. The biggest Challenge at that time was to trust God to provide finances for me to go on Global in 2014. I had this knowledge in me that God will provide for my family (I have seen it through the years growing up), but for the first time I have to trust Him to provide for ME. I can surely tell you that God is, Yehovah Jirah: The God that provides.  By beginning of January this year I already had more than half of my funds...

I would love to report the first taste of travelling was a local cusine made by a friendly stranger in the side of the street who couldn't help but allow a friendly 'mzungu' to taste what she was making BUT unfortunately my first taste of travelling was the previous nights dinner  :( The excitement, the heat, the heat and did I mention the HEAT got the better of me! You would think 2 years of living in Manguzi would have perpared me for the humidity and heat! So there I was in Legho 'hotel' where of the five rooms 1...

3:00am the alarm went off. Lord what is happening?? 2 hours of sleep and emotions bigger than the 20kg bag of luggage. I'm scared? Lord, this is taking a blind step of faith.. This is leaving my family behind. This is stepping into the unknown. This is frightening.. This is EXCITING!! Predestined for greatness. This is just the beginning! My heart bursts with excitement, not even my tiredness can hold it back. This is madness! Reality is too real for the moment. Should I pinch myself? 8 months of faith building. 8 months of seeking God. 8 months of discovering...

By Jana Dippenaar / Yellow Team

So it seems that being yellow means you eat a lot? And really well! At first we were all amazed at what one can eat with a R8 per person per day food budget. Thanks to Royco pasta sauces meals needn't even be all spicy and hot and with fresh food markets all around and mutton prices extremely cheap even traditional boerekos is possible! China is a chef's paradise? But this is not at all what God had in mind when He sent us to the heart of China. Improving my cooking skills will have to wait for later because right now God is treating us!!