Participant Blogs

In the beginning of this year God gave me a promise in the book of Psalms which meant so much to me. Psalm 16:11 grabbed my heart and through out this year I have kept it in my heart and I saw how this promise was being fulfilled everyday. It is written that the promises of God is our armor and protection. When life gets difficult it is always amazing how you can go back and read the promises God gave you and immediately it will lighten up your face.

                                                        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...

Front from the left: Arno, Coetzee, Miga Back from the left: Madelein, Quinton, Anseri, Chanelle, Jade, Willemien, Vanessa, Annique Our training in January and February was a time of challenges, fun, teachings, new revelations and new friendships. We are looking forward to getting to know each other better over the next few months. Tomorrow we will meet one another at Oliver Tambo Airport to fly to our first destination outside of the South African Borders! The last few days at home have been very busy with all the last minute shopping, visits, hugs & kisses, wonderful home made meals... and...

...where Africa, meets India meets Amerindian culture, where anacondas and jaguars lure in the thick jungle and cashews, papayas and sugar cane grow in abundance. It's here in the small town of Timehri where we got to feast on traditional food like coconut rice, plantain chips and chicken curry roti and hear radical and inspiring testimonies of Hindu's converting to Christianity after God spoke to them audibly or through vivid dreams. Pastor Deo is a multitalented and wise pastor who took us on all our adventures through Guyana in his old school bus. On one of our excursions we visited...

6 Weeks ago I arrived at training as a volunteer. Ready to serve the students with everything I have.   Little did I know I would be climbing on a plane in a few weeks leading the Hidden world 2016 team for 11 months through more than 16 countries in the middle east, central and south america on the transforming adventure of a life time.   So how did this all happen?   In Red moon rising by Pete Greig he writes,  Prayer is not primarily about changing things somewhere out there. It is first and foremost about changing something...

Sure, everyone has heard that phrase before. But does one understand what it truly means? I've lost a lot of things in my life. Too much to remember. Some so valuable that I'll never be able to replace it. Some I gave away, some were taken. Do I understand now how valuable they actually were? No. Not fully. Will I? I suppose so... Time will reveal the value to me. Time has revealed the value of some things to me. Some things I've taken for granted for most of my life. I'm not talking about a new iPhone, a Mac...

ONLY WHEN YOU KNOW GOD, YOU CAN MAKE HIM KNOWN

Talking about the character of God, Uncle Christopher’s favorite line was “Come and see and taste that the Lord is good”.  It’s quoted from one of David’s psalms if I’m not mistaken.

If Jesus became human today, would He come to the rich city suburbs, travelling abroad with the best airlines, claiming the priviledges He as God deserves? Or maybe He’ll be born into the Zambian village that don’t know where they’re gonna find food for the coming year, because their crops were destroyed in the floods; He might just take the overnight bus to Lusaka, not complaining when they take an hour’s detour to report an accident; maybe He’ll rejoice in waiting 3 hours for a taxi to depart, appreciating the delay as an opportunity to minister. Perhaps Jesus will trade His warm bed for Rustenburg’s taxirank and wake at 4:00 to listen to the stories of nightguards and drunks.

 

We had the privledge...ney...the honour of visiting the city of Phnom Phen in Cambodia as a pioneering effort for the one year journey since eighty days has got December months sorted. We as silver team with Donovan and Hanna as well as special guest Clara was introduced to seven different types of ministries in Phnom Phen and contacts was made with Philipino missionaries who all invited us to their island in future. How about an east island challenge in future? The seven ministries: 1 Teach english at Ch'bar m'pou school Every evening the tuk tuk drivers came and picked us...

Well I can tell you when we arrived in Egypt 2 of our team mate's bags got lost somewhere between S.A and Egypt -- Good news we got them back yesterday morning before we left for Israel -- we took a leap of fait and went early to the airport not knowing if we would find the bags. Safely in Israel and the journey continues. Shalom