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Uncertain future, certain God.
Our journey back to South Africa was undoubtedly paved by the hand of the Father. The moment we heard the seriousness of Corona, we as teams were called to meet together at a central place in Brazil - a house in the mountains near a very small town. ...
Led to Lead
I'm leading a team this year! In less than four years God has come and radically changed my life for the better. I believe that each and every single one of us are led to lead. In other words Christ leads us to lead others to him. What a privil...
Would you jump with me?
I remember standing at the edge of a cliff. Looking out at the big wide blue ocean. Looking down and seeing a beautiful scary blue unknown. My heart pounding in my chest like the sound of an epic climactic drum solo. Should I jump? Should i let go of...
Into the nations
Hello, my name is Johan Bruwer. I am on the brink of a 10-month journey where I will see and be a part of the establishment of God’s kingdom in the nations. I believe that the great commission is not an option to be considered, but it is a command to...
Discovering God
After finishing a blog on how God changed my mindset, about things I did not like doing and showing me other wise, I was not convinced that that was what I was supposed to share. After some amazing teachings this past few days and spending some...
"The land of smiles"
Thailand!! Wow it's an incredible place! Filled with beauties that only seeing in person can be understood! It definitely lives up to its phrase "the land of smiles" everyone here is just amazing. This country is special for me! We started in Bangkok...
Hidden World in The World
And just like that we were saying our good bye's and getting on a plane, watching South Africa disappear beneath us and bidding it farewell for the next 8 months. Hidden World is officially in the nations. It still seems unreal to us. 8 weeks ago we ...
Thanking food friends
An exciting update from the GLA eco campus construction site! We would like to give a shout out to the small businesses in Jeffrey's Bay- Beesland Slaghuis, Vyeboom Takeaway, RS Fruit and Veg (Croix Street) and Mengelmoes Kardoes We would like to th...
Break an Egg, Build a School!
The Global Challenge Expeditions Team of 2015 has created an initiative to increase financial support, called the Break an Egg, Build a School Challenge . This challenge is to create a video of you breaking an egg in a creative way and donate at www....
A 24 year old volunteer (me) time keeping at the Global Leadership Academy sports day was hit over the head with the high jump pole that was holding up the sail providing shade in the sweltering heat. The windy city of PE certainly lives up to its name. She was rushed to the local GP by her caring team leaders. She narrowly escaped with a few stiches of laughter from herself and witnesses to this sensationalist scene. For once we can be thankful for her exceptionally hard head! Now that I have your attention.... 17 Days ago I began...
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...
Thailand Or as I would describe it, taailand. Because as one of my team mates would say - "The team leader got this crazy idea of cycling from Bangkok to Phuket". Yes, we got the cheapest bicycles we could find - half of them single speeds - and we travelled, with our luggage, for 6 days from the capital to the renound island of Phuket. We had a week to spare before we would join with the Asia Centre Foundation. So the idea came to cycle from Bangkok to Phuket. A gruelling 860 kilometers. After coming overland...
The Lime Teams travels have led them to a place where Paul spend 3 years of his ministry. This city has been rebuild three times but we were surrounded with the after picture of history unfolding infront of our eyes. Where once a cıty stood we only see rocks and ruins. Let me take you on this journey with us: The Great Theater Infront of the Theatre we see a street that in the past use to strech to the sea shore. It's hard to imagine the sea being here because when you look around you there is no sign of the...
Follow our journey along the North-west coast of Africa
We are on a race!!! We hope we are winning... :-) We were greeted by the air-hostess this morning with a pleasant sentance... "sincronize your watches". The challenge is simple. Complete a list of tasks and sight-seeing challenges in Bangkok and surrounding areas. The finish line is tomorrow night 20:00 in Phuket! From eating sticky rice and mango, riding through the streets with a took-took, rasting stinky feet fruit, feeding fish, taking the train, beeing threatened for jumping on grass, seeing a palace to meeting locals.What a privilage! We are however still on our way to our final destination. Soo...
I want to testify of God’s goodness during our time in the Amazon and how He planned a divine appointment for us here in Iquitos. Our original plan was to travel from Iquitos to our contact in Benjamin Constance in Brazil’s side of the Amazon, but He had different plans. Before arriving in Iquitos we have been praying about our time in the Amazon and staying here (Iquitos) a few days to see where we can assist with recent floods the. So as we arrived in Iquitos the plan was to split the team in 2, half would stay in...
It started off with a small Facebook poem,
This poem was written about my new home.
It gave me the idea to right a blog that rhymes
Something about the sound of chimes
We have arrived in Zambia in the middle of a large rain forest type area.
On Monday night we heard that our first challenge would be to travel to Zambia on a budget
of about R700 p/p.
Thus we had to travel from just outside Pretoria to Zambia in faith.
