So this is a blog that God put on my heart to write, but for a while I didn't want to write it. But you know God he always gets his way and anyway who are we to argue. So this journey started in a small town in India called Nainital. Every afternoon we went on our own and then we would talk to God but we go into the town to do it because we pray over the people of the town. So that day it was just a emotional draining day for me and it was really hard, so...
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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....
Sometimes we feel like we're just living, without purpose or cause... Sometimes life just goes on and we feel meaningless, just doing my job, going to school or varsity or whatever it may be... I tell you this is a lie from the devil himself! The moment you start thinking that you are purposeless you become exactly that... Purposeless! We all have our situations and our environments and we are placed there by God. We are called to change lives, to make a difference in the world, to be godly men and women of Christ. We are called to be the difference by...
Hong Kong is a city like any other big city. Many people, pretty lights, expensive shops, tall buildings and signs you can't read...
Leaving Bamako we were faced with two options: one, take the bus directly to Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso or two, travel to the north of Mali and visit the famous Timbuktu before entering Burkina Faso from the north. Easy choice! One would probably say. Timbuktu is a no- brainer, many people would love to see Timbuktu and never even get that close. In retrospect I often wonder whether we shouldn’t have done that but a few key factors had made us choose going straight to Ouaga instead. The first factor was that we were by now heavily cash...
Digs a little deeper
As we stepped out of the air-conditioned Panamanian airport, we were embraced with the humid, wet and tropical climate of Central America. Even though I grew up in Durban, which is known for its hot, humid summers, this was something completely different. Other than the change in climate, there were also a change in our hearts and an excitement about the nations were burning in our spirits and we could not wait to see what the Lord had planned for us.
Hi all! Or should I say, Aloha!! Hope all of you had a blessed Christmas time with family and friends! We started our Christmas Day watching the sunrise on a beautiful beach! It was stunning! Hawaii is really beautiful, and for those of you who didn't know, LOST and JURASSSIC PARK was shot here! So imagine! Our time here so far has been one of rest and de-briefing India, and so far it has only been blessed! We are camping at the YWCA camp ground, right in front of the sea!! The local people think we are insane because we...
Just a few quick pics to keep you up to date on the progress on Maggie's brand new home!
Because we are giving her an actual wood-floor (This will be the first house she has ever lived in with a floor other than soil) we had to dig some holes for the support beams.
This took us about two days, because of a lot of stones in the ground...
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!!
After a 14 hour flight we have arrived in Hong Kong!
(Picture of the Sun setting over Mount Sinai- It was VERRRY COLD!) In the last three months God has taken me on an increadible journey: Starting in Egypt, and then from mount Sinai to Jerusalem! This is not only a physical journey but this is also where the Lord is taking me emotionally and spiritually. " What Joy for whose strength comes from the Lord, who have set their hearts on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem" Psalm 84:5 Once a year God's people would travel to Jerusalem- WHY- because that's where the temple\the presence of God was. In God's presence there is fulness of Joy. I have by no means arrived-...
