Participant Blogs

Trying to stop the tears from streaming down my cheeks as we said goodbye to miss Erna Jane, I realised what God wanted me to learn during our time in Cayman Islands. For God, nothing is impossible. He gives freely. He blesses abundantly and when He provides, He provides in excess. Our God is an awesome God!

 

We all know the commandment "Love one another" very well and have heard numerous sermons on exactly this topic and yet, when I am faced with a situation in the team where I am irritated or upset about something, the last thing I think about is to love my teammate. I tend to put an "if" after the commandment, adding conditions to my love, although the commandment never states that love should be deserved, it only asks us to love, even when your love is not returned. I try to defend my stance with "But he did this and therefor...

  After our Machu Picchu adventure we got on a bus to the Bolivian border from Cusco on a Monday evening at 22:30. We reached the Bolivian border the next morning with anticipation and hopes of seeing the jungle again but...God had other plans. About an hour later we found ourselves on the pavement back in Peru as we couldn't get into Bolivia. In a rush of praying and thinking and trusting we unloaded our bags from the bus and waved it goodbye as it entered Bolivia without us. So there we were...apparently Peru wanted some more pictures with us....

When Jannie arrived to start the missions and outreach part of our course, he asked a very unfair question to each one of us.  He wanted to know what the ONE thing we remember from the course thus far would be if we forgot all else.  What would be the one thing that stands out?

Of course we all felt that it was impossible to answer this question as there have simply been too many wonderful revelations from God during the first four weeks already.  But here are the answers from the team:

The first day we arrived in China I must say I was very negative and thought to myself  'Zylna how in the world are you going to survive 4 weeks in this place?' But knowing God, He had a bigger and better picture in mind which was not visible to me at that time.  China seemed so dull, dusty and all and all just dead, spiritually as well as physically!!

Normal 0 Way up in the mountain with an awesome view over Lake Atitlan, we had the opportunity to build a house for a family.   Over the course of the week we had several tasks to complete. We had to build steps that lead to the house, the new building and build up a wall to prevent further erosion by the water coming down from the mountain. The first day on site started out by collecting stones of various sizes from all over the mountain to start with the first steps while some of the others started to work...

Want to test your faith, come to India. After a few weeks in India we have already seen that God provides in magnificent ways. We arrived in Dehli and after a few nights of recovering from hearing people sniff, spit and pretend to think that West Indies and South Africa were in the same continent we got on a train to Kota. When we arrived in Kota we met up with our contact person who then took us to the orphanage where we scraped, sanded, washed and painted the front and side of a church where we not only preached...

We woke up this morning early, bright eyed and bushy tailed, all ready for a hard day of work. And then we heard it....

Dear Family and Friends

I wish you were all here with me during the first month of Global Challenge X – just to hear the amazing testimonies of each individual team member first hand and experience how God is working actively every day.  After a great week in Jeffreys Bay with the leadership family - hiking the straining but beautiful Harkerville - we had a wonderful preparation week at Alabanza, Pretoria with the entire team. 

Here God already poured out His mercies and we experienced His presence, His calling, His guidance and his good and perfect and pleasing will for those who follow Him.  He pointed out principles to live by for us as a team, invited us to “service our vessels” and “fill up”, comforted parents, brought a father to Christ, appointed the five different teams and confirmed that each one of us were exactly where He wanted us to be.

Thailand is really the most beautiful place I have ever seen, especially the islands at Phuket. It felt like we climbed in a postcard, white sand and blue water. The snorkelling is one of the best places I have ever snorkelled, the see is so calm and the visibility is very good.