Participant Blogs

it is in serving the people that you discover something about the heart of God. We are currently spending time in the local community meeting people and playing with kids in the streets.   The way we view community is limited to our environment. We compare what people have to what we have. It is like we deem our standard of living as the benchmark.  Our take on the world is limited to our own suffering. We lack perspective. Their is a world in need and we are blind to what the world really needs...hope. We all need it. Jesus...

To conclude our 8 month journey through South America we made a complete circle and returned to tropical green jungles with mango trees, red sand and rain storms. Here in Aragua they greet you with a fist pump, speak the Guarani language and give a profound "Amen y amen" at the end of prayers and church services. It is awesome to see what a huge percentage of church service time goes into prayer/conversation with God. After all, Jesus declared in Matt 21:13, "My house will be called a house of prayer." We were under the loving care of Belen and...

Lime Team entry of today's activity. Today the Lime Team started it's first day of work in the city of Chaingmai, Thailand. We were asked to paint the bathrooms of a primary school, and being here to serve the people, we accepted the task. The bathrooms need to be scraped, sanded down and the painted in order for us to complete the task. Today we were able to complete half of the task, the school staff is also kind to us, they brought us coke and fruit to snack on, and they even bought us lunch, God truly is blessing...

After hearing the global family's stories. We had an awsome time bonding in the "bush". Also had a great week of bible teachings and discipleship. Looking forward for what is to come. . . 

As we swerve threw the mountains on a Local bus, with my hands on the handles, excitement and frustration in my head passing the mosques on our way to our next destination! 

  I have postponed writing this blog for a long time, partly because I was writing exams and didn’t have a lot of time and partly because I really didn’t know what to say or where to start. Then I realized that it doesn’t matter where I start, I just have to start. So, here goes: I was born in Potchefstroom and grew up and went to school here. When I was in grade 2, I became “sick”, or at least that’s what I call it…I would have panic attacks everyday because I didn’t want to leave my mom, because...

    Mauritania truly turned out to be a land of contradiction. Friendly officials at the border, 5 star welcome at the youth hostel and even breakfast in a Taxi! We over landed from Western Sahara, through Mauritania, to Senegal. We spent two nights in Mauritania. The short time in Mauritania was yet another glimpse of God's faithfulness to us. He sent people ahead of us and really provided for us. We experienced incredible favour and protection in this country. We were greatly blessed with friendly and effecient (as far as effeciency gets in Africa) officials at the border....a very...

We started Cayman with an easy airport entrance and being picked up by miss Erna, our host for the time there. And we were so blessed, we stayed in miss Erna's second house across from her house, this meant that we had a big house to stay in and what is more it had warm water!! It was also stocked with food, but warm water so good (I hoped that by this time I would be used to cold showers, but no warm water still makes me happy). We were really spoiled while we were there. The 10 days in...

The time has finally arrived!! Let the challenge begin!

 

Left Malaysia, going through Japan all the way to India!  It's long, I know.  You shuold feel it on this side!