Participant Blogs

Date:  06 April 2009 Place: Nazareth / Tiberias, Israel   Our time here in Israel is almost coming to an end... It was a very special journey for me to learn more of the Old and New Testament. Experiencing and seeing it as described in the Bible. In this time here our group was challenged to learn more about the Persian Empire; while the other two groups looked at the Babylonian and the Assyrian Empires. A person can’t also travel through Israel without looking back on Jesus's life stories by following the footsteps of Jesus, physically throughout the country. There...

Four days ago our team woke up with a mission. Just a mission. We knew what we had to do. We needed to get to Tibet. As we were trying to make this plan a reality, we realised that this is a lot bigger than just us.

Sometimes the birds need to leave the nest, well not just sometimes. It is a given. Birds are bound to fly, soar and poop on people to make their day interesting. Jeffrey's is like a nest for me, not in a passive "safe" way, it was just the place where I could grow and now it's time for them to kick me out of the nest.   Flying, doing what I was called for and learning how to use what is given to me, like my wings. Leaving a birth place, the place where missions was born in me, is...

I can't believe it went by so fast. Last weekend we were at the Bloemfontein prayer meeting where over one MILLION people came together to pray for South Africa. What a amazing experience. You could feel the unity! But it doesn't stop there. We need to become a praying nation. We need to keep praying for our country. Fighting the battle on our knees. But before road tripping to Bloemfontein the community decided to do a Daniel Fast. To be honest I didn't really get the Daniel Fast but I did decide to fast sugar, dairy and meat. The fast...

It has been amazing these last few days here in Thailand and God has blessed us soo much physically and spiritually. I have been enjoying the time here in Phuket and it has been hard work but we are laying parts of Gods kingdom. and we are doing this not out of our own glory but for the Glory of God and with Love. I am going to miss thailand aloy and hope maybe God will allow me to return if it is His will,

Istanbul Our time in Turkey started with us having to wait 1 day in Istanbul for Esther our Zambian team member that has not yet joined us due to visa issues. We landed in the Asia side airport and had to make our way to the Europe side airport, so we were going to stay in central Istanbul so we can take the day and do some sightseeing while we wait. In the days before we flew I felt that we should not look for accommodation and book a place, so when we landed we took a bus to Taksim...

Just to apologize, the title should've been - "O, how the 'mighty' have fallen, falls and still will fall." The mindset I have about myself can many times distort reality. This mighty one, who can do so much and accomplish even more. But these days I am realizing my thought pattern is very frayed.   So I've heard that we can be mighty when Jesus works through us (if we allow Him to work through us). And it makes sense, it really does. Maybe you're even getting an audible deja vu now.   I think my question is: How deep...

Indonesia: 258 million people spread over 13 000 islands and the reason I joined Global… Generally speaking I have a rule to not build expectations but rather approach every situation with an open mind and teachable spirit. Unfortunately this was not the case in terms of my view on Indonesia. I have never had much interest in travelling to the east so when my attention fell on Indonesia one night while praying, I knew this country was special. Since that evening more than a year ago, I have not been able to shake the idea that God wanted me to...

Now we head up and up into the breathtakingly beautiful Andes mountains..

    Lize, Marykee, Tiaan, Ryno and i went to Laos together.  Before we started, we received scripture about patiently waiting on the Lord.  Which is exactly what happened.   For 3 days we stayed in a park beside the Mekong River, just sitting and waiting and praying.  But because of our Father’s goodness and faithfulness , the story doesn’t end there.         On the third day things began to happen. Through meeting a guy and helping him fix someone’s air conditioner  in some  house, we were led to find the christians. I never liked  christians so...