I am sitting down at the Museum café; overwhelmed, disturbed and hungry. There is a revolution in my heart. My mind keeps repeating “All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing” (Edmund Burke) I am convinced of man’s fallen state – an inherent evil nature – expressed in extreme violence and extreme silence. The Genocide memorial in Kigali, capital of Rwanda, paints the picture of a bloody past. In this clean, rather orderly and safe country almost everyone older than 18 years remembers a murdered relative and friend or has murdered a...
Participant Blogs
Global Challenge Missions Blog Archive: These are real blogs, from real people, bringing real change...
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....
Slices of Life - Dini Esterhuizen
This faith thing...
Once we had three members on the same outreach team that stuttered. Driving to Mozambique, all three were in the same Land Rover. Piet, deeply Afrikaans, was sitting next to English speaking Martin. Piet spoke in English for Martin’s sake and Martin, out of politeness, insisted on Afrikaans for Piet’s sake. With the language challenge plus the stuttering, it took from Pretoria to Witbank to tell the first story.
The other night I sat on a bus from Jerusalem to Bethlehem. Grossing Israeli check-points to Bethlehem in Palestine. I started a conversation with a Palestinian man that sat next to me. After traveling through these check points for a few days, I lived through the struggle these Palestinians endure daily. Carrying work permits to enter a country that was recently still theirs, it ominously reminded me of the pass system during the apartheid era. The man started to fidget and sweat and said under his breath, "O no now they have me, their going to take me to jail."He explained that it is...
Hi, I am Henro Jordaan and I am 19 years of age. I know that it’s rather late for my first blog, now I am trying. I have never been the best with computers, but there are a few experiences that I have to share. Not too long ago I was in a struggle with God and what He wanted for me. I was uncertain who I was and what I was destined for. I prayed and prayed and the journey that I was going to do got cancelled. This as you can imagine, confused me even more and I...
Our time in Nicaragua was short and busy! We were only there for a week, but we got a lot done! And God once again led us all the way and took over wherever we went! We served under Hosanna church, which is a huge church in Managua. During our time in Nicaragua, we were joined by the Hidden World team, Liesel, Jakes and Francois! What a blessing that was! Liesel was on South Bound last year, and during their Luke 10 journey, they made the connection and started a relationship between Global Challenge and Hosanna church! Once again we...
Sunsets cannot be described by words or poems. Our english language with all it's rich descriptive words falls short to make the reader understand fully what only the writer can experience. Photo's and video's can only give a two dimentional reproduction of the glorious array of colours. Megapixels cannot fully capture the majesty or do justice to God's original artwork. I can tell you that experienced a few breathtaking sunsets while on this journey. I can tell you about the magnificent oranges, pinks purples and reds, I can post pictures but you will not get the gooseflesh I got. And...
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Pray For -INDIA - Hello everyone. India always fascinates me and it is my second coming into the country and I am still surprised by its beauty but also with many suprises. We flew over Cairo (where we stayed a day at the hotel - free of charge) and at night while we waited for the plane we met a brother from America-Washigton, Seatel, Kenny, and cooperate with the House of Pray, who traveled to India-Bombay not knowing where and what he will do there but God had told him he must go to Bomabay, we started to make friends with him and we all decided he is to be with us...
New Zealand Impact Global Challenge Expeditions 2010; Work Your Way Hi everyone We even made it to New Zealand, and it was always my dream to visit New Zealand and here I am, what a blessing. When we arrived in New Zealand the first thing that came to my mind is how far my home from me and it is was scary looking at the world map and you can’t believe that you are at the bottom of the world. New Zealand is one of the safest countries in the world, at the airport we spent almost 2 hours, browsing...
Yesterday our team had the opportunity to go to the village school, where the principles office is about 2 x 2 m and in rain season the teachers and kids have to walk halfway through a river to get there! We got the Grade 4 and 5 kids and taught the kids the concept of “Look at Jesus” (Heb. 12:2) [while looking through their toilet roll lookers!], sang English and Bemba songs and Johannes lead us in some real fun games.
