Participant Blogs

  Yes, sometimes Global feels like survivor. Every day you get a clue about what will happen next (because God doesn’t give you a road map) and often you are unsure where the next meal will come from. Only difference is that instead of voting off a team member you don’t get along with, you deliberately fight for love and to keep unity…. So still in Izmir we woke up one morning to notice half our team’s shoes had been stolen during the night. It was only then that we thought maybe camping in a dodge public park was a...

Malaysia has been very interesting, hot and beautiful.  We started out with a bang when we got our challenge in KL.  Had the privilege to spend 2 days at a beautiful beach, and are currently working at a school for underprivileged children. We met up with a few interesting people along the way.  Some was entertaining and gave us a good laugh and some blessed us with more than we could ask for.  We even met up with people from SA. Our time has almost come and gone for Malaysia and I can’t wait to see what India has in store...

It is the 17th of April, I’m in India, its about 18h30 and more than 30 degrees…!

To recap since my last blog…

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...

  As it has been shown, I am clearly not one for rating my experience of each country along the way. Being part of the communication team for hidden world, I have found that my own feelings are already reflected in the team blogs and newsletters, that when it comes to writing my own, I have nothing left to say. But I have finally figured out what to write on my own blog- only took 5 months.  Reflecting back on the last 6 months of my life, I can't believe how much has changed- besides moving to a different country...

HEY!!! So blog nr1 motivated me for blog nr2 well actually Jesus motivated me. So yeah enjoy reading this amazing testimony of what God did in my life this morning ( yeah yeah I could not wait for tonight I had to right it now ) So this testimony started 3 days ago. At the celebration the Holy Spirit started to stir something inside of me, but I couldn't figure out what this weird feeling was inside of me ( God are you coming to take me home? ). After a while I just let go and let God speak...

Red Hill, Cape Peninsula

11 February 2008; Today was an important one as the new shacks slowly began to take form in the Red Hill area.
Aided by volunteers the people started putting together the material provided, adding whatever they could find.  One of them was William and his girlfriend Gladys.“I was very angry, sad and disappointed when I saw my burned down house,” says William. He lost literally everything. “I’m a handyman so I had power tools and other appliances in my house. I would value it at R18 000,” he continues.“Now I have to get loans of up to R7000 to rebuild my house.”
For the last three nights William, Gladys and their child would have had no place to sleep if it wasn’t for a certain Mr. JP van Niekerk. A businessman, for whom Gladys has been working the last 17 years, concerned him over them and booked them into a self catering room. Not everybody is that lucky however.

Written by: Hector 

After 6 weeks of intense classes, village life, malaria mosquitoes, foreign foods and lots of rain our time at Zambia (FCE) has come to an end. It was a good time and we have received very valuable and necessary training. I want to thank the FCE staff for what they have invested into us as a team and for having us there.

Here are a couple of pics from Zambia:  

ON THE BACK OF A TRUCK ON OUR WAY TO SOUTH AFRICA

Genesis 12:1       “The LORD had said to Abram, “Go from your country, your people and your   father’s household to the land I will show you.” This verse fills me with mixed emotions because as I read it I realise God tells us that "He will show us the way", but first He asks us to be obedient and "Go from our country and our father's household"...Wynand and I will be part of the Global challenge 2012 team and we invite you to join us on this journey! Soli deo Gloria! Donate Now          ...

Smiling Swahili people everywhere, greeting us with "Jambo, kariboo sana!" (Hello, welcome here!), buzzing marketplaces, yummy chapatti and fried banana, tuk-tuk's piled with cashew nuts driving up and down dusty streets, African woman carrying bunches of bananas in big woven baskets on their heads, coconut trees, squatting toilets, mosquito net covered beds, team time at the end of the day on a roof in Dar Es Salam, and the excitement of the start of our journey as tangible as the hot, humid Tanzanian air! Everywhere we went and where we prayed with locals and answered their questions about Jesus, it...