I am in love- hopelessly, completely and utterly head over heels! How can one not be with beautifully dark eyes looking up to you and a dimpling smile that is pure concentrated sunshine! Every morning when a child run to with open arms and hug me (despite the fact that I am very dirty from painting the school) I realise what an enormous priviledge it is to be loved by a child...by an orphan. The last night I slept in the orphanage alongside two little girls. It was an experience that I will never forget in my entire life. We...
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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....
There's five months left, and I am not the same person I was. I've been overseas for three months. It sounds so little, I almost can't believe it, because it feels so long. Someone asked me my testimony the other day. And I said something that stays with me. When I was in my second year, I asked God: There must be more than this, God? Doing school, studying, getting a job, getting married, having children... you know? Just doing the same everybody does. There has to be more! There is more to life: it's called love. Love is being...
I don't like washing dishes.... I like paper plates, and soft hands. Yet, here I am, dramatically staring at a caboodle of dirty pottery thanking God for this joyous occasion. What happened to me in a time period of 6 months??? It's the sixth of June 1:32 AM. Our team is sitting on a train station smelling like two days of continues traveling. The train got delayed for a few hours as it needed an engine replacement which I believe God was controlling it like a play train set. We waited for a long time, drifting around, trying to...
During the past few days everything I knew about God and salvation was challenged, but in a good way.
Over the years I have learned that Christ is and will be Everything to me, and that He has died for me and that everything what I have done in the past is forgiven. So now I am as clean as white as snow, and I am good and ready to serve him.
Right?
We arrived at our ministry point tired from our overland from Dar es Salaam to Pemba, in which we traveled for 3days through km's of nothing, crossing the Rivuma river in little boats, camping in elephant walkways, and braving drenching rain, but were warmly welcomed and settled in.
Global Challenge Update! So I eventually got to an Internet Cafe so here we go! Did survivor in the bush, competing for food (rice and bread) and eating it with sticks, building shelter without tools, making fire from left over coals, wearing the same clothes for 4 days, sleeping cold in the dirt, all in the name of team building. Challenging but lots of fun! After 3 days of training sessions an challenging practicals we were off to do a camp with some Gr. 8's for 3 days and then straight from there a high school camp for another 2...
So when the team traveled to Turkey and Macedonia I had to go back home because I lost my passport. Now in normal terms this should have been good? I mean food ,chocolates ,tv ,bed and sleep. Well to be honest I went through Hell, my identity was tested every day for 35 days. I tried to pray for people or do ministry, but I had no passion for it so for 35 days I questioned myself, because works without faith is dead... (James 2:14-20) So many other things piled up against me like this one. And I mean MANY,...
I remember the hopeful goodbye we said to our team leader as we left Malaysia, on our way to a 6 week Australian visit. He had been denied his Australian visa, and therefore he could not enter with us. Global was sending a "temporary" leader to help us start our work on the sheep farms, however after his visit, we were sure that our leader would rejoin the group and lead us further, as planned. However, as with most things, God's plan was not our plans. Louw never received his visa, and before I knew it, Reinhardt's time with us...
Don't play with it. It's fragile. If you bust a string none of us can play. It's just a guitar. I caught myself being so obsessed with something that can be so easily fixed if it were to break. Even replaced. I'm still new, I'm still learning. The only difference between me and my 5 year old niece is she isn't afraid to experiment. To listen to every string. To play. To just enjoy the sounds. I try to listen and mimic. She plays because she wants to hear the sounds she allows the instrument to make. Carefree her little...
"These last few weeks felt like running a 100m race with God."- Pieter van Zyl (Westbound 2017 Team member) I couldn't agree more. These past weeks we learned so much, it feels like Jesus is taking you on a race. You go through some thorns, but you run over them; you conquer them. Yes, there are tears, but they also turn into tears of happiness and triumph. In this race you learn so many things. How to trust God for your finances, knowing that you can do nothing out of your own, but only through God's strength. You learn to...
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