Participant Blogs

Lime and blue meet on day 1 on a train from Pretoria to Gabarone, as though it was written in the stars...

If you hear the word Africa, what is the first thing you think about?

As the bus left us on the abandoned bus station in Amman at 4:30 a.m., we were immediatly overwhelmed by the extreme cold of the morning air. We huddled together and decided that 2 things had to be done. Firstly we had to find some shelter and get out of the wind at least until the sun comes up. Secondly we had to make something to eat. We were all feeling a bit thin after missing 3 meals due to the travels! We sent out scouts to find shelter for the team and the rest stayed with the bags. When...

On our arrival in Brazil, the group split in two and the green team being Chris, Daniel, Henk, Curtis, Cherelda, Mari', Kotie-Alet and I had the amazing priviledge to spend a week in 5th largest city of the world: Sao Paulo, the city of vibrant street art,great pasta, a lot of pao (bread) and friendly people. We were welcomed with open arms and from the start it felt like home. We had some time to rest after suffering a bit from jet-lag and just chill out with our hosts.  We spent the first few days at a house church, doing...

So here it is. Our first official team Westbound blog. After sending some as forerunners, our whole team finally arrived safely in Turkey.  Training has been both challenging and exciting. God is doing a new work in our hearts. God is continually busy breaking our boxes and we are very excited to see what He has in store for us as a team this year. Sunday evening we will be in Jordan. God is calling us to be completely dependent on Him. He keeps showing us that He is faithful through meeting our financial, physical, emotional and spiritual needs. Fifteen...

Kosovo was just heart-blowing, like one of my teammates would say.  Jesus loves surprising us - and that’s what He did with me in Kosovo.    I really experienced God here. He showed me that I was believing the lie of rejection all my life ‘till now. It’s really a lot to take in if you had believed a lie for 19 years of your life. Jesus gave me new eyes to see , He took the veil off. I see things clear and different now.    I learned to know what the Father is really like and it radically...

  Before signing up for 80 days I found myself in a great comfort zone where everything was easy and well known. There is one problem with this state... our relationship with God tends to get average!! even though He is still a reality in everything you do and you worship and build your realationship with Him, deep in your heart you know there is more, MUCH MORE!! Being a facilitator I always challenged everyone´s comfort zone, but my own. This  became a  war in my heart. So I prayed for a challenge...  Be carefull in what you ask of...

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 Coming from India to beautiful, green and clean Thailand was nuts.     This is the blog for my half of the team: Marykee, Annami, Ruan, Ryno and I. We went to Phuket.  For the past 2 weeks we’ve been working at painting a local school , while staying in the classroom.  Learning to serve with integrity and unity – just like Jesus. Starting  our days off by the exegesis of  Philippians has been awesome.   Discovering deeper truths about Jesus and who we are in Him.   So good dude* And some evenings we caught a ride to the...

Well where do I begin... The past few weeks have been crazy fun, hard, good days and bad days... The first week we got the connect with everyone...2nd week going on a "camping trip" that ended up to be 5 days in the bush with only the clothes on our backs and playing games to win some food...3rd week we are joining the school camp and having some fun with the kids from there we are building the road for the GLA School..week 4 and we are leaving for the Transkei to serve the people and give LOVE to the...