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I never understood the meaning of faith or believing until my journey at Global Challenge started the 10th of January 2014. God opened my eyes to a whole new world...  Since July 2013 I have been praying about what God wants me to do with my life.  Finishing Matric and unsure about what my purpose and calling in life is.  The only thing I knew was that God has great things in store for me. But this blew my mind and stretched my "picture of God" beyond what I ever knew..  Trusting in God for all my finances to go...

Quoting my last blog: “Would I do it again? In a heartbeat.” Well, the heartbeat came. The heartbeat went. 8 years ago I attended a church service where someone stood up and said he feels there is people in the audience God is calling into Africa. Something struck my heart, but at the time I was studying Industrial Engineering and sort of just laughed the idea away. Those words did not return empty (Is 55:11). This year God has chosen me (what a privilege!) to shepherd the Explore Africa team through the Middle East and Africa. Training the 2 nd...

This is our first off weekend. It started with a boys/girls night on Friday evening, but the others will post blogs on this.
We then also had a off day Yesterday and today (Sunday) we have off again. Great!!

What I want to write about is the prayer walk we had today. At 9Am we all got into our small groups and head off in different directions.

We arrived in Turkey after our time in Jordan on our way to meet up with Esther. The month in Turkey consisted of two days in Istanbul, two weeks in Kusidasi, a week on the road and then a week in Cappadocia. Turkey started with a bang! The first day in Istanbul was an amazing experience; we had a treasure hunt*...and we found treasure for sure. Lisa and Arne met a guy that we could encourage and that really inspired us; hopefully we can see him again before we fly out of Istanbul. Through meeting this guy I realised that...

Personally I feel that no human words will be able to describe the past two month's training. We have gone through deliverance, healing of hearts, hours of worship, prayer and just spending time with the Lord. In the past few days God has also blessed group members including myself with spiritual gifts, so we can get to know Him even more intimately and serve His people. I will try to share with you my experience through a poem I wrote yesterday.   Launching of my plane... Now there it stands shimmering in the light of the sun, And so many...

Thinking about it, going back in my mind to retrieve the archives of my memory dated 27 January 2014.   What was I busy with? What were my thoughts milling about? Was there excitement for the year which lay ahead?   I now believe that whatever I was busy with, the great and mighty things in my mind and the year which followed - have all prepared and shaped me for the now time. A time of training for a great year planned for me by God. Work your way 2015!   Where will you be 27 January 2016? You...

We didn't plan anything for Mexico. We didn't do anything to ever deserve anything. It was literally just being obedient to what God told us to do. We came on this year knowing that we want to serve. We wanted to become the least, as Jesus did. But instead we got encouraged for what we are doing this year. It was really like: I am only being obedient. And they were like: you are being obedient!!! Actually I wish being obedient to God was not so much unknown to the world. Why are we surprised when Christians are being obedient?...

  What an experience being on 80 days! Our journey started in Egypt, Cairo and we are currently  in Portugal. Egypt: I am not sure what exactly I expected , but Egypt was not it!! Cairo is absolute chaos, and it works for some  reason!! The streets are dirty and traffic is a mess! What blew my mind most was that peolpe are content living in the mess and do not intend to better there circumstances. They choose to accept the filth, instead of cleaning just the space they live in!! There is a saying, you become like the god you...

Indonesia made me feel welcome from the moment I walked out of the airport. They use some words that we use in Afrikaans, so I felt asif I entered a place like home.   That is really what Indonesia became! Home. If I look at the overall picture, it would seem asif we had the same schedule everyday. Okay, we kinda did, but that was one of the things that made the experience more like what I am use to. In the mornings we went to a school (there were a few, so we switched between them) to share a...

Nutten. Whatever. No mon. These are the words that you'll hear when you set foot on this island, the birthplace of reggae. The landscape is as diverse as the experiences we had. Golden age home, children's home, homeless shelter, city council meeting, laying cement floors, looking for wifi, eating all the different types of mangoes, going to a cinema to watch the new Avengers movie, having patties at Tastees, ice cream at Devon House, hosting church services and prayer meetings, playing games in Emancipation park, visiting a chicken farm, going to the beach, eating ackee and salt fish with dumplings,...