It's our second week in training and already we can praise God for His faithfulness! How He is teaching us; how we are seeing Him blessing us with His Holy Spirit and how we can already testify about Him working in and through us!! We have already had a camp where God has healed, delivered, freed, forgiven and gave hope! And even through sharing our testimonies in our teams this week we can glorify God for His AMAZING GRACE and MIGHTY POWER TO SAVE! How AWESOME is He?! :) In our finances we see God's hand of provision and I...
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....
Going to the Promised Land for the first time of my life was a dream come true. Seeing the places where so many things happened in the Bible, reading the stories and seeing the "exact" place where it happened was amazing. Using your imagination to see where Jesus died, going to all the places where some of it happened, and meeting amazing people at these places that tell us so much of what they know about the old city. The Dead Sea and the Sea of Galilee were memorable, but the most amazing thing was when we were in the...
The empty tomb was just an empty tomb.Mt. Olives’ beautiful view was just another mountain with a beautiful view. The garden of Getsemaneh’s colorful flowers was just a garden with colorful flowers. I’m not gonna lie, i’m thankful off my socks that i got to experience the places where my Jesus did the breathtaking things he did, but something that i realized throughout the past 10 days in Israel is that Jesus lives, which makes all of these places just that - places. Its beautiful to see and experience, but something i’ve tricked myself into believing is that...
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...
Taj Mahal... enough said. We departed by train to Agar this morning and spent the day visiting one of the Worlds man maid wonders! Wow! India greetings!!
Just an update on a few things that happened during the rest of training. It's hard to tell you what stood out for me, because when I think about it, every teaching, conversation, situation and project had a certain impact on me during this time of training. I can't really admit that any one meant more or less for me than the other. Since my last newsletter we did the Veritas 1 Bible study coarse, we had many mind-altering teachings from different speakers, we had a ladies' (and men's) weekend where we discovered some radical truths and enjoyed the company...
Why are you here? Why did you decide to do this journey? What did you want out of it? Were you prepared to give up this much? Throughout the last few weeks i’ve been confronted with questions that challenged my heart in a very surreal way. Have you found comfort in your uncomfortable circumstances? Are you comforted by the people in your team that has become family to you? Get uncomfortable. Comfort can become the killer if you let it. Who would’ve thought that one can find comfort and become comforted in the most uncomfortable circumstances? And once...
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Wow, God really did a good job when He created the earth. Thailand is the most beautiful and amazing place I have ever been to. The people are the friendliest I have ever met . We started a week ago in Bangkok, with the word challenge, we split up into two teams, the red team and lime team, I was assigned to the lime team. We had to do a list of activities before the next day when the race ended in Phuket at 8 in the evening. The road was tough but, we eventually arrived before the red team, but we...
