Participant Blogs

After just one day with the team leaders, I can clearly see that we are in for more than I've imagened. Watch this space.

as a team we were blessed to work with the massai, and people involved in the community to disciple. we experienced joy,growth and fellowship with people as we worked on a kitchen as well as a store room.  work is love made visible, on our way to egypt blessings *    

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?...

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...

In one of Jack Johnson’s song he sings about news readers not even being sad when they report about someone who died. I agree with him. News readers show no compassion. I believe that some of the severity of a case is sometimes lost due to this. I have taken it upon myself so translate to you the situation in Myanmar.

  The team was now gone somewhere in Senegal on their Luke 10 which left Detlef and myself alone back in Dakar. Because of Morocco being so expensive we were very short of funds. In fact we almost had no funds left at all. Which brought us to the conclusion that we would have to go on our own little Luke 10 as well.   Of course there was the infamous Bamako Express. A train running on a piece of track from Dakar to Bamako, Mali dating back to the colonial era. Stories of the train varied from horrifying to...

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...

Think global and act local….. I remember those words as part of my environmental politics class, green politics as they call it hahahah…… saving the universe by thinking of the impact of your actions to the globe and acting locally. Little did I know that this would soon apply to me. A year after global and I’m still alive in this big world I finally realised I am ystervrou material. I must say this year has been quite a ride. There were times in my mind I lived in three countries at the same time, I sometimes could hear the...

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...

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...