Participant Blogs

Cuba est un pays bien particulier, nous nous en sommes rendu compte à la minute à laquelle nous avons quitté l'aéroport: Le pays est toujours gouverné par un système communiste, se qui rend l'importation de biens très cher et difficile.Voilà pourquoi, les voitures à Cuba sont les mêmes voitures que les américains ont laissés sur place après la révolution de Fidel Castro ! Depuis ce jour, les cubains ont simplement entretenues et réparés ses vieilles voitures. Pas seulement les voitures d'ailleurs, mais également les bâtiments de la capitale sont très anciens, et la manière de vivre et très différentes de...

So excited on my destination this is my first time that I will be crossing SA borders not to go ons a gap year but to serve God around the world this is one of my best days of my live in a so honored to be part of GCEX time to help make a difference on earth. Get ready world there's a storm coming and it's going to be global

You don't have to wait 4 years to 'qualify' You don't have to worry about not being part of the 20 countries participating You don't have to work towards 'that moment' then pull a hamstring and you're out You're never on the bench!      

"Now go, and remember that I am sending you out as lambs among wolves" - Luke 10:3  They say it's easier said than done. And sometimes they may even say it's crazy. And who could blame them? If I was still on the outside looking in, I might have said the same. Yet now I am on the inside looking out. And I am not alone. I am with my shepherd. He is sending us, His sheep, out among the wolves once more.  Never in my life would I have ever thought I'd be the one to say that in...

Well, where do I start, it's been a long and challenging year, but when I look back, through all the challenges and hard times I have experienced this year, but when I put all that to one side, there behind all those challenges, I see something different, something that I did not see. I see the times of growth in my life, the times of joy, happiness, and grace that God has blessed me with. I look back at myself and I do not see the same Jarred, when I left South Africa, I see a different person, a person that God has taken and molded into the person He has created me to be. This year I have experianced what it is to have a twin on the team, but to be separated from each other, and even though it seems cruel and sad, it was what God had planned, for me to learn and find out who I am, cause growing up with a twin brother, I thought like my twin, I did what my twin did, but I had no freedom of choice, even he didn't, cause we did everything together, and now when we were separated, I felt empty, I felt that I was all alone in the world. But I knew God wanted to show me something, and I asked God to show me who I am, who He had made me to be.
The first month was not an easy month, being away from my brother, but even through this challenge, I knew God would also build in his life as God was doing in mine. I began to walk a walk with God, and as this walk continued the more I began to see who I am, I began to make my own choices without having to ask my brother, and when I failed at something, I had to fix up my own error, and did not have to ask my brother to assist me in the mistake I made. I saw the maturity I did not have all of a sudden grow, and grow, it was scary at first, but I knew this was for the best and had to carry on this journey. There were time when I just wanted to give up, and times when I felt I was being someone who I was not meant to be, but each time I thought of this, God just came and comforted me, and told me to carry on with the journey he has laid out for me. God kept on telling me to put all my faith in Him, and completly surrender all to Him, when I did that, I felt no more attacks, no more anger or weakness, I felt this warm feeling inside of me, a feeling that has not left me since that day, and I believe will never leave me, the feeling of God's fire inside of me. There are no words that can describe on this letter how this feelings feels, all I can say it feels amazing to have the burning fire of God inside of you. The day i saw my brother again, he look

(due to certain political reasons this blog will be censored very badly) so with my second family in the H*ly L*nd, I'm sitting in Ir*n, connecting Global with these people of Tehr*n. YOUR WORLD WILL SHAKE, because God really comes through in every single way you can believe.    Q: "Has it been a disappointment being away from the group?" A: Yes, its very hard to be away from everyone, its hard to think that life could even go on, but we have to sacrifice things for the Glory of G*d.   Q:"Being a M*ssian*c J*w how does it feel...

The Andes Mountains – Peru The past month we spent the majority of our time in the Andes Mountains.  We met up with missionaries from South Africa and we traveled into the mountains with them and three other local evangelists.  The aim of the trip was to travel to smaller, unreached villages and to spread the good news of Jesus to the locals through preaching, the acting of dramas and distributing approximately 3000 New Testament bibles.  We did allot of walking/hiking, because most of these villages are very hard to reach due to the rain season and the lack of...

Charles… the man who gave us hot water on our last stop before crossing the Burkina Faso border. The man who, when asked the question whether white people are African, answered the following: If you believe in your heart you are an African, you are an African. I therefor will believe in my heart that I am an African, and so I am… The Word of God also says that if I believe with my heart and confess with my mouth “Jesus is the Son of God”, I will be saved. Like being an African, I will be a citizen...

  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...

So I turned 30 in Peru on a bus on the way to Lima with wifi. Then later they day to peeps who where suppose to take me away so they can do my surprise party got distracted and when we got back to church there were search parties out looking for us while the rest of the team was eating so long as to not be late for the church service. The BIG 30 (that is before you hit the big 40 and then the big 50 ect) and since everyone these days have the list of to do's...