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  Well, in the beginning...       NAAAHH, I'm just kidding!  I am totally inadequate to rewrite the Bible!   For now I just want to share an amazing revelation  that God has been stirring in my heart these past 2 weeks of training.   Well, apart from the three day-three night survivor adventure where we experienced God's provision and protection over us, I learned a lot about the character of our Father in crazy dimensions.       The 1 thing that touched me the most is the fact that we intend to be the writers of our...

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

Faith is to believe something without having the evidence to prove it.

 What happens  when you ask God to strenghen your faith? He gives you doubt...and a whole lot of it.  It is much harder to keep on believing when every brain cell keep on screaming, " you are nuts to believe this!

There is a question we all ask and hear, a few times every day.  And our response is always the same, no matter how we really feel.  The past few days, this question has challenged me and made me sigh every time I'm asked or see it in an email or Facebook message.  Not because it's a difficult question, but because the answer is actually much more complex than the usual, "Good, thanks."  So, okay, tell me now really, "How are you?"

8 weeks of training, where to start! To summarize what we experienced during this time is difficult because every day was so full of new and exciting things!The one thing that stood out was that you can't help others if you don't know the solution to their problem. I've discovered that Jesus Christ is the solution to everything! Even eternal life! Here follows a brief summary of what we encountered during this 8 weeks: We had a local Jeffreys Bay challenge on our first day to learn the area and surrounding places. Through that, we got to learn all the...

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...

16 April 2008, MACAO - by Sulene          

CHINA CHALLENGE!!

Praise the Lord for bringing us all back safely to Macao after 30 days in China.  We finally  pitched our tents for the first time this year and will be camping for debrief at Hac Sa Beach for the next five nights.

...BUT FOR NOW...

The teams are all running for it!!!

  Checking in? It went a little off track than what we thought it would. There were a few technical difficulties and we were not quite booked for our flight to Doha. But we serve a God of miracles! We were exactly on time for our flight. I was dropped off by my father, brother in law and sister at the airport in Johannesburg. We shared a quick coffee and then the reality hit me. I'm leaving the country in 3 hours!!!!!!!!!! It was hard. Every breath hurt as I hugged them and watched them leave. What am I doing?...

*Flying to Brazil and having an extra 5 hours in your day *Looking like polka dotted humans because of the 109 mosquito bites on only one half of one leg.. *Living with people who have alligators as pets - and playing with them!!  *People having tortoises as pets - and then eating them! *Jumping off a boat and swimming in the Amazon River *Having a Brazilian treat (Asaii) which stains every part of your mouth purple and having it taste like ground *Losing stranger's underwear into the Amazon while trying to get it out of he rain - and then...

Where do I start? We just finished our first country: Israel- the Promised land! And I would like to share some of the amazing things we experienced. When we left SA the 11 th of March we didn't fly direct to Israel but to Jordan from where we over landed to Israel! We landed around 16:00 the afternoon- and leaving for the border post was just not a option since we would be caught in the dark! It was SO cold in Jordan and they predicted snow that night, we were planning on having our first sleepover in the airport in Amman,...