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I grew up thinking God requires acts of service and good works. I thought Christianity was about denying thyself, and that the Gospel was a heavy burden to drag around wherever I went.

With much anticipation we arrived in the all famous country of Jamaica,where Bob Marley and reggae was born,country of my childhood heroes like Asafa powell and Usain Bolt. "Ya Man, wagam?" are all to common to us now. Rhastas and weed everywhere you look. Everything I thought Jamaica would be came true. We had the previledge of sharing the good news to locals on the basketball fields,singing songs to kids at school,even giving the homeless a close shave,feeding them,dressing them,cutting toe nails ect. We soon found out that this beautiful country also has a dark history with great sorrow within...

Israel - the promised land. The country full of history, hiking and hummus. The country of quality time with Jesus. Whereas Jordan and most other countries are mostly about the ministry although you learn a lot from it too, God gave Israel as a country just for me and Him together.   Contrasting to Jordan, the spiritual atmosphere in Israel was so light! It felt like we could breath again and walk around as girls without feeling threatened. You create this expectation that because we are now in the promised land, Jesus would just feel so much more tangible. I...

Surprise! I am writing this blog now, not while perched on a hill in Malaysia, or by the side of the fire in Kenya, but in my bed in my old room. My global journey was last year but yewwww it did not hit a wall there. I can, however, see the sun rising over the Jeffreys Bay sea. I came home for the weekend to visit my parents. Now why am I writing this blog? I want to share about “life after global”, but I don’t particularly like using this phrase since surely there was also life before Global...

Hi all!! Everything is really great here! Our time in Hong Kong was AWESOME!! Let me tell you about the miracle that happened to us in Hong Kong… We need to draw money from the ATM, but the machine didn’t want to work, so this guy came up to us and asked if he could help us. We told him that we need money to buy lunch and get to the airport. He said OK, went to the ATM,came back and gave us 1000Hong Kong Dollars!! And we only needed 200!!! Then he just disappeared!! It was AWESOME! And just...

Normal 0 false false false EN-ZA X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 We had a tremendously blessed time during our stay at a Convent in Bethlehem. The Nuns seemed almost as if they were angelic mothers sent from heaven to treat and care for us. They welcomed our weary travellers with a delicious warm home cooked meal , treated us daily with a surprise supply of freshly baked bread, eggs, vegetables and cooked dishes etc. as well as transformed our dirty laundry into sparkly and fresh scented garments. We truly felt like they were our heavenly mothers caring and looking after us. I...

What is important? For some people that read this blog, you might not have the answer to his tricky truth. Some of you might have an immediate answer, some will hesitate but will get to the answer and some people more often than you think, will not have an answer at that very time. Why does this question raise so many different answers in life, and why does everyone’s answer differ? I have asked myself this question many times before. What does it mean? What is the truth? What is the correct answer? Everything that I can think of that...

 

The last 2 weeks have been overflowing  with  fun.  Many hours have been gladly sacrificed to paint and work for God’s kingdom. Numerous moments made perfect with laughter and joy. We went to the Transkei ; we saw beautiful sights ;and we conquered a lot of ground for in and in the name of Jesus Christ

 

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...

After spending more or less 3 weeks in both Turkey and Israel, it almost seemed a bit of a steal to only spend 10 days in Russia, but what a full 10 days it was.   After spending the whole day practicing our drama in the Ben Gurion airport in Israel and waking up at 3:30am to check in at the airline counter, it's needless to say we were far from fully functioning by the time we landed in Moscow that afternoon. Two busses and 3 trains later, we arrived at the hosts house to be greeted by the information...