Participant Blogs

I signed in and was accepted into this journey with nothing of the required R90,000 needed for the year.In a sence that is where the journey started and where God started to break open my faith in Him. After a few months of mixed emotions like stress,doubt,fear and a lot of prayer the first payment came in one night from a total stranger of R50,000...I cried From there money came in from anonymous donors, other payments from peoples whos names I could see but did not know,from the most unlikely of acquaintances,payments with only scripture references attached,from loving family and...

Well, it’s been half a day in Hong Kong and I’m just astounded at everything I see around me: huge malls, massive buildings with nature at the backdoor and LOTS of people going about with their daily lives as we all do…

I love growing closer to my father this year and truly see his amazing love. There is no sweeter name then that of Jesus. The love he gives is beyond compare and set fire to your heart and spreads like wild fire supping from the main source if the father heart. something that truly girpped me on the journey so far is how easy it is to love and care for people who share the same spirit. The unity that forms between Gods children is unique. An instant conecction is made and understanding, exitment and love is shared. Fellowship.   ...

The other day, I started thinking about how sad it would be to come all the way to South Africa and not see my great friends Lana and Jacques from the World Race.  Since they live about a 2 hour plane ride away, Kim had already told Lana and Jacques that I wouldn’t make it down there.  However, Kim and I devised a plan to surprise them.

This is the ultimate beginning where we are where God wants us to be....
God has a specific plan for each of us this year, each a unique plan, because we are the body with different functions. The last few days we have had intense training on pride, the 2 kingdoms and other topics that I wish all can have. I believe that we are here for a reason.  We are the next group that will make a difference in the world.

    For the last week and a half, we have been busy building a house for one of the local families in a town close to ours. The building site is about an hour's walk from the place we stay and is situated at the top of a fairly steep hill. So all the Global Challenger's got the chance to get their fitness levels up to standard again! We divided ourselves into three or four teams and each team had to complete a specific task. There was the stair building team, the roof team, the concrete mixing team and then the...

Australia was a different type of good for our team. We were separated a whole lot and had a lot of new influential additions to the team, so I would say we grew a lot, individually.    We all saw how one could be a witness in the work place and how Jesus type behavior, inspires us to become more like Jesus. The Willersdorfs invested in our lives and made themselves vulnerable so that we could totally become part of their family. And family we were. We were treated like kings!   Because we weren't really together through the week...

Wide open spaces, a strange, familiar landscape, country music playing " loud-az"  in their "utes" (utility vehicle). Strange accents with words that take a while to get up to tabs on. When someone would ask or tell you something enough times, you stop asking, "what" and just say, "yeap".    This island of a continent is Australia and is largly underestimated! It is our saving grace for the year as we would need to work with sheep on farms to pay the for the rest of the year's travels.    On our arrival in Sydney we where organized a place...

Lighthouse = A building that emits light in times of darkness Every year the kids of GLA go on a camp according to their team colours. This year I accompanied the orange team to Oyster Bay and Oyster Bay is such a beautiful place! It was a good time for me to rest after an interesting week, because the previous week I would sum up as hard and challenging but there was still a lot of good moments, moments to treasure. After it ended many had tears of relieve and joy, I was just happy because it was over. The...

I was going on a journey around the world but I didn't care so much about going to China or Thailand. I was looking forward to the adventure across the Sahara from Cairo to Cape Town. I even bought myself a map- of Africa. When we arrived for training at the Alabanza mission station in Pretoria (in that first year training basically consisted of a two week get-to-know each other and Anthony Jacobs drilling us in the rain with physical exercises) I constantly looked at my African map. I remember spreading my map out on a table in the barn...