Participant Blogs

Hi Everyone It is with great joy that we can announce that we have finished building the house here in Niger. The last week was really been great. Not only did we build the house brick for brick  but we also had the opportunity to build great friendships with the Lawale, his family and the members of the church as they joined in with support. I believe that we were a light to the community and a testimony of Gods provision for his children.   We as a team would like to take this opportunity to thank all of you for...

It all started this morning very early with a knock on the door at 6 o'clock.  It's a CHALLENGE they said.  So here we are Lime team at the Petronas Towers waiting to get a ticket to go up the towers. Here you see the towers   Johan enjoying a Malaysian Delicacy.  It's going really well at this point so we might need to keep this short because we need to finish the rest of the tasks. Just to give you an idea of how the Limers do it.  Ice cream (LIME) at the bird park.  Have to RUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! IT'S...

Jesus called us, He called Roelof, Ilze and Lume together, He gave us authority to cure diseases, to preach the kingdom of God and to heal the sick. He told us:” Go, take no money I will provide” God was our everything! We all can testify of what God did for us. God wanted us to learn how to trust Him for provision, and oh how He provided, God took care of all our needs. There were difficult times but looking back it only brought us growth, and we had some amazingly good times aswell. Let me tell you more...

  "As Short as I could get it It was a while ago that I was standing in church and we sang the words “no matter what the cost, I’ll go…” and the words struck me. It is sang so easily, but is it easily met? No matter what it will cost us… will we go where He directs us? Words so easily spoken, “Lord, I am willing for anything… use me”, but what we don’t always understand is that God will take you seriously, even if you did not mean it seriously.  '   God took that to the...

Dawid was so right in the beginning of training when he said, “I hate India.  I love India.  I will never go back there.  If someone gives me a ticket today, I’ll be on that flight tomorrow.”  India is a country of contrasts and because you never know which slice of the pie you might get, a place where Global Challengers meet God and meet themselves. As I travelled to India with the team, I had this sinking feeling.  That feeling of, you know what’s coming, you do not want it, but you can’t avoid it.  Probably what Jesus felt...

5 Tasks; 7 days; 56 hours; 18 students and no money… Impossible? Impossible is nothing when God is at work! This is exactly what Annemarie Franken, the head of Global Challenge Expeditions, thought when she got word from God to start the first high school in Jeffreys Bay. Since that day in 2009 her obedience in pursuing this dream was followed by an abundance of blessings. The school was up and running by the beginning of 2010, but then came the second calling from God: build a school campus on faith, starting with no money. (If you want to read...

As promised  few pics to tie up Cambodia...                  A land that stole the hearts of many, a nation that knows love no other where the smiles of people light up the darkest of moments... A few things to remember... - the tuk tuks (the hours we spent in them) - the mangos - tannie Alta's (and all her ministry work) - the children and how they crept into your heart!!!              JESUS LOVES YOU... "pro-jesu-throw-line-nye""

Watch this video and let your heart be moved... http://www.gcex.org/index.php?option=com_myblog&show=guatemala-disaster-fund-video.html&Itemid=574 WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT!*

Before we knew what happened, Ettienne, Nicholas and me got the surprise of our life…  We were on a different flight than the rest of the team and would have had to wait on Madrid airport for about 20 hours before boarding our flight to Portugal.  Anticipating the same procedures as the previous time, we prepared ourselves for the “duty free shopping area” (almost like no man’s land on the airport) and getting some sleep.  But this time things were a bit different and before we understood what’s going on we were at border control and got a stamp in...

I cried out loud deep inside my soul "Lord, take me out of Egypt!" as if I had been wandering in the desert like the children of Israel that Moses led. As I was sitting by the window on that plane when we were just about to touch Tunis, I felt, maybe, the same way that Moses did when he was shown the land of milk and honey and was told that he will not reach. Right before departure from Cairo Airport, check-in officials told me that I needed to be in possession of a Visa for Tunisia which I...