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We arrived in Peru equipped with a strengthened faith as well as a colossal responsibility. Why would God grow your faith for any reason other than you are going to need it?

Closer than ever: reflections after a week of survivor in Colombia After a week in the wilderness During which our day plan consisted of looking for isolation to build a shelter (suspending our Hammocks from trees that have grown tall enough) Or the majority of our day light hours were spend searching for " agua caliente" ( hot water) to make a third or forth cup of Colombian coffee,Strangers who helped us became friends,I became a Spanish speaking African Mango's were part of our staple dietBeaches are roads,Rivers are to be crossed ( while holding our backpack with our few worldly...

If you want to know if someone is telling the truth, look into their eyes.  I'm convinced that as much as we try to cover ourselves when we lie...our eyes tell the truth...allow me to introduce you to some eyes that tell a shocking truth...

To my recollection I have never cried tears of joy over receiving a Christmas present. 

Airports, a place where kids run around at arrivals, a place of warm embrace, sad goodbyes and people working to keep it clean and ordered. (Let this represent the earth and our every day lives.)   In between you might find, what we like to call, a Global Challenge team. A group of young people taking over a deserted part of the airport - usually a corner, close to a bathroom and drinking fountain - to call home for a couple of days. (See this as taking that interesting year journey)    Personally, I love it.  Airports have so much...

    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...

After being in Chiclayo, Peru for a week, the Southbound team has moved to the Andes mountains! 

“My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.” John 15:12-13   Living without borders became a reality the day I entered the refugee camp at Tabanovce border post in the North of Macedonia. The Explore Africa Team was based for 3 weeks in the Capital of Macedonia called Skopje. Our South African hosts, Danie and Ester with their three children, made our stay in Macedonia an unforgettable one. While living next door to them in accommodation their neighbours, Godse and Betty provided,...

What a month I will most probably always remember May 2012 as the month of massive growth; not only in me, but in the whole Hidden World Expedition team. We were on the move and we visited three ministry points in three different countries this month.  Each of these ministry points were unique and each  has their own amazing stories and testimonies, but for the sake of keeping this newsletter “reader friendly”, I will only share a broad overview of where we were, what we did and what God did.   The previous newsletter ended off with us traveling to Iquitos...

1 Corinthians 13:11 "When I was a child, I talked like child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me." I am already halfway through the journey ... but actually it is only starting now. I began this journey as a child, but finishing it as a woman.  Just before the journey started Uncle Joe had a prophecy for me that this year God is going to take away all the "little girl stuff" and I will be a "Woman of God".     And...