Participant Blogs

Date: 24 March 2009 Place: Bethlehem, Israel   We are almost completing our time here in Bethlehem. In this ancient city, we have been working very hard at a church where two nuns are living. Centuries back the persecuted Christians dug and built caves underneath buildings to hide away from their persecutors. One such building is the old church where we stayed and worked. We were so blessed by the two nuns at the church. They took us in their home and cared for us. In return we assisted them around the home, being a blessing to each other. A...

Wow ! A lot can be said about what I have experienced the past 17 days relating to traveling, moving out of your comfort zone, living out of a backpack, humus and pitas, sleeping in airports, buying stuff, losing stuff and ... how God manifests himself in all of this.  Yet it is the difference in cultures that fascinates me the most. One can get so caught up in a habitual way of doing things and even be so arrogant as to think that your way is the high way, that you completely miss fundamental characteristics of the GOD of ALL nations.   This...

Philippines was definitely another country of breakthroughs and new beginnings for our team. We discovered something new about the beauty in creation, the Word of God and ourselves, while also growing closer to one another and the Lord! One of our host Pastors in Cebu was a quiet man but a great spiritual leader who is very passionate about sharing the love of Jesus. He came, shook and broke some of our ideas of what a life of ministry looks like. While on Olango Island we experienced God at work in everyday life. We saw how He sustains us when we...

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

These past few weeks, have been a crazy adventure! We started off running! In Sao Paulo we were divided into small teams to go live with families in different parts of the city. We served at different churches and only met up as a big group a week later. So, in my week, Luisa, Charlotte and I stayed more in the backside of Sao Paulo. It was quite an experience! But what a blessed time! The family we stayed with, had so much brokenness but were still so full of joy! The pastor of the church took us to different...

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...

Yellow everyone!!! The yellow team is in Egypt and we would like to welcome you to Cairo :-) To all our friends and family...we're safe and lovin' it! Mark 16:15 - 18, which is one of our team's verses for this year is allready coming int motion as we are "...going into all the nations..." Do take note and be thankful with us that our whole team is able to be here as the money just came in to cover our journey costs up untill now, as we boarded the plane!!! We arrived in Egypt 26 February 2009 and we've...

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...

During our tremendously blessed time in Phuket, we got the opportunity to visit a Tsunami Memorial. It was there that I for the very first time realised the magnitude of what happened. How many people were touched, how many lives were changed forever. How big is the Lord we serve that He has the power to allow a disaster like that to take place and yet have mercy on so many?