Participant Blogs

[video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZUCfi31hTE 400x400] The Coffee Bay Christian School, located in the rural community of the Transkei is in need of facilities suitable for sustainable child development. Among other needs, a jungle gym (as per the video clip) is required and your support will be greatly appreciated.   The primary school has minimal funds with very primitive facilities. The children of the school face an empty, hard and unfriendly stretch of ground as they step out of the classroom for their play time.   As the Global Challenge Explore Africa team we believe that stimulating child play is crucial for cognitive and...

      After this the Lord appointed seventy-two others and sent them two by two ahead of him to every town and place where he was about to go. He told them, “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field. Go! I am sending you out like lambs among wolves. Do not take a purse or bag or sandals; and do not greet anyone on the road.

We are in athens now and it is cold but it is a great blessing to be here. We will go and explore a bit today and do what the Lord ask off us to do.   I really just realize how BIG GOD is and how small we are!!!!!!!!!!!   I still enjoy this very much!!!!!!

(Hi everyone! This blog was suposed to be posted yesterday, but due to some unforeseen circumstances we are only able to post it today.) We are in Phuket!!  If you wondered why there was no blog yesterday, it was because we travelled and only arrived late in Phuket.  Stephan and the people that we stayed at in Hatyai blessed us tremendously with accommodation, but it was more than just a bed, Stephan actually moved out of his flat for a day or two just to accommodate us.  We will be forever thankful for his hospitality. A songtou (a bakkie with...

I just started training in Jeffreysbay for Global Challenge. I received a new family that supports me and which I can trust. I have God on my side. How can this year and the rest of my life not be good?!!!! Lets start with the training. The classes is exciting, insightful and fulfilling. We are doing the Veritas bible school and it is so practical and fun. It starts with basic things about how we should read the Bible by exegesis and then how to apply and teach it in our lifes. Feels like I started to read the Bible...

First stop of our journey to the nations to go and spread the word of our saviour Jesus.  Having the time of our live and rebel for Christ what an adventures journey(lifestyle).   Panama city, the first stop to love the people around us and to walk by Faith. Living with pastor Bill in Gamboa Union Church for a week doing some prison ministering and joining ywam (youth with a mission) for a day.    The few days in central America is so far a journey like none other. I truely can't wait for what lies ahead...   Panama is...

Dear friends, The team have now succesfully distributed food to the total value of R80 000! And all of the target villages have been reached. We thank God for this miracle. Unfortunetly the team's time is up and they need to move on to catch their flight to Ethiopia. The fact of the matter is that there are still millions of people on the brink of starvation. I recently read this article http://m.news24.com/NEWS24/Africa/News/10m-in-need-of-food-aid-20100611 on News 24 which describes the emergency that Niger now finds itself in. We cannot ignore the pleas of the people, even though the team is not...

WOW! Is all I can say about this beautiful town and its friendly people in the middel of Siberia... On monday afternoon me, Pieter, Andre, Albie and Shanine left Krasnoyarsk for Divnogorsk where we are ministering this week. We were welcomed by the church members at a braai (yes, can you believe it!) and they showed us the Hidro Power Station and the Sea of Krasnoyarsk. On Monday and Wednesday evening we sang some songs on the street, handed out balloons, spoke to people who passed by and shared a little bit of what we are doing and our testimonies....

Radical in Ecuador   The modern-day gospel says, "God loves you and has a wonderful plan for your life.   Therefore, follow these steps, and you can be saved."  Meanwhile, the biblical gospel says, "you are an enemy of God, dead in your sin, and in your present state of rebellion, you are not even able to see that you need life, much less to cause yourself to come to life.  Therefore, you are radically dependent on God to do something in your life that you could never do"  -   Radical by David Platt.   Our time in Ecuador has...

  Oh God, how You have blessed us by being able to go to Jamaica and meet some of Your wonderful people! How lovely it was to experience You in the beauty of Jamaica. We as a team will always remember the great time that we spent there and we will never forget all that we have learned from the Jamaicans. Here is a short summary of each team member's Jamaican experience: [video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mu7i0HipneU&list=UU3A8KS5f6WFU3zG2OSxVV_A&index=1&feature=plcp 400x300]     Linel Coming from the Cayman Islands to Jamaica, felt like we travelled all the way back to the heart of Africa. I never thought...