The Middle East was awesome with love giving strangers that felt like my long lost family. I love the Middle East with the hart of our God. There has been weird laughing and awesome times Austin and I love cookies and wheels (Cookie name),but the best is waking up at 04:00 am with Mosque's screaming Allahu Akbar. It started to sound more like music the second night.
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Uncertain future, certain God.
Our journey back to South Africa was undoubtedly paved by the hand of the Father. The moment we heard the seriousness of Corona, we as teams were called to meet together at a central place in Brazil - a house in the mountains near a very small town. ...
Led to Lead
I'm leading a team this year! In less than four years God has come and radically changed my life for the better. I believe that each and every single one of us are led to lead. In other words Christ leads us to lead others to him. What a privil...
Would you jump with me?
I remember standing at the edge of a cliff. Looking out at the big wide blue ocean. Looking down and seeing a beautiful scary blue unknown. My heart pounding in my chest like the sound of an epic climactic drum solo. Should I jump? Should i let go of...
Into the nations
Hello, my name is Johan Bruwer. I am on the brink of a 10-month journey where I will see and be a part of the establishment of God’s kingdom in the nations. I believe that the great commission is not an option to be considered, but it is a command to...
Discovering God
After finishing a blog on how God changed my mindset, about things I did not like doing and showing me other wise, I was not convinced that that was what I was supposed to share. After some amazing teachings this past few days and spending some...
"The land of smiles"
Thailand!! Wow it's an incredible place! Filled with beauties that only seeing in person can be understood! It definitely lives up to its phrase "the land of smiles" everyone here is just amazing. This country is special for me! We started in Bangkok...
Hidden World in The World
And just like that we were saying our good bye's and getting on a plane, watching South Africa disappear beneath us and bidding it farewell for the next 8 months. Hidden World is officially in the nations. It still seems unreal to us. 8 weeks ago we ...
Thanking food friends
An exciting update from the GLA eco campus construction site! We would like to give a shout out to the small businesses in Jeffrey's Bay- Beesland Slaghuis, Vyeboom Takeaway, RS Fruit and Veg (Croix Street) and Mengelmoes Kardoes We would like to th...
Break an Egg, Build a School!
The Global Challenge Expeditions Team of 2015 has created an initiative to increase financial support, called the Break an Egg, Build a School Challenge . This challenge is to create a video of you breaking an egg in a creative way and donate at www....
Once more in Philippians 3 Paul starts by motivating the church to REJOICE in the Lord. Joy is the predominant theme of this letter and I’ve learnt that the word “joy” in its various forms occur no less than 16 times.&
nbsp; Rejoicing in God is not something we can do out of our own flesh and we should not even attempt to, but by the grace of God and the power of Christ in us, we are able to constantly find our joy in Him. I have discovered that nothing else satisfies like He does and even though I can find happiness in a number of things; my joy is never complete without Christ.
Honestly I am not a writer but I will just talk about what the Lord has placed in my heart and something He has been challenging me with for the past month since I arrived, in South Africa, for my training. I am an introvert. I love my personal space. People don't always excite me. I mean they do for like 5 minutes and then I am like oh my gosh ,what have I gotten myself into. So being at Global has been a great challenge for me. I am around people 24/7. Being around so many people has exposed...
Training almost done, and craving to start the adventure of a life time. Africa, my Africa, ready or not here we come.
The past 2 months of training at GCEX has taught me many things. I am thankful for all that I have learnt and felt prepared me for my journey to Asia. This is my first time coming to South Africa and I have started to love the country, the people and the culture. But the most important is that I have learnt from God how to love Him more. Here I experienced fellowship and family and through this they helped to equip my heart for the nations. I learnt how to love others as God loves me. I learnt to...
You know the song, "break my heart for what breaks yours"? There are times when I regret singing it, because God wants us to know His heart, and He will definitely fulfill this request. And that's exactly what He did over this time in Africa. When this happens, you have two decisions. You could feel guilty for everything you have and make it about you. Or, you take the opportunity to learn God's heart in this situation and step up to make a difference. Even if it's in one person's life. You get to love this person with a God...
WOW!!! GOD is indescribable. The last few weeks we have had an absolutely awesome time in Canada.. We have met a lot of new people and discovered how awesome the Canadian culture and people are.. GOD has been teaching us all through our journey and has taught us so much through His Word and a lot of different teachings.. Our team has grown so much in this little time and we are teaching each other and learning more and more who we are in Christ.. Our team has been blessed so much and we are so amazed by GOD'S faithfulness...
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Global Challenge X has started! With anticipation and eagerness we look forward to this year! We as team can’t wait to get to know one another, we can’t wait to get to know God! To see Him, to experience Him! We as team can’t wait for you to get to know us…
So here we are:
Adrenaline and excitement in the air as we walked onto the plane at OR Tambo International Airport. Finally. Three months of training and I thought I was prepared for anything and everything sent my way! The soft voice of Jesus saying "I am sending you" and the company of fifteen believers who will soon become family. What could possibly stand against me? But as I lay in a hammock on a boat on the Amazon River and reflect back on the last 25 days, I realize I was over confident. I had too much self confidence. Self...
On Wednesday 27 Feb we left for a Zambian village in the middle of nowhere, to far from anything for Paul to even run to. We went to 5 different villages in our 5
different teams.
Our experience at this village was really great.
We all had great food to eat and lots of it...
