Participant Blogs

A feeling of fear goes through me... Am I safe? What about the other two in my team? Is it only me that is feeling like this?  I pray to God. My character is being moulded. Vulnerability is looming in the air around me. I feel the fear again, but I keep on praying. The responsibility of looking after my teammates is resting on my shoulders like a heavy boulder. I force myself to be diligent as the wheels of the truck keeps on rolling. As time goes by and the gap between us ans our destination, Jeffreys Bay, crimps...

Tonight I am watching a bright orange sunset from a rooftop in Egypt. We haven’t even been out of the country for more than 5 days and I already feel myself wearing out slowly. I have a longing for home that I cannot explain and the year rises like a steep hill in front of me. As I sought Jesus on my emotions I was reminded of an experience I had in the December.   One afternoon my father and I went up to the mountain on the farm where we live. As we drove higher and higher I started...

6 months of traveling, 8 countries, 2 continents...   This year has been filled with different cultures, colourful people, beautiful landscapes, laughter and tears, interesting food, fellowship, family and valuable lessons that could never be bought but only come from a journey with Jesus.   We have seen prayers answered, bodies healed, hearts that have encountered Jesus and seen Jesus working in our own hearts.   Here is a reflection of our time up until now:   China: Here we built relationship with students that attend university through teaching them English. When words were not allowed Jesus taught us the...

Always smiling. Always happy to see us. Waving with pure excitement. The people's unconditional love for us was really something to experience.   God blessed us with an amazing time in Anafora. We worked hard; digging holes, building fences, chiseling pictures into a wall and much more. We spent a lot of time with some of the people working with us, getting to know them although we couldn't speak each others languages. We laughed a lot.   We had a prayer meeting in the church every night at 8. It was amazing. We sang together and then we read a...

My current location is Hong Kong...but I would like to go back to my time in South Africa and share a few experiences!

Would you believe me if I said that as I was standing there looking over the Transkei, I believe that God was skipping through the mountains and the wind.   The 9'th of February we got into busses heading for the Transkei. We lived at a little place called Canzibe, It was an experience I'll never forget . The people don't have much in the Transkei, but the view they have makes them rich .We spent time doing a lot of children's ministry , painting , door to door ministry, hospital visits and being part of a xhosa church. It...

I’ve been in South Africa for only 5 days, however it feels like forever…in a good way!

My first post and we've been on this journey for over 3 weeks. We've been super busy with #imagine and the opening of the Jeffreys Bay high school Global Leadership Academy. We've been learning a lot about serving and with what heart you are serving. Our vision is Live, Serve & Grow. We have been challenged to live together as a team doing everything together. You can imagine that with 6 girls living in a small space. I can't lie. It's been great. We have a lot of fun but it has it's challenges. I feel like this is a...

Kenya I really do  not know how I can explain what has happened these past few weeks. To put this into words is quite a challenge for me. Part of our descriptions of traveling this year was to get outside of our comfort zones- so, challenge accepted! Here I go... In Kenya, I received a large slap in the face when I realized level of difficulty was actually a large . It was like a battlefield. An "inner battle" I would call it. I feel like I went through a mid-life crisis- twenty years too early in my life. I...

It is so wonderful when JESUS shows me His love in creative and beautiful ways.    We came to Laos to serve and yet these wonderfull people served us. From day one we where accepted as family. They where always ready with a new blessing. Or as it where, thy spoiled us non stop.    This had me thinking, what did I really do here? Was I really a servant to my new found family? So all I could do, was pray and asked JESUS to do the work and let me see His glory. So I know JESUS did...