Participant Blogs

As your heart of stone is broken, a heart of flesh appears. When you find yourself in a senseless rivalry, your heart feels assaulted. You are bombarded with questions that cause you to second guess yourself and your motives.  You wonder , is there something wrong with me? Why am I here? How did this happen? Where are you God?  And all I received from God was silence.    In Jordan Jesus showed me He speaks in different ways. I really struggled to hear His voice and through that He spoke to me through people , looking at things and...

2 Samuel 6:14 David danced before the Lord with all of his might. I have always wanted to dance freely before the Lord, to praise Him at any time and in any place, but my fear of judgement always stopped me. I worried about what people would think about me and what they would say. I am so grateful that Jesus didn’t leave me where I was, instead He set me free from my fears and redirected my heart towards Him. He broke down all the walls that I had built, walls that hindered my relationship with Him! I am...

Our first ministry point in Kenya was with Joy in her 3 layer house. Almost like her impressive cakes she bakes. Usually a house has floors but this one is special. It's layered against a little hill just off Forest line road in Ngong. We were privileged to help out at Harvest School. The amount of pupils...21. This means very personal attention from staff that really love what they do. Kids in Kenya are well behaved and educated. They greet you around every corner, always smile, and even let you take the occasional nap with them while listening to a...

  Incredible India When the wheels of the Boeing 747 touched the runway all memories stopped and reality parked at the door of my heart. The summer heat of India embraced me like a loved one and it is holding as if in fear of losing me. The aroma of spices awakened my smell senses and familiarity rushed through my mind. The taxi ride was like a movie playing back a reminder of how incredible India is. The streets are filled with people, riksjas, bicycles, playing children, cows, busses, and cars.  The sound of business shouts from all the corners...

Transkei 2021 What started off as just a far off idea. Maybe even too far to reach. An image very differently painted in my head. "The Transkei". A place I knew I've never set foot on in the physical. A place so unfamiliar to me, none of the conversations with past travelers could've prepared me well enough for. Racing through emotions as we exit the familiar gates of what was now known as home to us, "The Missions House". Somewhat afraid, yet excited for what will be discovered. A month in the Transkei. A time of disconnecting from our familiar...

Dude's. ....   What a country! Caos when you get here, immediately know you are on your one. So much energy and people going fast and going big. You have to adopt to the set pace or full out.    Today we leave for Phuket, thank goodness. The hundreds of kilometres on a bicycle looks more fun than the past two days In Bangkok.    Personal challenges and the visa applications really took it's tall. I am so thankful that JESUS is always in control.    So it is a new day, I am going to stay thankful in JESUS....

Sometimes we have a hardened heart against certain groups of people, for some rich people it will be against the poor and homeless; even some races have hardened hearts toward each other. This all causes conflict, hate, judgement, etc.   That makes it difficult to serve and love people like Jesus loves them. I fully understand why people are like that. It is a hardening of our hearts over a long period of time, a sense of being better another group of people, being above them.   There are many varying causes to this:   history, wrong belief systems, cultural...

The hand of God was upon us as soon as we arived in Mexico. This is how now faith work's God give us a word that we will see his hand when we get to Mexico as we got their God contacted us with a pastor and he invited us to his church so we got their not knowing what will happen and where we will sleep. So first God put a pastor and our path and he provided a place to stay for us we got to church to serve and we did not straggly for anything. We where...

It's such a privilege to have a small part in Global Challenge Expeditions this year! I cannot express the immensity of my excitement! And we're not even halfway done with training yet!! What?? If you're as eager as I am to find out how God's going to glorify His Name among the nations in 2015, then watch this space!!!

Our time at Think and do was fun. Frikkie and I sanded a couple of doors and painted a whole bunch of Iron bars. The rest of the team weeded the soccer field and the farm tunnels.