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I remeber getting off at the airport in Panama and almost tearing up when I saw a Toyota Hilux in thr parking bay. Even though Cuba was a phenominal experience, there was something comforting in seeing vehicles and technology we are use to, it felt like home. From sharing testimonies in prison and to a old general in the Panamanian riots, handing out tracks and sharing the good news in parks and in public and having the previledge of sharing our stories on a Panama radio station, Pastor Bill from Gamboa Union Church left a lasting impression. His way of...

I am tired of fighting with my flesh! My flesh is so strong. I really understand the verse: The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak - Matt. 26:41. I will sit in a praise and worship session and struggle to get myself to enter into God's presence. I know I want to be there, I know I will meet God there, but it takes so much effort to get there. I am so tired of it! I just want my flesh to die now! I am tired of failing in laying myself down and keep on serving others....

"Oh Lord, let's sit on the highest mountain." I want you to touch my eyes and open them to the nations. There are so many, but so little time. You look at me with an expression on your face implicating that I have to give more thought to my previous statement. Time? Time is a man-made concept . ''My love, you've got all the time in the whole world, because the world is mine and I give it to you. The world and the nations are your inheritance." Psalm 2:8 "Look.'' He pointed over the nations. ''What do you see?''...

So when you're traveling and don’t have a planned destination or any idea of how you're gonna get there, the best thing to do is just wing it! That’s what we did in the middle east, hitchhiking  from one place to another and sleeping in abandoned buildings and weird beaches, asking soldiers for water and eating rice with way to much salt and then with way to little salt. We were eating too much chocolates and bread (that we got from nuns) and just generally getting to know each other more, building relationship together chatting about life and living the...

Gracias Cuba  You welcomed us with open arms,just to be here was a blessing, meeting people, making friends,fellowship with the young people learning Spanish. What I learned in Cuba it's that its important to have a relationship with God and the people. Jesus is asking do you love me?If you do then feed my lambs,take care of my sheep. So my time in Cuba was about fellowship with the body of Christ and with unbelievers so that thy can be drown to God's Love. And we saw that.  

At the beginning of this year I got a prophecy by Uncle Joe. He said he sensed that I was one who has dug the trenches, has been in the trenches and fought the battle from the trenches, but the Lord said it is time to get out of the trenches. To go up and over and into the battle with the Lord, and that the Lord will win the battle on my behalf because the battle belongs to the Lord. I can honestly say that this prophesy has become true. At the beginning of the year I was a...

When I arrived on the 10th of January in Jeffreys Bay to start our training for "Global challenge expeditions" , it was mostly the first and the last word of the name that got me excited. Little did I know how much God is going to "Challenge" me to grow in a closer relationship with Him and become more like Him. Louw often says we need to look for opportunities to serve (and there are many times that these opportunities present themselves). I saw myself as someone that enjoys to help and serve people. And it is true to the...

Normal 0 21 false false false DE ZH-TW AR-SA MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 We can make all the plans in the world, still it's God that will direct our steps.   And, as Ephesians 2:10 says, we're created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.   For us as Distant Islands, this preparation for Jamaica already started in our first country, Cuba, when we met John...   Now John is a Jamaican, studying in Cuba.   He translated for us in church one evening and his dad is a pastor in Kingston.   So...

The worst part of 2011 is waiting for 2012 to start. I am going on "Work your way" and I am dying to go. This matrix year is just feeling too long.   When I started thinking about who I was going to ask for financial support, I listed 6 people I thought was people who can help me. I haven't talked to one of those people jet. Up until now God has given me almost half the money I need for the trip, through people I didn't even think of asking.  God showed me: Sometimes people can make plans and think we know who to ask...

A year ago, I had the privilege to embark on a 10 month journey with once strangers- now family, with the vision and purpose to share the Love of Jesus whilst adventuring through hills and valley's, oceans and forests, skylines and aeroplane flights. He has blessed us with beautiful people along the way who loved us as if we've known each other forever and people that made saying goodbye so incredibly difficult. My heart has been broken for nations, people, families, abondoned children. I've been faced with my own selfishness and my biggest insecurities. I've been healed and set free...