Participant Blogs

It's like that Father to daughter, daughter to Father conversation that goes something like "Dad my life is falling apart!" "No it's not here is some cake" kind of thing. Yes this is crazy. Yes I am freaking out and yes it feels like my life is a movie but it is okay. I am okay. God keeps blessing me in crazy ways like we got one week to go home and when I went I did not know how I was going to get back to Jeffreys Bay, and then God just provided. It was through people I did...

I can describle my experience of this training for my journey this year, in an ice skating session. The time it takes to learn how to fly over the cold frozen water. More like stick man skating....   Just like in the beginning of something new you struggle a lot to find your balance on blades. It's a new adventure to learn so much more about Jesus and the Bible. But the thing that really stood out was when we put all that we had learnt to practice out there. Standing on the slippery ice, I was holding the barricades...

Two weeks left. And we have been stretched so far. I thank the lord for all the work he have done in my soul and mind. Also recreating me. Prise the lord.   I can see how he is going to do greate things throu me in the nations.   Praise to GOD!!

I'm in a different country with different habits surrounded by different cultures and beliefs as well as a language I don't understand. The one thing our people do have in common though is Tea. The people here love tea. I'm more of a coffee person myself. For them tea is a social event that has to take place numerous times a day. I've had so much tea now that if I were to be a cup, I'd be bottomless. Once I put my cup down, they take it as a signal that they should pour more tea into the cup....

On the 15th of March we arrived at our very first country, Rwanda. We were greeted by Bosco, our host and his family with a lot of love. Bosco runs a NGO where he nominates underprivileged children for a mentorship program, for proper schooling and to teach them the proper values and skills to be affective leaders. I immediately got excited when they told us that we would be helping at a local school teaching them from English to even sports. Members of our team was also needed at Bosco's office, for admin and advertisement of his NGO. During the...

Jesus is not a franchise There is this saying that my dad would often say, “Jesus is not a franchise”. It never made much sense to me but recently I was confronted with a thought that made me think about it. We all worship God and we all love Jesus but our faith so easily becomes religious practice. I hear people make statements about Jesus and I find myself wondering if they realise what they are saying. Don’t get me wrong, my intention is not to judge people’s hearts, but rather take a look at my own. During our time...

Corona has impacted our year greatly and naturally we're disappointed to be in the position that we're in. None of us has anticipated to find ourselves on a grape farm near Worcester when we were actually supposed to be in Costa Rica or something. In these times we so often have the tendency to focus on the problem rather than God's provision. Our team is immensely blessed and I'd bet big money that we're having a better lockdown than anyone in South Africa. We have the wide open spaces of the farm, we have a means of earning money through...

“It is quite true that the way up to the High Places is both difficult and dangerous,” said the Shepherd. “It has to be, so that nothing which is an enemy of Love can make the ascent and invade the Kingdom. Nothing blemished or imperfect is allowed there, and the inhabitants of the High Places do need ‘hinds’ (a deer) feet. I have them myself,” he added with a smile, “and like a young hart or roebuck I can go leaping on the mountains and skipping on the hills with the greatest ease and pleasure. But, Much-Afraid, I could make...

I use to think that I need to go somewhere to "find myself" but now I know I've nevern been lost, you learn who you are by the choices you make and the chances you take...    So the more times you do something that you wouldn't normally do, you know... that choices you make that's way out of your comfort zone. The important part about those choices are following them through, owning them and your mistakes because thats how you learn. The great thing about learning is it will never stop, even with this year I'm away from everything...

From the first day we arrived in the Philippines with all it's promised beauty and extraordinary adventures.. We hit the ground running from sleeping in a very small airport to taking a 36 hour ferry in a room with more than 500 beds amd not even mentioning the heat this country has to offer.    We arrived at the first venue for the parents visit with excitement and even a few nerves. What a great time this was spending time with friends and family and getting to know our fellow travellers even more, with snorkeling, scuba diving amd jumping of...