Participant Blogs

The last day in Isreal. My time here was to be with Jesus just to experience him in a new way he is the one that was leading us to places wen we did not know where to go. The whole mouth with God in the Holy Land 

It is so far a amazing journey. I just love training. We been put in the wilderness for 4days with nothing els but our cloths we had on . What a adventure to get out of your comfort zone . We all smelt like pigs but what a time. After wilderness week we had a training course where we went deep in the Word . After that we had a teaching about God's grace . What a wonderful teaching.   And now we are journeying with school kids .

 I don’t know how deep the water is. I don’t know what’s underneath me. Through the murky blue I can see eery shapes in dark brown and black, but nothing more. I am trying to swim as fast as I can while still putting in the effort to appear graceful and in control.   The truth is, I am not at all in control and I am honestly really really scared. I don’t understand why I’m feeling like this.   Usually, I’m like a fish in the water. I have always loved the ocean. Its actually the one place where...

Back where I belong   Back in December of 2018, my sister and brother in-law announced that they where pregnant. It was such blessed news to receive. The entire family was so happy and thankful for the news and praised God. We all knew that it would be a difficult road ahead and that without God, it would be impossible.   I had a difficult start to the year and had to allow God to teach me to keep my focus on Him and not on things I want. To stay focused and trust in God and His will for...

To become a beautiful sculpture, there is first some chiseling to do and to my expectations I didn't think God will do it so quickly. In these few weeks of training I have experienced a kind of love between friends that I never experienced in my life before.  Thank you to the Lord, His Gace and a lot of love, i am now able to connect with people on a deeper level than I have ever been able to connect with people in the past. From day one I felt love and acceptance God chipping away all these lies. Coming...

Barefoot In Kenya   I wrote a poem about Africa. Unfortunately for some and fortunately for others, it is in Afrikaans. I did consider translating the poem but it just wouldn’t be the same. So I’ll put it in the next seperate blog post if you want to read it. I’ll post it right after this one.   There is much to say about a lot of things. I like to think think think and sometimes I sink in my think, but when I let the Holy Spirit breathe into my thoughts it feels like I’m floating on my back...

After a year and a half of preparation and excitement overload, the journey has begun! My heart had been stirring for missions and when Global Challenges was mentioned in conversation, this overwhelming peace flowed over me and a resounding, "Yes! This is what I've been searching for!" echoed within.  One of the highlights of training so far has been the revelation of how I see God. The team was listening to some worship and a line of the song mentioned something about seeing Him. Now, I am a very visual person and an animal lover so bear with me here....

Taking photos in the outdoors we see this eagle in flight and pull out our camera's immediately focussing on the eagle close by and blurring out the rest, zooming in to see the detail of the eye forgetting about the rest. Having the right angle to capture the Beauty of the feathers, have the shutter speed just right to catch the perfect shot. Have the aperture bigger to capture more light to emphasize the Eagle. Have the right aspect ratio to get the size of the photo right.   We are so focused on using all these features to get...

Before leaving for the nations we had some time in Johannesburg. We served at Gereformeerde church in Linden, but our team, Hidden Paths, was blessed with an opportunity to go too Potchefstroom for a week while the other teams was back at the "hallelujah house" where we then after Potchefstroom also severed. In Potchefstroom we did various things, marketing, leading worship, evangelism, serving at a home group sell and last but not least we did a little bit of manual labor around the pastor's new house.  In Linden we did alot of ministry, but my favorite one was the senior...

Unfailing Grace has brought me to this place where God can really use me.And where I can get to a place where I can have devine encounters with His intimate character. In these two weeks I have realised that God has called us to serve, to be humble and to love. And despite our pasts or human nature, Gods plans will manifest and He will use us in ways we never thought possible. While I'm writing this I'm just realising that with every sunrise and sunset, how thankful I am to know the God of all creations and to have...