Participant Blogs

Covid-19 — the unknown to men, the known to God.   2020 — a year that we thought we knew the outline of the drawing, the colour of the picture, the game plan of the match. It's time for a different chapter. A chapter God already wrote.   Our journey is like a new movie. We've already seen the trailer of Global Challenge Expiditions 2020. We've  decided to step into the cinema to watch how our expectations will onfold...   BOOM! Our movie suddenly hits a climax — a plot twist no one expected. Scenes filled with face masks and...

Finding joy in the small things.   Well of we go to Malaysia but first, what a awesome time we had in Loas . We had amazing time with the people in Loas and learned so much. I could really see God working through the people that we met and the people we spend time with.   I personally learned so much just by intentionally spending time with people in the country and really seeing how they find so much joy in the small things in life. I learned that I almost always take everything for granted. God really showed...

Hogsback, a place where nature envelopes you, where the forest aroma fills your nostrils, where the earth is alive, rivers flow and God’s creation worships Him. However, Hogsback isn’t known for any of that but rather for it’s heavy spiritual atmosphere, but God used us to represent His kingdom there by using us as His light in the darkness.   We could really see God working in people’s lives despite us and using us as the broken vessels we are to lead people into His Kingdom.   Being surrounded by Nature really reminded me that God is Lord of the...

People think to be an evangelist you have to be a certain spiritual level with God, have you to be fasting and praying, asking God earnestly to bring someone across our path just so we can turn them to Jesus. Although our hearts should be longing for such things as these, this shouldn’t be our motives of wanting to evangelise. Let’s first start off with what “evangelism” means. It doesn’t mean you walk up to random people and try convert their beliefs to yours. Even if we tried it is not us who can convert anyone anyway, but God who...

But Jesus replied, "My Father is always working, and so am I." -John 5:17 This is a famous verse that a lot of people know and I have heard it multiple times in my life. But only in Russia I truely believed and saw God's work in action. It all began in the streets of Moscow after a long day of walking to get our visas for Cuba. I got a picture in my head and immediately knew it came from God. I loved that God is still speaking to me, but in a way I was a bit scared...

I heard the hollow eco's of silence. Darkness surrounded me and emptiness lurked within.   Suddenly a piercing cry smashed through the silence, "stop believing the lies!" I wondered what lies the voice was talking about. Then the light engulfed the darkness and I realized what the lies was. I always thought God didn't speak to me. But then He started to reveal all the times He did speak and I just didn't realize it was Him. I thought I made up the pictures and words I got, that it was only my imagination. I didn't even think that it...

Black is standing next to white. Rich and poor is going through the day doing their daily tasks. Billion dollar buildings are towering above Mumbai while the slums decorate the background. You will find clean competing with dirty. Contrasts are the clothes India wears with a face of friendliness shining like the beams of a torch.    We might have had plans, but God had better plans waiting for us. The team thought India was going to be a restful 5 days, but it was completely the opposite. God directed our path in India in such a way that He...

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This is a country where kites soar above your head while people peacefully go about their daily tasks. It wasn't always like this. Rwanda has a dark history which is so dark that one would not think that this is the same country as 25 years ago.    In 1994 for a period of 100 days the streets of Kigali, the capital, were drenched in blood. A million people lost their lives. The smell of dead bodies flooded the air while dogs feasted on human flesh. Neighbours turned against each other and even family. Fear, rape, abuse and hate dominated...

The "real" world is a scary place most of us create in our minds. I for one thaught that after our training period had finished I might slowly carve back into my old path. This has been proven false and I couldn't be more confident in the eternal changes God has established. We stay in the same world that we did five or even ten years ago, time doesn't change us but our circumstances do. What we take from these circumstances into the ones that follow form us and if led by God helps us shape the world. With this...