Participant Blogs

I guess when God gives you a vision for something.. It’s because HE wants to do something... Even though it sound absurd, obeying might just blow your mind.. So middle 2012 I had to raise money for my journey in 2013 from SCRATCH.. God gave me an idea to make about 1000 matchboxes with my details and the following slogan.. “Take a matchbox and help me lighten a dark world with God’s light..” I didn’t think that God was literal about it.. So I handed out these boxes, spreading it all around and trusting that God would open people’s  hearts...

Nuestro tiempo en Brasil fue muy especial , Dios nos permitió conocer varias personas y familias cristianas para compartirles la vision y el trabajo que se va a realizar en el Peru el proximo año. Ellos estan muy encantados de apoyar y participar en este proyecto. Tambien fue un tiempo en la que nuestro Padre Celestial  confirmo el inicio de una nueva etapa en nuestras vidas , una etapa que involucra a otras personas trabajando en este proyecto. Despues de la capacitacion ,entrenamiento y viajes a diferentes paises africanos , Brasil fue nuestro lugar de descanso. Admirar la belleza de...

Exciting times. Transkei has been a period of victory and battle!We are six “leedas” with six leading bags on the back of a red Ford bakkie writing a blog in the midst of a challenge.   We were four teams that split up into 2 main projects; RURAL MAHOSHENI and COFFEE BAY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL.   Rural Mahosheni: EXTREME MAKEOVER   When you hear the word extreme makeover you would propably think about reboulding a house. Well we trusted God not only to help us start building a clinic and a 'rondavel' but more than that for a Spiritual makeover in...

Some of you might remember how we in 2007 told the story of a young woman, by the name of Emma, in the West of China. We met her during our visit to China last year and was absolutely amazed by her courage, longing heart and strong will to know the TRUTH! I thought it a good idea to prayerfully remind you of Emma's story and the circumstance she faces in the West of China. Have a look at this video - Just Click on the READ MORE link and lets pray for her and other believers in similar circumstances....

LOCAL CHALLENGE!!   In the first week of a new school term the D.F Malherbe High School in Port-Elizabeth had their Local Challenge! 16 Teams entered, started Thursday evening for a 61 Hour challenge!  Our main outreach was at the Fontein Primary school – for this outreach time we had to bake 1600 pancakes.    Friday morning started with the laying of coins on the D.F Malherbe octopus followed by the laying of pencils around the rugby field… all together more than R1000 and over 600 pencils where gathered.    At Fontein Primary School , we handed out pancakes and coldrink, a whole mini...

We have travelled the world... and now it is South Africa`s turn!

Northbound arrived safely in Istanbul, Turkey on Wednesday. We were blessed by the presence of Bronwyn and Clara, who have taken up a position of leadership while David and Dunette are absent. We had no definite plans set out for our time in Turkey, but hoped to be invited to go to one of our brothers in Christ’s home church in Adana or go to Kusadasi. Previous GCX teams have served and visited Kusadasi before and the ruins of Ephesus and the early church is also within the city. Just before Clara and Bronwyn left South Africa we received an...

This last week, I learnt that The Lord provides in abundance and delights in blessing His children. Us Global Challengers had the opportunity to practically apply all that we have learnt during training by going on a 5-day Luke 10 journey from Wednesday to Sunday. Simply put, we followed in the footsteps of the 72 disciples that were sent out by Jesus as "lambs amongst the wolves" in Luke chapter 10. Each small team prayed and waited upon The Lord for direction as to where He wanted them to go.

  I once heard someone say that one should be careful before putting a world map on your wall, because you don’t know where God will take you.   What can I say, not only did I not listen…I have three of them!   And God’s been taking me all over the world.   Looking at the world map, following the route we’ll be going on during the upcoming 80 days, I found myself bewildered.   I am privileged to have visited a few countries, yet compared to the rest of the world, it’s only a few dots.   The...

     "Hou bene hou!" Running a race has always been lots of fun but having the oppertunity to run with the Mayan people has been one of the highlights of this year.  The six of us; Hector, Paul, Tiaan, Marisa, me and Tobi ran a 8km race here in Panajachel   We only started the race at 11:00am the morning so the sun was  scorching   hot, the  toughest challenge. We were all very excited and enjoyed the day in the sun with the local people.  Just to say that these people run up a mountain  like we run a downhill.  They spend most...