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Southbound 2011 is heading to India on Saturday 25^th September to finish off our one year journey and we are excited to experience another culture, with many opportunities for ministry. Four weeks of our time will be spent at an orphanage, which has about 400 children with a range of ages up to 18. There we will spend time with the children and also help with projects such as painting and repairing buildings.

At the moment, as a team we do not have the finances to cover the building materials to carry out the projects set out for us or bless the children with play equipment. To be able to support the orphanage we ask that you would consider supporting the ministry there. The main need is for paint and equipment, as well as the need to bless the children living in the orphanage.

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

  We had no set up ministry in Senegal. So nobody was waiting for us anywhere (Our next place of ministry was only 3 countries later in Zinder, Niger). This is quite a daunting feeling since you then have to find all the transport and accommodation on your own.   My plan was to travel to Dakar, the capital, and from there send the team out on their own following only the principles found in Luke chapter 10 in the Bible. Usually quite an adventure.   But now we were still on the border and the day was growing late....

Stefan politely encouraged me to blog. I came accross something I wrote two years ago. Since then our involvement in India increased. It still is a tremendous priviledge to learn from the men you are about to meet.   The difference between hearing about and the experience of the same thing, is like the difference between smell and taste. It is why I believe in experiental learning and why I am convinced that the Lord wants to create a wineskin to disciple people in a context of exposure. However, I did not thought it will hit me personally as hard...

Emek Barak ( Valley of Blessing)........ That was the name of the Campsite in Bosnia I Herzegovina where we helped for 2 weeks at a teenager and youth camp. The Holy Spirit really moved in that place and I believe that ‘Emek Baraka’ was really a blessing for each person who visited the camps. I met so many believers with awesome testimonies of how God changed their lives completely. From being totally into drugs, some being alcoholics and one guy I met were in a mental institute because of drugs. I don’t even want to start with the war and...

December 2009 we will embark on and epic expecition through Egypt, Israel and India... For 30 days we will discover and explore ancient ruins and historic sites. Visit world known wonders and have the opportunity to minister and share the love of Christ to hundreds desperately longing for the love od God to touch them. This is an expedition not to be missed! Check out 3 Nations for more info! Petro

We arrived in Thailand yesterday afternoon! we saw the SEA!!!!!!!!! YAY! just the sight of water excites me! it is unbelievably hot here! we were given the day off today to explore a bit and rest... so we experienced the real thai massage! got quite a fright at some points but is was devine! a whole hour for R35!Tom we will be splitting up into our colour groups for a 3 day faith journey, wherever God leads us! what an amazing way to start the time in Thailand! we are still praying and waiting to hear from God where He...

What an amazing experience! I have to confess that my day started out on a really low note, definitely a bass 2 ;)   However, as soon as we entered the garden tomb it was as if I did not have a choice but to bubble and burst with jubilation. It’s as if one’s spirit and soul just automatically want to bounce around (much, much more than the energizer bunny!) and almost can’t be contained. Even thinking about it now lifts my spirit with joy!   Golgotha Jesus’ Tomb - He is not here, for He has risen. We were...

This kind of life is challenging me to the point of action. I am in awe of how I am so often humbled. Just when I think I know what life is about, I am reminded of my inability to live as I so believe I should, as well as my total ignorance. To live in a interdependant community with the core value of loving one another to life is very hard. We are called to pick up our cross daily, and we expect it to be comfortable.    This is where the magic of the upside-down Kingdom is giving...