GCEX 2010 work Your way in AUSTRALIA For sure I can say that my favourite country Australia has become this year. We were placed in a beautiful valley surrounded by mountains, where we served for two months with hard work and leading camps for children. Mountain Trails is a Christian camp, which works with different activities, like horse riding, dirt bikes, activities with ropes, etc. And through the activities will share the Gospel with the children. We worked on different jobs, building fences for horses, building four little houses for "bike camps" cut and chop wood, jobs with...
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Uncertain future, certain God.
Our journey back to South Africa was undoubtedly paved by the hand of the Father. The moment we heard the seriousness of Corona, we as teams were called to meet together at a central place in Brazil - a house in the mountains near a very small town. ...
Led to Lead
I'm leading a team this year! In less than four years God has come and radically changed my life for the better. I believe that each and every single one of us are led to lead. In other words Christ leads us to lead others to him. What a privil...
Would you jump with me?
I remember standing at the edge of a cliff. Looking out at the big wide blue ocean. Looking down and seeing a beautiful scary blue unknown. My heart pounding in my chest like the sound of an epic climactic drum solo. Should I jump? Should i let go of...
Into the nations
Hello, my name is Johan Bruwer. I am on the brink of a 10-month journey where I will see and be a part of the establishment of God’s kingdom in the nations. I believe that the great commission is not an option to be considered, but it is a command to...
Discovering God
After finishing a blog on how God changed my mindset, about things I did not like doing and showing me other wise, I was not convinced that that was what I was supposed to share. After some amazing teachings this past few days and spending some...
"The land of smiles"
Thailand!! Wow it's an incredible place! Filled with beauties that only seeing in person can be understood! It definitely lives up to its phrase "the land of smiles" everyone here is just amazing. This country is special for me! We started in Bangkok...
Hidden World in The World
And just like that we were saying our good bye's and getting on a plane, watching South Africa disappear beneath us and bidding it farewell for the next 8 months. Hidden World is officially in the nations. It still seems unreal to us. 8 weeks ago we ...
Thanking food friends
An exciting update from the GLA eco campus construction site! We would like to give a shout out to the small businesses in Jeffrey's Bay- Beesland Slaghuis, Vyeboom Takeaway, RS Fruit and Veg (Croix Street) and Mengelmoes Kardoes We would like to th...
Break an Egg, Build a School!
The Global Challenge Expeditions Team of 2015 has created an initiative to increase financial support, called the Break an Egg, Build a School Challenge . This challenge is to create a video of you breaking an egg in a creative way and donate at www....
I apologize for taking so long to put this blog up. The couple of weeks have been quite challenging and we as a team experienced a lot of ups and downs. This made it difficult to look back on this time and to put everything that happened and everything that we experienced into words. From being in Padang, on the Island of Sumatra with our visitors (Arthur and Ashleigh's mothers and Paul and Clara from Global Challenge leadership), to flying to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and doing a Challenge there with the Work Your Way guys. Then spending little over...
How wonderful my journey has been so far I can't even put in words, But I'll try.
First of, hello from this, my new blog with which I'll be sharing some of my experiences of the journey that I'm partaking in this year. This first entry is a short synopsis of what has precluded this journey and also what has happened thus far. After having to say goodbye to a significant other in my life I also tried to say goodbye to the world... Fortunately God had other plans for me and decided I should stay a little while longer. This is when I had reached the lowest point of time in my life and I finally embraced...
I have always loved aeroplanes. I remember the first time I flew (PE - Joburg) and how my eyes were glued to the window the entire flight, just marvelling in the geography lesson below that books could not teach me. Even after flying a few times I would find my neck being kind of stiff by the time that we land because I was looking through the window the entire time. There was a time when I convinced myself that I'm studying the right course because I might end up working in an airport, and even spend my one vacation...
Hello all!!!!* Finally i can blog again! most of the internet cafe's in India just kick you off as soon as you open a Christian website! We are in Cambodia! it is VERY VERY hot! We have been visiting museums, orphanages and will be going to churches tom!* We are waiting on God's plans for us for the second week here... wherever He wants to take us, we go!* If there are any of you who would like to receive my newsletters, please just send me your email addresses! mine is This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. (underscore _ between nix and ferreira)! the newsletters have more...
Hi all, we are now at Alabanza getting ready for this amazing journey that lies ahead! The training is nice but i cant wait to go...
Imagine living in place that has a thick cloud constantly hovering over you (that is pollution and dust), a place where dust storms and different heats are your seasons, a place where honking and swerving to the right and left is a constant part of driving, a place where stories of persecution and someone passing away that you know is normal, a place where women need to be aware and covered to protect themselves, and a place where rioting and unrest is felt. There are so many words needed to explain this country of Egypt. We’ve now been here just...
F 1 GP Malasyia Sharing with the Orang Asli tribe Monkey Hunting Youth Ministry Phi Phi Island Hitchhiking Malasyia - Thailand GCEX 2010 Hello everyone. Psalm 89:24 “My faithfulness and goodness will be with him, and trough My name his horn will be exalted. “ And His faithfulness and His goodness has been with us all 25 days that we were in Malaysia and Thailand. We arrived without any plans, where are we going to be, with who, what we’ll be doing, nothing really. We went in faith. ...
Dear friends!
Just a few quick pics to show you what we have been up to in Bosnia Hezegovina the past few weeks. Myself and a few South Africans are serving the local Christians in Summer Camps held for all age groups with the aim to bring them into a relationship with Christ!
