Participant Blogs

In a community broken by neglect, insecurity, poverty and lack of parenting and opportunity, children are in need.  One in two children in the area are impacted by the effects of HIV/AIDS. As a result, children are deprived of their basic childhood needs. In the Transkei there is an opportunity of hope that Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 YOU CAN be a part of. Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Starting on 3 February 2011 , over the period of 10 days, Global Challenge South Bound team will launch the "Fence of Love"...

Vyf hemde, ‘n bybel, toiletpapier Wat maak jy hier?   Lê jou kop neer waar die vliegtuig opstyg Probeer drie bakke pap en rys in ryg   In Narok moet jy ry soos jy lus kry Maak vas jou tas op die dak  Maar later sal dit af sak   Middernag hardloop deur die modder oor die veld Agterna die bus wat die dood net-net mis Geen tyd vir wonder, net herhalende bid Here help ons uit die pit   Reën elke uur van elke dag Sopnat slaapsak na die kampvuur lag   Mense in komberse met tyres vir skoene...

The past week we met everyone "officially" into our small teams, and WOW!, God really put everyone exactly where they need to be! I am in the Yellow team, and this year the Yellow team is going to MOVE! I can not believe how it is possible for 5 people, to mix, match and adapt to each other. I know we only started, but WOW!, this is really a new family to me. I will never forget my old team, and I love them dearly, but this is a new chapter, one which will only be written by God. So,...

Normal 0 21 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4   Hallo everyone!  Sorry for being quiet for such a long time, but now I have a great story to tell.  Well, we have been in Israel for 22 days, and how amazing it has been.  Before I tell you about the challenge, I want to tell you (in short) about our time in Israel.  We began by splitting the North team.  The Silver team worked at a YWAM base in Bethlehem.  The lime girls together with two of the blue team girls, helped at a school in Jerusalem. The rest of the...

                      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.  ...

Enjoying the WILD side of Africa!!

  As I think back to GCEX 2010 and being a member of Northbound, time has gone by so quickly. It can be hard to believe that we went to so many different countries and met the most amazing people. It seems so surreal, a distant memory, like a distant shore for a sailor who hasn't spotted land for miles. Oh, but it was very real, very real indeed!   The country that was ever so on my heart during the year was China. We were only to reach her in July/August. I thought of this nation most of the...

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...

Killing Fields, Living Fields...   Even though this is the title of a book depicting the life and times of the church in Cambodia during one of the most recent human atrocities, it very much speaks about the country as a whole these days. A country that only came out of a bloody time of war and occupation as recently as 1993, it’s slowly busy recovering to its once promising future which was laid bare by a regime of brutality and inhumanity a mere 30 years ago when anyone who seemed to be influenced in any way by the Western...