Participant Blogs

The waiter approaches... the waiter hands PJ a tray... on it... 3 envelopes!!!! THE FIRST CHALLENGE! My first thought... CAN THIS REALLY BE HAPPENING?! We were on the ferry on the way back to Manila from Cebu island! What we thought to be a time of rest that was coming up before we fly to Kuala Lumpur, was now South Bound's first challenge!!! At that time i actually just wanted to jump overboard... we were all exhausted! The Philippines was a very busy and intense time! It can be summarised in one word... CRUSADES! 11 crusades in 11 days! The...

Farewell to the Amazonas [video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1XslAdDL0g 480x480]

  Sarah and I were sitting on the plane and waited for the air hostess to bring the aisle-wheelchair so that we can start our two weeks holiday in South Africa. Our entry into Cape Town with 1 Time was quite impressive but the only wheelchair-friendly kombi I was able to rent, got stolen a week before our flight! The next best thing was a Toyota Condor... This was two years ago and it made me discover the need for wheelchair accessibility in South Africa and the desire to give them the same privileges we have. At first it looked...

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...

Halo again to all my supporters and friends. This is a a photo blog about Greece, which we visited first. It was my first time I set foot out of South Africa and happily Greece was arranged in a way that we could first get acquainted with different languages, money systems and cultures. It was an overwhelming experience for me and my eyes already started to open for how many different people there is in this world that needs Christ. Here follows a few photos from Greece: A picture of the flight from South Africa to Greece. It was the...

Hi everyone! We are safely in Delhi! WOW wow WOW! We have just had supper on the  roof of our "hotel"... Smyle's Inn! We cooked some pasta on our little petrol burner while listening to all the tuk-tuk hooters outside! this feels like another planet! the taxi driving today from the airport was something i tell you! they dont use lanes or indicators! just if someone comes to close, they hoot! TOoT tOOT! tom morning early we are heading out to the train station where we will be heading to Shimla until the 7th! we all did some shopping today......

Are Muslims more difficult to reach than other people groups? Isn't God's power to reach the peoples of the earth infinate and is Islam no challenge for Him? Why does it sometimes feel like there's a wall around Muslims keeping them from seeing the truth and accepting it as the truth?   "Allah hath set a seal on their hearts and on their hearing, and on their eyes is a veil" (The Holy Qur'an) (Sura II v.7)   Satan, the god of this evil world, has blinded the minds of those who don't believe, so they are unable to see...

And now for the play by play...

14 days, 2 days, 20 310 km, 3 airports, 5 time zones, 3 bus trips, 250 kg of luggage (excluding hand luggage), 1 lost bag, 1 free meal in airport, 4 games of ninja, lots of fun and laughter, praise&worship in the most random places, Global Challenge lifestyle:  priceless!  (Well, technically not actually – donations welcome…)

 

    After all our adventures in all the different parts of Indonesia, we had to leave the country for a while, before returning to come to Bali and Lombok. We couldn’t stay in Indonesia, because our Visas were only for 30 days. We were planning on going to Papua New Guinea, but there is currently a lot of unrest there. Tourists have been shot by snipers on the boarder and it sounds like a civil war is about to break out, so we didn’t have peace from God to still go there. We looked for the cheapest flight tickets...

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...