Participant Blogs

  If I were to ask you to think of the most favorite gift you have ever received, what would your answer be? I am sure you have quite a few just like me but if I were to name but one it would be my time in Spain. I was given the immense privilege to not only give a gift but to receive one much greater than I myself could have hoped for.    Our adventure started in Tarifa. A quaint little seaside town overlooking the glorious mountains of Morocco. Coming from a country where Christianity and Bibles are...

    I always thought the words  and then  were a prelude to something wonderful. Like seeing a ship come in or finding a note in your letterbox, when you weren't expecting one. That swift, surprising transition from nothing to everything.  And then .   Two little words that hold a world of promise.  And then  the light pierced through the dark sky, and the rain stopped falling.    And then  I met you.    Uganda, experiencing you was like being ten hears old again, scaling a tree with my eyes bright and skyward, wanting to get higher and higher...

During our 3 weeks in Egypt the Lord gave me a picture of our team. I saw a picture of us walking in the desert and up ahead in the distance Jesus was walking, leading us as we followed in his footsteps.   For me and the team this was very encouraging as we felt the Lord saying that he was preparing the way for us for the next 2 months and that were ever we would go he would have been before to prepare everything for us. Looking back at our time I could see how the Lord prepared...

Someone wise (Sam) once explained it to me like this…   “Christianity is a love story . It’s not a 12-step program, it’s not a course that I’m taking. It’s not a puzzle I’m working out. It is a relationship, a love story – a messy, complicated, difficult, beautiful, heart breaking, freeing, healing love story. And I can’t earn it, I can’t control it, I can’t even completely understand it. I can only trust that it is real. And I don’t have to be afraid because He is in control!”   And this was what I discovered to be true through...

AFRICAN EXTREMES 10 Jun 2009 In a week's time I've experienced so many different African Extremes... From Niger's desert-villages to the city of Abuja in Nigeria, nearly nothing is the same. Here are some African Extremes: Last week we couldn't find one ATM in the former capital of Niger, this week we can pick and choose between 6 ATM's that's standing next to each other in the foyer of a hotel. Last week I woke up in my tent in the middle of the desert, with the sound of Fulani-women discussing the white people whose visiting their well. This morning...

I love Ephesians 3:17-18: "And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord's holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ." Being ROOTED and ESTABLISHED in love. That is so cool to think about. I spent most of my life believing I was not worth being alive. Having felt so much rejection from a mother who chose addiction over her children, a lie was planted in my core. Even after I had been placed in a loving foster family, the devil...

A Life Like No Other!!!  This phrase truly explains what I am feeling.  My life is like no other!! I have been sooooo BLESSED to experience God's world.  I came to South Africa expecting to be sitting in an office preparing for the upcoming 80 Days Trip.  To my surprise, three days after I arrived I was asked to join a group of adults on a journey through AFRICA.

Why are you (me) doing this year????? People still ask the question: "Am I my brothers' keeper?"... (Gen 4:8-9) Are you going to be brave enough to say YES? Levitcus 19:18 clearly tells us to love our neighbour (people) as we do ourselves... but do we? The LORD himself gave these commands! As the body of Christ we need to be more concerned for our brothers and sisters... We are so guilty in that we see the anguish of their souls and do nothing!!!! The book of Acts is a good model of a caring community... "And all who believed...

Today I was very privileged to finish the book I was reading while serving somewhere in China. The book is called "To the golden shore" and is the biography of Adoniram Judson, the first missionary that was ever send out by America. I am truly humbled by the life of this man. He left his family never to see them again, he buried 2 wives and 3 children. He was imprisoned for almost 2 years and it took 6 years before the first Burmese person  accepted Christ. He spend almost 50 years away from home and gave up everything to serve Christ. I...

We just came back from an Indian tribe in the forest, just outside Ubatuba.  What an experience!   As Gehta said:  “They all look like Pocahontas!” We played soccer with the boys in the rain, told the creation story to the kids – for the first time – and helped bake bread.  But a story shouldn’t start at the end, so let me jump back a few days.