Participant Blogs

Hi all* we still busy busy... Veritas Bible course, teachings, community work, challenges, building playgrounds, playing with kids, helping them with homework, dancing, worshiping and embracing God!!!* Wednesday we went to the ARV clinic again in the community to help out, and after i helped at the soup kitchen, we were playing with a beautiful litlle girl, Soso! I asked her mommy about the rope around her waist and she said it was her traditional belt! i asked what it was for and she just said for protection against the tokolosies! i want us to please pray against these beliefs...

Deur: Benescke Botha Die Chinese bamboesriet. ’n Plant wat met ’n klein saadjie in die grond begin. ’n Plant wat na ’n jaar, buiten vir ’n klein groen stukkie uit die grond, skynbaar omtrent niks gegroei het nie. In die tweede jaar waarin die plant met water gevoed, beskerm en selfs met kunsmis behandel word, is daar steeds min groei. Só ook in die derde en die vierde jaar. Dit is dan, in die vyfde jaar dat iets vreemd met die plant gebeur. In net ses weke skiet die bamboesriet (wat voorheen nog net ’n paar sentimeter bo die grond...

  Hi all! Its hard to reflect on a week that went by in a flash but still feels as if we've been here for months! This week the Leadership Team welcomed us as if we were long lost family member finally making our way back home.  The thing connecting us were not blood and a family name but the passion for Christ, the unknown and a burning desire to see God heal nations. I now understand what God meant when He said HE alone directs our steps. Listening to the team members stories of how they all came to join the...

  Ola Vriende   Wat ‘n voorreg om nog te kan lewe. Ek is in die laaste week van Ekspedisie en my hart kook nog oor van alles wat in my aangaan.   Portugal is ‘n besonderse plek met ‘n groep mense wat my net nog meer huis toe laat verlang, want hulle is gasvry, vriendelik, spontaan, lagwekkend en laf - my tipe mense!! Ons het mos nou die 14de Janeiro (Portugees) geland hier en ons bly by gaste-ouers, hier naby Lisbon die hoofstad, in Masamma. Ek en Martin bly by twee jong Portugese ouens (een kom van Brazil ook af)...

As ek aan my droom en visie vir die reis dink is daar 2 gedeeltes wat dit vir my baie goed opsom:  Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming, “Wow, what a ride!”  Wil met so ‘n intensie die reis aanpak en elke situasie ten volle probeer benut.  Wil in soveel meer afhanklik groei in die Here en Sy hart soek vir elke situasie wat ek myself in kan kry.  Wil...

 

As of yesterday morning, blue team started yet another adventure. At breakfast, the greater southbound team was surprised with a challenge to get from Mousoorie to New Delhi. The tasks: near to impossible, The Purpose of getting back to Delhi: achievable only with God’s help (seeing as we were given $0 for the challenge). Regardless, we set out. We set out with Strength and with Honor and with Delhi in our future.

"Oh what tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive" - Sean Connery We started at 6am and went from the Petrona's twin towers (where the movie Entrapment was filmed) to 273 steps with snakes and monkeys.  Taking pictures and running in the rain - asking for donations and then giving it all away.  Was it fun - ????????????  Only after you forget about your sore feet and legs and your stomach settled from the pig intestines that you ate.  Definitely enjoying it when the little fish are eating away at the dead skin on your feet and you know that you are...

I'm 18years old, living in Pretoria and almost finished with school.  It's really difficult talking about yourself, or just explaining who I am! I like, talking,sharing and meeting new people. I like to travel and test myself a lot. I love living life and doing things that is different. I came to the point where I had to ask myself what I am going to be doing next year and with the rest of my life. I came across Global challenge and then I was shocked to see how awesome opportunity this is and why there isn't more of this...

Bondea Me Amigo! Kyk, die beloofde land is nou wel vol melk en heuning , maar dis nou tyd vir my om terug te keer na die land waar die koeie en bye is! Ek is nou maar een van daai ouens wat sal val vir ºn dame wat lekker kos kan maak. En jong ek geniet darem maar ºn stukkie vleis, mielie pappie en so Saterdag middag Biltongtjie saam die Rugby! Hehe Portugal was so gebless gewees. Ons het mos geserve by 'Igraje Reformada Evangelica'. Maandag het ons gaan bedien by die laeskool, wat ºn vreugde was dit vir my...