The past 3 weeks in the UK was wonderful. God truly blessed me with the opportunity to visit friends, housemates and family to share about God's awesome work during the past year. Every day I had fallen deeper and deeper in love with London ones again ,as I was walking over Tower Bridge and enjoying a spectacular view of The London Eye from Waterloo bridge. But above all, I had fallen deeper and deeper in love with God. I was again stunned at God's work, while sharing about the things God had done in my life and what He is still doing....
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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....
Our life changing journey began with enormous favour from God. After constantly travelling for more than two days we had a choice to make: we knew we needed to get to Chile in four days time to begin our ministry but our bodies needed rest, and our finances were limited... We didn’t even have enough money to travel to Asuncion in Paraguay to catch our flight to Chile.
Why do we make life so complicated? Why do we so easily make mountains out of mere ant hills? It is not supposed to be this difficult and I dare say it is rather tiring to worry about everything all the time. My stay in Egypt these past two weeks has been a time of growth and transformation. Firstly I would like to mention that all the pictures I have seen, all the history that I have read and heard throughout my years of study about this wonderful place, I could have never imagined it to be so...
When I first laid my eyes on you and the rolling hills you sat upon. I thought what amazing luck I have that God had created such beautiful things and gave me the eyes to see them. I am forever changed by your existence. You are a place filled with so many stories and I feel so privileged to share some of these stories with you. I can't think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything. Suddenly you are five years old again....
During the month of May, Work Your Way spent their time ministering, serving and sharing in Malaysia and Thailand. From serving at Pastor Sylvanus in Malaysia, to doing our Luke 10 journeys(Read Luke 10 to see what this journey is all about) all over Thailand to serving with an old Global Challenger, Tobie, in Phuket, Work Your Way has truly had a blessed time and experienced something new of God in so many ways! Watch the video as we share just a touch of what God revealed to us about himself: [video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blBJ88eg2vE 600x450]
A 25 hour day We departed from Havana, Cuba at 10 am and landed in Mexico, Cancun at 10 am with a 1 hour flight. This is how we experienced a 25 hour day. Some background information, we travelled for 17 hours on a truck/ bus from Santiago to Havana in the heat with our knees around our ears and sandwiches packed! We slept at the airport, leaving the comforts, security and love for our Cuban hosts behind and entering the UNKNOWN. The host unknown, the plan unknown, the nation unknown. What we do KNOW is that God is with...
Dear friends Where is your faith? Its been some time since our last newsletter, but I would love to share with you some of what Estee and I experienced the past few weeks. I have discovered again that I truly need God in my life, that I am nothing without Him and that through Him all things are possible. Before we knew it, 2009 was on top of us and we were camping with more than 45 students next to the beach in Jeffrey’s Bay. This year we will have two journeys (North Bound and South Bound) travelling around...
“Nothing is hidden from Your sight; Wherever I go You are with me; You know every detail of my life; You are God and you don’t miss a thing.” The last week or so I’ve been thinking about the whole idea of my life and in what way God has control over the things that happen in my life. Reading stories of people like Joseph I have again just realized how God in intensely involved with what happens in our lives. When reading the words to the song above it just emphasizes how nothing on this earth is hidden from...
Turning water into wine. Telling fishermen to be his followers. Followed around by spiritually-hungry people, searching for truth. Feeding five thousand people with a little boy's lunch. Setting people free from law and leading them into grace. Yes, that's my Jesus. This same Jesus allowed Distant Worlds to get a taste of what that felt like during our week in the Andes mountains.
It was a dream come true. Rattling, shaking and bumping up zigzag mountain passes to the village of Incahuasi. This was where we would sleep for five nights. We drove for four hours on 100km on a single-lane, dusty, serpentine path. In the Andes Mountains. I almost couldn't believe it.
The mountains were colossal, stretching 3130m into the heavens. My eyes were as wide as saucers as we drove past mountain villages, with hand-sown rice fields and horse-drawn carts. The women wore the most beautiful, colourful, handmade clothes. Not much has changed in these villages from 100 years ago.
We shared bibles with many far-away schools in isolated towns. The average amount of students were 40 in the whole school. It was interesting to note that most of these people had never even left their mountain town. They didn't know about things such as beaches, skyscrapers of drive-thru McDonalds. They knew more about mountain trails than LonelyPlanet and their diet consisted of things they had planted and cultivated themselves. A whole new world. "Lord, what do I say to these children? We come from two different worlds. We don't even speak the same language - they speak Quechua and I only speak primitive Spanish. Holy Spirit, speak through me please..."
Oh Israel the Lord has spoken! It's time to come back home!! After one month in Isreal and this being the most adventures time of my life.. Looking back now sitting at the airport again... on the sabbath again... luckily we learned now that you don't get public transport on this day and being more prepared I look back and all that comes to mind is this song from United Persuit Hidden: There was one when I was young Who knew my heart He knew my sorrow He held my hand And he lead me to trust him...
