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           Do you remember some of these girls?  These are pictures of some of the girls I met at the orphanage during our time there in 2007. What an amazing privilage and joy it was to see them again this year!!! To see them laugh and sing and dance...  To hear them pray and see how they have grown...  To spen time with them again - building friendship that impacts eternity in both my heart and theirs...  To listen to their joys and fears, their dreams and their tears...  To share LIFE and just to BE and to LOVE...        "MY...

we started the day shopping at the Russian market. we received a challenge card containing a list of challenges we have to complete. our team, consisting of Cornelia, eduan and elani, had to eat a choice of a) snake, b) frog or c) green eggs(courtesy of dr.suess.) we also have to visit the water of life centre where we have to take a photo with Stephen (from the USA) or the two south African doctors who volunteer there. later in the afternoon we visited the daughters centre, where Ruth and other volunteers train women who were previously sexworkers in handcrafts and cooking....

Our time here is great the Lord use us in diffrent ways. My high light here was the time at the "kinderhuis".  I just loved it so much that I want to go back there and just stay there.  One of the little girls just grap hold of me and did not want to let go.  It made me realise that when we hold on to Jesus we must not let go of Him  He will hold you and keep you safe. We help the paster out with jobs that need to be done this side and it is so...

God's heart is for every person on earth to have an intimate relationship with Him. 

As I was looking out of the plane's window as we descended upon Greece... The sun reflected on the sea, the islands stretched out as far as I could see. The light was red golden and the clouds surrounded small patches of land - it was the most beautiful sight I've ever seen... In that moment it truly dawned on me for the first time, what we as Northbound is going to do this year, and what Global challenge has been doing became a reality! Up to now it's all been too good to be true! But now it is...

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 year ago I made a definite decision about 2015. It's a year later and we are debriefing the past 24 weeks of the journey. I am not sure who I am quoting now, but this is truly a life like no other. And this is what I mean by that:   We have lived in dodgy hotels with almost no facilities and grand hotels with warm showers and coffee machines. We have lived in musquito nests and random islands. We have slept in airports and busstations. We have travelled with ALL kinds of buses and taxis (including a truck...

Today was our last full day here in Phuket and we used it to reflect on some of the events of the past 4 to 5 weeks.  We leave Phuket tomorrow morning early to hitch hike down to the Malaysian border and eventually to Kuala Lumpur from where we are flying to Melbourne, Australia. As I mentioned in an earlier blog, we had visitors on Friday.  Lauren, a GCEX family member from the States was among them and during our time of worship, she made me realize again what this was all about.  We got so trapped in the "we need God...

Once upon a time, there was a kingdom in a realm similar to our own. 

As we were driving through a small town in the Himalaya Mountains I stared out the window at some beautiful Indian women dressed in their traditional saris. They were walking graciously through the street, chatting and buying local products. Still cautious enough to pull a small boy away from a moving vehicle. The striking color and patterns of their Saris drew my attention, but there was something else... something that fascinated me, or rather disturbed me. While I was staring at them I realized they had no emotion or expressions on their faces. No smile, no frown and no reaction. The...