Participant Blogs

Fulani town of Tanout in Niger If we were all created out of mere dust and sand, the Sahara must be the palet in God's creative hand. Having tea with Saharawi people in the Western Sahara (Dakhla, Morocco)   Celebrating Magdel's birthday in the desert! "For I will pour water on the thirsty land, and streams on the dry ground; I will pour out my Spirit on your offspring, and my blessing on your descendants."(Isaiah 44:3) The Southern borders of the Sahara in Niger "He turned the desert into pools of water and the parched ground into flowing springs."(Psalm 107:35)...

Any description I give to the experience I have had these past three weeks will fall short of the glory and honour it should give too our utmost Highest.

What an awesome privilege it is to stand as a witness to the hundreds of young people committing their lives to Jesus in South Africa today.

Every where we visit the same theme stands out...

Our time in Israel was amazing !!! We stayed in Bethlehem which is in the palastinian territory of Israel. Every day we had the same experience of going through checkpoints as the people of palastine. God showed me how it felt living without freedom. I really have developed a heart for Israel and Palastine. Being in the Holy land was such a blessing. Thanks God.

"My goodness," I thought, "if we survive this God would have done a miracle." I was hanging on the side of an old series 3 Land Rover pick up, grabbing onto pieces of luggage as we slugged through a water filled mud hole and dangerously tilted sideways. We were somewhere in a rainforest, somewhere in the western part of Cameroon. Going somewhere, very slowly. This was our second day of travel on the way to Yaounde, Cameroon and it was also the most adventurous. After exiting Nigeria at the immigration office we climbed into a canoe and crossed a big brown...

wow!! I'm so stoked these past 42 days have been something else. Learning more about myself, God, the people around me and how situations can effect you when you beyond tired. I've really been blessed to be here with all these amazing people. From surviving in the freezing cold nights at our makeshift campsite with a sheltt that didn't even work and our fire being to far away from everything, all the "dear diary" entries made it just all the more funny. My survivor team was the orange team and already in 5days we had made a bond that wasn't...

Our time in Portugal was truelly a blessed time.  The people there were so friendly and they did everything they could to make us feel at home.  Some of them could not speak English very well, but we managed to communicate by show of hands, pointing or guessing the words.  They really opened their hearts to us and it was a privilege to meet them.  One of the highlights for me was the basketball we could play with some of the kids there.  This one day I played for quite some time with Ismael, he is so full of joy...

After 18 hours on the Egypt - Israel border we entered the Promise Land. Our experience at the border, enjoy :) Have a look on you tube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80yIb5M2Dd4

During the September school holidays, 11 high school kids and 1 final year student gave their holiday to go and help at the Thlakuli orphanage in Butha Buthe, Lesotho.   During this ten days we spend two days on the road and worked hard for the rest. Four members of the team were also part of the July outreach to Tlakuli and two of them returned after an outreach September 2008. The ophans enjoyed seeing the familiar faces return. The team finished the vegetable garden we worked on in July and also put the shade net covering over it.  ...

Normal 0 false false false EN-ZA X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 JBAY, the beach, the surf, the ... wind.  So we started the first part of our global challenge journey for 2010. What did we do I hear you ask? Well, a lot ! We are currently busy with the Veritas Bible school program. We spend a lot of our time each day doing this course. It is really brilliant, my view of reading the Bible changed dramatically. We spent a lot of our time serving the local community, working very hard doing physically labour and spending time with little kids. It...

Thıs ıs a testımony of how God gıves us the prıvılege  to be Hıs vessels whıle He does the work. Durıng our stay ın Turkey the Lord set up an awesome opportunıty for us to share Hıs story wıth the Muslım youth of Kusadası. One evenıng a group of young boys were playıng rugby on the beach near our campsıte. Needless to say a relatıonshıp of common ınterest developed between them and our Northbound boys. Every few evenıngs the guys would get together to play or watch a game of rugby . The club ıs ın  ınfant stage so our guys helped gıve coachıng...