Participant Blogs

Fear contradicts Love! During our time here in Thailand, a car rolled off the road and ended up smashed at the side of the road. Welman and I were about forty meters behind that car when all this took place. We stopped and miraculously all 4 people inside the car came out alive.  It then just struck me. In a blink of an eye four people’s lives could have ended just there and then, without warning. And it is sad for me to say, but the harsh reality of all of this is that all four of those people were...

To you, the school of the nations   This is a thank you. Or an attempt at acknowledgement. To the countless faces and people that I have crossed paths with in the past few years.    I once heard a sermon of the way that we are rocks on a river bed, being tossed and turned and swept downstream. And as we bump shoulders with one another, a forming takes place. God determines the length and the depth but still - we are formed in different ways by the people around us.   Words cannot describe the forming that has...

Almost a month into this Global Challenge journey and we have come as far as Zambia. We are comletely isolated from civilisation
and stay at the FCE training facility deep inside the bush next to the local villages.

Now, the travel up to Zambia was a mission of its own and definitely the road less travelled. It was set as a challenge to each of the individual teams with the following objectives:
-Get to Zambia (FCE base near Ndola) in the shortest possible time
-Take a photo of the Victoria Falls
-Take a picture of as many of the Big Five as possible
-Raise R2000
-Spend the least amount of money on the journey.

  Going Extreme!!!!!!!!! Thinking back at China, I realized how much we grew as a team and that we as women have a very special part to play in every country we go to serve. In China we could relate with children and women, but especially school girls. Just to be the women that God made us and not to be anything less.                                                     What a privilege to have a specific place in Gods Kingdom and to get to know yourself, your Godgiven gifts, your own heart as a women and just serve because you have so much to give. In...

The dessert run!! The 4wd dessert run starts. The adventure I waited for. The Land Cruisers where packed and ready to got. Generator, amp, DVD player, projector every thing to show the J_sus film in the dessert. The first well was 50 km away from Tanout. With a local P_stor as navigator we hit the dessert tracks, a few hours later we arrive being welcomed warmly by the Fulani community who live around this specific well. The 70m deep well the only source off water in the area. We walked to the well and watched how approximately 50-60l of water...

Jeremiah 33:6-9 "Nevertheless, the time will come when i will heal Jeusalem's damage and give her prosperity and peace. i will restore the fortunes of Judah and Israel and rebuild their cities. i will cleanse awae their sins against me, and i will forgive all their sins of rebellion. then this city will bring joy, glory, and honor before all the nations of the earth! the people of the world will see the good i do for my people and wll tremble with awe!" This morning we had an intercession and prayer morning, and Riaan also got this scripture! Habakkuk...

What an absolute privilege it is to be here in Zambia. For the past few days we have been learning about missions and what it really means to be a missionary. Once we had done the theory side of it all, it was time to really put it all into practice. Each of our teams had the opportunity to go and stay in a local village for two days. The yellow team had the blessing of going to the Kampundu village.

My parents, who are missionaries in Portugal, were also in Morocco for an outreach. We planned to work together in Tiznit with a contact they had. It was great to be able to join Explore Africa with my parents and we had a great time together!   Their contact worked especially with children with physical and mental disabilities. Which meant we could help her visit some of the children's families to build relationships and play with the children.   During this time we became friends with a young Muslim girl and her friend and finally had the opportunity to share...

A Prayer by Thomas Merton My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me Nor do I really know myself, And the fact that I think I am following your will Does not mean that I am actually doing so. But I believe that the desire to please you Does in fact please you. And I hope that I will never do anything apart from that desire And I know that if I do this, You will lead me by the right road Though I may know nothing about...

A 24 year old girl has recently discovered after years of living in "poverty" that she won the lottery at the young age of 10.   She never checked her bank account to see how much she was actually entitled to. She was living like all the other people around her, according to the standards of her immediate reality. She did not realise that she was actually free from the rules she had made for herself. She was free from a life dictated by checklists that everyone around her was striving for. She had it all along but she just...