Participant Blogs

  While staying at Khota children's Home we spent our mornings restoring/painting one of their old buildings. I had the privilege of painting Mark 10:14 on one of the walls. It begins where Jesus says: 'LET THE LITTLE CHILDREN COME TO ME. DO NOT HINDER THEM!For the Kingdon of heaven belongs to those who are like these.' It was one of those days where I was tired and I had a whole group of Kids around me wanting to help me/ watching me/ just messing around, while I was trying to get my job done. I had to ask them a...

The temperature is hot, the day is hot, the night is hot, I'm hot and the food is hot....but Nic, you're stillthe hottest of all!

 

John 14: 12-14- ‘I tell you the truth, anyone who has faith in me will do what I have been doing. He will do even greater things then these, because I am going to the Father. And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Son may bring glory to the Father. You may ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it.’

Anyone that knows me will know that I absolutely love being outside and that being in or around mountains is without a doubt where I am in my happy place. So imagine my excitement and anticipation for our visit to the small town of Incahuasi high in the Andes mountains of Peru with Oom Hendrik. This stop on the journey was one of the main reasons why I decided to do my particular journey to South America in the first place and my expectation was well-met - the first day I wanted to jump out of my skin with excitement....

 India - a time where we can only look back upon and praise GOD!!! We started off in India with a bang. We worked from 5:30am till about 11am, and then we had some time for biblestudy. After that we worked out a program for the kids, and then we had a whole day of interaction with the kids. That was definitely my highlight!!! I loved everything that had to do with the kids. We prayed alot for money to bless them, and though we didn't even had enough money to stay there, we were blessed by God with about...

The Lime team has been going through some changes lately... First, Debree is finance person (quite scary). AND more important and much more exciting... we tied with blue for 2nd place in the India challenge! GO BLIME! We had to plant rice, ride in a sari on a donkey (great job Marizy), play 10 overs of the gentleman's game AND win, try explaining THAT to four indian kids. The visit at the tea factory had Cobus reevaluate his pharmacist calling - HAHA just kidding, but it was pretty cool. Let me just say that it is interesting what people are...

The past month I have been traversing round the great land of the east and I have thoroughly enjoyed the culture, the challenges with the language (become quite good at the art of charades I might add!), and the beautiful countryside. Although it has been a very challenging leg of our journey in terms of team dynamics, I have learnt a lot and grown through these situations, both personally and in my faith with the Lord.

Little did they know that getting to Zambia was a race!

The first official race of Global Challenge X 2008!

After spending close to 0ne week in J-Bay we are all amazed at what God has started to do in our lives so far! We had a local challenge this week and we had so much to do in such a short time that we had to run from point A to B and our group can really testify that god really provided in every need! We had a lot of challenges including washing 10 cars and eating 20 ice-creams, between 4 people this can turn out to be a bit too much! We also had to decorate a cake and...

Mendoza... 4000km to Lima Peru via Bolivia and only 5 days to do it in a limited budget. Yes we arrived in Mendoza, Argintina and got the task to meet them in Lima, Peru in 5 days time with limited money. Our fist day we just rested at a hostel and figured everything out and really seeked God in our journey and how He wants us to travel.  The whole lime team experienced to travel to peru through Bolivia, which makes the yourney 1000km more than through Chilli. We started looking at prices for busses and trains, but because of...