Participant Blogs

  An amazing year it was. Before returning back home, we visiting our last country to realize again the great impact one can make by just giving it all - in INDIA. We traveled into India with the great prospect to serve and love greatly… but instead we were loved just as much and even more. We found ourselves in Kota at Immanuel orphanage; working during the early morning hours & using the afternoons and evenings to spend with the children. We were teaching them about the Bible and the stories of Jesus, by means of dramas. In Kota working......

1 Cor. 12:13 – “A body isn’t just a single part blown up into something huge. It’s all the different-but-similar parts arranged and functioning together.” (Msg) Growing up in a Christian home you hear this teaching a lot: the church is like a body. It has different parts working together. I knew this and experienced it in South Africa, but in Malaysia it came a reality for me. Though the time we spent in Malaysia was difficult I was carried by the church all the way. From my fellow Global Challenge team member to local church members here in Kuala...

[video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKQQ09V1Gx0 400x400] This is our first blog video clip of the year. Our time in Ubatuba, Brazil has consisted of building relationships with friends and members in the church, as well as some work projects. During these times there were an occasion where we prayed for a friend´s hand that had been hurting and not functioning properly for ten years - God healed her hand immediately! Glory to our King and Saviour! We are also looking forward to visit and pray at a hospital soon, and finding opportunities for some evangelizing. Please follow us as our year unfolds and as...

Ola wonderful people!

 

Some of us at the airport with the Qatar airlines staff

I’m writing from the vibrant little Ubatuba (which is the surfing capital of Brazil).  This place is breathtakingly beautiful and the people are so dynamic and vibrant. I can't even begin to explain how crazy this all feels, I seriously feel like I'm in a movie it’s so surreal!

 

"We feel we would give anything if only we could, in actual experience, live on High places of love and victory here on earth - able to react to evil, tribulation, sorrow, pain and every wrong thing in such a way that they would be overcome and transformed into something to the praise and glory of God forever. As Christians we know, in theory at least, that in the life of a child of God there are no second causes, that even the most unjust and cruel things as well as all seemingly pointless and undeserving sufferings, have been permitted...

Is anything in life ever a coincidence?  I don't believe it, and after the first 4 days of the Tri Nations Asia Expidition, I know God is in control and He makes every appointment divine!  Our journey started at Alabanza the 26th of June.  It was the first short term missions conference and what a conference!  I met my team members and immediatly I knew this group wasn't ordanary and that this mission isn't going to be ordanary.  It isn't coincedence that God has chosen the spicific 8 members.  We departed from South Africa on the 28th of June to...

What do you think of when I say ‘Luke 10?’

You may say ‘Jesus sending out his disciples two by two; they were sent into the harvest field because the harvest is ripe but the workers are few; so that all men might be saved…’ or something along those lines. Through different teachings and preparing for such a journey we undertook a few weeks ago, we also learnt some very important things: the characteristics of a man of peace; the characteristics of the person going; and the overall purpose of Luke 10 being for kingdom building of those who are willing to go; a time of learning and growth, with many risks involved; and to demonstrate a compassion for the lost so that all men might be saved.

For silver team, our Luke 10 journey started with the scripture God gave me in The Philippines one Sunday at church in July - Acts 9 (which is detailed in my previous blog). After an amazing 2 weeks in Thailand of prayer, seeking the Lord, receiving different teachings on Luke 10, and through scriptures and prayer confirmations, we were told to go ‘fetch our donkey’ in Siem Reap Cambodia, just as the disciples were told to go fetch their donkey in Matt 21: 1-17 for the Lord. Although what Jesus asked them to do didn’t make sense to them at all, it was done in such a way so Jesus could enter Jerusalem and destroy the image that the Pharisees had made Him out to be. Jesus had His Father’s heart in mind for everything, and if all God asked of the silver team was to fetch our ‘donkey’ on Luke 10, then we were to obey and honour Him in that request, even if we didn’t understand the reasoning or purpose behind it initially.

Quick highlights of Cambodia: Noodles basically everyday for lunch or dinner in an effort to save on food money YAY noodles! Playing with children from orphanges and villages Seeing people wearing their PJ's during the day learning so much from Gods word and new ways of how to study it resting, relaxing and catching up on missed journalling   And the longer version: Ok and so by the time we were done with the challenge of Luke 10 it was very exciting to be reunited with the rest of the southbound team. In the time away I realized how much...

What an amazing journey it has been so far. We cannot believe that we have less than three months left of travelling. God keeps guiding our steps amd keeps blowing our minds by His perfect plan and will. Here is a short summary of what every team member experienced in the Island of Penang in Malaysia. Arthur Arthur is not with us at the moment. His passport got stolen about a month ago in Yogyakarta – Indonesia and so he had to get a temporary passport. He had to travel to Jakarta to apply for a new passport and to...

The time that we spent in China, was truly an amazing experience as well as an eye opener to me!