Participant Blogs

29 April 2008 

As I was tightening the last screw on the lock I just put into the door I saw “Ouma Nhokoteni” in the corner of my eye sitting on a chair in her kitchen. She was talking to two ladies I have never seen before in Red Hill. 

Moments earlier she invited these two strangers into her new home and made them some fresh tea. Interested in what was going to happen next, I continued to fiddle with the lock.

A recent visit to Kuala Lumpur proved to be more than we bargained for! All of the teams arrived at Kuala Lumpur airport and we all made our way to Pudu hostel like a nice little group of tourists! Around 2 am we all went to bed in the extreme heat and struggled to fall asleep. 4 hours later Hatting woke us up cheerfully with a little brown envelope on our beds: Challenge number 2! All of us decided the previous day that we would have breakfast together so we did that and then the challenge started. The yellow team...

Fatima - Portugal 8 Dec our local "fostering" families took us to Fatima, head of the Catholic Church in Portugal. It was a national Catholic festive day in Portugal and the cathedral grounds were swamped by hungry hearts. Hungry for salvation, yet the salvation their religion offers them does not refresh their hearts!! We saw people buying and burning candles as some way of keeping their light shining in a world full of darkness ( the same darkness that keeps them blinded). Candles for every possible event in your life from birth, right through to death and for every possible...

Hi there wonderful people! So as we are now officially on our global challenge (am actually sitting in Qatar airport near  Saudi Arabia),  and it has been about  7 weeks since we actually started, I thought it was about time that I maybe introduce myself and kick off the blogging madness…

 

 

What a ride the last 5 weeks have been! We arrived in India and headed up to Shimla in the Himalayas where we experienced the colour festival... Climbed snow covered mountains... and spoke to the locals about hinduism. It is very interesting. Everything is relative, they believe in over 3 million gods, but always agree when we say there is only one, and often even go to church. They will happily accept that Jesus is a god but not that He is the only way. Our very last day in Shimla we went on a prayer walk and ended up...

We departed from Turkey almost two months ago already, but it was such an overwhelming experience to be a pilgrim in the country where a big part of the new testament plays off that I struggled to put it into words. Here is my attempt at celebrating the highlights! We arrived in Istanbul, a cosmopolitan city located halfway in Asia and halfway in Europe with a strong Middle Eastern influence. The streets smell of incense and turkish delight and various kinds of fruit teas can be found in every sidewalk cafe and street market. Here I found that Psalm 16:5...

It has been a crazy week...We are in our fourth country already...  We are masters of Asian public transport --- when we aren't amazed by the country side we sleep at 90 degree angles...  It has been a wonderful journey...horseback around the piramides in Egypt, swimming in Thailand, praying for dinner at 2 am in Kuala Lumpur and on the back of a motor cycle in Cambodia..this is only thew first week of 80 days 2008/09...  God has used this time to build close relationships within the team --- it feels like we know each other for quite a while...

‘Passenger Details’ {Part 1}..A Tour of the Father’s Heart for Africa I am a 25 year old lady currently working as a Project Manager for a company called Time Projects in Botswana.  I was born and raised in Botswana.  I went to junior school in Botswana and I went to Kimberley, South Africa, for high school where I was a boarder.  It was during boarding school that I met Jesus. After completing my High School education I went to the University of Cape Town.  I was in Cape Town for five years where I completed an Honours degree in Construction...

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Hi, hallo, sabona. Finally Global challenge has started!!! This is what I dreamt about for the last 2 years. I am really excited about what lies ahead and to see what God is going to do. I know this is were God wants me to be. I am grateful to God for equipting me to finish my studies at Potchefstroom University. The 4 years at university and in the hostile (Caput) was great. God changed my life and really worked with me in every aspect. He also gave me great friends, that I am going to miss. Our base camp...