Participant Blogs

13 February 2008 - Red Hill

Today William, one of the residents I’ve been building a relationship with, suddenly said to me: “Your God must be pleased with what you’re doing here.”
Here’s my opportunity I thought. We got into a conversation about God and it came to the point where he said his favourite book in the Bible was Israel. “Israel?” I queried. “I don’t know that book.”
So he took me into his newly built shack (his shack was the very first one after the fire) and showed me his Shona Bible. William is from Zimbabwe and so speaks Shona.
When he showed me the book, Israel, I realised he mistranslated it and he actually meant, Isaiah.

In this part of the world people use code names. When in public, in the company of strangers, over the phone or even in emails the real thing is never said. Sensitive names of people, places or organisations are all coded (the above title is an example of what our codename would look like).  Just yesterday we heard of a South African who was told to go for a routine police check. When he got there he was handcuffed and flown to England with a Not allowed back in Morocco stamp in his passport. His wife and children still in...

  Zinder Dear friends and family. I am going to skip a few days and kilometers from Ouaga to Zinder and start telling of our time hear in Zinder Niger. Since Morocco this has been our 1 st set ministry and we have been in the area for 3 weeks. Hosted by a couple from World outreach Missions we visited local villages in the area an showed the Jesus dvd followed by evangelisation and explanation of the gospel. As custom has it in Africa on arrival in a village a visit to the chief is protocol. Walking through Dogo we entered...

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...

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Totally God!!! Our time was blessed in Guatemala. We met the most incredible people, and God used them to richly bless our lives, to speak into our lives and to help raise us up as true Sons of God. Amen! Praise be to God. This is number 2 for me, in Guatemala. Now until now, for the past couple of months, I have been praying for a mentor, specifically for this year. It is truely difficult, but I wanted and needed one. I know God is my Father, and He fathers me, and therefor I have everything I need. But,...

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.

‘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...

As we Global Challengers continue on in our training all I can do is stop and sit in silence... I didn't know that so much could happen in such a small amount of time. That I could experience these emotions or could be challenged so quickly physically and spiritually. As I arrived in Jeffrey's Bay tired and without a bag I really didn't know what i was stepping into. During these couple of weeks we have done several things, all in which have stretched me in some way. We have done a local challenge which entailed, hitchhiking, playing with local...

  While in Zambia, we had the opportunity to go to the local village school, and each team had a class to “entertain.” The red team was lead to teach the kids to keep their eyes on Jesus - no matter what. We assembled all the brown toilet rolls to make binoculars as props for each kid. (To the dismay of some, I robbed everyone’s full rolls of their carton bit-hehe!) The teaching went great-it looked like the kids had immense fun jumping up and down. We gave them a prerogative like: “When you are sad,” and they would eagerly...