Participant Blogs

Forget it! I am done! I can’t take it anymore! The honeymoon is over and the real life has begun. Why is it that there is a constant struggle? There is an unspoken struggle in life that has always been there and is so often not worked through and ignored. I am at a place, in this journey, where there is struggle. It’s struggle that’s always been there but it just hasn’t had to be worked through. Everyone no matter who they are gets irritated about something. They get hurt by the way someone says or does something, they think...

Hi all so this will be my first entry ever and I don't know wear to start. So much has happend but most of it can not be put into words, my journey with Jesus has been a long one but the past month I feel that I have only just scratched the surface of it. My emotions has been on a rollercoaster up, down, left and right but yet feeling closer to God like I never felt before. Thank you Jesus!   I still have a lot to learn in my quiet time and journey with God, and my...

Hey, we have had the most amazing start to GCX One Year 2009!  38 Young adults arrived in JBAY yesterday for the base camp phase!    They will continue with preps. until 24 Feb. before leaving for Egipt and more than 20 countries in total as they share the love of Christ to a world in desperate need!   We call on you on to pray and support and read blogs regularly so that the Testimony of Christ can spread all over this world!   Blessings   Stefan and the South Bounders!!

hey there you all man this is the life style i always dreamed of... now i know what william wallace spoke about of taking away ones freedom. i love this adrenalin going through your body of the challanges and the traveling.we where a week at alabanza in pretoria with Joe ewen that spoke on gifts of the spirit and that was amazing. then the flight to cairo and alaflora where we did veritas and was so good and beautifull. also so quiet and calming. now after the paramids and the nile and cave church we at the red sea at...

The last two or three weeks in my life has just been AMAZING! I have had such a wonderful time here in China that it is difficult to explain it in words but i will still try :P As soon as we arrived here in china about 3 weeks ago all of us just knew that it was going to be a month that will change our life's and that God had some amazing things planned for us! Our time started with 2 nights sleeping on the floor in train stations, and then we got on a train for a...

I think that sometimes reality is harder to believe than what we see on TV; the truth -  more amazing than fiction... Just less than a month ago we had our first taste of the legendary 'challenge' part of Global Challenge: a mini amazing race. in our small group (consisting of Riann, Henk, Suiyen, Isa and myself) we had to milk a cow, take a photo in undersized wetsuites, hitch hike, raise R100 each, sit on a cannon, donate blood, sing in front of the new soccer stadium in PE; try on a fireman's uniform; chase, catch and carry around a live chicken (Leo), ride horses...

Our journey from Zinder to Abuja was mostly uneventful. We said our goodbyes to Niger, crossed to border to Northern Nigeria and watched as the desert was soon replaced by lush green surroundings. The extreme poverty also gave way to a sense of prosperity and big bustling cities. The first of which was major centre of Kano. The famous West African Peugeot taxi we were driving in did break down about half way to Abuja. But by now we were used to that happening and patiently waited in a random mechanic’s yard as they welded and grinded away at pieces...

The team has asked me to give you a quick update on their current status in China.

You are all aware of the situation developing between Tibet and the Chinese government… This affected our team in the sense that some of the cities we would’ve visited during this month have now been closed to foreigners and all the teams have moved to a city closer to the Yellow River in Central China.

   Madame Guyon wrote in her autobiography: The presence of God was so plentifully given that it seemed to be more in me than my very self. Come then to this fountain, without complaining to weak an impotent creature that cannot help you, come to prayer, and lay before God your troubles; beg His grace; above all, do this so that you may love Him. None can exempt himself from loving, for none can live without a heart, or the heart without love. Let us love without reasoning about it, and we will find ourselves filled with love before the...

Our Luke 10 expedition began on 23 August 2011 from Lisbon, Portugal. The red team consisted of Frikkie de Beer, Carmen Ann Lombard, Christopher Griesel, Nelmari Smit and then there was a new member only for Luke 10, named Samuel Vogel. Samuel's parents are missionaries form Switzerland in Portugal, Mem Martiens where we served for three weeks before Luke 10. Our team prayed and asked God where He wants to send us for Luke 10. There were several words and pictures that came up in our prayers, but we didn’t get a specific place where God wanted to send us....