I S R A E L Global Challenge Expeditions – work Your way 2010 'And He said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for thou hast striven with God and with men, and hast prevailed. " Gen 32:28 Israel, a privilege that I could spend 5 weeks in the promised land, a land flowing with Milk and Honey, the Holy Land. What a privilege that I could spend 5 weeks with the chosen nation, a nation about we read so many stories in the Old and New Testament from Abraham, David, Isaiah, Jesus,...
Participant Blogs
Global Challenge Missions Blog Archive: These are real blogs, from real people, bringing real change...
Uncertain future, certain God.
Our journey back to South Africa was undoubtedly paved by the hand of the Father. The moment we heard the seriousness of Corona, we as teams were called to meet together at a central place in Brazil - a house in the mountains near a very small town. ...
Led to Lead
I'm leading a team this year! In less than four years God has come and radically changed my life for the better. I believe that each and every single one of us are led to lead. In other words Christ leads us to lead others to him. What a privil...
Would you jump with me?
I remember standing at the edge of a cliff. Looking out at the big wide blue ocean. Looking down and seeing a beautiful scary blue unknown. My heart pounding in my chest like the sound of an epic climactic drum solo. Should I jump? Should i let go of...
Into the nations
Hello, my name is Johan Bruwer. I am on the brink of a 10-month journey where I will see and be a part of the establishment of God’s kingdom in the nations. I believe that the great commission is not an option to be considered, but it is a command to...
Discovering God
After finishing a blog on how God changed my mindset, about things I did not like doing and showing me other wise, I was not convinced that that was what I was supposed to share. After some amazing teachings this past few days and spending some...
"The land of smiles"
Thailand!! Wow it's an incredible place! Filled with beauties that only seeing in person can be understood! It definitely lives up to its phrase "the land of smiles" everyone here is just amazing. This country is special for me! We started in Bangkok...
Hidden World in The World
And just like that we were saying our good bye's and getting on a plane, watching South Africa disappear beneath us and bidding it farewell for the next 8 months. Hidden World is officially in the nations. It still seems unreal to us. 8 weeks ago we ...
Thanking food friends
An exciting update from the GLA eco campus construction site! We would like to give a shout out to the small businesses in Jeffrey's Bay- Beesland Slaghuis, Vyeboom Takeaway, RS Fruit and Veg (Croix Street) and Mengelmoes Kardoes We would like to th...
Break an Egg, Build a School!
The Global Challenge Expeditions Team of 2015 has created an initiative to increase financial support, called the Break an Egg, Build a School Challenge . This challenge is to create a video of you breaking an egg in a creative way and donate at www....
Greetings friends and family from sunny Jeffrey's Bay, South Africa! It's about time I wrote another blog so here we go!
What an amazing privilege to be a part of the Global Challenge team! Thankyou to all my supporters with their love, financial and especially prayer support during the past few months in getting me here- without you I would not be doing this year with God so thankyou so much!
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.
Normal 0 We took a shuttle bus to the next town, Escuintla. At the drop off point we sat in the sun and waited…waiting is very hard work if you are not sure what you are waiting for! Marisa and Herman went to call the man from the bakery, but there was no answer. We tried to catch a lift, but to no avail. Marisa and Herman went in search of the man’s house and the rest of us stayed with the baggage. Eventually a man came and sat down next to us and we started chatting about...
The past week we've been traveling from Morocco to Senegal.During our trip since Tiznit we've had a quite an adventure. Our stay in West Sahara was amazing as we were welcomed by friends, which not only encouraged us, but also gave us the chance to pray and minister to them. We ate camel meat, for supper and watched a video clip on how the west Saharan people live in the desert.The desert culture is quite unique and it is said that there aren't any believers. The vision for West Sahara is to keep a foot in the door between North-West...
It's not that bad- really- you just need a keen sence of adventure. China has been AMAZING. I was able to get a camera when we left Malaysia - so I thought I'd put up a photo blog:) Leaving Malaysia we made lots lo friends on the train- though the train trips can ger very tiring- and the trains are usually jam-packed! Our team won the last challange and were able to go eat KFC- and we met a brother- it was really cool. In China we had to catch a 32 hour train to another province the next morning. The hotels were...
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My vision for 80 Days 2009 TO KNOW HIM AS FRIEND, TRUST HIM AS SAVIOR AND OBEY HIM AS LORD!! TO LOVE GOD DANGEROUSLY, OBSESSIVELY AND UNDENIABLE!! My vision for this expedition is to experience God’s love and to grow in Him. I want to touch people by being involved in their communities. ‘And I pray that Christ will be more and more at home in your hearts as you trust Him. May your roots go down deep into the soil of God’s marvellous love. And may you have the power to understand, as all God’s people should, how...
" Ons in hier, ons, ons is hier! Ons is hier, ons, ons is hier! Ons is wie? cant you see? Southbound 'Die", Obviously!" Our BLUE TEAM's war cry during the first challenge... We are here! - (We have been called and have been obedient - thus we are here!) Cant you see? - (We stand before you - our hearts are ready) Southbound 'die' -"The" team to take on the nations and plant the seed of the word of Jesus in the hearts of the people! Isn't it obvious....? ps - the title stems from the movie "rat...
Ahoi friends and family! Let me introduce you to the fast- as- lightning- very- very- frightening Silver Team... Erin, Jean, Chantelle, and Gehta. As we write this, we are sitting in an internet cafe in Ubatuba, Brazil safe and well. What a blast the past two months has been training in Jeffreys Bay, South Africa, and what a privilege it is to now be in Brazil! It was an honour to have had Joe Erwing in our last week of training. He gave awesome teachings on the gifts of the Holy Spirit! It was sooo cool to be sent out being equipped...
PINK TEAM: PJ, Wessel, Luzaan and Vix. We ROCK!!! No, no really, we do! There was a man of God that spoke a word over our team:"Grace team. Kids team..bunch of kids around team."FUN", magnet that will draw many to God." The coolest thing is most of us in the group are good with Kids (Some of us thought that we might take the year off from children's ministry- But obviously has other plans) We have already experienced so much of God's grace and favour upon us.In challenges He has blessed and protected us. For example the one night (12pm) we...
