Author: Global Challenge Missions

Preparing to go?

Written by Global Challenge Missions on May 24, 2024. Posted in Missions. No Comments on Preparing to go?

When the Verwey family of Japan Missions visited rural South Africa in 1971 they would have had no idea that a 6-year-old ponytailed girl might be stirred for world missions through their stories and slides. The Holy Spirit stirred me for missions even at that tender age. Weekly mission-focused Bible clubs continued to nurture the seed already sown, while devoted Christian parents would visit mission stations while we were on holidays. God’s call to the unreached in my first year as university student therefore came as no surprise. The challenge of Paul Smith “Why should anybody hear the Gospel...

Way to The Nations

Written by Global Challenge Missions on July 26, 2023. Posted in Way To The Nations. No Comments on Way to The Nations

Way to the Nations (WTTN) is a launchpad into cross-cultural fieldwork training and preparation. A ‘programme’ that actually is not really a programme at all. But rather, a process that facilitates ‘doing life together’. Although there is a ‘time-cap’ of six months for pragmatic reasons, what one learns during this equipping period is life-long and continuous. Every fieldworker’s need is different, because He has given each of us a specific purpose and role. Although we were all created in His image, we have been uniquely wired. Each with an ability to think, create, contribute towards, maintain...

Passover in Portugal

Written by Global Challenge Missions on July 24, 2023. Posted in Missions. No Comments on Passover in Portugal

The special relationship between Portugal and South-Africa, started in 1488 when Bartolomeu Dias managed to round the Cape of Storms and landed at Mossel Bay. This enabled Vasco da Gama, in 1498, to explore a new trade route as far as India. For the following 150 years, the colonization of Angola and Mozambique were the focus points of Portuguese development in Southern-Africa. They navigated well and served the world, looking for new means of survival. Much later, in 1974 and 1975, South-African Churches were involved in a huge humanitarian effort to help tens of thousands of Portuguese refugees,...

Final Preparation for Fieldworkers

Written by Global Challenge Missions on June 9, 2023. Posted in Way To The Nations. No Comments on Final Preparation for Fieldworkers

If there ever had to be a catchphrase for the Global Challenge community, I believe it would be: ‘’What a privilege’’. It truly is a term that was coined with a heart full of gratitude for what the Lord is doing in and through this community. The Way to the Nations (WTTN) program officially commenced in January this year, and what a privilege it has been to be a part of its pioneering program. One where those with a love for the nations are equipped by those who have years of experience in the field and still carry a passion for missions. It certainly is a privilege to learn from those who...