Travel Varsity 2024 – Global Challenge Missions

Armenia – Through a Student’s Lives

Written by Travel Varsity on December 2, 2024. Posted in Feature Story, Travel Varsity 2024. No Comments on Armenia – Through a Student’s Lives

Armenia was a country full of surprises. From our first day, we were unsure of where we would be staying, doing ministry, or studying… it was a country where “Trusting Jesus” became a daily adage. Upon our arrival in the capital city of Yerevan, we had a meeting with our wonderful host, who informed us that we had two choices: to stay in the city, or move about 2 hours away to a smaller town called Spitak. After praying about it as a team, we shared what we all felt. Having complete peace with either decision, we nonetheless felt an excitement for Spitak that told us Jesus...

Georgia – Through a Student’s Eyes

Written by Travel Varsity on September 26, 2024. Posted in Travel Varsity 2024. No Comments on Georgia – Through a Student’s Eyes

We write this looking out at a view which would humble even the most experienced traveler: mountains, soaring into the sky, snow capped white peaks seeming to reach up into heaven. Cattle grazing on the hills, and villages built in between where the sky meets the earth. Georgia has been such a wonderful country. We have been here two months, and have been so blessed in our time here. Flying straight from Thailand, we arrived just in time to begin an English teaching program with our hosts. Working in several villages, we were welcomed with an absolutely humbling hospitality. We were ed...

Thailand – Through A Student’s Eyes

Written by Travel Varsity on August 20, 2024. Posted in Travel Varsity 2024. No Comments on Thailand – Through A Student’s Eyes

As our last country in Asia, Thailand was filled with a certain nostalgia. Driving in the back of bakkies past rice fields, with mountains in the distance, and sunset walks that took our breath away! A beautiful country, filled with the kindest people you could ever meet. Loving on us, spoiling us, feeding us more than we thought we could fit. Our time in Thailand was slightly unusual, as the country was split into two blocks, three weeks on the front end, before heading to Laos, and two weeks on the back end, after returning from Laos. Thus, we were blessed to spend time with several different...

Laos – Through A Student’s Eyes

Written by Travel Varsity on June 24, 2024. Posted in Travel Varsity 2024. No Comments on Laos – Through A Student’s Eyes

Mud puddles, rainy days, dancing, sign language and green forests, French Colonial buildings built bare blocks down from temples decorated red and gold, with carvings so precise they make you feel as though you’ve stepped into an alternate world. Laughing children, with so little, yet so much in the world, waving at you from gardens and street sidewalks. These small, quiet moments, when you step back to just admire the universe that our God created, so full, so overwhelming in its intricacy, so perfect. A mind far above ours could begin to conceive the reasons for each corner of it, but...

Malaysia – Through A Student’s Eyes

Written by Travel Varsity on April 30, 2024. Posted in Travel Varsity 2024. 1 Comment on Malaysia – Through A Student’s Eyes

Our time in Malaysia has been such an incredible blessing and testimony of God’s grace and provision, story after story of His love and, through some hard times, mercy. We are so privileged to have been able to spend time in this incredible country with our brothers and sisters in Christ that the Lord placed on our path. It was encouraging to see how these fellow believers worked for His glory everyday. We arrived in Malaysia on April 6th, after an intense week of travel. Leaving Johannesburg on April 1st, we flew to Bangkok, Thailand, spending the night there before pressing on...