Global Challenge - South Africa

Global Challenge is an initiative by OM where Christians can join a short outreach to communities around the world. In South Africa we host an outreach every year in the July school holidays. This year we will reach out to communities living around Gauteng.

The bucket thing

One of the beautiful things of the global challenge is the cross-cultural situations that team members experience. Yesterday a few told us about their experience with 'the bucket thing'. In a time where most of us are used to showers and baths not everyone has the same luxury. These team mebers that we talked with were all in a situation where there was no such bathroom. Only a bucket, some cold water and a wash cloth! Especially one young girl was shocked when they just have her a pan and she did not know what to do with it. But she just prayed 'Jesus help me' and she continued on bravely. Many others are struggling through different types of cross-cultural situations such as the places they sleep, the food they eat (there is a lot of curry out there), but they are determined to push on to be a witness for Christ.

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