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November 30, 2011 by  
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Mystery Trip 2011, our team traveled to Cape Town, South Africa where we had the opportunity to go work with an after school program for children who were affected by AIDS. Love is Now.

Photo Credit: Lindsey Eryn Clark

Photo of the Day

November 29, 2011 by  
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On the islands off the coast of Panama, our team found this sweet little boy named Jonathan. As the older kids participated in the floating carnivals, he stood off in the distance smiling at them.

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Photo of the Day

November 21, 2011 by  
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As the Go Team was setting up the ministry site in a little village outside of Kampong Thom, they ran into this sweet lady on the road. She was headed to the ministry site in faith that she would receive healing for her body.

Photo Credit: Lindsey Eryn Clark

A Symbol of Hope

November 21, 2011 by  
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I was seventeen the first time my feet met Hatian soil. As my team of missionaries and I arrived at the small Haitian village of about 75 people, I so badly wanted to turn my eyes. I wanted to turn away because of the devastation I saw, it hurt to look at. Houses made out of sticks stuck in the mud with a tarp thrown over the top. Children drinking muddy water, dead animals laying around the streets. And their eyes; I hated looking into the people eyes because they were so empty. An emptiness I wanted so badly to fulfill but wasn’t sure how to.While getting to know some of the villagers, I looked out towards a field to see a girl standing alone, just watching as everyone interacted, I was immediately drawn to her. As I walked towards her my heart started racing. There was a pulling in my heart for this little girl that I knew nothing about.She was timid at first but it only took a few minutes before she was telling me about her life. It didn’t take her long to reveal to me that she had no recollection of ever having family or friends, and had never experienced a warm embrace or a gentle kiss. As our conversation continued the young girl told me she didn’t even know her real name, yet she called herself Leah. Only 14 years old, Leah lived alone in the village. She had no family, no home, no money, no shoes. Leah was a village outcast yet she was happy. Despite her story of abandonment, her smile was radiant, she had one of the most beautiful smiles I have ever seen.

I was wearing a simple necklace with one pearl hanging at the end of it the day I met Leah. I loved this necklace because it was a gift from a dear friend. Yet for some reason, I knew Leah needed this necklace. Not for the sake of fashion, but as a symbol of hope. Without even thinking I took the necklace off for the first time in three years and placed it around Leah’s neck. As I finished fastening the necklace around her neck, you would have thought I had handed her all the money in the world. Leah started laughing, crying, jumping, hugging me, and I was crying along with her. After her parade of emotions, she proceeded to tell me that a few days before our team visited her village she had been crying out to God asking him for a sign, any sign, to show her that He still loved her. She needed to know God could still see her and hear her cries. I looked at that necklace as just another gift from a friend. Leah saw the necklace as a sign from God that her life was still worth living, a trinket symbolizing hope for the future. It blows my mind that by simply giving of yourself you can literally change someones life.

There are millions of Leah’s out there just waiting for a signal of hope from God, you can be that light. You have the capability to fulfill the mandate God calls upon us in James 1: 27 which is: “Pure and genuine religion in the sight of God the Father means caring for orphans and widows in their distress and refusing to let the world corrupt you.”

Join Go International this February as we travel back to Haiti to fulfill the mandate, save innocent lives and be a light in a world full of darkness.

Written By: Lauren Bruhn

Photo of the Day

November 17, 2011 by  
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In January 2010, Go International took their interns on the annual Mystery Trip and found themselves in Cambodia. Everyday, the team would visit the orphanage and these two young girls would come and play with the team. They had nothing, yet they were full of love and joy.

Photo Credit: Lindsey Eryn Clark

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November 16, 2011 by  
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In January 2011, Go International travelled to South Africa to encourage and share the gospel with our brothers and sisters of Capetown.

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November 15, 2011 by  
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The team came across this beautiful little girl while traveling the streets of a sqautter camp in Capetown, South Africa.

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November 14, 2011 by  
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February 2011, Go International traveled half way across the world and for the first time ever as an organization stepped foot on African soil as they landed in Johannesburg, South Africa. While in South Africa, the team was able to visit and bring light to those who lived in the “squatter camps.” Eager for hope to hold on to the South Africans were receptive of the gospel message.

Photo credit: Lindsey Eryn Clark

 

Photo of the Day

November 10, 2011 by  
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Our team found this little boy in a village outside of Kampong Thom, Cambodia spying on what the team was doing in the church with the rest of the village children.

Photo Credit: Dodge & Bel Pangburn

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November 9, 2011 by  
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In a little village outside of Kampong Thom, Cambodia our team stumbled upon this beautiful little girl who was waiting for the arrival of our team.

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