Since I have applied in March and have been telling people what I’m in the process of doing, they ask, “Why do you want to go?” “Why don’t you just wait until you finish school?” or “You know there are things to be done around here too?”
There are reasons for me to stay, from a logical point of view.
But I say that I don’t need to wait for myself to finish this or that. There will always be something that will keep me from going. For me to stay home and continue pursuing whatever it is I’m told I should pursue would be too easy. For me to stay home and have “everything” in life would be too easy. I would be on my way to a nice degree and hopefully a job, then a new car, next a house and maybe even a family. I surrender that. Everything I could ever hope for…
There has to be more than that. That can’t be what life is. I know there is more.
I will always have a heart to want to go help people. I see the big picture, I get that the world is not okay. I completely understand it is not safe. But knowing things doesn’t matter unless you do something about it. I am choosing to do something about it. I know I will do even greater things, like Christ said. I am a smart and capable person. I know I can be used by God to love these people. I think that these people deserve the person God made me to be. I can’t wait around any longer. I can’t stand around while people who share the same ancestry as me are starving everyday. I can’t do nothing when over 95% of the world is in need of help and basic resources that we take for granted. I cannot drive a $5,000 dollar car around everyday anymore while most of the world doesn’t make that in a year. I can’t hold a cell phone. I can’t go to the movies. I can’t look at my closet and see all of the clothes I have. I can’t walk into a grocery store and see ALL THE FOOD WE HAVE. I can’t do it without a longing in my heart to give something to the people who live on this same Earth as me. I know because I see pictures of starving kids and hopeless elderly people of the world and the voice inside my head wants to tell them, “I’ll be there soon.”
The World Race is where I will be loving as Christ would. I will do whatever needs to be done, wherever I am sent. I owe it to the people I’m serving. I’ll be serving poor and elderly, helping out in bringing girls out of prostitution, teaching english. I will be using all of what God has made me to be to help and serve, to teach and to love.
This is a part of me I cannot deny. It is how I am made. It is inseparable from my soul. I long to love these people.
Now I need your help, and I need your prayers.
I am behind on fundraising I have made about $2,000. I need $9,000 by July 16th. Any financial help would have me jumping for joy. I have partnered with an organization, Treads of Hope, Inc. who has sent me bracelets to sell. They seem to be selling. If you would like some you can call/text me at 636-866-6499. They are $2-4 each. We can also meet up and speak more in person about my mission. I’m also going to be organizing a garage sale soon so if you have anything you would like to donate please let me know (call/text/email)! God likes to work in the ninth hour and I know that.
We are the hands and feet of Christ. I will move as He would. And do what He would have done. He came to love and have relationships with people. Everyone: the broken, the outcast of society and the sick. He came to love and to show that the greatest law is Love. Jesus did not come down to earth to convert people to “Christianity” or throw a big party for the most “righteous” people. Christ came to love.
