World Race Recap (Part 1)
I’m not even going to pretend like I know how to recap the last year. I’m not going to come close to what it entails through a few comments either. I believe I would need months of processing and writing to attempt to do so, however, as a glimpse I wanted to put together a few pictures from each country I visited and a brief description of what I did:
11 countries, 11 months, 1 backpack, 1 tent and a serious lack of personal hygiene.
11 months of living in poverty, 11 ministries, and 1 fractured heart from an amazing,
soul-searching year.
- Lezhe, Albania: Jumping around a summer kids camp with poverty-stricken children from the mountains (sponsored to go to this camp). Archery, swimming, games, bounce house, and resurfacing my wild side. Our whole squad of 50 people were together and our few free days were spent at the Mediterranean Sea, hiking and exploring castle ruins.
Some of my favorite camp girls
View from a castle in Lezhe
The squad together
Exploring Lezhe
Castle Ruins
The kid’s camp we worked at
Check Out More:
Owen Siebring’s Video: Albania
- Bankya/Sofia, Bulgaria: My small team of 6 was paired with one other team. We vastly switched around ministries consisting of a kid’s art camp, painting and cleaning churches, digging trenches, riding tons of buses and metros and attending a “whole latta church meetings.” This was once of my most difficult months, as I struggled with my purpose on being on the Race.
My teammate and I on a bus
The team on the bus
Church in Sofia
Arriving in Sofia with our packs
Yard work ministry
Streets of Sofia
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- Bucharest, Cluj-Napoca, Timisoara, Brasov, Târgu Mures, SinTesti,Romania: My first “Unsung Heroes” month, or finding ministry contacts for future World Race teams to visit. We lived in slums with gypsies, helped other missionaries, spent time with a YWAM team, and explored Romania in its great beauty. At the end of Romania, I was chosen to be a team leader for a new team in route to India.
Castle in Romania with Kevin
Brasov, Romania. The view from the Brasov sign we climbed
Brasov, Romania
Children from the slum we lived in
Building a house in slum we lived in
Hiking some Romanian hills
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More countries to come in Part 2 and Part 3!
