While I have been on The World Race God has taught me many things during this journey. The Lord has said to me Today is the Day! Do not waste one day of life! Your not promised tomorrow!
So I am going to give a little insight to help out current World Racers, future World Racers, and maybe God will use this blog to touch your life! Where God has placed you is your mission field! Today is the Day!
Here we go!
1. Today is the day where you find out about The World Race from a friend, family member, or a Google search.
2. Today is the day where you pray to the Lord, "God is this where you want me to go?"
3. Today is the day where you finally say Okay Lord I will go! Here comes the World Race!
4. Today is the day where raising $15,500 makes you wanna puke because this amount scares you but God says I am with you always.
5. Today is the day where AIM puts you in a Facebook group to make friends with your squad by stalking their Facebook pages and try to figure them out before meeting your squad.
6. Today is the day where your running around doing crazy fundraisers to raise $15,500!
7. Today is the day where you spend hours late at night on Google+ or Skype talking to your squadmates.
8. Today is the day where you go to REI and look for gear and don't know what to buy!
9. Today is the day where you try to figure out the World Race beforehand by blog stalking people!
10. Today is the day where your finally at WR Training Camp!
11. Today is the day where you are put into crazy situations where it feels strange at the beginning of Training Camp but by the end y'all are family!
12. Today is the day where you find out about your teams for The World Race and have all kinds of crazy emotions at once!
13. Today is the day where your happy, sad, excited about Training Camp being over because The World Race is right around the corner!
14. Today is the day when you're so ready to go on The World Race because your friends and family are driving you crazy!
15. Today is the day where you're saying to yourself How Can I fit everything in your backpack and get the backpack less than 50 lbs.
16. Today is the day where finally LAUNCH is here!
17. Today is the day at LAUNCH you're thinking enough with the sessions! Let's just get to the first country finally!!
18. Today is the day where you're at the last airport in the USA for a while and airport security thinks we are a band!
19. Today is the day where you're in the first country of The World Race and with your team and the first week everything goes great!
20. Today is the day where feedback goes bad because someone on your team drives you crazy and in feedback there are offenses shared instead of Christ-like Feedback.
21. Today is the day where you may feel like the black sheep of your group because they don't understand you, but really God is pulling the weeds out of your life so you can be all you can be for Christ as a Man or Woman of God.
22. Today is the day where you drop food on the ground and the 5-second rule turns into as long as the food doesn't have a wet substance rule I will eat the food rule!
23. Today is the day when your teammate wakes you up in the middle of the night and needs prayer! At first your irritated because you want to sleep but instead you pray with them because the person is part of your family.
24. Today is the day where the most common hangout phrase is "Hey let's have a one on one!"
25. Today is the day where you think the first World Race Team you're on is the people your spending time with for all 11 months but then God flips the world upside down! TEAM CHANGE!
26. Today is the day where you have no concept of personal space because The World Race puts you in some interesting situations!
27. Today is the day where you finally know what going splitzies is with one of your friends involving food.
28. Today is the day where Snickers Bars and ice cold pops (Cola-Cola) are golden!!
29. Today is the day when McDonald's is a five-star restaurant!
30. Most importantly!! Today is the day of SALVATION!!
God is doing amazing things here in Rwanda!! In one weekend we saw 26 people come to know Jesus as their personal Savior!! Amen Today is day of Salvation because we are not promised tomorrow!! We are with Pastor John of Victory Mission Church in Kabuga, Rwanda and my team is teaching Kindergarten during the weekday mornings. In the afternoon we are going to church, doing house to house visits, and teaching baptism classes. The people here in Rwanda are so loving and every child under 15 runs to our team and gives us big hugs everyday! God is teaching me about being confident in Christ and keeping my humility in Christ alone! I love Africa!!
If there's anything your interesting in knowing about what God has taught me on The World Race comment on the bottom of this blog!!
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