As I board this Delta flight from Lafayette Louisiana to Atlanta Georgia heading to training camp to be honest, I wasn’t quite sure if I’d lost my mind or if this was something the lord had really called me to do. There were so many emotions involved and I wasn’t really sure what to make of it all. The unknown is always scary. 350 strangers, anxiously awaiting to meet 50 people I have had so many conversations with but will finally get to meet in person you can about imagine how my excitement is ramped. I was nowhere near prepared to love a group of strangers so deep, so quickly, but over the next few days of camp, God constantly gave me an unexplainable clarity. He was also revealing things about myself that I needed to get in check that I thought I had dealt with and needed to submit to Him as I prepare for January. I would be lying if I said it wasn’t hard but I can say it was humbling, and it was beautiful, even though I felt like a mess most of the time.
Day one and two I can honestly say I was trying to hand over the control to God 90% that is, but I was tightly holding on to 10%. Days one and two were about me, me standing on the shore looking at the waves when God was clearly telling me “Emily, JUMP IN” you see it wasn’t until day 3 when I finally surrendered and gave god 110% control. After day 3 I can honestly tell you Training camp became a different experience for me. God revealed things to me I would never have seen if I would have continued to hold on to that 10% of control. You see, this is exactly how leaving will be, God has called me to a new season of my life. A season of loving, serving, honoring and TRUSTING a season of laughter and joy and peace and grace. SO I encourage you if your reading this preparing for training camp or just in life, let go and let god yes it sounds so cliché but it’s the truth. God has amazing plans for each of us but we don’t see them until we completely let go of the life we think we deserve and the life we have planned in our head and allow God to take COMPLETE control.
Now that I am back home, I find myself flipping through faces in my mind of the amazing team mates that I spent last week with while at training camp. However, these aren’t just strange faces anymore, but the faces of the 50 beautiful individuals I have the honor and blessing of walking along side of starting in January.
I ask that you prayerfully considering partnering with me to help bring the Kingdom of God to life around the world, to give the hopeless hope and the unloved so much love that they so desperately need. You can do so by clicking my support link below!
https://www.adventures.org/give/donate.asp?giveto=worldrace&desc=Emily Lancon
I ask that you keep these 350 amazing souls in your prayers as we all prepare to enter the nations.
I love you all,
Emily <3
