My ambition has always been to preach the Good News where the name of Christ has never been heard.
-Romans 15:20
I remember reading this on my brothers couch just a few months after the Holy Spirit had gotten a hold of me and prompted me to move back home to pursue something greater than i had been doing. It’s not exactly a super inspiring or intellectual scripture or anything. Or at least i don’t think i have ever heard it preached on. But for some reason when i read this scripture i began to cry. I remember thinking for the first time…this is exactly what i want to do with my life. For the first time I had a real sense of purpose. I still had no idea what I was going to be doing, how I would get there, or when it would happen. but I somehow knew that this was something I would be chasing for the rest of my life.
It has been about 3 years since then. I moved 8 hours away from home to go to bible school. I have been interning and serving at a church for the last two years, and in the middle of that, somehow forgot about that feeling of purpose I had found 3 years earlier in my small hometown in west Texas.
A few months ago I heard some of my co workers talk about moving to South Korea to be English teachers. They weren’t going there for missions. They weren’t going somewhere across the world for the same reasons I think that I would. But them talking about it inspired me. For the next few weeks I began googling about everything you can google about how to find a life overseas. With not much luck i was having dinner with a few friends and one of them said he was going to see a friend before she went away for 11 months to go to 11 different countries. So that night i googled “11 countries 11 months” and that is when i found the World Race.
“There’s a whisper thats inside of all of us that says there must be more.” These are the first words of the video on the World Race website. I have heard this whisper. I believe that God had this in mind 3 years ago on that couch. And in 6 months I will get to do exactly what the apostle Paul was doing centuries ago…”to preach the Good News where the name of Christ has never been heard.”
