Adventures WorldRace SethBarnes Sponsorship Giving

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     Its beginning, the Journey has started. I still can not wrap my mind around that this is actually happening, this race is happening.  My letters have been printed, stuffed, stamped, sealed and shipped.  I am able to blog on the website… it’s all just happening so fast and its so amazing.  As I look back over the past days, weeks, months, years I can really see where God has been shaping me, molding me and strengthening me for this experience.  I love that my family and friends have been so supportive. 

   I have had a heart for missions and for the lost for a while, and I love to travel, so I think it came to no suprise that when I learned about this race I immediately began praying about it and discerning whether or not this was Gods will for me to take this giant leap of faith, pack my bags and go.  I felt an immediate tug on my heart that this was something he was calling me too, however I was a little hesitant because this trip is not just a month or two its 11 months! thats a hugee deal and huge chunk of time, yet at the same time its only a year.  I think about all of my years and what I do in them and what gets accomplished and how fast they go and the more I reflect the more I realize this year is going to go by faster than any of them and I’m sure at the end of it I wont be ready for it to end.  I took a week to pray about applying, then once I got accepted I took two weeks to confirm and accept my acceptance.  I’m pretty sure the whole time I knew without a doubt I was going to put in my money and accept, but I really wanted to give God time to teach me and show me his reasons for me to go on this trip and how he wanted to work in my life as well as those around me.  He definitly has a sense of humor and any tiny doubt or fear I had he literally SQUASHED it with verses! Some brought me to tears, some I just laughed because God is sooo GOOD its unreal.

 

   This is going to take a lot of prayer, a lot of faith and strength.  I know this is not going to be easy and I’m going to be exhausted, I’m going to want to cry some days, scream some days, haha probably just sleep some days, but I know the eternal impact we will be making and the blessings we will receive from all the trials will be well well worth them.  We are going to be doing every little bit we can to SHINE his LIGHT, to SHINE IS JOY and LOVE and PEACE and MERCY into this dark dark dark world.  Our hearts are going to break, but God will give us strength. This is our mission, this is why we’ve been put on this earth, so that in any circumstance, in any stage of our life we are to share the gospel, share the good news. eeeeeek can’t wait! Now just praying the support letters get to where i sent them safely!
Yay for my first blog! that wasn’t as hard to write as I thought! Thanks for reading 🙂