Why The World Race?
Okay, so I can only live out of a backpack for 11 months while sharing Jesus’s love to people, I have to eat gross food even though I’m a picky eater, I’m going to be exhausted from traveling all the time, I won’t see family or friends for almost a year and I get homesick easily, I won’t be on American soil for a long time, I have to go long amounts of time without a shower, toilets and running water are a uncommon thing to see, I have bright blonde hair and I hate to be stared at by people.. But I hear people from other countries always stare at Americans, and I have to wear the same couple of outfits for 11 months…..
NO! I don’t really want to do this. Jesus, I’m scared to death. I’m so scared of the unknown. I’m scared because I don’t know anybody and I feel so inadequate to do this. I have only traveled in the United States before and I’ve never been outside of it. I’m just a small town girl, who went to a tiny High School in Harper, Texas. I’m not sure this is for me.
So why do it you might ask?
JESUS
That is the answer. Do you realize how many times I just said the word “I”? I, I, I, I…. I’m SO selfish! I’m writing this first blog to share with y’all why I’m going to do the World Race. I’m going to do it because this isn’t about Krystal Kershner. It is about Jesus Christ. God has called me to go on this 11 month journey to drop my selfish self and give <E V E R Y T H I N G> I have for the sake of Jesus. This is a journey that I know without a doubt I cannot do. I am to fearful for this. I’m to scared to even think about it. That’s why I’m not going to do this. It will be Jesus in me that does this. I don’t understand why God has called me to this. I feel so incapable for this. Why would God choose to use me to help share the Gospel, feed the hungry, heal the sick, play with the orphans, talk to the widows.. Just to touch peoples life’s for Him? It is to bring Him glory. I could never ever possibly do this on my own. God is so loving and so gracious to use such a sinner as me to help Him in His work to bring people to the know Him. Dang. I serve an AWESOME God.
So friends and family, I’m announcing that I will be going on the World Race in September 2014. I am fearful, but Jesus has been showing me how to trade fear for faith. I’m not sure how I could ever financially do this, but that’s where God will show Himself faithful once again. I am so excited for you to come along side me on this journey that God is going to take me on. Please be praying for me, but more importantly, be praying for the W O R L D. As of now, I will be going to Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey, and Albania.
God has not given me a spirit of fear, but of faith. When I am weak, He is strong. Thank you for taking the time to read this. Please come along side me in this in whatever way you can 
May God bless you abundantly. I love all of y’all!
In Christ,
Krystal Kershner
“Go, therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age. Amen” -Matthew 28:19-20
