First of all, my squad has a major fundraising deadline coming up on the 15th and several people are still in danger of going home! Here is the need list:
Alicia Hodges $3,564 aliciahodges.theworldrace.org
Lauren Newborn $2,400 laurennewborn.theworldrace.org
Melissa Ventura $1,655 melissaventura.theworldrace.org
Brittany Smith $1,739 brittanysmith.theworldrace.org
Robin Jarrett $1,357 robinjarett.theworldrace.org
Samantha Moor $946 samanthamoor.theworldrace.org
Krystel Kemper $759 krystelkemper.theworldrace.org
Carrie Miranda $690 carriemiranda.theworldrace.org
If you can please help where you can and send them a quick email to let them know how much you put in so they can let the powers that be know that money is on its way, that would be awesome!
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Now… did I ever tell you the story about when I…
Made a ground chair for a kid in Haiti and
ended up in the hospital with the worst plant rash I’ve ever had?
Hiked through a river and up a mountain
(with my famous plant rash) to get a strong enough cell phone signal to set up
an emergency evacuation for my team leader during the first week of the World
Race?
Worshipped alongside Haitians who had lost
mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, husbands, wives and children just six
months before to the January 2010 earthquake?
Helped throw a Vacation Bible School for
about a hundred Dominican village kids?
Prophesied my own falling out of the back
of a pick-up truck?
Invented my own gourmet dessert called
pancake cake (later perfected to “creation pancake cake”)?
Went leaping off a dam and hiking through
the Dominican rainforest?
Dug up every square foot of grass inside a
church yard with a shovel and a hoe to discourage the goats from breaking
through the barbed wire fence to get its lunch?
Went on a road trip across Ireland and
hopped an electric fence to slap the biggest bull I’ve ever seen on the butt?
Preached to recovering drug addicts at a
self-sustainable halfway house on the coast of Ireland?
Was baptized in the Irish Sea looking out
over a purple sunset in September?
Dropped a log on my big toe while chopping
thousands of pounds of firewood with a machete?
Hung literally off the edge of the Cliffs
of Moher-one of the natural wonders of the world?
Went pogo stilt running on the banks of a
river running through Transnistria-a Russian-occupied territory in Moldova-and
busted my knee, putting me in a Romanian hospital to get 5 mL of fluid drained
from my kneecap?
Smuggled a puppy across the Transnistrian
border back into Moldova?
Became the first American to ever lift an
80 kg cannonball artifact from the 16th century at a Turkish fort
turned Soviet Union missile site turned Transnistrian military base?
Spent the day walking around Athens,
getting a taste of authentic Greek Gyros and Gelato?
Preached barefoot to a crowd of
hungry-for-Christ villagers in the middle of Malawi with a rainbow just over my
shoulder?
Ate sardines and chicken heart and lungs
with the staple Malawian food made out of four and water, called nsima?
Almost got my butt chewed off by hyenas in
the middle of the night as I hung in my hammock right on the edge of a Malawian
village?
Killed two chickens like a champ, getting a
combination of only one drop of blood on my big toe?
Bathed and changed 11 South African babies
in one morning before proceeding to get spit up on the rest of the day?
Persuaded a three-year-old boy to let
himself be happy only to realize that God was using him to get me to tell
myself the same thing on my dad’s first birthday?
Popped the rear bumper to the van we were
blessed to use in Joburg on a mountainside boulder?
Was tackled by two two-month old lion cubs,
fed a giraffe out of the palm of my hand and was stalked and chased by an
adolescent male lion?
Got a hoodie tailored out of tradition
African fabric at a local market?
I didn’t tell you about that?
Hmm… well remind me some time when I’m back home. We’ll have lunch!
Thank you for your prayers and
support! I recently uploaded most of my pictures from Malawi to my photobucket site, by the way. Browse through them at www.photobucket.com/kjwr.
