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 The front tent will be my home for the next 11 months! Picture taken at our training camp in Copperhill, TN!

My stomach hurts just thinking about the month I have left till I depart to go on this great adventure I have been called to be a-part of: The World Race. This next chapter of my life… 11 months of living in a tent and traveling the world is only one month away! My stomach hurts thinking about leaving my family for 11 months. My stomach hurts thinking about missing my friends’ weddings and graduations. My stomach hurts leaving behind a life I have been  very comfortable in…and yet…my heart REJOICES!
 
 
It has been a week since I have been back from training camp. A week I needed to reflect on exactly what it was I experienced with my new World Race family. I had heard it before: “Training camp will be nothing like what you expect…” and so true to self I began to think of everything trainng camp would be like in order to prepare myself for the unexpected… and still I failed. Training really was anything but what I expected. From day one we sprinted in getting to know who we were and why the Lord had called us to a year of abandonment. The staff made us expose our weaknesses and insecurities and made us get to the core of who we really are. We danced our insecurities away…we danced ourselves free from any strings that were holding us back from going out and answering our call. I got to see many sides of God that I had never seen before. It was challenging…and yet it was beautiful; to see how a group of 50+ could go days being hungry, tired, and still very passionate about serving and praising the Lord was an experience I am willing to live for 11 months straight.
Meet the W Squad! AKA the Red squad….AKA the Squad Wars Champions!
 

At the end of training we got assigned to our teams, which are the 6 people I will be living with for the entire year. After much prayer and group building excersises… I am still in awe thinking of how great my team was beutifully picked! Their names are: Jamos and Emily (They have been married for 4 years now, and Jamos being our team leader! Woohooo!), Nicole (Who is absolutely amazing and has such a wonderful heart!), Angela (Who is so on-fire for the Lord!) and Hunter (Whom I am very excited to serve with this year because I know the Lord will use him in so many ways!). This is my team… Powerful Whisper. We picked this name because we are all very much laid-back yet the impact we will have on the world together will be nothing shy of powerful. The Lord tends to speak to us sometimes in a tone of a whisper…and yet even though it is a whisper…it is very much powerful.

 
 
Meet the Powerful Whisper team!: (From Left to Right) ME!, Nicole, Angela, Jamos, Emily, and Hunter!

My stomach hurts. It may be because I had to start eating meat again after 4 years… or it may be because at training they helped us grasp the fact that we will be abandoning our families and friends for 11 months to go be the hands and feet of God. It may also be because the work we will go do will not be easy…and because the challenge is a hard one. Going inside the worlds of Human trafficking and refugees will not be easy… and maybe that’s why my stomach hurts. It may even hurt because I get nervous seeing how much money I have left to raise…however, my heart rejoices at the fact that I was chosen to do this… that in a month I will be embarking on this journey… that I will be able to make a difference in this world. In the meantime, I will spend as much time as I possibly can with my friends and family… to love and to share these final moments with them.