Hi everyone and welcome to my blog!
Some navigation pointers:
If you want to know more about me, please click on the link to the left that is labeled “About.” If you would like to know more about what the World Race is, please click on “View all blog posts” and read “What is this ‘World Race’ thing?” OR click on “What is the World Race” to go directly to the World Race website. If you would like to know more about the incredible team I am on, their pictures and links to their blogs can be found on the left side as well. If you would like to support me, click on the link that says “Support Me!” either to the left or up top by the fundraising status bar.
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Fun Facts and World Race terms:
Team Awesome (unofficial): YOU! and anyone else who chooses to partner with and support racers in any way! **Did you know that you can sign up for automatic blog update alerts which will deliver new blogs right to your email?? You won’t regret it, unless you hate getting mail, then you might regret it a little.
World Racer or Racers: Participants on the World Race who are going out to love on the unloved and to let people know that they matter and that there is life-giving power in the name of Jesus!
Squad (Such as Y, Z, A, B, and C who are leaving in January) – A large team of racers who will have the same route, so they will be going to the same countries, and will be doing ministry in close community with each other throughout all of 2014. ***Y-squad!***
Teams – Smaller groups of racers within each squad. The squads must be broken into smaller teams so that, I believe, ministry will be most effective and so that they will fit at each ministry location…there has to be room for everyone to sleep/live…idealy…. ****Team Fire Starters!!!****
**Squads as a whole will be traveling together between countries but will break apart into teams once in each new country according to the amount of people necessary for each ministry opportunity…in an ideal world.***
Launch (Noun) – A couple of days of training plus the day racers will actually leave the country to begin their journeys. **Second generation Y and Z squads, plus third generation A,B, and C squads will have launch from January 6th (Jan. 5th for leaders) through January 9th and will leave the country on Jan. 9th.
-In order to attend launch in January, Racers only need to be around 50% funded. They will continue to have deadlines to meet while in the field which means fundraising will continue even after we leave in January. If Racers do not meet the deadlines, they could be sent home early.
In/on the field – I’m not sure where this started, I’m not even sure if this is widely used but it refers to the 11 months that racers will be actively participating in the World Race. I suppose it could also be used in the past tense such as “When we were in the field….” or referring to the future such as, “When we’re in the field…”
-Y-Squad this coming year will be the first team to go on an all Spanish/Portuguese route. Wooo!
-The first country Y-squad will be going to is Puerto Rico. Bring on the Vitamin D.
