“What is the World Race?“ you may be wondering. Well, that’s a good question.
Technically, based from the website, the World Race is an 11 month mission trip organized by the people and staff of an organization called Adventure in Missions. It is for people between the ages of 21 and 35 who once they apply and are accepted into the program get placed into teams with other participants. Those teams are commonly referred to as squads and the squads are sent out to countries all over the world. Participants, who are also known as racers, visit 11 different countries. In each country, the squads will break up into smaller teams who will then partner up with pre-existing ministries with the purpose of assisting them in loving and serving the people who live in the surrounding areas. Racers will also get to glean from each other as well as those they’ll meet in each new culture and community.
So, I see the above answer and then I read the blogs of past and currently active racers and realize that I’m still not completely sure what I’ve committed to.
I do know though, that I have a longing and a desire in my heart to love on those who have nothing, who most days do not know when their next meal will be, those who have been misused, abused, and broken, those who have been abandoned and do not realize their worth or the fact that they are worthy of love. I desire to pray for people and see them receive mental, physical, spiritual, and emotional healing. I want my life to make a big, huge, ginormous positive difference somehow. And I want the whole world to be saved, to know that Jesus IS real and that He DOES love every single person, and I would LOVE to see all of my loved ones walking in the total and complete freedom that only He can offer.
I also want to get rid of the icky stuff within me that prevents me from doing all of those things every chance that I get. I want to permanently get rid of doubt, judgmental and proud thoughts, selfish motives, and worries about what other people are thinking. I so desperately want to have greater faith and I want to love unconditionally. Why? Because love covers a multitude of sins, it breaks down strongholds, it softens hearts and sets people free.
Why am I sharing all of that?
Because I’m really confidant that going on the World Race will touch all of those desires in one way or another, so by sharing, I hope that you get a clearer understanding of what the Race seems to be about.
The way I see the World Race is as a unique opportunity to shed all of the stuff that so easily weighs us down and distracts us in order to share the love of Christ. To experience and learn about different cultures and the people within them. To go on the World Race is to break free from the ordinary with Love and hope as your motivation. It’s an adventure, it’s a risk, it’s change, and uncertainty, it self-abandonment, and it’s uncomfortable but it seems worth it.
Do you think it sounds like a wonderful opportunity? So do I 🙂 so I would like to encourage you. If The World Race is something that you think you would like to experience and you’re between the ages of 21 and 35, pray about it and once you get the green light, apply! If you would just like to support someone while they embark on this journey, then I’d like to invite you to partner with me on my mission to experience this trip and to experience it in it’s entirety. At the top of my blog you’ll find a link that says, “Support Me.” There you can click and follow the steps to give whatever amount that has been placed on your heart to give. Also, if you would like to receive updates in what God is doing through your giving and this trip, you can sign up for email alerts which will tell you every time I post a new update here on my blog.
Thank you for your love and support!
“Therefore, since we have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us also lay aside every encumbrance and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God,” Hebrews 12:1-2
