Hello everyone, I am Connor Wallace and I am raising money to go on a 9 month mission trip to 3 countries: Guatemala, Malaysia, and Botswana. I am 19 years old and just finished my first year at the University of Texas at San Antonio. But what I came to realize was that God was calling me to something greater, a life lived to bring glory to our Father in heaven.
I started to realize this around February of this year, when I met a girl up at college. You see I was a christian, a follower of Jesus, but if you looked at my life and saw what I was doing you would have never known. I want those days to be done, and I have faith that God has delivered me from those bad decisions I was making. But this girl, I met her at a party but you could tell she didn’t belong there, so I went up and talked to her. We eventually walked outside to hear each other better, and the next thing I know is we had been walking around this neighborhood for hours, doing nothing but talking about God, the life He has for us, and the things I had been struggling with. You see I had turned into a horrible wreck up at college, because I took God out of His rightful spot at number one in my life. Our Father, through this obediant child of God named Nina, brought Himself back into my life and I have not been the same.
This girl was the one who actually showed me this mission trip called The World Race way back then in February, and the link to their website and to a testimony video of someone who had went on the race stayed on my phone until June, untouched and unmoved.
When I had gotten home from college, God had been speaking to me and telling me San Antonio and Houston (hometown) is not where I am supposed to be right now. This little voice in my head (God’s voice) grew more and more telling me this the more I was home. So one night, June 5th, I sat in my truck calling out to God, “Where do you want me then Father? Where do you want me then?” But then it hit me, I prayed, “Father, I am done asking you where you want me to be, I am just going to have faith you are going to put me where I need to be, in Jesus name amen.” I walked up into my house and started to get ready to go to bed. I tried turning on the tv to watch for a little bit, but it would not turn on. I tried getting on my laptop for a little bit before going to sleep, but it also would not turn on. So for some reason (His reason), I went into my phone and found the link to The World Race website and to the testimony video. I had not seen that website or video since Nina had showed it to me back in February. But I knew then, that this was God’s will for my life.
Whoever is reading this, I need your help, I need your support. You see for me to go on this mission trip, I have to raise $12,500 before I leave to cover my living and field expenses for the 9 months. I leave September 5th and I have a long ways to go on raisng money, but I have faith that God will make a way, because I know that this is what God has for my life. If financially is not how you can support right now, that’s okay! I ask that you please keep me in your prayers as I prepare to leave, and during the mission trip for the 9 months.
I love you all, and God loves us more than we will ever know. God bless
