I can’t believe I get to write this…
This post has been four years in the making for me. During the summer of 2011 I was the drummer for WinShape Camps and met this CRAZY girl named Marcie Wallace. She was also a girl drummer so we bonded instantly. She poured into my life immeasurably that summer, but she also talked about this thing she was going to do after camp called the World Race. It was this ridiculous 11 month, 11 country mission trip, and I remember thinking “wow… I wish I were that crazy.”
Funny how God works, hu?
So from there on I stalked the blogs of racers almost relentlessly. I looked at new routes every time they came out. The World Race was always something in the back of my mind that I longed to do, but I was too young, I was still in college, I was about to get married, I had to get started on my career, I didn’t have enough money… The timing was never right.
One day while I was on break at work I found myself looking at yet another route, but a few days later I realized I hadn’t tried to talk myself out of it this time. I’d spent so long trying to persuade myself why it wasn’t the right thing for me that I didn’t even realize I wasn’t resisting it anymore. I brought it before the Lord, sought council, and before I knew it I was crying on my couch before the Lord surrendering to Him – that I would go on the World Race. As I moved forward in that people began backing me immensely. One of my closest family friends even pledged nearly 1/3 of my support if this is where the Lord was leading me. I began the application – knowing that this was the make or break. The application process took so long I began to doubt whether or not I actually had heard God, but I just knew that this was what He had next for me.
Now, here I am. Writing to you as an OFFICIAL World Racer. My heart could not be more excited or more sure that this is the path the Lord has called me on.
I am about to embark on an 11 month, 11 country mission trip to Uganda, Rwanda, Ethiopia, India, Nepal, Malaysia, Thailand, Cambodia, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua. I will be loving on orphans, leading church services, visiting the hurting in hospitals, building homes and churches, and ministering however the Lord leads us. I couldn’t be more excited to finally be beginning this journey.
I close this first post with the song the Lord placed on my heart while I surrendered to Him on my couch that night in my apartment.
I wanna see something I’ve not seen
Something so big
I wanna be a part of something great
Greater than me
It’s time to dream big dreams
To see Your vision
Become reality
‘Cause it’s for You, by You, those who
Love You wanna do
Something so big
It’s destined to fail without You, Lord
It’s gonna fail without You, Lord
Something so great
It takes a miracle to do
We, Your children
Wanna do something big for You
