I feel that there is a huge misconception with the Race. That people don’t understand fully until they are knee-deep in the craziness that is the Race, itself.
The Race is NOT the mission trip I have dreamed of since God placed in on my heart to be a missionary at 19 years old.
Is there missions?
Yes. There can be missions everyday if I wanted there to be.
It is NOT at all what I pictured;
HOWEVER,
THAT IS OKAY!
The World Race is most definitely a discipleship program first, and then a mission trip. I am in the process of growing/maturing 5 years of faith in less than 11 months’ time.
THAT IS INSANE, AWESOME, AMAZING, and HARD. Man oh man is it hard!
Would I have thought about the Race differently had I known this?
Probably.
However, I still would have prayed about it and ultimately gone on it.
I am SO thankful for the Race. I am currently at Debrief in Macedonia. MONTH 7 of 11!!
I have grown and learned so much and there is still SO much of the Race left, it’s exciting! I am also excited to announce that this month during missions; I will be able to put some of the things God has been teaching me into practice through mentoring/discipiling a girl who is considering doing the World Race! She and another girl will become members of our team and see first hand what is all involved with the Race! I will write a blog introducing “our littles,” which is my current name for them after I get to know them! I get to travel and pick them up in the airport in Tirana; so back to Albania I will go for a few hours!
This amazing discipleship program is molding me into the person I am called to be and teaching me things I will use for the rest of my life!
For that, I will forever be grateful for these 11 months of insanity and extreme growth and intimacy/dependency on the Lord.
I do very much want to stress that I needed to come on the Race.
I LOVE the Race, it is just not at all what I was expexting. I am learning so much about myself that I probably never would have known or realized what I was going through without it! I have learned that I place expectations on everyone I meet; often, unrealistic expectations that when they are not met, I become upset and it is my own fault. God is helping me work through this though and I have asked the Holy Spirit to keep me in check and not allow me to even think about expectations for people that are impossible to reach.
I have LOVED the growth I have experienced.
I LOVE the person that Papa created me to be.
I LOVE the discipleship program AND mission trip that is the Race.
