Adventures WorldRace SethBarnes Sponsorship Giving

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  1. People say the hardest and best thing about The World Race is community, they are NOT wrong. Living with anywhere from 6-35 people each month is incredible & exhausting at the same time. It is pretty much impossible to get time on your own, you have to have a shower schedule just to wash, food goes quick, water goes even quicker, it is LOUD always, it is cramped with racers and all of their big packs, it is always a mess. However, it also is filled with people to constantly cuddle with, cry on shoulders with, laugh with, watch movies with, friend date, have important conversations with, speak about families with. It is hard & beautiful and I wouldn’t change it for the world, even in the hardest moments.

 

 

  1. It is important to rest, really important. This is something I didn’t know at all before the Race. I filled every minute of my day with work, meeting friends, eating out, spending time with family, and dating my fav guy. I usually did this for a few weeks until I finally crashed and had a ‘lazy Sunday’. I squeezed in Jesus when I finally had a spare moment and I rushed through a devotional to make myself feel better. Since The Race I have learnt how to Sabbath, how to rest, how to spend time with Jesus and adore every second of it, how to read the Bible, how to watch a movie and not feel like I should be doing something else, how to spend intentional time with the people around me, how to encourage and feel all the feels with my brothers & sisters in Christ. I have learnt how to Sabbath (highly recommend; Sacred Rhythms by Ruth Haley Brown) and it only took breaking my ankle to figure it out.

 

 

  1. On that note, it has HARD being sick on the Race. Breaking my ankle in Ghana tops the list as one of the hardest things I’ve ever done. It took everything I had to not just fly home and recover there, but in the words of Bob Goff, ‘love does’. I couldn’t fulfil my destiny for this year by being at home, I couldn’t love the people God meant for me to love, I couldn’t be a tree in a story about a forest, or tree #4 for that matter (Everybody Always by Bob Goff is the best book ever, go read!). Sticking out this injury and healing slowly across three countries and multiple travel days, has been worth every single second of panic, by getting to live this beautiful missionary life. Love makes you do crazy things, in the best possible way.

 

 

  1. My family are the best. I have felt adored, cherished, missed & important during these 5 months apart. They have helped me fundraise, cried with me, cheered me up & everything in between. My Mum is never more than a message away, even from opposite sides of the world. I cannot wait for the day we are all reunited.

 

 

  1. However, it also scares the life out of me that I am half way through this crazy journey of The World Race. I dreamed about TWR for 2 years before I even considered applying, this was literally my absolute dream and I hate to think that half of it is over. It goes so fast and yet so slow! Everyday is both hard and the best. I wouldn’t change a single moment of my Race so far, yes even #Month1, and I vow that the second half of the Race I will do more, love harder & let every one of my footsteps be directed by my sweet Heavenly Father.