HELLO THERE.
In the wise words of Inigo Montoya – “Let me ‘splain… No, there is too much. Let me sum up.”
I’m a good girl – everyone who knows me a little bit says so. Boring to strangers. Beautiful to some. Beloved by family and friends with most everybody. Nothing exceptional. But there’s more. That’s just the outside…
I love people, and traveling, and culture. I love trying new things and meeting new people. I love meeting as strangers, and parting as aquaintances – or maybe even as friends. I love seeing beyond people’s circumstances and listening through the veil of their words to the good stuff – the intent of their heart. Their desires and fears and dreams. If that’s too mushy-gushy for you – I get it. We’re not all bleeding hearts. But I SO am.
I burn for the nations. I burst for adventure. I just want to help. I believe that if I could just find that one thing – I could change the world. After all these years of praying and searching for that one thing – I feel like my story has just begun. I’ve discovered my THING! I’m on the brink of adventure! And Jesus is my ever-trustworthy guide.
Where is Jesus taking me?
Funny you should ask.
The World Race is a Jesus-Driven mission trip (think Peace Corpsy if Christian-ese is a foreign language) for 21-35yr olds. You raise funds and pick a route and go through training. I picked the 10/40 August 2018 route. I’ll raise funds until August, go to training camp, and backpack for 11 months (yes, months) across the world – from Spain to China. I’ll need prayer and funds and lotsa advice! I expect to see things I would never experience in the States. I anticipate personal struggles and tons of growth. I assume many parts of me will die off and new parts will grow. This is why I’m going. To be trained. To be taught. To become experienced. To do good where good is needed, then to come back and spread the result. It’s time to leave the comfortable culture I was raised in and get some perspective. {Picture this trip as the cocoon stage of my grub-ish existence, where I must go off and transform, then migrate back home, come Spring.} Also, I want to share this experience with you, and get to know you. Please subscribe to my post and share with me your own journey. I’ll post a blog once a week to update y’all on how the trip is going – so it is like you’re with me every step of the way.
Please send me, and come along for the journey. The truth is we are all called to sacrifice and obey. I pray that you find your journey as you accompany me on mine.
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1 Timothy 6:12 “Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called and about which you made the good confession in the presence of many witnesses.”
