I asked my Instagram followers what questions they had for me about World Race Gap Year, so I am slowly going to start answering them! If you have a question that you want me to answer, dm me, email me, text me, or send a carrier pigeon and I’ll answer it!
Question 2:
Where are we going?
That’s actually a really great question! Our original route planned to take us to Costa Rica, Guatemala , Thailand, and eSwatini. Due to Covid, we are currently in Gainesville, Georgia doing 3.5 months of leadership and discipleship training. Our racers are learning how to interact with different cultures, share the Gospel in ways specific to these cultures, how to work as a team, and how to live their most authentic lives as who God created them to be. It’s honestly really difficult work, that requires a lot of time and soul searching. I have seen in the month being here just how valuable this time has been and how much each of the racers have grown.
But that’s not the question. Because of Covid, we don’t know where we will be going. With borders slowly starting to open, we are optimistic that we will be launching in January! To where? We don’t know! There is an entire team here at Adventures that is monitoring the state of the world and figuring out which of our ministry partners, with the personal effects of Covid, can host us. There are SO many variables in play here.
Personally, I am looking at it as a huge surprise and they day we all find out will be a really great day. Until then, I am focusing on where God has my feet planted.
And God is taking us somewhere in the US for a week. We have been given the opportunity to work with Samaritan’s Purse in Foley, Alabama. Foley was hit by Hurricane Sally, so we will be doing disaster relief. I am incredibly excited about this because disaster relief was the first type of mission work that I did and I have a deep passion for it. It also feels like I am going close to home since so much of my family lives in the surrounding areas. I think it will be a great opportunity for the racers and myself to put into practice the things that we have been learning right in our own backyard!
The other three squads that are in Gainesville with us, are also getting the opportunity to work with Samaritan’s purse. However, they are all headed to Lake Charles, Louisiana and the surrounding areas to help with the relief efforts from Hurricane Laura. One squad is currently there, with another squad going in the next few days, and the third squad going the following week. I feel incredibly blessed to be able to be apart of an organization that desperately wants us to help our own when we are in need.
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