Literally me when my friend called me to go look at my blog and saw that I went from having $9,327 to $17,627 in one day.
W O W Jesus you are too good to me!
Let me tell you, the faithfulness of God is unreal!
Someone just anonymously donated towards my World Race funding which brought me from being at $9,327 yesterday to $17,627 today! Now I am just $457 away from being completely fully funded! Someone punch me in the face so I know I’m not dreaming.
To whoever made that donation, thank-you won’t ever measure up. You trusted God with what you gave. Thank you for sowing into a dream & a huge passion of mine but more importantly- sowing into what God is going to do in these 11 Countries. And to everyone who gave & supported me through this. Please know how grateful I am. I could not have done this without you!
It’s easier to think the one who has to raise that huge amount of money needs more faith + trust. But honestly I think differently now. I think it takes more trust + faith to selflessly give to something.
When I first got accepted into the WR and started this journey of fundraising, when I’d tell people how much I’d have to raise- most of the comments were “wow that is a lot.” Almost thinking it was impossible. But I LOVE it cause it shows God DOES the impossible!
What’s crazier about this is that I didn’t even do hardly any fundraising. It was mostly word of mouth, asking people & praying.
Key: Praying.
But my struggle was between feeling like maybe God was wanting me to do more & I wasn’t.
What’s funny is deep down in my heart I just knew one day I was going to check my blog & see that I was fully funded/almost there. That I’d check and the money would be there. That’s exactly what happened today!
And I’d have many people tell me that they feel like I wouldn’t have to do that much either. But for some reason I still kept struggling with “Am i doing enough?” A friend said she felt Exodus 14:14 over me which says ““The Lord will fight for you; you need only to be still.”
And I’m just undone at the goodness of God.
I’m so undeserving but I love how God looks pasts our imperfections and sees something in His children & calls us worthy.
& even though deep down I knew God could do it, I’d be lying if I said I never had times of doubting. I’m human.
But God looks beyond that & is STILL faithful.
He doesn’t need a perfect yes from us. Just a yes.
He loves to show off how much He loves & cares for us.
It took about 9 months to raise about $9,000 and in just ONE day God provided $8,300! WHAT! He’s so cool.
What is funny, last night I was thinking “wow, Idk how the rest of this money is gonna come in. Maybe God doesn’t want me to do the full 11 months and I’ll just come back early?” SIKEEEEEEE – that’s what I feel like Jesus was saying! SIKEEE you thought wrong! ha ha.
Man Jesus, you’re so gracious.
WOW THIS IS REALLY HAPPENING! I mean I know I got accepted and knew October of 2017, and I just got back from training camp but there was always that “if you don’t raise the money, you can’t go” so maybe that is why it didn’t feel real.
BUT IT JUST GOT REAL!
Emotions? : Excited, thankful, scared, thrilled, nervous, grateful, excited, excited, excited, WOW.
Thank- you thank-YOUUUU seriously to everyone who has come along side and supported me! Financially & by prayer!!
Still would love your prayers though! Especially as me and my squad are preparing to leave in 22 days! This is only the beginning!
Pray for safety, continued finances & for our families as they let us go out into the world.
And pray for the people we will come in contact with. May they be ready to get rocked by the love of God! 🙂 hahah!
And if you are a future World Racer and are currently fundraising.
Advice: Don’t be afraid to ask! How I got most of my fundraising was by word of mouth. Reaching out to anyone and everyone I could and asked if they would give me 5-10 mins of their time so I could share my heart and why I felt God call me to this.
You’d be surprised of the things God will do through that and in the hearts of the people you talk to!
One of my clients challenged me out of my comfort zone in this and it showed me that when you have a dream, you got to go after it with all you got! Don’t be afraid to get out of your comfort zone! Just step out of the boat and into the water, God will do the rest!
Much love, T
