Hello everyone!!! I am here, Day 3 at Launch for the World Race and I’ve had the privilege of my parents joining me for the parent launch portion of the weekend. I’ll give more details about a racer’s perspective on launch in a later blog, but for now, I’d love for you to read about how my parents are feeling about this whole World Race thing!
Another Prayer Answered
I have to admit; I had my questions. Sure, I trust in the Lord. Sure, I trust the organization to take care of my daughter, to send her to ‘safer’ places around the world. But just exactly, how much do they really know? But then today we had our first meeting discussing ‘insurance.’ Not exactly a topic I would say I was looking forward to. But I wanted to go because I know people are going to say to me “Does she have insurance?” I wanted to be able to say yes, and hope they wouldn’t ask more questions, but if they did, this seminar would/could prepare me for these questions. To make a long story short, I left the meeting thinking that if this organization is as prepared and thought through as the insurance part is…. I’m good.
Forward to the next meeting-Parent Ministry. Holy cow! Talk about a prepared organization! Sure, you can’t know everything that is going to happen, but being prepared is important. I gotta say this, Adventures in Missions has all the right people and resources in the right place. 150 employees total, hundreds of thousands of missionaries sent, they know what they are doing. Praise God for bringing all these people to this place at this time. God has brought peace of mind to us during our visit here. I trust that the Lord has this under His control and I thank Him for bringing all these young ladies and men to serve on this trip, and I thank Him for calling Ashley to serve through such a wonderful organization.
I know God will work through her during this mission trip as well as in her during this time. I also trust and pray that He will work in us, her parents, as we go along with her in our prayers. May He also move you as you follow along through Ashley’s blogs and realize that the same God working through her can move in you if you let Him.
Andy
My turn!! I’m not sure what I want to say. People have asked me all along how I felt about Ashley doing this mission trip. My standard response was “ask me in ?? months”. Basically saying ask me when she gets home when the 11 months are over. I’m more comfortable now then I was before. We have heard from Parent Ministry, Parent Alumni, and Parent volunteers. They are the people that have had a racer go through the World Race. They are the people that have felt what I’m feeling now. They are the people that will be praying over the 37 racers on Ashley’s squad.
We learned about insurance, boring, but necessary. We learned about the Parent Vision Trip, where we can visit with Ashley and experience what she has been doing on the World Race. We have met some of her squad mates, teammates and parents of the racers. We learned about letting go of knowing all the details.
AND we worshipped!! Saturday night we had a chance to worship with the parents and racers. What a night!! We saw adults and racers lifting hands, in praise and surrender. These young adults love the Lord and want to serve Him. They have been called to this mission trip. This adventure!! What more can I say? We prayed for our racers, and they prayed for us parents.
Will you pray for Ashley, her squad and her team Tigress Will you pray for Andy and me, Bob and Hannah too?
Please leave a comment!! We would love to hear what you have to say!!
Brenda
I hoped you enjoyed reading about my parents’ perspective this weekend! I think if you asked us months ago when I applied for the race what we could have expected regarding preparing and fundraising for this trip I could have and never would have expected this. He has done far more than we could have asked for or prayer for and I’m so dang excited to see that multiplied over my 36 squadmates in 11 months.
O squad- Let’s go kick ass for the kingdom
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