Thank you so much for stopping by and checking out my World Race blog. The whole fact that I will be leaving in October to be gone for nearly a year and going to 11 different countries spreading God’s Love and his Good News of Salvation; has me in just a state of awe.
You can read a more detailed background of my testimony in the About Me section of my blog or on my website www.truedisciplesministries.com, but one insight that I will expand upon here is about the calling God has placed upon my life.
All my life I’ve been a survivor; survivor of cancer, parents divorce, unpopularity, pornography, depression and homosexuality. Most of those I battled in secret because I was embarrased and scared and had a reputation to uphold. You see on the outside I was seen as a young man with a whole lot of potential. I became a believer at 8 and then made a proclamation of surrendering to ministry at 13. I was the little preacher man and everyone was so proud. Little did they know that on the inside I had a holy war going on.
As I went off to college and had no one there that knew who I was I started sinking deeper into my demons and farther away from God, even though I was attending a prestigious Christian University.
Even though February 13th will mark 21 years since I declared a life of ministry it’s only been in the last year that I’ve truly learned what it means to be a follower of Jesus and not just a believer. My relationship with Jesus grows with each day and the blessings He tried to give to me over 2 decades ago are slowly being revealed to me today.
Never in a million years did I see my route of ministry being international mission work. I am very close to my family, in fact we all pretty much live on the same road we are that tight. But last year I started seeking God as to how I was to respond to His call of ministry. At first I thought that I had to finish my degree and go to seminary, but God told me no, then I thought it was becoming more involved in my church and He answered that doing that would be training work but His path would be taking me out of Graham. So for the first time in forever I looked at mission work. At first I looked at all of these 1-2 week mission trips, but He gave me no peace in those. Then on Facebook the suggestive ad that kept popping up was World Race missions. Now mind you I hadn’t searched any of the key words that would have suggested I was interested in this so I took it as a sign from God that I need to at least look into it and seek Him for guidance. At first I was scared and like “A Year?” “Raise over $20,000?” This path would take a lesson in faith. A lesson that He pounded at me in every devotional, sermon and song that I listened to or read over the next couple of days.
So I took a leap of Faith and now I am preparing for the mission of a lifetime.
Thank you in advance for you prayers and support to help make this a reality.
