why?
I hear this a lot; it seems every time I tell someone that I am packing up and going on the World Race people want to know what it is that would make me do such a crazy thing. Well, the short answer is I believe it’s what God wants me to do.
It’s been about 6 years now since God totally wrecked my plans and asked me to join in spreading his word to people all over the world. Since that time, he has completely overwhelmed me with his love not only for me, but for others and has taken me on many journeys across the oceans. 5 years ago, I was spending the summer going to a mission school in Mozambique, Africa and met a guy who was about to leave to go to a training camp for the World Race. Not knowing anything about the world race and wondering why anyone would choose to leave Africa early I asked him more about it. As we walked from the beach to our base, he explained to me what it was, and I was sold. In that 5-minute conversation I knew without a doubt that God was telling me to go. After the end of my trip I got home and told my mom about it saying I was going to do it one day. I remember not knowing what is was called so I googled all the information that guy gave me in hopes that I would figure it out and was pumped when their website popped up. I knew I needed to finish school and if I took a year off, I probably would just never go back so I held off on applying. For the next few years I would still talk about wanting to go, I would read blogs and watch YouTube videos from people that were on the race and dream of one day going myself. After college was over it seemed that every time, I would open the application to finally apply I would come up with a million reasons why it was a bad time to apply. ether it was not the right time to leave my family or I thought that I moved around so much no one would want to my reference, or and my absolute favorite one to use what if I apply and they reject me. I had waited years and prayed countless hours over this, and they could reject me in an instant or what if by some miracle they did accept me how would I get the money? what if I don’t? I would be so embarrassed if I told everyone I was leaving and didn’t end up getting to go, as long as I put off applying it was still a possible dream but once I applied it could all disappear. One day I was talking about the race with a friend and she was just shooting down every excuse I gave her as to why I wasn’t applying yet and I finally realized something if I truly believed God was telling be to go that one night on the beach in Mozambique than for me to not apply was a no. and who am I to tell the great I Am that I’m to chicken and I don’t actually believe he can do what he promised. So here I am some 5 years later sitting I’m my tent at the training camp that guy was about to leave Africa for.
Y’all God does amazing things when we just say yes to his plan. I am literally in the middle of a promise from 5 years ago and the only reason it took me this long is because I was scared. I cannot tell you why exactly I am going on the World Race except there are people that need to hear the gospel, that are waiting on a healing, people that need to be shown love and for some crazy reason God chose me to be His hand and feet so those people can find freedom.
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I wrote that first part during my first night at training camp and now that it is over let me just say I AM PUMPED. During training camp, I got to meet my squad and my team (more on that later). I leave in less than 40 days for the Race and I am utterly blown away at what God can do. If you would like to partner with me on this trip here are a couple ways to do that
Prayer: pray for me, my team, and the people that we will meet. Pray for us to see God move in new and exciting ways. Pray for our safety as we go. and Pray for people to be saved and healed.
Donating: I need to reach my $10,000 mark by July 18th and right now I am a little over $6,000. You can donate by clicking the donate button at the top of this page or you can reach out to me and we can figure something out if you’d rather donate another way.
Thank you for all your support 🙂
P.S. here is a list of all the places we will be going
