Hey y’all!
I want to use this post to share a little bit more about what World Race is and why I am decided to go on this trip to Thailand!
World Race is a ministry and a program that is apart of the organization, Adventures in Missions.
Adventures in Missions is an organization that focuses on discipleship and emphasizes prayer and relationships in their work around the world. They were established in 1989 and since then have taken over 115,000 people into the mission field! They do short and long term trips and these trips are available year-round through their different ministry programs and partnerships.
Their vision is to deeply connect to Jesus and His movement! Down below I copied their Statement of Faith just to help share a little bit more about what they believe (:
Statement of Faith
- We believe the Bible is the inspired Word of God and is authoritative and infallible in the original writings.
- We believe in one God, eternally existent in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
- We believe in the deity of our Lord Jesus Christ, in His virgin birth, in His sinless life, in His miracles, in His vicarious and atoning death through His shed blood, in His bodily resurrection, in His ascension to the right hand of God the Father, and in His personal return in power and glory.
- We believe that faith in our Lord Jesus Christ is essential for the salvation of lost and sinful man.
- We believe in the present ministry of the Holy Spirit, by whose indwelling the Christian is enabled to live a godly life.
- We believe in the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and eternal life.
- We believe in the spiritual unity of believers in Jesus Christ.
So now that I have shared a little about World Race and where they come from, I want to share a little bit more about why I decided to go on a semesters mission trip with World Race!
Over the summer I found the Lord drawing my heart to missions overseas. I never felt a “calling” towards overseas missions. But this summer God starting softening my heart to the idea. I believe that a lot of the reasons I never felt “called” to missions was because of the selfish desires that I had for myself and because of the wants for my own comfort here in the states.
And this summer God showed me that. He showed me that the reason I was never open to overseas missions was not because I wasn’t “called” to do this, but because I down right just didn’t want to do overseas missions.
So one night, I felt a big tug at my heart after many small tugs that the Lord had been making at my heart over the past months. I jumped online and found World Race and then found a trip that was available to me as soon as I could go! That trip was obviously Thailand in the summer of 2020 for two months. I applied and set up an interview date and was immediately accepted to join the team!
I am so thankful to Lord for his tugs that he consistently used to draw me to him and used to encourage me to walk in obedience. I don’t believe that just because I am going on this trip that I will spend the rest of my life living overseas doing missions. I may, but what I do know is that I am thankful that I am going on this trip, because it means the Lord is working in my life, softening my heart and purging me of my fleshly desires!
I believe the more we know and love Jesus, the more we become like him and have a heart for what his heart desires. I know the Lord is all about missions and he is all about his word being spread. And I believe whether I spend the rest of my life overseas or in the U.S. that I am called to be on missions where ever I go or live. And why would I as believer in Christ, who desires to see the Lord’s heart, not take as many opportunities as I can to go overseas and help reach people who need to hear the good news?
I am so excited for this opportunity. It’s scary to think about going to a whole new world and stepping into a culture with people who don’t even speak the same language as me. But I am also excited. I’m excited that God is working in me. I’m excited that I get to be with people of a completely different culture. I’m excited to experience miraculous things and to trust in the Lord, knowing that through all of this and every experience, good or bad, he is faithful. He is going before me and in that I find peace!
