Hey my name is Alex Morrison and first off I just want to truly thank your for even visiting my site it truly means a lot to me. Before I tell you about why I feel called to go on The World Race this year I would like to share my story of how I came to God. My life started out pretty normal I grew up in a Catholic family that would regularly go to church. As a kid I did not really understand why we went to church or the point of it. The only thing I looked forward to when it came to church was the traditional Sunday Dunkin trip. I viewed God as Santa Claus and would say the same basic prayer every night briefly thanking him then going straight into asking for stuff. I did not know but my mom was diagnosed with brain cancer when I was one and had gone through all kinds of treatment my entire life. It wasn’t till the near end of her long fight that I started noticing something was up. Our last couple of months she was hospitalized and we did not really get to see her much because she did not want our last memories to be of her on a death bed. When we were told the news that she had passed away I would only look at God with hate and anger in my eyes. I completely shut God and all of my friends out of my life and did not open up to anyone. About a year and a half later my dad would remarry one of my best friends mom and we would then move into their house. As I was happy to live with one of my best friends I did not want to move away. We moved to a new home in Forsyth County where I would live all the way till college. In middle school God called me back into faith through one of my only friends. That day the service was about when we experience hardships we look at God with hate frustration when we should look at him with love and patience. After hearing that message I decided to change my life and change my view of God. I started going back to church again, and I called myself “christian”, but I never really accepted Jesus into my life, and I never practiced my faith. I thought being christian just meant that you go to church and pray every night when there was so much more to having a faith. I was still hurting and I never would deal with my emotions just push them away with a fake smile. In high school I would fall into the party scene I started smoking and drinking thinking that would help the emptiness that I constantly felt and it never did. I fell out of church and experienced one of the darkest times of my life. My junior year my friends constantly asked me to come to church every Sunday, but I would always make the lamest excuses not to go. Finally in the summer of Junior year I would go back to Browns Bridge I saw all the friends they had made over the summer and how these people truly wanted whats best for them, and I wanted that. My senior year was the most incredible year of my life and it was because I finally started walking with God everyday. I started attending Insideout, Younglife, cru, weekly bible studies regularly, went on work crews, and truly for the first time in my life ran after the Lord with all my heart. For once in my life I had friends, I felt loved, and I truly knew that I have a purpose in life. When I came to college I thought I wanted to be a pilot, but I felt a calling to do so much more with my life. I prayed to God to show me a sign if he wants me to do something different and I started constantly seeing world race ads. I looked into it and felt God calling me to this mission trip. I signed up and made it through the application process and now here I am. Before I go on the trip I have the possible but big task of raising 16,600 dollars. While that may seem like a big amount and almost impossible I know that all things can be done through God. I will be selling shirts on my Instagram for 20$ and bracelets for 10$. If that seems like too much any money amount donation will help me, I would be so unbelievably grateful for it. If you aren’t in a good place to donate I just ask that you keep me in your prayers because that is just as helpful as donating money to my account. I will link my instagram account if you would like to buy a shirt from me or you can email me at [email protected] if you would rather find the designs that way. Again thank you so much for visiting my page and I hope you have an amazing day!
