Meet Team Uzulu (Swahili for fire): Me, Allie, Daniel, Jeremy, Justin, Megan, and Sarah (Jeremy and Sarah are married). That’s right ladies and gentlemen, Team Dunamis is no more. Obviously I am still on a team with Allie and Daniel (our team leader). The change was hard at first (I miss Lacey, Char, Tiff and Joel…a lot!), I think that most change is hard but I am confident in God and know that so much growth will come out of this change.
What is life like on the World Race?
Since you asked!…
Life on the world race is interesting…life on the run!…there are way too many puns in that. Sometimes you can’t poop for days and then other times you can’t stop pooping for days. Sometimes you get to sit on a normal toilet (which is glorious) and then other times you get to squat over a hole. Sometimes you get to hold cute little guinea pigs and other times you get to see them on a plate…dead…with their hair intact. Sometimes (and I mean not very often at all) you get to take nice hott showers and other times you get to take a nice cold bucket shower. Life on the world race is interesting, like I said. But really…
I have gotten to see a living, walking, talking miracle. I have had my head in a toilet for hours puking and still felt a sense of overwhelming joy. I have held children who have hardly ever been held before and gotten to show them what the love of the Father looks like. I have sat in the dirt for hours and had a conversation with a 85 year old Peruvian woman…in Spanish. I have harvested for hours in the blazing sun with a new friend. I have had the privilege of serving along side amazing, God loving men and women.
I have walked through heart break on the world race. I have cried so hard that I almost puked and I have laughed so hard that I peed my pants (I really did). I have been furious with God and I have been redeemed by God. I have been forgiven. I have experienced grace that is unexplainable. I have been freed. I have been quiet when I should have been LOUD. I have been loud when I should have been QUIET. I have lost my identity and gained a new one, but this time through Christ. I have tried to do it on my own and failed. I have been picked up and brushed off my knees. I have been weak but he has been strong.
I have become a WARRIOR and I have become ROYALTY.
I am bursting.
I am exploding.
I am burning with an unquenchable fire.
The love of Christ is spreading like wild fire.
THE LOVE OF CHRIST IS WILD FIRE
and
it
is
coming
for
YOU.
Dun Dun Dun!