I have been looking at this page, trying to figure out what to write and how to write it. Many of you already know that I am not on the World Race America route, and many of you do not know that I did not go on my original route. So let me clear up a few things about why I had to move back my World Race trip to 2021. The first reason is I did not reach my goal to leave for the World Race route I was going on, but that is not the only reason that I decided not to go on this route. The second reason I did not go on this trip is that I needed to heal from health issues and get healthy because I knew that I did not want to go on this trip if I was not healthy. The last reason I decided not to go is that as much as I love my team, and as much as I felt like they are my family, I did not feel at peace with going. I do not know if it was stress or pressure or what it was, but I could not find peace in going. I felt the Lord wanted me to wait until He was ready to send me.
After the 2 months of not going on The Race, I was desperately trying to find my path for the season I was currently in. I was praying for which route to go on, so I started looking at all the different routes, figuring out which one I am called to go on. I prayed over each of them for days, 2 of the routes I prayed for weeks. When I came to the new route I chose, I immediately felt at peace, it was as though God answered my prayer on this route with the countries He had called me. I sent 2 weeks praying over this route and on the last day I kept asking Him, is this the route and He said I have already given you your answer. I said, “When? How?”. He simply said, through the verse, you read today. So I went back to my Bible, and I flipped to the chapters I read that day, and I found my answer.
*Psalms 22:30-31 out of the CSB says, “Their descendants will serve him; the next generation will be told about the Lord. They will come and declare his righteousness; to a people yet to be born, they will declare what he has done.”
As I looked back over the two routes, not only had I found where I am called to I immediately which route I felt called to go on next year. I am happy to say that I will be going from South Africa to Indonesia. The countries I will be in are South Africa, eSwatini, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Ethiopia, Nepal, South Asia, Cambodia, Thailand, Malaysia, and Indonesia.
I have known that since I was in the 6th grade, I wanted to go to Africa to be a physical therapist for people who cannot afford it. Still, I also knew I wanted to be a missionary. My love for Africa and Asia came around my sophomore year of high school. My heart knew I wanted to be a missionary from the first time I heard about The World Race. This is something I knew from the very start, I knew I was going to go on The World Race without a doubt, I knew I had been called to this. Over the last 3 or 4 years, my heart has been softened to these countries, and I feel at peace knowing I am going with God’s protection over me and my entire team that will go out.
I will talk more about these countries in the following blogs, but this is just an overview of where I will be heading, what lead me to be called to these places, and why I want to go.
*Please be praying over my team and me as we are preparing to go out. The countries we will be going to that the hearts and minds of the people we meet will be open to hearing the gospel. Continue to be praying over our country as states start opening that there will be a decrease of COVID-19 cases across the states and the world. As well as that the people who have lost family members due to the virus will find healing through Christ. Those who have this virus will recover in the name of JESUS.
Please help me to be able to reach my first goal of $5,000 before September.
Have a blessed week, and please stay safe out there.
1 Corinthians 13:6–7
Have a blessed week, and please stay safe out there.
~Amanda
