I don’t know what it is, but this first post has me so stumped. There is so much I want to say but I just don’t know how to say it. Maybe I should start with the fact that I am not a writer. If it wasn’t for spell check I would have misspelled half of the words I have already written.
I have tried to do a blog before but it just didn’t work for me. I didn’t care enough to commit the time to write things down. And a blog takes time. It takes effort. It takes commitment.
This blog will be different. This blog is going to be about something that I love: missions. I am about to take a journey that will be life changing. It will tear me down and it will build me up. And I will develop relationships that will last a life time.
So I guess I should tell you what I’m doing. For those of you that don’t know I have committed to an 11 month missions program where I will travel the globe doing missions work in 11 different countries. Right now the countries I am going to work in include: Morocco, Greece, Turkey, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, India, Nepal, Bangladesh, China, and Indonesia. These are subject to change if situations become too dangerous in the country.
Your next thought will probably be ‘how did I get into this?” Well here’s how this happened.
Last year my company had a meeting where they let my department know that they were shutting us down in our current location and moving us to Arizona. Most everyone in the meeting started panicking. No one wanted to move to Arizona.
I knew Arizona wasn’t the path for me. So I started getting serious about finding a new job. I redid my resume and I sent it everywhere. Even to jobs I wasn’t qualified for.
I ended up only getting one interview. And after an amazing interview I was terrified that I would get that job. It just wasn’t what I wanted to do. And it wasn’t what God wanted, so thankfully things didn’t work out.
I was at peace about not having anything lined up. I would tell people when they asked that I was a leaf in the wind and I would go where God led me. And God definitely had a plan that I would have never imagined.
Things started to come together when I went out to dinner with a good friend who was on the mission field with me in Nicaragua. She and I were talking about where we felt God may want us to go on the mission field. She brought up that she had a friend doing the World Race and said I should check it out.
I didn’t look at it right away. I didn’t even look at it for the next few days. But one morning it was on my mind so I Googled it (I love Google). I wasn’t even a full minute into the video on the main page and I was hooked. I had to know everything I could about this awesome adventure.
So for the next week I did nothing but read peoples blogs, look at peoples photos, and research the routes. I couldn’t get enough.
I was so into everything about the World Race I knew what I had to do next. So when I went home that weekend I told my family what I was looking into and submitted my application.
I was ready to go right then and there. But I had to wait until my application was reviewed. My back ground check was done. And I completed an interview process. In my mind this took forever! But in reality it was only about a month.
So now I have been accepted and I am so excited for what’s coming. I’m also excited to record the whole journey in this blog. So if this sounds like anything you are interested in please subscribe to keep up with what I’m doing.
Also I would ask for your prayers while I take this journey. I am going to need all that I can get. I have so much work to do, gear to buy, and money to raise and I can’t do it on my own. So please be in prayer for me. And if you feel so led please feel free to donate to the cause. Every penny counts.
Welcome to my crazy journey 🙂
