Hello, I just wanted to share a little bit about how I got to this point. First off, I feel like God gave me a passion for missions back when I was a sophomore in high school. I was at Super Summer when one day or night at worship, they played a video of The Invisible Children. At that point Christ put missions on my heart. I've been on several smaller mission trips to different cities in the United States through Frontliners, but I never actually went out of the country until the Spring of 2008 to Mexico during Spring Break, and then to Hong Kong, China for a month! That was amazing and Daddy really opened my eyes to a lot on that mission trip.
As far as The World Race and how Daddy led me to it, it started this past summer. God was on a path to completely shake up my life and that's exactly what He did. First off there was a schedule of youth events that I wasn't going to go on because I wasn't needed. God in His interesting ways changed that. I asked Daddy if He really wanted me to go that He would open a door for me to go. To make the story short, the two of my friends who were supposed to go received the ugly end of the prayer. One was having surgery on a torn acl? and the other lost his job and started a new one on the week of camp. Wow you might say…that's what I thought at least. Anyways, the first thing God did was uproot a 15 month relationship while I was at an event called World Changers (the theme was "Unhindered" and it had a bird flying out of an open cage) where you help people by painting there houses, roofing roofs, or whatever they need. So that was sort of the second step in the process. Then I went to camp with our youth which began a week long of fasting and prayer about possibly applying for a youth minister position at a tiny church. Yeah right! That was just the set up for The World Race. Probably on the last day of fasting, I began to look at different mission trips to see if anything caught my eye. I began seeing 2 and 3 month mission trips and I started to get excited. Then I think I checked out facebook and saw a picture of a friend and in the background with her were friends of hers from Africa. That sparked a light bulb because Africa is the place I really want to go, somehow I got caught up on http://www.adventures.org, the organization she went through and began checking the site out. That's when I got humbled. I found The World Race on there because they are a partner with Adventures in Missions and that's where things took off. It wasn't about a youth mission position or ANYTHING ELSE! It was about me getting to this point. I decided I wanted to go on the January 2011 Race and nothing was going to stop me. I began talking to a few close friends who I believe to be godly influences in my life and I felt God told me to wait until I graduated college. This led me to another road block! I began doing the math to see how many hours I had left and it came up to 63. I thought really?!?! How in the world am I supposed to do that? Luckily at the college I go to, they had a pre-schedule made up. Plus I had already taken a bunch of classes that would lead to a business degree so…. it was the only thing that made sense to me. So in a leap of faith I took a step in that direction. In the Fall semester I knocked out 18 hours, I'm currently trying to knock out 15 more this Spring, 18 in the summer, and 12 to graduate in December. 🙂 Sounds crazy but I feel like it's what God has laid out for me. But back to the story. At that point in July 2010 I found myself waiting for an uknown time of when the the January 2012 Race would pop up. It was a grueling time for me, and I found myself constantly looking at everyone's blogs and videos everyday waiting for the January 2012 Race to pop up. Well after long await, it came! In March, my time had come. I was so excited and took a little time to see if it was still an option, applied, and here I am writing my own blog, something I only dreamed of for 9 months!! It's pretty overwhelming to think about it all and I still doubt it sometimes myself, but I know it's what Daddy has planned for me. So once again I have taken a step in faith and i'm still working on the Obedience part. Please pray for me on that one!
Now it's just a matter of more waiting, spiritual preparation, finishing school, and lots of support raising!! I still don't know how i'm going to do it all, but I know I don't have to either. I just have to do my part and let Father take care of the rest. Right now I have about $600 dollars that i'm getting ready to send in for my support, and that'll leave me with about $14,900 more to go. So please if you feel like supporting me, do so, but please do it prayerfully. The funds will come, but please make sure it's what Father wants from you. Well that's it for now, but if you have any questions please feel free to contact me at any time. 🙂
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Thanks for visiting my blog, Andrew Holloway
