I knew about the Race for four years before I launched in January. After first hearing about it, I remember sitting in my dorm room and spending hours watching every video and blog I could find. I couldn’t get enough of the thrill of adventure I felt as I lived vicariously through these people I didn’t even know. They were complete strangers, yet I felt like we knew each other because the life they were living was the life I always felt I was created for.
A life of abandon. A life of abundance. A life being fully lived.
In the fall of 2010 I wrote “I want to go on the World Race” on a small slip of paper and placed it inside my prayer box. In the spring of 2013 I finally applied for January Route 4 of the following year. I knew this route was mine because as soon as I started scrolling through the countries, tears began to roll down my cheeks.
A few weeks later I had an interview and a couple weeks after that I found out I was accepted. I paid the deposit right there on the phone before I walked into work. It was finally really happening.
In the fall of 2013 I went to Training Camp and was introduced, for the first time in real life, to the World Race culture. It was also the first time I had the thought, “I can’t do this. What did I sign up for?”
But I remember very clearly during worship one night the Lord speaking directly to my heart and I spoke these words aloud, “I can’t do this, but You can. So I will.”
Then in January 2014 (only a few short months ago) I finally launched on this crazy adventure we call the World Race.
I’ve played soccer with kids, experienced shark cage diving, and prayed for an unconscious woman while waiting for an ambulance in the streets of South Africa.
I’ve ascended a mountain in Swaziland to spend a month loving on kids and interceding for El Shaddai Children’s Home.
And currently I’m living in a car dealership turned foster home to 18 abandoned kids and babies with special needs in India.
I don’t know what exactly awaits me next month in Nepal, but I do know I won’t be able to experience it if I don’t make my next financial deadline, April 1st.
$1,700 will keep me on this crazy Race for 3 more months. ($6,900 total is all I need to ensure the final 8 months of this journey!)
Would you prayerfully consider being a part of this adventure with me? I can’t do this alone and it’s help from people like you that has brought me this far. Let’s continue this journey together and see what else the Lord wants to do in the nations!
Serving Him with you,
Audra
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