Before the world race I always wanted to know what it would be like. Life on the field. The answer is: It depends. It always depends.
Each month is so drastically different.
This month, my team is in Kigali, Rwanda. We are partnered with a church, we live with the pastor and her children. We walk 4 miles uphill and take 1 bus to get to the church everyday. Once at the church we teach kids, we do door to door evangelism, and we take turns preaching a couple days a week. Then we walk back to our little home where we get delicious meals, rest, bucket showers, and have team time. I’ve enjoyed the walking because it keeps us active. I have also enjoyed door to door ministry. It’s amazing how willing people have been. They want to hear what we have to say, and many give their lives to God. We draw big crowds, we speak truth, and people get saved. I’m experiencing things I expected to experience on the world race. Today we started a project to expand the house we are staying at. We have been leveling dirt. I love doing stuff with my hands, and seeing progress. This is something I expected to do more on the race yet haven’t had many opportunities. It brings me a lot of joy, simply working hard and doing physical labor.
Lately I’ve been looking back. It’s wild, the difference in ministries I’ve been apart of. From working alongside missionaries, partnering with YWAM, working with young girls in rehab, looking for new potential world race hosts in the area, painting a hostel, building relationships in the community, guest speaking in schools, teaching english, babysitting, intercessory prayer, and now coming alongside a church. Its been quite the journey.
You don’t know what you’re going to get on the world race. Its important that you lay down all your expectations because its probably going to be nothing like what you thought it would be.
On the flip side, one of the few things you can expect on the world race is constantly changing digestive problems. I’ll spare details, but have fun with that.
That’s all I got for now!
Thanks for reading.
