I recently found this note on my phone I wrote when I was debating on going on the World Race. Funny to see me now, and even funnier to look back at past Breier and his thought process….thankfulness for this decision and elated at the opportunity that got put in front of me.
Love is something that I have always had in my life. Growing up having two loving parents and three sisters that dressed me up as a girl cause they wished they had a sister…I was always loved. Looking back at my most recent achievement of graduating college, I see love from people who supported me and God always having my back.
When I came to deciding on college, God was with me all along encouraging me at every step. I was at a community college while deciding what I wanted to study and do with my future. I could never find the answer, I continued to pursue avenues that Breier wanted and never was fully invested on pursuing what God called me to do. Physical Therapy, Psychology, and Electrical Engineering are majors that I tried out and ended up switching after a few semesters. I was in the middle of another major change when I was at a coffee shop with Rob Mapstone, a pastor at the church I was attending called The River in Chaska. Such a great church and really put a fire under me to always be pursuing God and making Him a priority (that’s for another post). Towards the end of the meeting Rob was telling me that he needed to go to Crown College for another meeting about the potential of teaching there. I decided to go along with him and see what Crown was all about. I only lived 15 minutes away from it but have never heard of it. So I had to go and see! When I got there I immediately got connected with Ken Castor, a extremely impactful teacher for youth ministry. After I connected with him I remember asking if I can start that semester…..that was only three days before classes started! It’s great how easy things are when God is behind you, the paper that usually takes weeks only took a day, financial aid got processed within days and three days after that meeting at Crown I was moving into the dorms and starting one of the best chapters of my life.
Fast forward to graduation…..Bachelors in Business Administration and fully equipped to follow what God puts on my heart. Being able to have redemption on my past in terms of basketball was so sweet. The toughest of times growing up playin basketball, complete change when I played for Crown. I was all over the depth chart but was mattered most to me was the connections I made with my teammates. I meet my best friend and now I have so many brothers from my time at Crown. He changed my life for the better in the matter of 72 hours. Those were the most impactful and life changing 72 hours of my life, I made the best choice possible!! A complete 180 degrees, He turned confusion and uncertainty into purpose and inspiration.
Now move to post graduation life and I am thinking of going on this crazy insane, yet 100% doable missions trip. I want to say that I am terrified for about 2 months. Not of the trip but the change that will come of it. I know I will come back to the states, back to my family and friends, a whole new Breier. And seeing the change from high school to college, I get ecstatic about the change that will happen from college to after the World Race.
I said I was scared about this whole thing, but what scares me most is missing out on this opportunity. There may be no other time in my life where I have 11 months free of commitments and obligations. But I can be fully committed to myself and God in this next season. Its going to be difficult. I am still learning more about what Adventures in Missions is and what kinda company they are. But I will never know it all, but I do know that God is behind this open door opportunity. Once I enter this journey, the first task will be to raise more then I made last year working. My income could cover some of the costs but I am going to have to work my tail off to make this money. And even then it’ll be close and I can kiss away any spending money in each country.
Yes. It will be hard. I will fail from time to time. But I know God will get me there. Writing this out my decision to do the World Race seems evident….
What am I waiting for….
