I really can’t believe I’m finally writing this post! I’ve been working towards doing the World Race for a few months now, but honestly, have been held back by fear because I knew writing and sharing this post meant that I really and truly am leaving my comfortable life here in PA and traveling around the world to new places with new people sharing Jesus and seeing Him work. But God is doing big things in my heart in kind and gentle ways, reassuring me of His love for me, and giving me courage to trust Him as I continue to move down this path.
So tonight, I am so excited to finally officially share with you all that I am leaving in August to be a part of the World Race, which is an “11-month, 11-country journey in which participants discover the power of God to change lives, as they minister and serve around the world.”
Even to me, it seems a little crazy still! God has blessed me so richly with opportunities to love and serve Him and others around me right here where I’ve lived for most of my life, but I know that He has placed this opportunity to serve people in new places (to me at least!) right in front of me, and I know that I can trust Him as I keep going forward. He is always the same, whatever the time zone, the language, the culture, or the country, and He is working in mighty ways all over the world! I am so excited to see what He is doing, and how He will use my team as we go and work with all different types of ministries in these countries.
Sooooo… what am I doing? I’ll be spending a month in each of the countries we travel to, working with full-time missionaries and indigenous ministries to serve people and share the amazing, saving love of God with them. I can’t wait to meet people who have lived very different lives from me but love the same God… His Kingdom is HUGE and all around the world! My desire is to be an encouragement to people who have committed their lives to serving others, and to join them in any way I can in the work God has placed before them. I know, especially through working with CEF, that when people come alongside of each other, many more can be reached. I won’t know the language of many of the countries I go to, and that concerned me for a long time as I thought about doing this. But GOD IS BIGGER THAN OUR DIFFERENCES. I know and believe this with my whole heart, and am stepping out in trust and expectation, waiting to see how He will use me, as broken as I am, for His glory. Because it is all- ALL- about Him. And He will work.
God has placed each of you in my life, and I am so, so blessed because of it. As I go about this journey, I really covet your prayer, support, and encouragement! I don’t just mean financial… I do have to raise the funds necessary for the entire trip, which is $18,100, but I have complete trust that God will provide what I need. What I really want to ask of you is that you will commit to praying for me and my team, and that you would support and encourage me as I prepare to leave and as I am gone. I believe 100% that the Body of Christ is beautifully diversified and created to build each other up in the faith and to work together to share Jesus with the world around us. I don’t want to do this alone, I want so badly to share this with you all because we are all a part of the same body! So any time you have a question, have some encouragement, or have something to share, please, please let me know! And I want to do the same with you. Thank you for being a blessing in my life… each of you is so very special to me, and I am so excited to share this journey with you.
