Throughout this year, God has completely broken my heart and rebuilt my life. He brought me to countless cultures, gave me amazing adventures, showed me a new perspective, revealed His unfailing love for his people to me, and taught me so incredibly much. I am now stateside with a new gratitude for this precious life and a desire to follow wherever God leads me for the rest of my earthly life.
At our final debrief in El Salvador last week, my mentor asked me what my greatest takeaway from this year has been. After a lot of reflection, I told her that I feel like I found my life when I laid it down. When I finally figured out what it meant to live in a place of surrender to the King—the surrender of my future plans, my prospective life path, where I will live, my future career—God revealed His plan for my life. I believe that God gives us freewill and that through this, we are entitled to make our own decisions for our lives, but I have also found that if we lay our self-righteous ambitions at His feet, He can provide so much more than we could’ve ever envisioned. Complete freedom is found in the arms of the Father.
I want to thank every single person who has supported and followed along my journey this year. I would not be the person I am today without your words of encouragement, financial donations, friendship, and most of all, your prayers. This year has completely changed my life and equipped me to be a warrior for the Kingdom for the rest of my days. I am sincerely thankful to have you in my life.
Over the past few months as I’ve acknowledged this lifestyle was only for a season, I have persistently pursued God’s heart for what He has next for me. I applied to an environmental educator job with hopes that God would give me clarity of His will and it turns out He had something else in store. It wasn’t until I went to Him with completely open hands, not having any idea what my future would hold, that He provided me with peace and clarity.
Shortly after, I was presented with a beautiful opportunity to step out in the gifts the Lord has given me. God has shaped and refined my heart so much this year and has now given me the opportunity to use those giftings to impact the lives of others. He is calling me to share the lessons I’ve learned with the next generation of World Racers, so that they may begin their new season with all of the tools I discovered at the end of mine to be even better equipped warriors for the Kingdom. In this new chapter, God is pushing me to grow as a spiritual leader, to stretch outside the confines I have previously boxed myself in with, and draw even closer to His heart. From January to mid-March 2018, I will be Alumni Team Leading for D-Squad in Haiti and the Dominican Republic. I am excited to see how God moves in and through these beautiful people and all of the lessons He teaches me along the way.
But church, I cannot do this without your support, both financially and prayerfully. In order to pour into this new generation, I need to fundraise $2,750 through Adventures in Missions. If you feel led to support me financially, you can either make your donation tax-deductible through my World Race blog or send money directly to me through my PayPal account (paypal.me/BNompleggi). I would also love prayers that God would equip me to lead well and with vulnerability, that I would reach my financial deadline by early January, and that God would prepare all of D-Squad’s hearts for life abroad.
I love you all so much. Please reach out to me if you have any questions about this new chapter or if you ever have any prayer requests! I will be traveling around the east coast through the first week of December and then I will be home in California until the new year so please reach out if you want to meet up!! God bless.
Lots of love,
Britt
