Hello, I’m Cameron Marshall and this is a little about my life leading up to the World Race.
I was born and raised in Tahlequah, Oklahoma and I’m 22 years old. I come from a Christian family and a big one at that. I have 3 brothers and 4 sisters and a lot of close cousins. My family seems to keep getting bigger every year! But, I have always been in church and am constantly involved in the local churches. I am currently going to LifeChurch.tv in midtown Tulsa and also attend at IIID Tulsa (college aged ministry) on Tuesday nights.
In high school I struggled with my salvation and decided to give my life to Christ completely! Ever since then He has always been so involved in my life. Well, maybe, I just didn’t notice it before but I definitely did after surrendering myself to Him. I haven’t always been the perfect example of a Christian and honestly I still have my struggles. But we are human and our flesh tries so hard to win. I’ve been through things that most people go through like alcohol, sexual immorality, and finding my true identity. Thank the Lord for being so patient with me and my walk and always being so faithful until the very end. He lead me out of and away from all those things. I no longer struggle with them and I don’t even second guess going back to that old life.
So, from overcoming these things in my life I came to notice I needed to give it all to God. And i mean it all! Once I moved to Tulsa, OK God really started to pull on my heart and He wanted me to know this amazing path He has planned out for me. I organilly moved here for school and wanted to take the skills i had from school with me into the mission field. But God had a better plan. I was reading through Crazy Love by Francis Chan and God revealed it to me. He said to me that i didn’t need to go to school for what He had already planned for me. He said I already have the skill and knowledge for the next step and to stop using “wait for my calling” to be my excuse for not making the next move. During that time I had seen that one of my friends, Laura Medders, was on the World Race and it was something I wanted to do so badly. God laid it on my heart to go and apply for it. I decided I was tired of making excuses and decided to take a step of faith into something I knew nothing about.
God truly blessed me for that step of faith. Something I learned was that I hadn’t truly fallen in love with God. I mean of course I knew He loved me but I noticed I didn’t love Him back. Ever since I made these two decisions God has been transforming me into someone I didn’t know I could be. Our God is so good you guys. Man, He truly does love us and truly does want the best for us.
Well, back to the world race. I was accepted in May and now Im going through this journey of a lifetime. It definitely is hard and takes a lot of faith and trust in God to do this. My faith has been increased more and more everyday ever since I started. Now Im just excited for what the Lord has for me in the future as I GO INTO THE WORLD to spread the GOSPEL of JESUS CHRIST!!!
All I ask of you who are reading is that you keep me in your prayers. Nothing hard and nothing time comsuming. Just a simple prayer for me and my team as we journey into the unknown and walk in faith with Jesus.
With Love,
Cameron R. Marshall
