Dosson is a person with a willing heart.
He has an incredible sense of responsibility and the strength and courage to step up and do what he feels needs to be done.
He will drive for incredibly long stretches of time and still feel the need and desire to help get everyones stuff unpacked.
He also probably takes care of his health more than anyone else on the team.
He is eager to learn and quick to own up to his faults.
He is a man of strong convictions and powerful loyalty.
Dosson truly carries the heart of a shepherd and desires to empower the people around him to live their best callings in the Lord.
Although he might come off as silent and indifferent he probably has the most eagerness of anyone on our team and has the quickest inclination to get a sparkle in his eye and laugh about something all the way into his chakos.
Of any man Ive ever met, Dosson tries to multi-task every second of his awake hours. You won’t ever find him without doing something on his phone in his desire to keep up and accomplish all the tasks he sees as his responsibility.
Also, Dosson is engaged to Alex.
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The last few weeks have been hard and so good.
We have literally been in the boondocks of the States and have found ourselves without cellphone service and often hard to find wifi.
I know it’s hard to believe that my experience here in the States could be as electronically challenging – as bad or worse than it was internationally on my WorldRace – but it can, and has been!
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What have I been up to?
Well, its been a lot of things.
Washing walls in an industrial kitchen from months of built up grease, helping put down sod, picking up sticks to prepare for an Easter service, baking brownies, being interruptible: taking time to just talk with people, listening, and praying with and for them. Doing kids church – messages and games and working with 80 year olds at a food bank they’ve built and regularly man. And despite all that, still learning how it is to love and serve my team – as much or better than I do ministry hosts.
I am convinced that if we cannot love and minister well to eachother in our team that we will ultimately do a poor imitation for those we encounter, and guys, I am telling you. Life with 11 other individuals is not (as I’ve probably shared already) always that easy.
I love and value these people but it’s often so easy to just take offense and be upset over stupid little things.
And people can tell when we are coming into their space offended with each other.
So how can I work on not doing stupid little things that my team can be hurt by and that the devil can play with?
And how do I walk with integrity, self control, discipline, and love (without which all my notions and actions are useless! – 1 corinthians 13) on a consistent and persevering basis – without getting hooked by the situations and conversations that get me riled up?
I am still trying to figure that out.
I know that I “should” have this all figured out, but I just don’t guys.
New team, new situations (CONSTANTLY), new, new, new…
I realize that whatever I haven’t pressed into with “filled to the brim” faith in the past, has lead me to have to walk again through valleys I was hoping to scoot through and never see again.
That’s Gods way of pressing me into refinement that honestly is so uncomfortable. But it’s always harder the next time He tries to bring such change. And that’s lead me to take seriously this season of growth.
It’s hard and when I see an inkling of growth it encourages me – but its also just hard enough to discourage me often and hope for it to just be over.
But I suppose that wont happen until my times finally up.
So yeap.
We are still trying to figure out what this is. WorldRace America was marketed as a route where they were calling people to go around America relying on and praying into what God wanted them to do everyday.
Once we got to launch, that vision kind of got realigned towards reaching out and serving with past alumni around the united states. We have been trying to figure out how to balance those two things on a consistent basis – however, that is not as easy a balance as it might seem.
Please pray for us as we continue to figure out what the Lord desires for us and for the rest of this year.
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So far God has confirmed with every single appointment either that He is using us or that that was right where we were supposed to be.
That has been super encouraging and has brought a lot of strength to keep going.
It’s not that easy to be in the states without any control of your “next”, or your time, moving every few days, (never staying anywhere longer than a week), and living off of four dollars a day. Sometimes I spend hours while we drive in serious back pain.
But it is so worth it when God gives us confirmation that we drove all that way for an Alumni who tells us they so needed us to come and encourage them, or a man on the side of the road tells us he just needed to hear that – and receive that prayer.
God is working and moving in America and it is powerful to be a part of it.
Thanks for being part of it with me!
