Team Change Update: At our debrief in Bucharest, Romania, we had our first round of team changes! Some teams were changed drastically, but our team is mostly the same. Our team leader, Avery, was one of four team leaders that were raised up to lead the entire squad, as our current squad leaders (WR alumni) will be leaving us after Nepal. Our new name is Team Boundless, and we look forward to moving into this new season of the race with no bounds! We want to invest deeper into fellowship with each other, and invite the boundless love of the Lord to flow from us!
Our team in Bucharest, Romania
For Team Boundless, I have been appointed the Team Leader! This is a big change in the way my Race will look going forward. My responsibilities will include shepherding my team spiritually, leading feedback and team times, and corresponding with World Race staff and our ministry contacts. I feel kind of thrust into this role, and having to make decisions for my team is going to take some getting used to. But I feel so blessed to have this opportunity, and I have already seen how the Lord is using it to refine me in new ways. Since starting the World Race, the Lord has filled me with confidence in who I am and what He’s calling me to. But now, I am choosing to get on board with what He’s doing in my teammates lives. I want to be an encourager and empowerer for my team, putting their needs before mine. Serving others before myself has been hard for me in the past, but the Lord is giving me a new heart and is teaching me to prefer my teammates. I know that His power is perfected in my weakness, and I believe that’s part of why I have become a team leader. Please pray that He will continue to refine me, creating me into a leader who leads as Jesus did.
In other news, R squad has made it to India! I am loving it here. India is a country that is overwhelming to the senses. It is more colorful, tastier, hotter, smellier, and louder than what I’m used to. Not to mention the culture, which is about as opposite to ours as you can get. My team is working with a local pastor and his family, doing village ministry near Hyderabad. Every day, we will travel to a different village in the area, sharing the gospel and praying for people. Most people we meet are super receptive to receiving prayer and hearing the gospel. But because they follow Hindu beliefs, they are quick to simply add Jesus to their list of millions of gods (idols). We pray in faith that as they meet Jesus, He will show Himself to be more powerful than all the others, and that He will bring conviction that He is the only true God. And because the culture is laced with idol and demon worship, the way that God reveals Himself can often get spicy!
