It’s month 7 out of 11 on the World Race, just over the halfway point. The World Race has been a crazy insane life changing journey. There have been ministries I have loved and ministries where the tasks felt incredibly mundane. Some days I wake up overwhelmed with culture shock and wishing something in my life could feel familiar again. Some days I wake up in awe of the Lord’s goodness in my life and amazed that he is entrusting an ordinary woman like me to love people all over the world and tell them about a God who loves them more than they can begin to imagine. Some days I wake up missing my closet back home abundant with cute clothes. Some days I want to wake up and go for a 10 mile hike, but I’m in the middle of nowhere and no hiking trails exist anywhere near me. To be honest, I am currently working through some spiritual burnout in my World Race journey. The honeymoon phase is gone and I don’t have the same excitement and joy about ministry as I did at the beginning of the Race. It has been tempting to be checked out emotionally, wave the surrender flag, and coast because I feel like I’ve learned what I need to learn this year. I am currently in a season where I am learning to be dependent on the Lord’s strength and not my own. As I was journaling my prayers this morning I felt God say to me, Do you trust that I have some incredible things for you if you get past this burnout and say yes to me? Do you trust that your upcoming time in Africa may be nothing that you think it will be and everything that I want it to be? I have decided from this point on despite my burnout I am going to let God write the rest of my World Race story. I plan on running this World Race on Holy Spirit strength running through my veins being confident I cannot do any good work apart from Him. I am choosing to live in an abundance mentality of making the most of every opportunity on the Race knowing it will be over before I know it.
Cambodia recap and Thailand update: During the month of June my team and I were in Battambang, Cambodia teaching English to children and teenagers. It was great to be able to be teacher Chelsea for the month and I was in my element working with children. Currently, my team and I are in Chiang Mai Thailand working at an orphanage named the Agape Home where the majority of the children are living with HIV/AIDS. More information can be found at their website http://www.nikkisplace.org
Teaching English in Cambodia
Cambodia love
Team LIT and our host family in Cambodia
Made a new friend in Thailand. I asked him if he was going to take me out on a date with all his money and he said no.
Painting the property at the Agape Home in Thailand
FULLY FUNDED! Many thanks to my family and friends who donated generously to my World Race trip. I am fully funded for my World Race trip and I am beyond grateful for the many generous people in my life who made it possible for me to go on the World Race.
