The Top 10 Things I learned at World Race Training Camp:
1. Sometimes your Minnesotan accent gets mistaken for a Canadian accent.
2. Sometimes you have to do team building exercises where you have to jump on teammates back and you end up putting a lot of trust into someone you’ve known for 3 days
3. Sometimes people ask if you are a rock climber because you are wearing a buff headband
4. Sleeping in a tent by yourself is relaxing and glorious.
5. When you are the only person smiling on a 2 mile fitness hike you’ll get lots of compliments
6. After 10 days of spending time with people from the South I’ve started saying y’all
7. Wearing chacos and socks is absolutely acceptable
8. Sometimes you eat biscuits and gravy for the first time and you make a sandwich out of it because you don’t know how to eat it and people laugh at you.
9. Biblical sisterhood IS possible and something we can fight to make happen when we commit to see the best in others as image bearers of God
10. At the beginning of training camp I met 21 strangers and 10 days later I walked away being confident that I get to serve overseas with an amazing squad of people.
It’s hard to summarize my training camp experience. It was glorious, exhilarating, and intense in a good way. There were lots of great sessions that challenged, convicted, and encouraged me.
Thank you to the many people who have donated towards my World Race journey so far. My next fundraising deadline of $10,000 is coming up on December 21st. Please pray that God would meet my financial needs for this trip as well as continue to prepare my heart over the next 2 months to go overseas.
