I’m doing it. I’m going to go on The WorldRace.
Next August I will be leaving for 11 months to spread the gospel and love of Jesus to the people of Haiti, the Dominican Republic, South Africa, Botswana, Zambia, India, Nepal, Romania, Albania, Macedonia, and Serbia.
To say that God only had his hand in this decision would be a complete and utter understatement because He opened the doors, He wove passions and gifts into my soul, He used other believers to encourage me, HE had this already planned out long long ago.
God didn’t only have his hand in my decision, He picked me up and is completely carrying me through it.
I first heard about the WorldRace from my two friends Emily and Bethany who went on a Gap Year route after high school. I followed their Instagram posts, read their blogs, kept up with their ministries, and was so inspired by their humility and willingness to serve. But thought nahhhh, that’s not for me.
Obviously, I was very wrong.
Last spring, I started looking into the Adventures in Missions Organization and my curiosity and excitement began to grow and grow. I have always felt a call to missions but I always thought of it as a distant dream, I never saw my calling for what it is. A calling.
I applied for a short-term missions trip to Swaziland and took a leap of faith for God to provide for my trip.
He did. Exceedingly and abundantly, actually.
I had never truly experienced God’s faithfulness until this summer as I was meeting other missionaries, receiving miraculous donations, and seeing the wonder of God’s perfect timing. I thought, since God made the way for this short term missions trip, maybe he would actually make the way for an 11 month missions trip… So I applied for the WorldRace ‘just to see what would happen.’
I got accepted into the WorldRace the day before I left for Swaziland.
My time in Africa changed me in ways I never expected. I met the most amazing people (by the way, my team leaders Emma and Paul both had previously done the WorldRace), ministered to orphans, my team and I got to sing in front of a church congregation, and I fell completely, face-first, head-over-heels in love with the Lord.
So, I’m going to follow him. Wherever He calls me.
That is why I am leaving for 11 months to places I have never even heard of before, to people I have never met, to food that my body probably won’t like, and to languages I don’t understand. I’m leaving because I have been called.
I am called to go. I am called to reach the unreached and show lost communities the undeserving love our Father pours over us and declare the name of Jesus Christ and heal the sick and clothe the naked and BE. I am called to be who God made me to be. A humble servant.
Deuteronomy 31:8 “The Lord himself goes before you and will be with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged.”
