Jamie and I were attending Night Vision, a huge Christian concert, one
of the key note speakers was Nick Vujicic, the limbless man from Australia. If
you haven’t heard him type his name in youtube, he is so moving.
As we were strolling
through the venues we saw a WR tent, so we went up and starting talking to
them, we signed up and grabbed a promo DVD. Jamie and I thought it looked
really intense after she said 11 months in a tent and hauling a backpack.
Jamie and I wanted to
go to India to the Mother Teresa House for a month and do what we could, but as
we starting researching it, it was more planning and money then we could
handle. So we gave up the idea a few months before hand.
A few days passed and
I couldn’t get WR out of my head, I didn’t say anything to Jamie because I
didn’t want to get her hopes up because I didn’t want to inconvenience myself.
I had plans already made up for our future. But sure enough the more I tried to
forget it the more I thought of it. I would be awake till 2am thinking of what
a fool I would be to go, and how I don’t have it in me, or I’m not spiritually strong
enough to go. I was dealing with my own hardship.
I eventually mentioned
it to Jamie a couple weeks after the concert; she said it had been on her mind
the whole time! That’s when I started to get scared, was someone or something
telling me I was meant to do this? Jamie and I popped in the DVD and watched
the whole thing, all of a sudden it made since, like someone hit me over the
head with a brick, I heard the director say it would start with a whisper.
After we watched it we both decided to pursue it, and if God wanted us to go we
would get accepted.
After the long
interview process we got the call, we were the last couple to sign up for the
trip. Panic was in the air, we have to raise around 30,000 and are leaving in 4
months! Looking at blogs we saw people on the team that have been raising
support since June! Jamie and I haven’t been connected to a single church for a
couple years since leaving Flagstaff and moving to Colorado, so our contacts
are few now. Were not in the panic mode anymore, we told each other if God
wants us to do this all the support will come. We are learning to trust and
have faith.
