After training camp in October, I was excited and ready to start the journey of the world race. I loved my team and wanted to fly out the next day. A couple weeks after training camp became a different story. I began to get comfortable again in my life in Alabama. I got back into my normal rhythms. And I slowly started to not want to go on the world race.
As January grew closer and closer, I began to dread leaving my friends and family. I had never put much consideration into that part of this journey. The part that requires to leave your life in America for 11 months, to leave the people you love and talk to and see everyday. I honestly thought that part would be easy for me. I began to fear leaving them. Who would comfort me when I was having a bad day? Who would know the exact ways to cheer me up? The people that do that will be thousands of miles away and I can’t just pick up the phone and call.
Now I am in Atlanta and we fly out tomorrow. I will be in South Africa on Friday. And as soon as I got here and started to be reunited with my squad and my team, the fear slowly started to fade away. The goodbyes were hard and tearful, but they have all been said and now it’s time to go. It is time to go bring Jesus to the nations and I am so happy to say that I am excited again! The Lord is faithful and showed me that I have 7 people that will be right there with me on this journey. They will be the ones to lift me up and they will do it well. Not to mention, my Heavenly Father is simply waiting for me to call on Him for that.
We have received our first ministry assignment! For the first month we will be working with a ministry in Cape Town called Kingdom Sports, specifically in the township of Oceanview! Please be in prayer for my squad’s safety as we travel and for the kids we are about to come in contact with.
The day is finally here! Cape Town here we come.
