I bet most of you that have followed my journey this year are curious to hear an answer to my blog title. What am I doing after this Amazing/Epic/Challenging/Growing journey I have been on for 2014? When I am home in December…what comes next?
First, I want to spend time with family and friends. Eat dinner at my kitchen table with my parents and siblings, visit my grandparents, visit some incredible friends…maybe even ring in the New Year with some of my college buddies?
Second, I need rest. I want to watch as much football as possible, sleep on an actual mattress and let my body recover from an extremely demanding year. It finally has hit me in month 11 how much my body has physically been through this year. I feel I have been gone 11 months but my body has aged 40 months.
Ok ok…I am sure you are wondering about actual ‘plans’…so here they are:
I am going to be spending the first 5 months of 2015 back out on the mission field. I will be co-leading a new World Race squad called ‘Fusion’ that will be the first of its kind. The vision is to have a WR squad comprised of ALL nations. Going to the NATIONS to spread the love of Christ. There will be a lot of ‘new’ with this squad, some bumps along the way…but it will be the foundation of future Fusion squads and an amazing plunge into what the Lord has planned.
WOW. Am I crazy?
After spending 11 month traveling the world as a missionary, living out of a backpack and eating on about $4 a day…I am only spending one month at home and then heading out for 5 more months? After being in a leadership position for all but three weeks of this journey I am willingly saying yes to a leadership position that has not technically ever been formed?
Yes. Yes I am. And I will spare a super long blog with giving you two very simple reasons why:
1) God has called me to go and put this on my heart. It is not some ‘wanderlust’ impulse decision by a guy who is scared to come home and ‘settle down’. From the vision I was given in a Malawi church in month 6, to the weeks of prayer and words that were spoken to me by teammates, it became clear to me that this is the path the Lord has me on.
2) God is my rock. My source. My well I draw from. Yes I am tired, there are hard days on this journey and moments I have to rely on the Lord…but thats the beauty! I CAN rely on the Lord! So I don’t worry that come January I question whether I am ready for another journey, I know there will be tough days and moments in the coming 5 months but I also know that it’s in those moments the Lord shows me his true strength.
So there it is folks! Perhaps to some of you this isn’t surprising. Perhaps some of you are a little sad because you miss me and just want me to come home (admit it!). I pray I will get to see as many friends and family as possible in December, but if not the summer of 2015 looks pretty nice!
Just like this journey I will need to raise support for my Squad Leading in January. If you want to financially support me please click on the link on the top of my page! It will still have my old account on there right now but although I don’t know an exact figure yet I will need to raise around $4000-$5000. Your encouragement, prayers and love are always appreciated more than you know!
If you haven’t heard from me in a while please take the time to shoot me an email or message. I would love to hear from you guys!
I am in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia for this final month and will have blogs to come about ministry.
It’s been an amazing 2014…I can’t wait to see what God has in store for 2015!
