I am almost 10% funded! Yay (almost) double digits!
The awesome team at Adventures in Missions will be booking flights soon and beginning the preparations for our 6 month Mission Trip, so I need to have 25% of my goal funded in about a month! We can do it!
Over the past few weeks, I feel like fundraising and The World Race has pretty much become all that I talk about. I went to a party the other night and ended up spending the whole night bouncing around into different circles, Italian soda in hand, retelling my stories and sharing my heart with each group. And honestly, I loved it. When I first began this journey, I was so afraid of the questions people would ask me because what if I didn’t know the answer? What if I couldn’t properly relay how I feel that I’ve been called to missions? What if they don’t think I’m good enough for it? What if I can’t pronounce the names of the ministries we’re partnering with in South America? (This one happened, friends.)
But as I’ve grown on this journey, and as God has pushed me out of my comfort zone – an expression you’ll see me use a lot through this experience – the questions have become one of my favorite parts of sharing this journey with people. Not only does it show how interested they are in my story, explaining my answers to people gives me the opportunity to really solidify where I stand.
My favorite question that I’ve been asked so far was from a woman at church who wasted no time getting to the heart of my involvement in the race. I told her all the surface answers about what we’d be doing and where we’d be going and she nodded through it all. When I finished my somewhat scripted answers, she said, “Mhmm, and what about you? What do you want your individual involvement to be?” And for a moment I was stumped. I guess I had been swept up in the idea of community and moving as a team, which is so important and I’m not taking away from that at all, but I had glossed over the idea that I, Emily, could and would have an impact.
The World Race is for the racers as much as it is for those we minister to. Just in a different way.
On my race, I want to love people stronger than I ever have before. Because I have the opportunity to be there in person, I want to take full advantage of the personal relationships that I can build. I want my greatest takeaway to be a confidence in God’s love and how to be an example of it. I pray that my individual involvement makes a difference.
I would love to write more about questions I’ve been asked and how they’ve helped me better understand my own journey. If anybody has a question they’d like me to talk about, please feel free to write it in the comments or message me privately! Having a community of support has meant everything to me and I love hearing your feedback!
