A great thrill that I get from being a logistics person is seeing World Racers invest in the places that I got to see with my own eyes. Places I only get to touch they get to dig in. My trip in November to Australia was just plowing the soil for the teams that were to arrive this month. And now its happening! The people I got to meet are now being blessed by my World Race family. The Kingdom of God is being advanced in the very places where I got to see the needs. 
Hannah Vitkus wrote this week about a little Aboriginal girl she befriended in Mossman, a small Aboriginal community I got to visit where Mark and I prayed for the team that was to serve there. We stood in the church that the team was going to minister in and prayed for Kingdom fruit and God’s will to come to that little community embedded in the rainforest.
Krissy Whaley and her team are ministering in an Aboriginal community with an amazing couple outside of Darwin in the Northern Territory. Krissy shares about the situation of the community:
“The aboriginal people battle with generational addictions
that have been passed down through time.
Alcoholism and drug addiction is rampant – resulting in an
extremely
high level domestic violence and suicide.
that have been passed down through time.
Alcoholism and drug addiction is rampant – resulting in an
extremely
high level domestic violence and suicide.
There is no sense of pride or ownership over there possessions...
Having no sense of ownership makes it
easy for people to borrow, steal, or abide by the payback system.
easy for people to borrow, steal, or abide by the payback system.
The payback system often results in
stabbings and ultimately death for many.”
stabbings and ultimately death for many.”
Megan Rouse recounts a very World Race style travel day as she and her team tried to get to their first ministry location for the month in an old “Troopie” or Toyota Landcruiser.
As I sit behind my desk in cold Port Huron, Michigan I am encouraged as I read the blogs of Racers who are not only living lives of adventure but learning how to walk through the stages of abandonment to grasp the Kingdom of God in deeper ways. I love that my job is to empower them to break for the nations, to pour themselves out so that our Creator is glorified. Even though its not me holding an Aboriginal child today or preaching a sermon, I am celebrating because the Kingdom is coming and I get to be a part of it.
