I’ve always been a dreamer and I feel like I’ve always dreamed BIG! I want to do it all—travel, explore, go to school, fall in love, get married, grow old, travel some more. I want to go everywhere, talk to everyone, and fall in love with every aspect of life.
Through high school, I started to find myself and my crowd of people with the help of Young Life. It put me in such a good community and I started to make a lot of strong, faith-based friendships.
Because of Young Life, I was able to do work crew, a month serving, my junior year at Sharptop Cove. Work Crew brought out a love I didn’t know I had for serving other people.
The days were long, spending nearly 11 hours in the kitchen, but knowing that other kids at camp were having the best week of their life brought me so much joy. I felt like I had a purpose and like I was genuinely doing work for The Kingdom. and by the end of the month I was pro at washing dishes.
Like I said, I have always loved to travel and explore. Anyone who knows me, knows that whenever I wasn’t in school, I probably wasn’t home— I was traveling somewhere, always doing something. To travel the whole world was always a dream forever!
When I heard about The World Race, my heart knew this was something for me, something God wanted me to do. It takes two of my passions and combines them. It creates discipleship, while also changing the lives of people across the world.
It reminds me of a quote from the author Bob Goff.
He says, “Every day God invites us on the same kind of adventure. It’s not a trip where He sends us a rigid itinerary, He simply invites us. God asks what it is He’s made us to love, what it is that captures our attention, what feeds that deep indescribable need of our souls to experience the richness of the world He made. And then, leaning over us, He whispers, ‘Let’s go do that together.’”
To me, The World Race is a dream come true. This God leaning over me whispering, “Let’s do this together.”
