I EXPECT…
I expect to see God work through the Racers in ways we could
never have imagined for ourselves.
I expect God to protect us, speak through us, guide us,
break us, and develop us.
I expect to fall in LOVE with many of the people and their
culture…not wanting to leave them.
I expect to come home with a new perspective of the world and
have a hard time reintegrating.
I expect to get weary, but God giving me the strength to
keep going.
I expect the Racers to make lasting differences in people’s
lives…furthering the kingdom of God and God getting ALL the glory.
I expect to be humbled and stretched almost to my breaking
point.
I expect to be taught how to witness to people around the
world more effectively.
I expect to weep for the people living in oppression, but
rejoicing seeing their faith.
I expect to be homesick: missing my parents, twin sister:
Faith, friends, family, church, and house church.
I expect that people won’t always get along, but pray that
we all forgive, have patience, and are slow to anger.
I expect the Devil to fight us all the way.
I expect to go to the dark places, but see God’s light
shining all the brighter.
I expect to get scared, but going to the Word for comfort.
I expect to make life long friends.
I expect my faith will grow stronger.
I expect to learn new languages.
I expect to eat things that I’m not used to.
I expect to miss the comforts of home: mom’s home cooking,
getting into the refrigerator whenever I want, clean running water, etc.
I expect to get discouraged, but lifted up with prayers.
I expect to want to travel more when I get back.
I expect to hold HIV/AIDS orphans.
I expect my passion for people to grow stronger.
I expect to empower people through teaching English…giving
them hope for a better future.
I expect God will open and shut doors.
I expect to see people give their lives to Jesus.
I expect be challenged in every way.
I expect to have a hard time when I can’t make everything
better for people whether it’s their living conditions, financial problems,
oppression, etc.
I expect…
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, The courage to
change the things I can, And the wisdom to know the difference. Living one day
at a time, enjoying one moment at a time; Accepting hardship as a pathway to
peace; Taking, as Jesus did, this sinful world as it is, Not as I would have
it; Trusting that you will make all things right if I surrender to your will;
So that I may be reasonably happy in this life And supremely happy with you
forever in the next.
