Well first off, I’m not all that great with blogging and whatnot. 🙂 but I’m sure it’ll be okay. ha
So we are asked to write how we were called to this mission trip..
Honestly I never heard God’s voice telling me to do this.. so it wasn’t some miraculous experience. I just know that God is calling me to do something big.
I’m tired of the life that I feel has been set up before me.
graduate highschool
go to college
get a good job that makes good money
get married
have kids.
I mean.. those are all things that I really do want. But that’s not all life is about. and as a woman of God I know that for any of those things to happen for me I need to look to Him and follow HIS path for me. Not the one the world tells me i need to follow.
I applied for the World Race last October and was accepted for the July 2010 race. But while this was going on, I was going through a pretty tough time with some people in my life. And when it came right down to it.. I knew God was telling me to wait. That my heart wouldn’t truly be ready by July to embark on this mission trip. So I called and told the admissions department I wanted to withdraw from July and wait for a later trip.
So for a while I just tried not to think about the world race. I was praying for God to guide my steps and heal my heart. And slowly the race did come back on my heart. I couldn’t stop coming to the site and reading all the blogs(again) and I just knew that this is something God was calling me to step out in faith and do.
I waited .. and waited and waaaited (haha) for the January application to get posted so I could apply. And the whole time I was extremely excited and scared and just praying that if this is what God wanted for everything to fall into place. and if it wasn’t that He would close the door for good.
…And here I am. Committing to the January 2011 race. To spending 11 months growing deeper in my relationship with God than I ever have before. Knowing it won’t be easy, but SO worth it.
I want to go spread the Gospel of Christ to the nations. And be awakened to what the world is REALLY like. Not just the american bubble version I’ve lived in my whole life. I want to grow in a community of believers and learn to TRULY love people. to love my self. and to love God. To live my life the way God has called me to. Without holding back.
