countries around the world, and it’s not your typical missions
experience. It’s a way for young adults to abandon a traditional
lifestyle in exchange for a dramatic paradigm shift. Through
adventure, ministry, community, and self-discovery, World Racers
develop broken hearts that propel their hands to act for God’s kingdom
around the globe. The best part of the World Race is it’s merely the
beginning of a life-long journey. The World Race is more than a Christian mission trip; it’s a year of self-discovery and real, authentic empowerment.
Here are a two questions that we’ve received about The World Race:
Why do people sign up for the World Race?
Everyone
wants to find their place in the world. They want to better understand
what God is doing in it and how to join Him. And many want to go on a
journey and pit their wits against a challenge that asks more of them
than they’ve asked of themselves. They are hungry to measure themselves
against that challenge.
They have a well of compassion that
has barely been tapped. They want to be poured out as they see and
touch the world’s needy.
They are already on a pilgrimage to
understand what God made them for, and they understand that the
metaphor of a journey, especially a long one, fits the traveling and
searching that they’ve been doing.
They are representative
of an entire generation that has a sneaky suspicion that maybe they’re
on a path that is too easy. Maybe they’ve been tempted to sell out to a
career track and a lifestyle that doesn’t or shouldn’t define them.
Maybe the versions of themselves that the world is starting to see is
not the best one.
Not just a few wild eyed adventurers are
looking at this and thinking, “That’s it, that’s what I need to do!”
Thousands resonate with the idea, maybe dismissing it as impractical,
but secretly wishing they could say goodbye to society’s expectations
for a year and go on a pilgrimage.
Why “The World Race”?
What
we’re offering is not just another mission trip. The World Race taps an
ancient human compulsion to take a spiritual pilgrimage. Aussies have
their walkabout and Muslims have their Haj. American college students
have an abbreviated bacchanal – a week’s trip to Ft. Lauderdale in the
spring that barely gives voice to the urge to go somewhere and do
something different.
A whole new rite of passage is waiting
to be born and a million young people are waiting to respond. They are
under-challenged and ultra-coddled. They didn’t sign up for the future
they’re being handed.
Once the World Race is broadcast to a
broader audience, this generation will respond in numbers that
overwhelm us. We owe it to them to gear up and do it right. We owe them
not just this experience, but the opportunity it represents to tap
their deepest yearning to not sell out, at least not before they’ve
given a wild alternative their best shot.
Yours for the journey,
