This blog is a collaboration of our new family (team). It is a quick snapshot of how each one of us experienced Training Camp:

 

TEAM: LinC 10:10

 


 

1st family dinner at Cracker Barrel.

Back Row (left to right): Tom Hoffman, Stephen Sloan, Brian Berrelez

Front Row (left to right): Liz White, Jessica Walton, Laura Williams, Shayna Black

 



Nervousness, anxiety, anticipation, fear, and confusion are just some thoughts coming to and at the start of training camp. Yet, brokenness, openness, and vulnerability before the Lord and brothers has brought forth much healing.

I am a champion of faith. A champion eager and ready to run his course (Psalm 19:5b). To know that he has silenced a voice and has awakened another; He will “let my voice be heard“.


 



Growth. Love. Trust. Truth. Training camp has been everything I hoped for, and everything I dreaded. A week has felt like a month, the days long, the outdoors kind of rough, but the experience has forever changed me. Who I leave here as is better than the person I came here to be. I’ve gotten raw, and I’ve gotten real…I am growing into the woman God has called me to be.

 

 


 

Training Camp. Where to even begin? I honestly don’t know. I’m still experiencing. I’m still processing. One thing I can say about camp is that its about adaptability. What does it mean to be adaptable? It means “the ability to change or be changed to fit changed circumstances.” To be adaptable means to be flexible, versatile, convertible, malleable, pliable, ect. You get my point. Not one hour of the day looks the same, not one night of our environment is the same. Not one meal is familiar. And yet I live, I move, I breathe. Taking each moment that’s been given for what it actually is. A moment to trust the only thing on this earth that doesn’t change. GOD. The last 10 days of my life have been like nothing I have ever experienced. So, so good. So, so difficult. So, so incredible. God’s presence ehre at camp is clearly evident. I have never felt so alive, in the center of all He has for me, to have heard His call, “GO, I send you to the nations” and then to fall ever so hard and very fast. God is in control of every situation and He most certainly is in control of this one. Proverbs 3:5 says, “Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge HIm and He will make your paths straight.” To be continued….

 

 



John 10:10b. That verse keeps going through my head as I think through this week. Jesus wants us to have abundant life and this week was an introduction to that vision for our lives. I tried to drop all expectations coming into camp. I wanted to be able to experience everything fully and not be disappointed or anxious throughout this week. The week turned out to be a week full of inner healing for things that I have known that needed to be addressed for years. It was a week of meeting new friends that turned into family faster than I could have ever imagined. It was a week that was the hardest yet most life changing week ever. God worked in amazing ways and transformed and redeemed his people.

 

 



Training Camp has been a rollercoaster of emotions. Days of happiness, joy, laughter to days of feeling pure hopelessness, frustration, brokenness all mixed with tears of both gladness and pain. To any future Racers I recommend coming to training camp expecting the unexpected; expect brokenness and be open to experiencing things you have never experienced before or may have even though were not possible. As hard as it has been I have allowed God to break the walls I had put up; to teach me new things I once though not possible, to feel the Holy Spirit and hear God’s voice in ways I never thought I would. To any future Racer I sum up camp in theses 6 words “Craziest Hardest most amazing experience ever!”

 

 


 

Training Camp is one of the most amazing weeks of my life. It’s the beginning of a journey and the start of the mission to take the gospel and spread it around the world.

 

 



Training Camp has been like a Hammer. Most of the time a hammer can pound and hurt but this hammer has been used to build, form and accomplish hard tasks that we can’t do by ourselves.