You would think that being on the World Race would be an amazing trek across the globe, learning how to spread the love of Jesus and love people the way He did. This is indeed accurate, but there is so much more to it. These 9 months are a journey of self discovery, a time for me and my teammates to truly discover who we want to be and how we want to live out our lives. It has taken me all 4 1/2 months that I have been on the race to come to terms with the fact that I do not want to go back to the lifestyle that I was living when I was back home. I do not want to live a 9 to 5 life and be a miserable human for the rest of my life, living every day just waiting for the weekend when I could go party (if I wasn’t working).
Even now, being on the World Race I still struggle with my day to day life. Finding time to spend with the Lord and grow my relationship with Him, because without doing so I cannot pour out to others the way I dream of doing, the way the Lord dreams of me doing. I also struggle with planning out my future. I have all of these hopes and dreams of things I want to do and places I want to visit when I get home. I am not 100% here in Costa Rica, because 20% of me is back home.
We just got back from our midway debrief in the mountains. Debrief is 5 days where we get away from every day ministry and get to spend every waking second with JESUS (YAYYY)!! These past 5 days we have been in the mountains of Costa Rica, no WiFi, no service – just me and God! My teammate Hannah got re-baptized, we worshiped, and all of our leaders gave a word. One night, one of my leaders was talking about worldly distractions, she said that right now we have the best opportunity to spend time with the Lord! We don’t have to worry about going to work or school, and we don’t have anything we need to plan our “Jesus time” around. I’m not gonna lie, these are the hardest months of my life. Trying to figure out who I am, who I want to be, and who the Lord says I am. It’s tough. Things get brought up from my past that I would rather shoot my knee caps out than talk about, but it is all apart of this beautiful thing called forgiveness and growth. Even when I cannot see my personal growth from my own perspective, I am constantly reminded from the people around me how much I am growing and radiating the love of the Lord!!
GOOD NEWS!! I am now FULLY FUNDED! I just want to thank everyone who donated to my trip, without you I would not be able to be here and spread the love of the Lord to the world! It means so much to me and God will continue to bless all of you 🙂
ALSO: Here in Costa Rica, me and my team love going out into the community and blessing people! We hand out letters and flowers and pray over people on the buses and in the city of San Jose! I would love it if you could pray for us as we go into this next season of 2019! With that- If you would like to help bless the people of Costa Rica from back in the states, you can PRAY, PRAY, PRAY or if you feel led you can help donate a bundle of flowers!! A bouquet of flowers here is only $2.50 USD – EVERY dollar is appreciated and NONE of the money will be for personal use! If you would like to donate please message me or comment and I will shoot you a message! I would love to chat with y’all about what I am doing 🙂
**EVERY PENNY GOES TO THE FLOWERS SINCE I AM FULLY FUNDED**
I am half way done guys!! See you soon <3
Love and Blessings,
Joey
