Hello all!
I just wanted to take a minute to tell you about why I chose to join the World Race. I have felt a pull on my heart for many years to do mission work. I have been very blessed throughout my life to get to travel all over the world and experience many different countries and cultures but, I have always just been vacationing and seeing everything from the outside. I have been to countries where children were living in the streets with no means of clean water or education but, I just passed them by on my way to some fun excursion. I realized that I wanted to be a part of their world and not just a tourist.
I started to do research into mission trips to see what all there was out there. Most trips that my local churches do are just a week or two long and I kept weighing out in my head if I take this week for a mission then I won’t have a week left to go on a vacation. When I realized I was doing that I knew that I really needed to dive in and give more time and started looking for longer term trips. The first thing I came across was Adventures in Missions and their World Race trip. The World Race is an 11 country, 11 month mission trip to share the love of Jesus and serve others around the world. I started watching blogs and reading through everything that I could find about the race. I had such an adrenaline rush reading through everything, I just knew this was what I needed to do.
Obviously, being 11 months long it will greatly affect my career. I am so happy where I am and have had great success growing my career that I was terrified of putting that all on hold. I kept praying about it and asking God if this is really what I should do. I just did not want to waste my time when I could be advancing further. I was sitting in my room thinking about it when Hillsong United’s “Oceans” came on the radio and when I stopped and listened to the lyrics “Where feet may fail and fear surrounds me
You’ve never failed and You won’t start now” I just broke down and realized all the lies and doubt that I had been listening to. Sure I will be taking a brief break from my career but, I will be back and who knows what He has planned for me when I return. This is not going to be me putting a halt on my life; I am going to be furthering His kingdom and opening my life to things that I could never have imagined.
A little about my specific trip:
I will be joining my squad in traveling to 11 countries: Haiti, Dominican Republic, South Africa, Botswana, Zambia, India, Nepal, Romania, Albania, Bulgaria, and Serbia. We will be helping within each country in many different ways and really diving into His ministry to bring His love and word to those who may not have ever gotten a chance to hear before. We will be living out of our packs for this year and living a very minimalist life. I cannot wait for this opportunity to affect change in some small way. Our world is hurting, here at home and all over, and I know this is the right time for me to try in my small way to make an impact.
