It’s been a little over six months since I came home from the World Race. I know I have said it before, but I can’t say it enough, thank you all so much for supporting me during that time, both prayerfully and financially. Going on the Race has radically changed the trajectory of my life, and I feel emboldened now more than ever to follow the heart of Christ no matter the cost.
It seems trite to say that so much has happened since I’ve been home, but it has. For one, I met someone during the Race! His name is Dennis, and he’s German. We met in my ninth month in Romania while working together on a farm/orphanage. We started dating in December after I got home, and he visited for a little over two weeks in March. Things are getting pretty serious with him, and I couldn’t be happier. I also moved to Gainesville, GA in March and have been really enjoying the quieter, country lifestyle.
Through all the changes, however, my resolve to glorify God with my life, to always be obedient to Him, to keep moving forward—working out my salvation with fear and trembling—has not changed. It is because of this very resolve that I now find myself working for Adventures in Missions, in an apprenticeship program called the Fellowship.
Just to give you a little background, the Fellowship is a six-month leadership and professional development program aimed at making us influential leaders and carriers of the Kingdom wherever we go and in whatever capacity we find ourselves in after the program is over. Through the Fellowship, I have come to realize that my calling in life is to fight fear and to be instrumental in helping others battle it as well, specifically through my writing. I believe that fear is the greatest obstacle standing in our way of finding and enjoying true communion with God, and as such I have resolved to become lethal to it.
As Adventures in Missions is a non-profit, one of my responsibilities as a fellow in the Fellowship program is to raise money to fund the program and provide me with a very modest stipend as I work alongside Adventures to mobilize and equip more missionaries for the field.
It’s funny because as I’m growing more confident in this calling and understanding the nature of fear even more every day, I can see how it is fear that has kept me from telling you about this program. I have been afraid to be in a position of asking for help once again. I have been afraid of rejection. And I have been afraid of failing. But the thing is you can’t fight fear by succumbing to it. So I’m boldly asking you to support me while I am in this program. I have missed the first two of my fundraising deadlines, and if I fail again to raise $3,000 by the end of this month, I will no longer be able to continue with the program.
Your financial giving allows me to continue to share the Gospel and minister to others through my calling, and allows you to invest in Adventures’ impact for the Kingdom. This includes sending several hundred missionaries abroad each year. I absolutely trust God to honor His promise of always providing for me, especially now that I have stepped out in faith and made my need known. I hope you will prayerfully consider supporting me financially to finish this thing that I have started. If you would like to make a donation, you can do so by clicking the Donate button at the top of this page (in the fundraising status bar).
If financial giving is not an option for you right now, please consider supporting me through prayer. I would really appreciate prayers for peace, continued dependence on God, and growing intimacy with Him during this time. You can also pray for Adventures in Missions as a whole, that we will keep our eyes fixed on God as He provides for us to do the Kingdom work for which He has called us.
Thank you so much!
