Without you, I would not make it! - Explore Archived World Race Alumni Blogs

I want to thank each and every who has donated or supported my race through prayer. I have been blown away by the way that God brought the money in. When I first started the process of raising money, I thought that I would never reach my deadline. But this month I was proved wrong when I finally finished raising money. I am fully supported, praise God!

This year on the race for me has been one of the most growing and self discovering years of my life. How could it not be? I am getting the opportunity to travel to different cultures and meet people that push and challenge me to know what I believe and why. I get to discover what I like about each culture and what I don’t like. I get the opportunity to meet people that have influenced me in amazing and life changing ways. I have been sharpened by my team and molded by difficult circumstances. Thank you for donating and praying for what God is doing in and through me.

Not only have I been changed but I have seen God transform peoples lives by our very presence in their churches and communities. Sometimes I don’t understand when people say “you have sacrificed so much to be here and we are so thankful to have you.” I don’t understand it because there is nowhere else I would rather be than in the churches and villages getting to experience the new and different. I get the privilege of going on this journey and I feel so lucky to get to spend a year doing this.

This year your donations have gone to support our travel, food, lodging, and ministry that we are doing in the communities. We have also been able to bless people with some of our excess money in some really cool ways:

– Tanzania: Bought 30 bibles for the church to be distributed to families who don’t have one, and supported a few children to be able to go to school.

– Ukraine: Help host a baby shower for a couple that work really hard for Jeremiahs Hope, and buy food for a kid for a month.

– Guatemala: Blessed Pastor Roni in his dream to start and orphanage.

– El Salvador: bought food for a family living in disaster relief housing.

– Kenya: bought chalk and erasers for a Maasai school, got a world map and atlas for children at a school that had never seen one before.

I have been so blessed by this year and the challenges and experiences that I have been able to partake in. Thank you so much for the generosity and prayers that have gotten me here and allowed me to stay the entire year on the race. I love you all and miss you all so much!!!!