This is my first blog post and wow you guys don’t know how excited I am right this very second.
I found out about the World Race the summer before I started college. I came across a youtube video and was sucked in. I looked at my mom and remember telling her, “I HAVE TO DO THIS!” My eyes were probably crazed, freaking my mother out before she even knew what I was talking about.
I’ve always been the black sheep of the family. I’m the baby. I have two older sisters who are 14 and 10 years older than me. I fell in love with missions when I was 15. I went to Haiti my junior year of high school and fell head over heels for the country and its people. I went back twice my senior year and I have continued to go back once or twice a year since then. I love people.
SO, when I came across that video, I was hooked. The only problem, was that you had to be 21 to go on the 11 month trip….Boo. I have been patiently waiting ever since. I always promised myself that I would go on the next trip after I turned 21. I get updates to the WR youtube channel and saw that there had been routes released for August 2017. I just thought I’d go check it out. I looked them over with my middle sister Austyn and she looked at me and said, “You have to go now.”
That was my push. I have to go.. now. God has had this on my heart for years. If I didn’t go in August, I would get sucked up into life and end up never going. I applied the next day and here I am!
WHAT IS THE WORLD RACE??
I am going on an 11 month mission trip to 11 different countries. I will be working with different churches and missions each month to bring the gospel to people all over the world. SERIOUSLY HOW EXCITING IS THAT. I get so pumped thinking about it. I will need tons of support financially as well as prayer.
As excited as I am, I’m still terrified. I’ll be gone for a year. I’ll be away from my family and friends for a year.
God asked me to leave all this behind and I accept His call.
I have prayed for this for years. I have prayed for my team for years (which is a little embarrassing but ‘shrugs’). I have prayed that I would have confidence and wisdom to go on this adventure for the sake of the gospel.
Isaiah 6:8, “Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send? and who will go for us?” And I said, “Here am I, Send me.”
So..
Here am I God. Send me.
