Many of you have asked the question “What will you do after the race?” at some point this year. I never had any kind of answer to that accept that I wanted it to continue. I knew I would not just go back to my old life. I don’t know how I could.
Well, a new opportunity has been presented to us. Seth has this idea for a second year for WR’s to help us stay plugged in and finish building this foundation and moving into action.
I was immediately intrigued by this idea. I had even spoken to him before about doing the race again as a leader. I know that eventually I want to do something more long term, but I felt like I would still be traveling for a while first.
In the past few months, I have been really having a desire to find a mentor to spend some time with. I really have never had that, and I want that. I want a time of more focused discipleship to finish what was started on this race. Although I was interested in doing the race again, I did not feel like it would be the best thing to commit to another year of that kind of intensity.
One of the options for the second year is to be a coach to future teams. It would be broken into 3 moth periods, so it would be more managable. I really like that idea.
I have this very tenative plan of finding a mentor to spend a few months with. I have two families in mind already. Then, I could join in with the coaching for the July WR team next summer.
Ideally, I would like to meet the team at their training camp and help them through the preparation part first. Then I would like to be part of the launch team and travel with them as a coach for three months. At that point, I could move to the background more and keep in touch via email and just be available when they need me. I would like to meet up with them midway through to see how they are doing, and then again at the end of the year to help them figure out where they are going and how to transition into it.
It would be a pretty involved position, but that is what I want. I would like to be the person who is there the whole way through, who knows their journey and where they are. I want to be the one who is available when they need somebody to help them process and challange them.
My level of involvement would depend greatly on the ammount of support I can raise. I would like to make it a full time position, possibly taking on a second team at the midway point.
There have been no real arrangements made, but it looks like I will be plugged into AIM in some capacity. Even though I don’t know details yet, it does free me up to start thinking ahead to fundraising again.
Ideally, I would like to start my discipleship in January or soon after. With that in mind, I will need to begin fundraising before I get home from this trip.
Please pray about this, and if you have any ideas or feel led to help me with a fundraising project please let me know. You can email me by clicking on the “Write To Me” link on the left of this page.
Please pray with me about this opportunity, and that everything will come together according to God’s will. I am really excited about the idea, and it gives me something to look forward to, but I want to remain open changes in that vision as well.
I will keep you posted as any new developements arise on that issue.
