I’ve been home from The World Race for almost a year now.
And I came home to participate in a program that would train and disciple me in professionalism and leadership. The purpose – to make me a successful and competent leader & light in America.
After 6 months, I chose to not go back to working in Corporate America. I also chose to not go back to the mission field overseas. Although both of those options would have been a great way for me to show off what I learned about bringing a Kingdom lifestyle to your work and community, rather than living it solely in the church. But that wasn’t what God had in store for me.
Instead, I accepted an offer to stay with Adventures in Missions, a christian community and non-profit organization, to do the same thing that was done for me. I chose to lead, love, raise up, equip, and disciple others to be competent and successful leaders and lights in America.
I serve as the director of two programs at Adventures that are specifically for people who have completed an 11 month, World Race, international missions experience and are ready to move into a greater commitment for Christ. Through these two programs, The Fellowship & Kingdom Journeys, I facilitate the development of missionaries who are ready to make this kingdom living a lifestyle wherever they go – everywhere they go.
Because the lives of the people who they work, play, and interact with on a daily basis matter.
They matter whether they are fatherless children at an orphanage; hurting women who have been sold into a life of slavery and prostitution; homeless men forced to beg, fight, and steal for their daily bread; young teenage boys walking home in a hoodie; members of an African-American church attending a weekly bible study; or a 21 year old white male tormented by demons of violence and hatred towards others.
While I have been impacted and torn up inside due to the recent tragedies involving racial relations in America, I haven’t spoken out about it publicly. What does one say that hasn’t already been said? What does one do when every incident seems to cripple us a little bit more than the last? How can one even afford to give an opinion at all when they aren’t willing to take action themselves?
It’s sickening and hurtful beyond measure! As a black woman in America, I’ve had to ask myself – “What am I doing to fight against the injustices? Not only the injustice towards members of my racial background, but injustices towards humans overall?”
It’s sickening to me that once again, “we have to peer into the abyss of the depraved violence that we do to each other and the nexus of a gaping racial wound that will not heal, yet we pretend doesn’t exist …”
This statement, this incident, this video is only one of MANY reasons why I fight for the raising up, equipping, and discipleship of AMERICAN MISSIONARIES.
You’ve seen my pictures, my blogs, and my social media posts about the loving way that I served with a team of missionaries around the world – an experience that changed the trajectory of my life forever – and I’ve received tremendous support, interest, & encouragement for it. But now I’m home.
Just because The World Race is over, doesn’t mean the fighting stops.
I was recently reminded that The World Race was a finite, 11 month, one-time mission trip; but now the Lord has called me to a different type of mission and a greater commitment – something that is neither as finite nor as “missions sexy” as The World Race. This is a commitment to the young men & women who live and work in America, to lead and change America, through living for and loving like Christ.
The man who committed the hateful act at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, SC could have been, and still can be, rescued from a life of hatred & sin through the love of Jesus and sharing of the Gospel by those at his job and in his community.
YOU can do something. You can help someone. You can fight and pray. You can obey the tug on your heart to be a part of something greater than yourself.
I have made a commitment to Adventures in Missions to support them in developing high caliber young men and women who I am certain will produce fruit in changing the lives of other men and women in their jobs and communities. This is how I fight for the lives of those who don’t know Christ.
How Will You Fight?
If you would like to fight with me for the lives of others, I would greatly appreciate your support through prayers and financial giving.
Please email me at [email protected] if you would like to become a prayer partner and receive monthly updates on our celebrations and challenges.
Please also click my support link – www.adventures.org/dynapay – to become a monthly supporter of my commitment with Adventures in Missions.
The lives of our disciples matter. I fight to help produce world changers. Will you fight with me?
