For two years now, I have known that the Lord is calling me to missions. Lately, I have been thinking about this calling and I realized that I feel led to share my desire and passion for the broken and wounded with the readers of this blog. I believe that God will use the World Race to equip me for long-term overseas missions by giving me exposure to many different cultures, people groups, and ministries. I am going out to be a missionary because nothing else makes sense. It’s the purpose for which I was created.
God has called me. His faithfulness has been apparent in so many ways and when I look back on my life, I see a gradual process of the Lord preparing me to go. He gave me a passion for travel and culture, an independent and strong spirit, as well as a heart that breaks for the injustice in the world. I can’t see starvation, forced prostitution, persecution, refugees, discrimination, pain, or sorrow without feeling a need to do something about it.
The World Race is me, doing something about it.
I have been rescued and redeemed, the broken places in my life have been made whole, and I have found hope and healing in Christ and His sacrifice on the cross. Because of my own brokenness, I am able to walk beside the broken. My life was radically changed when I finally came to the bottom of myself and realized that I could only depend on Jesus and His grace to make me worthy. How can I not want others to know this same amazing hope?
The World Race is me, sharing the Hope and Love that I have found in Jesus.
I believe in a BIG God who gives all, loves all, treasures all, and desires all. If I truly believe in a God that big, then I can’t sit idly by and keep silent. He deserves to be made known by me! The Lord has given me everything, including Himself. He holds nothing back from me, so I will hold nothing back from Him; I will give my whole self.
The World Race is me, sacrificing all for the sake of knowing Him and running the race set before me.
“…’Everyone who calls on the name of the LORD with be saved.’ But how can they call on Him to save them unless they believe in Him? And how can they believe in Him if they have never heard about Him? And how can they hear about Him unless someone tells them? And how will anyone go and tell them without being sent?” Romans 10:13-15a (NLT).
“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!’“ Isaiah 6:8 (NIV).
Send me.
