My beautiful WR family on our last day together The lovely Kiatera ladies… they are my sisters!
My World Race family has changed me this year! I have always loved sharing my home with people and living in community, but this year, for the first time, I learned to live as the Church. I found more abundant life in the community of the early church. This is something that our churches in America have lost along the way.
They devoted themselves to the apostle’s teaching and to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer. Everyone was filled with awe, and many wonders and miraculous signs were done by the apostles. All the believers were together and had everything in common. ~Acts 2:42-44
These verses in Acts are what we have seen and experienced this year. This community has loved me unconditionally, poured encouragement and truth into me, challenged me to deeper faith in Christ, and has exposed so much selfishness in my life. We have seen the power of prayer, a fuller view of God’s love, and the Kingdom of God coming to the nations. Community is one of the most difficult parts of the early church, but it is also one of the most rewarding. God calls us to initmate and redemptive community. Dive into community- it’s so worth it!!
Here is a video that my lovely teammate Katie made showing some of the ways that we have been changed through our World Race family.
