Common first questions upon hearing about my trip…
What is world race?
Where are you going?
How can you afford that?
Why?
Aren’t you scared?
And my personal favorite…why not just get a normal job?
What is World Race? I’m so glad you asked! Word Race (WR) is an eleven-month missions trip that spreads Gods love all over the world. While I’m gone I will spend time working with ministries in eleven different countries, spending a month in each. It is also a discipleship program calling each participant into a deeper more meaningful relationship with God.
Where? That is also an easy enough question, thanks to a little practice I can now raddle off the series of countries without much hesitation (by the way its Peru, Columbia, Ecuador, Montenegro, Albania, Bulgaria, India, Nepal, Thailand, Cambodia, and Malaysia) but when the other questions begin to follow I feel much like Annie Braddock from The Nanny Diaries trying to describe herself. I stutter for a minute trying to reach the far corners of my mind for any possible answer and just end with a confused look and “I have no idea”. Mostly because I’m still asking myself the same questions, sometimes the answer is “well, I believe and trust God will provide the money” and other times it’s “Oh My Gosh I will never be able to pull this off! What was I thinking getting myself into this? I am a horrible fundraiser!!” the argument goes on and on.
When it comes to “why” that’s a whole other argument within myself. I mean of course I want to go to spread Gods love and freedom through out the nations. But if I’m honest there is a healthy dose of wanderlust and a general curiosity for adventure and what the rest of the world has to offer. Followed closely with the desire to live in an intentional community of passionate people again. None of which I consider bad answers however there are some days when the second two outweigh the first by a lot more then a little and I start doubting whether or not this trip is my desire or Gods desire (I’m pretty sure it’s Gods desire, mostly sure anyway).
Am I scared? No! Yes. Maybe. I don’t know.
Why don’t I get a real job?…………….
In the end I’m so excited about this new chapter and I know it will be awesome no matter what God has in store for me and my squad (yes I say that as much for my sake as I do for yours). And I know this is where God is calling me, and because of that I will follow.
