I am so excited & can’t wait to tell you what has happened! For the last year, I have been looking for the perfect job. During a routine job search, I found it: The World Race! 11 countries in 11 months living out the Great Commission! (“Therefore go and make disciples of all nations” Matthew 28:19) Only God could have laid this path for me, and I must say yes!
On August 1, 2009, I will leave on my journey around the world with a team from Adventures in Missions. We will hit the world with a message of hope. We will host sports camps, establish churches, hold orphans, and live among the poor. Backpacking through Ireland, Romania, Egypt, Jordan, Israel, Kenya, Uganda, Vietnam, Cambodia, and Thailand, we will have one goal: to follow Jesus’s commandment. (” ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ Matthew 22:37-39)
I have no doubt that this year will challenge me and leave me changed. AND you can be a part of it! There are many ways that you can join my team and let the World Race change you too.
- Encouragement: Please visit http://madelinereedy.theworldrace.org and click on “Subscribe to My Blog!” All year I will be writing journal entries and posting pictures. Leave me comments, send me pictures from home, and share your thoughts and prayers. I’m going to miss you guys & this way you’ll be with me!
- Prayers: Please keep me in your prayers. So many of you are amazing prayer warriors. If you have this gift, please schedule a day each week to pray for me, my team, and the opportunities God will give us each day. (Let me know what day you’re praying!)
- Financial Support: Whether you have $5 or $1,000 to give, please consider sponsoring me. Every person on the Race has to raise $15,000 by 7/31/09 to cover the cost of travel, food, and housing. Seems daunting but if only 150 of you can spare $100, the goal is complete! You can even choose to give $25 a month for 4 months. You can best support me by making donations as soon as possible.
To make a tax deductible donation please click on “Support Me” at http://madelinereedy.theworldrace.org. Please let me know the date and amount of your donation so that I may track all funds appropriately and thank you personally. Or you can write a check to Adventures in Missions and mail it to Adventures in Missions, PO Box 534470, Atlanta, GA 30353
- Other Donations: frequent flyer miles, international cell phone & minutes, backpacking & camping gear, small laptop computer, spending money throughout the year. To arrange any of these gifts, please contact me at [email protected].
If you too desire to follow in Christ’s footsteps, please prayerfully consider your role and how God is calling you to join this World Race with me.
Some of you may not share my belief in Christ, but you do believe in a better world! As a World Racer, I will be a voice for so many whose voices have been ignored. Please carefully consider joining my team, adding your voice, in whatever way you are willing and able.
Let’s put the six degrees of separation to a test! Please pass this letter on to your friends, family, church, and colleagues so that they may all have the chance to join the Race with us!
Have no doubt, God loves the whole world and as a World Racer, we can live this love out loud. Will you choose to love the world with me?
Much Love, In Christ,
Madeline
