Adventure Day is something new on the world race. Our week is made up of missions work for 5 days, 1 adventure day and 1 off day. So what is it?
Adventure Day is set aside to learn more about the local culture, explore other mission sights in the area, invest in your host and mostly being open to where God wants you to go or who He wants you to meet.
Things we’ve done on an Adventure Day?
LOTS
My team visiting the border of North Korea during our month in China
Pretching to the congregation
Kayaking on the lake and enjoying the beautiful things God created
Painting we made for our host
Watched the Dragon Bridge breathe fire with our hosts
ATL’ed (Asked The Lord) and was lead to this wonderful women who we got to pray for
Leading Sunday School
Adventure Day has given me the opportunity to experience things I wouldn’t get to otherwise. It’s a chance to prayer walk the marketplace, take your host out for dinner, run Sunday school, do your own Unsung Hero’s day, participate in a traditional dance, see some of the Wonders of the World. These things you may decide to do on an off day, and that’s wonderful! I encourage any racer without a set aside day for adventures to still incorporate it into their race. And I appreciate AIM for creating this day. For giving my Squad a chance to learn what its fully about.
I understand more about my Korean hosts in China because I got to go see North Korea. I took the opportunity to ATL (Ask The Lord) and ended up praying for a women I had just meet. I had lunch with a man who dreams of Cafes all over Vietnam dedicated to helping students with English and through that, spreading the gospel. I learned that I would love to go back and see his dream come true.
Initially it was hard to not treat this like another off day. Not to have one day for sleep and the other for fun. Adventure day is not the day you can do whatever you want. But it is the day you can do anything with God. You want to zipline? Go for it!
Today’s the day to be more mindful. To be prayerful and open for God to show you new things. One of our teams did a bike tour, fell in love with the tour guide, and he invited them over for dinner. They got to invest in a family and get to know their city on Adventure Day.
So. How would you use yours?
