Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
Thank you from the bottom of my heart, for your prayers, encouragement, and financial support in helping me do the World Race. My life is forever changed, and so is the world, thanks to your partnership in helping fulfill this dream and call God placed on my life. But it doesn’t end here……
Reentry has been hard. Not going to lie. There have been nights where I have been restless to fall asleep, days I have held letters, gifts, or pictures in my hands from this past year, and have wept over them. I’ve had Moments of deep loneliness and great sadness, moments of longing to have people around me, just to have people around me. Times where I have closed my eyes and tried to relive a day or moment from another country. Playing over in my mind the faces, laughter, and stories from people all over the world that I’ve had the amazing privilege of hearing.
I tell you this not to make you feel sorry for myself, but rather to say thank you. I am incredibly blessed to have something so special worth grieving over. This past year has been the time of my life. No doubt. I spent every breath of every day feeling more alive than I ever have before. And since being home the Lord has walked me through grieving and releasing this journey that was, and stepping into rejoicing in the journey that is to come.
Honestly, for a while after being home, I thought it was over.
Living. Life abundantly. Deep intimacy with Jesus.
Pathetic, I know.
Man was I wrong. And I’m so glad that I was wrong.
Because…
The World Race wasn’t ‘it’.
It wasn’t ‘The thing’
Jesus is.
He’s the reason.
He’s ‘The thing’.
He’s ‘it’
And here I am now, overjoyed at the end of something great and rejoicing at the beginning of something new, because the end is never really the end, it’s only the beginning. Because there never is an end to how deep we can go with the Lord. There is never an end to how full life with Him will be. There is never an end to knowing Him or knowing how great His love is for us. There’s never an end to making Jesus and His name known. There’s always more.
So…… What’s next?
On September 14th I will be moving to Colorado Springs, Colorado to do a Discipleship training school (DTS) with YWAM (youth with a mission). It’s not the next big ‘thing’ but rather what I truly believe the Lord is calling me into.
Here’s why—
My heart and goal is to one day have my own ministry and be on the mission field, in a foreign country, fulltime. While on the World Race, I had the opportunity in a couple of different countries, to work with women in the bars. I loved being able to have just a moment of sharing with them who Jesus is and what His true unconditional love looks like. For time to stand still, and for just a moment, the woman to get just a glimpse of her true value and worth in Jesus Christ. Something in my spirit comes alive when I am given the space to speak life and worth into someone. I am drawn to those who feel they have no purpose and therefore have lost the ability to dream. I believe that it is my purpose to seek out and fiercely love the outcasts and ‘least of these’ in order to cast vision and impart freedom and purpose for their life. I want to fight for people the way Jesus fights for me.
I firmly believe YWAM will give me the tools and training I will need in order to one day fulfill this calling. After the DTS (6 months) I will have an opportunity to do a second year program and get training in Fundamentals of Counseling ministry. This is where my heart is and what I believe the Lord wants me to do– To get training in Christian counseling fundamentals to work with refugees, orphans, and women, men, and children who have been rescued from human trafficking.
Logistics–
During The first 12 weeks of my DTS, is what they refer to as the lecture phase, where I will daily be in classes, bible studies, and mentoring programs. I will have the opportunity to hear from pastors and missionaries from all over the world. These first 12 weeks are preparation for the second half of my DTS (which will be another 12 weeks) which they refer to as the outreach phase. During this time, I will be with a team in a country within the 10/40 Window (they will release the country I will be in a couple weeks after I have started the lecture phase).
The YWAM base in Colorado Springs has a specific heart for the 10/40 window– which is the area on the map with the most unreached people groups. It includes the Middle East, Northern Africa, and Asia. 42% of the world’s population doesn’t know the truth, freedom, and love of Christ because they have never heard the name of Jesus. The 10/40 Window holds the highest concentration of poverty, oppression, and slavery in the world.
This is where I know I’m called.
I would love your help.
How you can help—
I would really love and appreciate your continued partnership in this journey!
*Prayer is the fuel that will allow us to be successful as I follow Gods leading. I would really benefit from your prayers as I want to continue to grow in my personal life and ministry. Without prayer nothing will happen. While money is important, it comes in a distant second to my need for your prayer support. Since prayer support is so important to the success of this mission, I would like to know that I can count on you in that area.
*The entire cost (lecture phase + outreach phase + room and board + airfare) is an estimated $7,000. Of which $3,500 I am needing by September 14th. If you feel lead to help financially, please feel free to message me on facebook or email me at [email protected]
I know I’m asking you for money again, but really I’m asking for your partnership in order to carry out the vision of global evangelization.
Revelation 7:9-10– After this I looked, and behold, a great multitude that no one could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands, and crying out with a loud voice, “Salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!”
Until the Whole World hears
Mallorie Ramsey
