It has been over a month since I was accepted into The World Race and I am still in shock! For those of you that may not know what The World Race is let me explain.
The World Race is an 11 month mission trip to 11 different countries. A small team and I will be leaving in September of 2015 to start our adventure and share the word of God. We will be traveling to each country and working with the churches of the area to help meet the needs of the people they serve and reaching out to those that they don’t yet serve.
We will be traveling to
CENTRAL AMERICA- Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and Honduras
ASIA- Philippines, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, and Thailand
AFRICA- Malawi, Zambia, and Zimbabwe
One night during my freshman year of college I was laying in bed going through the days struggles again in my head. I remembered the teacher disappointed in me that I wasn’t grasping the content like everyone else. I remembered my advisor telling me I need to figure out what I wanted to do before I started to waste to much time and money. I remember looking around campus and seeing everyone else following their dreams and they knew what they were doing. I realized that I needed a change I was not following my dreams and and I was getting nowhere fast.
The next summer I was given the oppurtunity to serve as a counselor at a camp for abused and neglected children. That week WRECKED MY LIFE (all for the better). I was able to be apart of God’s plan to transform lives. I was able to see mean, angry, sad, and broken kids transformed into loving, happy, hope filled children. And all that I had to do was show them love and show them God loved them. It was literally that easy! Alone I couldn’t have done anything, but because I was walking with the authority of God I was was able to transform young lives forever.
That week was a huge eye opening experience. God made it clear to me that I did have the power to make a difference. He also made it clear that I need to step it up and start living up to my potential.
I was laying in bed one night thinking and praying that God would open doors to me and give me the opportunity to do great things like he wanted me to. One day out of the blue a missions trip called the world race was brought to my attention. After looking at everything about it I knew this was god directing me.
I applied and a little while later was accepted to go! And now we are here a couple of months away from launch. Im excited and scared at the same time. I want to make a difference but than the enemy attacks and I start to doubt my ability. Than I remember its not me making a difference its God making a difference through me.
Dear God, I pray that you will strengthen my understanding in you. I know that I am not worthy for such great things, I can not do this on my own, only when you are in control am I able to make a difference. I pray that you won’t let me forget that and that you will keep building me into the man that you need me to be.
Amen
Mason Smith
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