What happens when you finish the World Race? What happens after you’ve seen all that you’ve seen and now you’re back in your suburban home on Viacha Dr? Do you go back to the way it was before? Or do you do something crazy, like move across the country to pursue your dream?
I finished the World Race. I’ve traveled the world. I’ve seen wonders, beheld miracles, played with orphans, prayed with sick and elderly, and worked with my own hands. I’ve been in bamboo houses on the island of Mindanao, to the bush in Africa, to the villages in the Romanian countryside.
And if there’s one thing I’ve learned from this experience, it’s that we are all the same. Stella in Bulgaria struggles with identity just as much as I do. Nuka in Cambodia struggles with trusting God just as much as I do. We may look different and have different traditions, foods, and cultures, but at the core of who I am, and who everybody is, there is a desperate need for God. It’s a deep need. We all feel it. And wherever we are in the world and on our spiritual journey, there’s a part of us that resists. Our sin natures, our flesh. In each of us there is something that says God’s love isn’t good enough and that we can satisfy our needs with something else.
It is this particular issue that God has called me to address. Using a tool called the enneagram, which analyzes sin natures, I hope to revolutionize the way Christian culture views spiritual transformation. Over and over I see believers struggle with being the things they know they ought to. They know they should trust God with their finances but somehow they can’t. They want to be humble, but instead find themselves falling to pride. They want to end their addictions, but inside something tells them again and again that pleasures of this world will satisfy.
What keeps us from being the person God made us to be? What does it mean for us to be disciples of Christ? How can we take practical steps toward real spiritual transformation?
Through the Fellowship, I plan to build a curriculum that tackles these issues. I see believers all over America and all over the world experiencing depth and spiritual renewal because of the program the Lord is leading me to develop. I see my curriculum on the counter in every believer’s household which provides practical steps towards the growth that they’ve been searching for. I see chains of disciples springing up all over the world ready to impact the kingdom for Jesus.
The Fellowship is a 6 month apprenticeship with Adventures in Missions at their headquarters in Gainesville, Georgia which will allow me to acquire the skills and experience to be able to make this dream a reality. I will be able to coordinate with leaders who will partner with my passion and provide me with opportunities to develop this vision. Starting in March I will be discipled by these leaders and equipped for taking my dream into the world, prepared and confident.
But I can’t do it alone.
This program requires a total of $9,950 which will cover all of my housing expenses and program costs, including curriculum, training, leadership, and events.
My first deadline is $3,000 by March 1st.
When they told me I would have to fundraise again, I thought “No! I’ve just done that! It was already so hard to raise money for my mission trip, so how am I going to do it again to fund the vision God has given me?!”
But then God whispered to me, “You’re not fundraising, I am.”
I have the faith that God can bring in the funds to support this vision. I’m trusting that he has called me to this program and now He is going to equip me.
We know how important spiritual growth is. But sometimes, the reality is that we don’t pursue it like we ought to. Growth is hard and dirty and it requires us to be uncomfortable. It is easy to divert our attention and let those issues slip beneath our gaze. It is far more comfortable to give toward other causes that don’t require any grunt work from us.
But what if we were to imagine God speaking to us, saying “I have so much more for you. Would you settle for less?”
Let’s pursue our spiritual growth with a fervor. Let’s not fall into complacency. Let’s become all that God made us to be.
If you want to partner with what the Lord is doing through me at the Fellowship, you can donate at my blog megangallear.theworldrace.org. And please support me in prayer as I embark on the next journey the Lord has me on.
