Recently we had a conference that we had the privilege to attend. It was an opportunity for teams out on the race to have a week of just worship and teachings. The opportunity to refocus and rejuvenate and really dig into what God wants for us for the rest of the trip.
We have some super talented writers, musicians, photographers, poets, dancers, etc. floating around the world race community and one night we had a talent night. Pulling from five squads of people we got to see some awesome performances. However one of my favorites was from a guy named Jake, he is part of N squad, and his poem was called “Statistics”. The gist was that the Feed the Children commercials and World Hope commercials are about children and people who are no longer just a statistic to us. They are no longer just a face on a tv screen.
We have seen these children, we have held their hands and walked down a dirt road with them. I have sat in their huts and I have eaten rice and beans with them. I have walked among the squalid homes of the Philippians. I have taught their girls how to play basketball and I have felt loved by those who have nothing. I have held the hands of a little boy named Danelio, who’s mother was either killed or saw the opportunity to abandon him during the September flood in Manilia. I have searched through the busy streets of Manilia during Easter weekend when millions gather at the cathedral to find a child who didn’t feel loved. I have cried over the lost and broken and abandoned this year.
I don’t feel as if my journey is finished yet. However, I need your all’s help to continue on. By September 21st I have to have 2,188 in my account or I will have to come home. Please pass this email on or consider praying and supporting me. You can support me at www.natashablount.theworldrace.org, on my page there will be a box that says support me, click on it and it will provide the information needed to help continue this journey.
Thank you for allowing me the opportunity to see and touch and love the people I have met this year. I pray that I will continue to have the opportunity to do that.
God Bless,
Natasha
