FAITH. LOVE. CONSISTENCY.
Without the people God has placed in my life to ensure my life breathes these three words, I don’t think I would have done the world race. I’ve never felt qualified, and I’ve never Been bold in my faith. Since I’ve become serious in my relationship with Christ I’ve always felt this strong pull towards missions. I never went on any because I let fear and doubt control me. But as I get older, fear hasn’t had much of a say in what I do with my life. Especially since I’ve dedicated it to the Lord! There are SO MANY men, women, and children who need to hear the life changing news God has sent his children to tell!
I’m so blessed to come across the World Race. They embody everything Jesus stands for, and they want to help send people with callings like mine out into the world to do something about it! On our trip, my team and I will serve In Partnership with churches and ministries in local communities to preach/teach the gospel, plant church’s, work in orphanages, minister to women and children trapped in prostitution because of human trafficking and bring the Fathers love to many tribes and nations! We Will do all these things in a span of 11 months! I am in route 3, which consist of these 11 countries: Columbia, Peru, Ecuador, South Africa, Lesotho, Swaziland, Nepal, India, maldova, Ukraine, and Romania! The cost of this trip is $19,200.
when I tell people how much my trip cost their eyes nearly fall out of there head ?? 19K is a lot of money so I understand everyones reaction. But even though it’s a lot of money, it is doable. So many racers have raised the funds to go and do mission work through the world race! With that being said I ask that you please pray about donating! I know times are tough and sometimes money is tight but any donation puts me one step closer to my goal! My brother actually donated $1 to be a butt head lol but thats one dollar closer than I was before!
If you can’t donate I completely understand, I just ask that you please pray for me and my team. Not only will we be gone away from close friends and family but Satan doesn’t want to see us succeed! He knows our weaknesses and he will use anything to make us doubt ourselves and our calling. I want more than ANYTHING, to be a light in such a dark world. I want to serve and Bring hope to people who never knew they needed it! And maybe they do know they need it, but that makes my mission that much more important!
I titled this blog “Where Feet May Fail” because I’ve always been the kind of person to quit at something just because I was bad at it or I knew I would be bad at it. My thought process was, “why embarrass myself?” But a while ago I was listening to Oceans by Hillsong, and even though I have heard this song a million times, when I applied for the world race again this song made things click for me. It doesn’t matter if I fail. I can fail a million times over and IT DOES NOT MATTER. What matters is that I try, that I run the race the Lord has set before me. I do everything I can and let God do What I can’t! He is my strength, my whole reason for even existing. All I want to do is make my savior proud and Love people the way Jesus loves me. I’m not perfect and I mess up sometimes, but I serve a God that is loving and forgiving! The fear of failure is nothing compared to the Glory our work is going to bring God and the Joy for the people we help!
Thank you to to those who have already donated, it means so much to me! If you want to stay updated on my trip and see everything we will be doing you can subscribe to my blog on the main page! Thank you so much for reading ??
God bless you,
Paula Rivera
