Hello all and welcome to my World Race blog!
To start off, my name is Peyton Rector. I was born in Amarillo, Texas, but only lived there for three weeks. Up until third grade, I moved six times, but the place that I truly call home is Keller, Texas where I was raised from age eight to eighteen. I currently live in Natchitoches, Louisiana (pronounced Nack-a-tish) where I attend college at Northwestern State University. I am on the soccer team here and will be graduating in May of 2015.
Soccer is my main hobby while at school. I rarely have time to do anything other than do my bible study, go to class, eat some lunch, get a good and hard practice in, then crash until the next morning when I do it all over again.
However, whenever I do find a spare minute or two I really enjoy cooking. My mom and I have practically become experts on any and every type of chicken pasta you could imagine. Aside from the Italian world, my cooking expertise is quite limited, but I hope to broaden my spectrum this year.
Other than cooking, I really enjoy watching movies with my roommates and teammates, going on sporadic adventures through our little college town, and relaxing with a good book in my bed. On my soccer team, I am known as the nerd and I feel as though I fully embrace it.
I am a coffee addict and dream of owning my very own Starbucks one day. My absolute favorite scenario would be sitting against a tree, overlooking a lake, with a cup of coffee in one hand, and the word of God in front of me.
I have never done the World Race before or anything like it, so this whole mission trip is foreign land for me, but I am incredibly excited to see what God has in store for me and my team on this trip!
I will embrace the process of growth and change that is required for this trip with an open mind and a ready heart. I believe that to go on this mission trip, one has to know that they will be impacting and changing the lives of others and it will be a beautiful thing, but they will also be forever changed in their own lives as well. I believe that I will learn so much on this race about myself, about my group, about the people we are witnessing to, but most importantly about the God that loves each of us unconditionally. I feel that it will be easy for me to grow in my relationship with God because every day I learn something new about him here, so while I’m on the race it is easy to understand that I will learn just as much and probably more about him and his love. I feel that my relationship will be strengthened through strengthening others’ relationships with God and even if it isn’t necessarily my goal that moment to learn something new, that I still will learn just by being with the people and being surrounded by God’s grace. I feel that it will be difficult to see the turmoil and struggles that the people in these countries live with, but it will also be easy to find the incredible and overpowering love of God that fills their hearts.
And that’s all she wrote, until next time!
Peyton Rector
