First off- Happy Easter ya’ll! What a beautiful day God has blessed us with. A great church service spent with great family was how I spent my Easter. I hope you all had the same!
Welcome to my World Race Blog. For many of you this will be your first time here. You probably got here via Facebook or email I sent out letting know what is next in my life. You’re probably asking yourself, what the heck is the World Race? Is it just a knock off of The Amazing Race? Well, Yes….and…..no. Yes I will be traveling all around the world, and no because I won’t be competing for money and prizes, but rather sharing the love of God and blessing many people on the way. I posted a video below about The World Race Promo that was put together by the organizers of The World Race.
To put it all in perspective, The World Race is an 11 month mission trip. I will be traveling the GLOBE with about 50 or so twenty-somethings doing ministry work in places where God’s love needs to be felt. There is a prior blog post that will give you an idea of the places we will go. We will be doing things such as visiting orphanages, hospitals, teaching English and VBS, and even manual labor. Yes, I said it, manual labor. Mr. Armani sunglasses and Banana Republic suit will be getting down and dirty building churches and putting up shelters.
Why am I doing this? Why am I doing something SO CRAZY? I’m giving up MY life for 11 months. I’m giving up everything I’ve worked hard to get for. I have three jobs that I must leave, part ways with my beautiful car (i’m going to manage to not sell it somehow) and leave my beautiful friends and family for 11 months. Well, I don’t have a direct answer, but after some heavy praying, I realized it’s not about ME anymore. It’s about God picking me to be His hands and feet to care for the people of His world. Yeah, It sounds crazy. I sometimes don’t believe its happening. But all of a sudden signs and confirmations starting appearing and as much as I tried to fight it off, I couldn’t, I must OBEY. Don’t think my stubborn self tried to get out of going……Umm…..I would be missing a lot when i’m gone. I have friends getting married, The Dallas Cowboy’s winning the Super Bowl, and getting to see Brett Favre retire. Those are things that I wanted to be a part of, but instead I will be thousands of miles away in some African desert staying in a concrete building eating some weird food and getting my water from a jug. Sounds terrible, yes, but the overall outcome and things I will be doing in The World Race will change my life for the better.
Even though I’m sort of a changed person that I was before, I’m still going to be the Phil you have come to know and love. I’ll still have a drink with you, make smart ass remarks, and pull the racial card whenever I can 🙂
I have also posted a video from January 2009 Racer Di Dinnis (Teammate of Rachel Hartman). Di did a beautiful job summarizing her teams World Race by displaying clips of ministries and fun adventures along The World Race. You can visit her blog and see more of her videos at http://didinnis.theworldrace.org
I will be leaving October 2010 for my life changing journey. I will be touching lives of many a long the way. I will be loving the lonely, praying fo the sick, and spreading God’s love in any way that I can. Many of you that know me, don’t see me as a “religious” type of person. You are absolutely RIGHT. I’m not. Well, until recently that is. I would probably say more spiritual that religious. I have also been pretty private with my life as well, but now it’s time for me to open up and share my story about the World Race through this blog. Maybe my story will help YOU get closer to God.
I have so much to share with ya’ll about this whole journey. You can sign up to your left to get all my blog updates. In the next few weeks I will be writing about how I came to The World Race. It’s a very interesting story, trust me 🙂 I’ll be posting some more videos from former and current racers to give you an idea of what it’s like out there in the mission field.
Thank you so much for taking your time to read this. For some of you I will have your support 100%, some will be say good for you, but I could never do it, and of course some will say cool Phil, then wonder when the season premier of Glee is going to me. And of course, there’s going to be the doubters who think I’ll never make it the 11 months. As much as I would love your support, I want you to know that you are still supporting me in a way. Whenever I feel like giviing up, I must pull myself together because I DO NOT want to let my non-supporters know that they have won.
One last subject before I wrap it up. I will have to finance this trip on my own. My goal is to raise about $15,000 for the trip BY October. I don’t need to be fully funded by October, but I would relieve a TON of pressure so that I can soley focus on my mission work without having to worry about raising money out on the field. I will be sending out support letters for private donations and prayers. I am planning a support fundraiser with a silent auction and raffle, so I will keep you posted on that. You can also support me by clicking the “support me” button on my blog. Whether you can support me financially (nothing too little or too small) or through prayer, you are helping me out in ways you wouldn’t imagine. It is going to be an extremely HARD 11 months and I can use all the support I can get. You can also send checks to my home (I believe supporting online deducts a 3% fee for credit card transactions)
Phil Khamoua
19146 Ittabena Way
Lakeville, MN 55044
Lakeville, MN 55044
I would gladly love to get cards or letters of encouragment to help me through my journey as well!
Ahh…that’s enough for me. Please continue to check back or subscribe to follow me on my journey to launch of The World Race. I will share stories and encouragement that can someday hopefully help you in your life!
Thank you for reading. God bless you all.
PK
I have also attached some of my favorite videos from World Racers and their experiences! Enjoy!
