It’s month 3 already.
That means my race is already a fourth done.
Over the past 3 months I have had the blessing to live with 5 other legit people.
I have learned so much from my team: what it means to be a brother, how to serve, how much I suck at running and working out, how to worship and pray, and how to be conscientious about what comes out of my mouth, to name a few.
We eat together at every meal, we pray, we worship, we laugh and we cry. We have been able to get to know each other as much as possible, while also living with another team each month. Yep, my team is the only team who has not had a month alone. I love each person on this team- Team Salt & Light.
We are a team bent toward introversion. We take time to say what we have to say. We all think long and thoroughly about everything it seems like. We get to the heart of the issues all the time, and we stay away from dumb small-talk and fake pleasantries (because those aren’t real anyway). We want to know the person, so we take the time to sit and listen, instead of talking over them about ourselves.
My team is also made up mostly of “feelers.” Emotions often drive us. We feel deeply for others and when we are feeling something strongly- others know it. Sometimes we will spend the whole day ‘in our heads.’ Sometimes we won’t be down for playing games, because we just need to talk.
Speaking of talking, our team times range on average from 1.5-2 hours long every time and that isn’t even a problem for us. We’ll walk away thinking, “Dang, that was a long team time… again. We talked for forever.” We love the time we have together to laugh and joke and talk and be real. My team is honest and open, we talk about what is up and we want to be even more honest and open.
Possible team changes are looming over us. We understand that God is sovereign over all things, so if He sees fit to give us someone new from our squad or to take one of us away for our squad, we will trust that as our portion. I know that it won’t be easy if changes happen on my team. I won’t like it at first or really understand. But I trust God even in my dislike and confusion.
As if we needed anything else to possibly stress about during this time, next month a team mate of mine may be leaving for home. Carmella has not reached the deadline for October yet. She still needs $3,600ish by the 1st of October. We are the body of Christ, and knowing that Carm is the mouth of the Lord- there’s a possibility that we would lose a vocal leader of our team. We would lose a charismatic and compassionate sister. We would miss a hilarious and wise friend. Begin to pray about supporting Carm to continue to preach the good news where it has yet to be preached, to love on kids who have no parents, to bring Jesus to the most hopeless of places. She needs your support, we need the gifts that she has.
Also, Carm is the finance person on this team. And we all are very much aware of how awful tera-bad I am at finances and numbers and math. SO, don't let her leave our team! Because a replacement has to be made if it came to that, and I am no no no good at numbers. Secondly, Carm is often my go-to person on the team when I can just go crazy about how amazing the LORD is. We have long talks about the holiness of God and His sovereignty. I know that I would miss these great convos if she is unable to raise the remaining support.
Please don’t let Carm go home because of this. You can support her by going here http://carmellanicholson.theworldrace.org and pushing the “Support Me” button under her pic on the left side.
To all my current supporters. As you can see, I only need $2,660 til I am fully funded! Thank you so much for your incredibly genuine support and love! I cannot tell you enough how thankful and blessed I am to be here in Thailand right now, knowing that you gave out of your abundance or lack. I ask you all to pray about and consider supporting Carm during this time and blessing her like you have so blessed me. She still needs $3,600 by the first of the month, I know that God will provide. Can you give to her? Please bless my team by giving to Carm so that she can stay with us!!!
