Adventures WorldRace SethBarnes Sponsorship Giving

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First let me start by saying that all my life I have had a heart for other people and helping/serving them. My heart is to be able to help them in any way I can whether it be physically helping them do work, sitting down with them and talking with them, or even something as simple as sitting and listening to them when they need someone to vent to. I enjoy giving of my time and using the abilities God has given me to serve His people.

I have always wanted to go on a mission trip out of the country, but there are a few reasons I haven’t. The biggest reason is because I never felt like God was calling me to that..not till now..and so I never went since I was never called. So until I felt like God was calling me to go out of the country to go “to the ends of the earth” I served here in my community. I’ve served here in my local community helping where I can. My biggest ministry though has been to the youth here in my church. I spend time with them, talk with them, minister to them, I am a helping hand when I can be, listen to them, give them my time, and just show them the love of God.

So how exactly was I finally called to the mission field outside of my community and specifically to The World Race? It all started in the summer. I was at work one day and all of a sudden I got really sad. Nothing specific happened, it was just another day at work, but I got really sad and couldn’t get over it. So when I got off I went to see my friend. He asked me what was wrong and all I could tell him was that at work I got really sad and I had no idea what was wrong. So we sat there talking for a while then all of a sudden he was like I know what’s wrong with you. He told me that I was tired of the same old mundane things that I do here in this town every day and feeling usless knowing that I’m made to do so much more. I sat there and thought about that for a minute and I agreed with him. While my ministry to the youth here is important I was beginning to feel that there was much more that I could and should be doing. This was my “whisper” as the director in his viedo says. Since I thought there wasn’t much I could do about it I shook it off and just continued with my life.

So this whisper to leave this country and serve God became louder towards the end of September. I had bought the newest Barlow Girl CD (awesome CD I reccommend it!) in late November but never really listened to it. One day I decided to start listening to it. It took about two times of listening to it before I really started LISTENING to it! There were so many songs about us being comfortable and how we need to step up cuz we’re at war! God started to show me just how comfortable I really was in my life and walk. Once again i just kind of shook it off though. Then one day I was on the Kanakuk (a Christian sports camp that I worked at two summers ago) website. I was looking around and saw that they were gonna be opening a Kamp in Africa. I got really excited about this! I wanted to be able to go there and work! I mean God + Africa + sports = amazing summer! Well one day I decided to just google mission trips just to see places I could go and how much it would cost and things like that. Well that’s when I came across the World Race. I was like hmm I wonder what this is?? Not knowing that this would eventually be where God was leading me. I started looking around the site reading blogs, watching some of the viedos including the one from the director. I started to become really excited about the things I was reading!

So I started praying about going on this trip. I didn’t want my ambitions to get in the way of something God would have for me. I know that I need to be in His will geographyically and functionally and I didn’t want something that I wanted to do to get in the way of God’s purpose in my life. After praying about it I felt like this is where God had called me. Not only to just go on a mission trip out of the country but specifically to the World Race. I am very excited to have the opportunity to go serve God on the World Race.