First, if you want visual of what AIM’s base looks like or a tour of our facilities or a brief look at some of the sessions/seminars, look at Brandon Headrick’s blog – he’s been posting videos the whole week of all that stuff and they’re pretty amazing a funny and informative and I’ve enjoyed them and think you would as well.
Second, the other September racers have been posting blogs from training as well (I know they’re not my personal blogs, but there are enough to give a good big picture overview). So if you want to read any of them…go to the World Race site and then click on “Meet the Participants – September 2007” and you’ll see all our pictures and be able to check out any of their blogs as well.
Third – a brief overview of my experience with training camp. This is the fourth time I’ve done some kind of training with AIM (I’ve been previously for two real life trips and then for part of our world race training in April), and let me tell you, God has worked differently through each training and I have had some amazing experiences in the red clay/dirt/mud of Georgia. I’ll get more in depth on future blogs (after I’ve had time to think about it, of course), but felt you deserve a quick overview at least. So, we spent the first few days of training in an “unpacking” mode – getting rid of the junk that tangles us up inside that we’re ready to take on this thing called the world race. As part of our “unpacking” we spent a couple nights at Unicoi State Park in NE Georgia (small plug – if you’re ever planning on camping in that area, it’s really cute and you should go there), as well as seminars to help us realize who we are in Christ. Once the rest of the September team arrived, we moved more in to the logistics stuff – we had to finish shuffling teams around because of the numbers, talk about specifics about where we’re going to be in Thailand (yeah, that post is coming too), and finish our last-minute sorting, packing, and sending home the stuff that didn’t fit.
Overall, it’s been a good couple weeks. I’ve been stretched, cried, laughed, cried some more, had challenges laid before me, become bold, done ministry, been ministered to, met some new people, been given a renewed passion for missions, been prayed over, prayed for others, seen and experienced new things, and learned to live in the truth of who God made me…and we haven’t even left the country yet. I can’t wait to see what God is going to do as we take off for Thailand tomorrow and then as we continue to follow where He leads us around the world.
