We landed in Ireland this past week for the Awakening conference, something we had been looking forward to all year.  The Awakening conference is bringing all the world race teams on the field together in one place for one week!!  We had the opportunity to meet a lot of other world racers and spend some extra quality time with our squadmates.  We were fed spiritually by all of the world race staff and able to start thinking about the future and what that might look like for us.  It was awesome to just have some down time and be able to focus on ourselves and each other with not a lot of worries for the week.  We were being poured into daily and it felt like a fresh blessing to just have praise and worship altogether or listen to a sermon that I could understand in ENGLISH!!  

But as the conference came to an end, our squad had a meeting and we found out that five of our squadmates were in jeopardy of going home due to support!!  This cannot happen!!  We are a family and we started this year together and we want to finish it strong together too.  These people have enriched, molded and changed my life completely along with the rest of our squad and all of the hundreds of people they have come in contact with and served with all year long.  They are bringing life and Jesus to countries and communities.  They are sacrificing it all to live a life that glorifies Christ and they are succeeding.  They are beaming with God’s truth and light everytime their foot hits the pavement and that cannot come to a hault due to finances. 

God will make a way and that way is YOU!!  He wants to see YOU invest in these lives who were willing to put it all on the line to spread the gospel to His babies throughout the nations.  He wants to use YOU to invest into the lives of the people in Eastern Europe.  He loves each and every soul in these countries just as much and more than you love your own children and He is weeping for their salvation and for the opportunity for someone to share the good news with them, and my squadmates are doing just that!! 

So, I am coming before you now to ask you to help them, to help me and my squad to continue this race with our entire family.  If one is missing, a piece of all of us is missing and we cannot function as a complete body.  Giving even $5, $10 or $20 will help further the Kingdom and bless all of our lives including your own so, please faithfully consider supporting one of these five individuals in finishing this race for Christ and his Kingdom!!  Thank you for all of your amazing love and support!!  God is using you in my life and the lives of the people around you daily.  I cannot wait to get back and hear of your stories as well as share more of my own.  Your investments in God’s calling on my life have helped myself, everyone around me and hundreds of people who I have come in contact with this year and have had the privilege of pouring into and sharing God’s love with. 

 

The following squadmates need YOUR help:
 
David Stothart                       davidstothart.theworldrace.org

 

Hannah Vitkus                      hannahvitkus.theworldrace.org

 

Jonathan Snyder                  jonathansnyder.theworldrace.org

 

Kristi Kaeli                             kristikaeli.theworldrace.org

 

Nate Evans                            nateevans.theworldrace.org
 
To support any of these individuals, go to these websites and click on the “support me” link just as you did for me!!  Remember, you are investing in the Kingdom and God will bless your willingness.  Hey, it’s His money anyways, right??  Thanks again guys!!