Hey everyone, my name is Robert Floyd, I am 23 years old and about to graduate college from TCU. Over the past year, I have felt led/called by God to embark on this 11 month journey called The World Race to help shape/mold me into the man God created me to be as I'm serving the least of these and more importantly sharing the gospel with others!
I am from Midland, Texas and grew up surrounded and blessed by a loving family who is very supportive in all I do. Although growing up in a Christian home, I myself sort of did my own thing and was a big partier. I went to church growing up and I prayed, but I never really understood what it meant to have a relationship with Jesus as I hadn't really ever met or had a "divine encounter" with him. In high school, one of my good friends committed suicide and this really shook me up and my stance on God. How could a loving God allow this to happen, I thought, I distanced myself from God after that (not that I was that close to him before). As I went to college I kept up my partying and even took it to another level in a sense. God was an after thought in my life, if anything he was just a "magic genie" that I would ask selfish prayers to. As college went on, I found myself in a very dark place, my life once consumed by alcohol and other drugs became very unfulfilling. The things that once made me feel so alive and fulfilled, were now the reason I was left feeling so empty and depressed inside, it even made me start to question life itself. I was full of the world and my whole life revolved around worldly desires and pleasures that had become numb to me. My third year of college, one night I was surrounded by complete darkness, my adversary (who I didn't even think was real) came and was trying to get me to kill myself as I was on drugs and sure enough God showed up (in a pretty radical way) and revealed his love for me and who he is and totally saved my life. This God that I once despised and turned away from would help me in my darkest hour? (I have never and never will feel a love like this. So undeserved, yet I'm so thankful that my Lord never gave up on me and kept pursuing me even when I wanted nothing to do with him). Anyways, slowly, he has been changing my heart to align with his and yes I still have my struggles, but as I learn more about who he is and what he did for me all I can say is thank you Lord for its all by his grace and what he did, completely undeserved.
Recently, the Lord has been breaking off strongholds in my life that have kept me from being fully committed to him and has started moving in my heart for me to put my full trust in him. When I first heard of the World Race a couple years back, I thought that everyone who went on it was crazy, as they were giving up 11 months of their lives to go and serve people in random countries (ALMOST A FULL YEAR!). It wasn't until I went on a mission trip to Uganda last summer that I realized how awesome it would be if God actually would call me to go on a trip of this magnitude. In Uganda I have never experienced that kind of (pure) joy and happiness all coming from the Lord and how fulfilling and alive it made me to go and share the gospel and serve our Lord. Something inside of me changed that trip (a fire was lit) and since being back home I have longed to go back to Africa and the idea of going on the World Race seemed more and more appealing everyday, so I started praying about it and sure enough God let me know that this is his timing and will for my life right now. God has given me such a peace and happiness since I have decided to go on this journey (as it can be a little intimidating) and although I know it will be difficult at times and I will have my rough days, Jesus has assured me that he will be there holding my hand every step of the way and in the end that's all that really matters.
Anyways, thats a little bit about me and all I have for now, shoot me an email if you have any questions.
Peace
