Around-the-world missions group to help Haiti
World Racers leave in July for 11-month serving journey
Gainesville, GA, February 1, 2010 — Young adults from across the nation
are leaving behind their lifestyles for a year to cross continents,
experience cultures and positively impact lives–including Haitians
affected by the Jan. 12 earthquake that devastated the country.
Your town resident your name will join about 50 squad mates in July to
leave the comforts of home and embark on the World Race, an 11-month,
11-country missions trip around the world. A project of Adventures In
Missions (AIM), the Race consists of traveling around the globe in
community, serving others and sharing the love of Jesus Christ.
The July 2010 squad will kick off their Race this summer by visiting
Haiti and the Dominican Republic to support AIM’s ongoing earthquake
relief efforts. The World Racers will live in their own tents and serve
local people rebuilding devastated communities. After leaving Haiti,
the Racers will continue serving in nine other countries around the
world.
“In Haiti and in all the other countries on the Race, I expect to see
things that will both break my heart and inspire it. I will be the hands
and feet of Christ to a world that so desperately needs to see the
evidence of (God’s) love in the actions of others,” said Joshua Maisner,
who is looking forward to leaving in July. “I cannot wait to spend a
year away from the distractions of our culture and become immersed in a
life that depends solely on God.”
The World Race started in 2006 and has sent 14 squads totaling more than
730 Racers around the world.
“Many people look at the World Race and get the wrong idea,” said Seth
Barnes, founder of the World Race and AIM. “They think it’s about young
people seeing the world. The reality is that, while young people often
sign up because of the adventures they know they’ll have and the
worldview that a year of global travel will give them, it’s really an
initiation experience. On the World Race you learn about what God is
doing on the earth and how to join Him in it.”
Whether in villages in Central America, out in the bush in Africa, on
city streets in Eastern Europe or in the jungles of Asia, World Racers
depend on the kindness of strangers and other Christians as they live
out their mission of reaching others with Christ’s love. Living as
locals do in each country, they serve communities in any capacity
needed, whether it’s playing with orphans, visiting the sick, doing
manual labor or simply spending time loving forgotten people.
“I went on the World Race because I knew something was missing from this
Christian life we do here [in America],” said Race alumnus Ian Schumann
of Austin, TX. “I had to leave my home and get shaken up, get my world
rocked, in order to find it–but now I know for sure that the Kingdom of
God is everywhere, and we can cultivate it anywhere, because it’s
within us, like Jesus said.”
For more information on the World Race go to www.theworldrace.org.
World Race participants and staff are available for interviews and
speaking engagements upon request.
Adventures In Missions (AIM) is an interdenominational missions
organization that focuses on discipleship. They emphasize prayer and
relationships in their work amongst the poor. Since being established in
1989, AIM has taken over 80,000 people into the mission field, some for
as short as a week and others for as long as a year or longer. Through
14 bases around the world, AIM has year-round ministry to places where
“the least of these” are found. AIM believes that by giving people the
opportunity to hold orphans, bring hope to the hopeless, and pray for
the sick, lives are transformed.
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