Contact:
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Phone: _________
Email: _______
Web: www.theworldrace.org
(Your town) resident to embark on
around-the-world service mission
World Racers leave in September for
11-month trip
YOUR TOWN, STATE, Month day, 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 their own.
Your town resident your name will join about 50 squad mates in
September to
leave the comforts of home and embark on the World Race. It will be the journey
of a lifetime: 11 months traveling around the globe in community, serving
others
and sharing the love of Jesus Christ as they go. Some of the countries they will
serve in are India, Nepal, Uganda, Kenya, Romania and Ukraine.
The World Race is an 11-month, 11-country Christian service missions trip
around the world. A project of Adventures In Missions (AIM), based in
Gainesville, GA, the Race started in 2006 and has sent 16 squads totaling more
than 730 Racers around the world.
“I have been a warrior for my country, and I am going on this mission trip
because I feel that God is calling me to be a warrior in His army,” said
Adam
Halliday, a Canadian solder serving in Afghanistan who is a member of the
September squad. “God has been preparing me for this trip through my job
in the
military and this deployment, and the World Race is the final phase of my
preparation to step into full time missions work.”
“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 Latin America, out in the bush in Africa, or on city
streets in
urban East 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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