After a wonderful weekend retreat with "Women's Walk with Christ" I finally get to write my first blog! I am officially apart of the "R" squad for The World Race! I feel so blessed to be preparing for such an amazing journey! I have never felt more confident about any other decision! I have always known that I wanted to be in the mission field!! From my first mission trip to Venezuela when I was 12 to the last mission trip I went on to Honduras when I was 19 and every trip in between! I have seen God work in the most amazing ways! And I am so excited to see what he has in store for me in the year to come!
What is the World Race? This seems to be a question I hear a lot lately! The world race is a Christian mission trip that will be taking me to the far corners of the world! For 11 months I will get the honor to visit 11 different countries! We will be doing everything from building churches to ministering to victims of sex trafficking!
I know this is going to be an amazing experience for me! At the same time I also realize how much my life is going to be rocked! I am going from living alone in my wonderful apartment, to living with my amazing, yet loud family! I haven't lived at home since I was 17! And now here I am packing my car up and heading back at 22! Something I never thought I would do! Until this last weekend I was completely heartbroken by this!! Yes, I love my family and I am so blessed to of gotten such awesome parents! But live with them again?? This means hearing feet banging their way down the stairs at 7am, being told I need to unload the dish washer, and worst of all no longer having the luxury of using my dryer as storage for clean clothes! All of this honestly scared the crap out of me! But after praying hard and crying harder this weekend I can say I am ready and excited! God showed me this weekend that not only will this not be as terrible as I have thought but that this is the beginning of my "start over."
I spent some time after high school doing what ever Sierra wanted to do. I put what I knew God wanted from me on the back burner and went along with what the world wanted. I quickly realized that didn't work out like I had thought it would! So here I am a new person! I have let go of my past mistakes and all the pain and anger that went along with those. I have started my new life as A woman walking with Christ! And I have never been happier! I am am now completely embracing my move home! I know that this is bringing me one step closer to my journey on the World Race! Not only will I no longer be paying outrageous rent and all the bills that come along with that but I will be able to concentrate completely on raising funds for my trip!
$15,500 is most certainly not pocket change! This is a HUGE chunk of money to raise in a very short amount of time! At first I was very nervous to have to raise this kind of money! But I am fully believing If God calls he will provide! I have come up with many different fundraisers that I am extremely excited to start and share with you!
This is the beginning of such an amazing time in my life and I am so excited and blessed I get to share it with those that are the closest to me! From this day on I plan on living my life through my mission statement of…
"As a Powerful woman walking with Christ I co-create a confident, peaceful world of passion, love, and the desire to be the hands and feet of God"
