One of the most life-changing lessons I learned this past year on the race was the power found in prayer. Prayer moves things in the spiritual realm. Unlike the physical world, prayer knows no bounderies – it builds a bridge that can cross countries, cultures, languages, ethnic backgrounds, and religious upbringings. While on the race, I truly cannot remember a time that someone turned down my offer to pray for them; even if they didn’t believe in Jesus, prayer was welcomed. Prayer unlocks hardened and scared hearts and gives space for the spirit to work.
Your prayers for my team (nessa) and me over the last year kept us going. And I want to thank you for that. Your encouragement gave us a lift to persevere through those difficult days. Knowing people back home are supporting you spiritually can not be under-estimated!
Even though my team is finished, the World Race still has around 12 groups out in Central and South America and Africa. In July, we hope to send out about 10 more teams. I am excited about this new opportunity for the church – adopting a current World Race team. Please read below to see how you can be involved…
The World Race is a trip designed specifically for college graduates and young professionals ages 21-35 who are discovering a deep need within themselves to see the world as it is and begin an adventure of faith, passion, and ministry. It is a chance to experience eleven different countries in eleven months, while planting and strengthening churches around the world through the power of prayer support from sending churches.
We believe that any ministry endeavor is doomed for failure unless it has the extended covering of prayer support. Our teams meet incredible challenges during their ministry journey and need the prayer covering of God’s people. That’s why we need you!
It is our endeavor to see a number of churches partner with these young missionaries in the field by supporting them with their continual prayers. We are asking churches and ministries like yours to adopt a team and make a commitment to pray for them throughout the upcoming year.
We have developed a method for the World Race teams to communicate with their prayer supporters by posting a video blog updating their progress and challenges. (For a sample report video, click here: http://vimeo.com/321073)
These videos can be uploaded and shown to a church congregation, Sunday school class,student ministry, or small group. We have done this so that the people praying for an adopted World Race team can gain a better understanding of the challenges the team is facing, share in the joy of the team’s ministry successes, and pray intelligently about specific needs.
Will you consider helping us garner the prayer support we need? We are not asking for money or any financial support; we just need your prayers! We believe that prayer moves the hand of God and we need the continual leading of the Holy Spirit in all of our ministry endeavors.
We would ask you to explore the details of this prayer initiative by visiting the Adopt a Team link and following the sign-up instructions. If you know someone on the World Race and are interested in adopting that team, just visit the person’s blog and click the “Adopt My Team” link in the left-hand menu.
Thank you for considering this prayer initiative. We pray that God will richly bless you and your ministry. If there is anything our ministry could do to serve you, we would love the opportunity to see how we could help. You may contact me at the below information if you have questions.
Click here to learn more about World Race Adopt-A-Team.
