Hello, my name is Susan Debolt and I want to thank you for your time and interest in my World Race blog. I am a mid-west girl who was born and raised in central Wisconsin. I am an avid Packer fan and love cheese curds, ice cream and guacamole! I am blessed to have two parents who love each other very much, three sisters and two smart and energetic dogs. I recently graduated from UW-Oshkosh with a BSN in Nursing. My 4.5 years at UW-Oshkosh changed who I was in college and who I will be forever. It was at UW-Oshkosh that I discovered a campus ministry called Campus Crusade or CRU which helped me discover who God really was. I have always known about God and that he was good, but I did not have a relationship with him.
Growing up I was baptized and raised Methodist. My church life wasn’t picture perfect. Our family went to church very sporadically, some years I was enrolled in Sunday school and others I wasn’t. If we went to church we were always purposefully late, attending what my father called “the short service.” When I came to Christ it was similar to the first time breathing a crisp morning’s air, refreshing! I have been a believer for two and a half years; one could say that I am a toddler. I am still growing in my faith and I know that The World Race will aid in molding me into a woman who fears the Lord.
The decision to go on the Race was hard for me and took months of coming to terms with not getting a “real” job like the rest of my classmates did. From the first time I heard about the World Race I felt a fire burning in my heart, but going against the norm was admittedly a challenge for me. My family is not supportive of my decision, so it has been hard for me to go against their wishes. Through all of this uncertainty I continually prayed that God would lead me to where he wanted me. Of course he answered me and he did it through a visual picture in my head. I imagined a sturdy red brick house and each brick represented a year of my life. Of course I hope to live long so my house is tall too! I stood back with God looking at the beautiful house and God asked me to give him just one of the many bricks and being obedient and faithful I said “yes.”
