Well, It’s been a year since I last wrote on here. A lot has happened since the world race ended last November and I wanted to update everyone on what is going on in my life. After the world race finished I went home to Charlotte, North Carolina to spend some time with my parents, sister, and brother. I took several months off then started to explore different opportunities with working with AIM. I ended up doing some administrated stuff with World Race marketing for a few months, while trying to raise support to come on staff with AIM. After a few months, I knew that I couldn’t do admin work for much longer, so I started talking to various people at the office about other opportunities. Doors started opening within another department to lead trips for college aged students. It was too obvious that the Lord was directing my steps in this direction, so I followed where He was taking me.
This summer I co-lead a trip to Swaziland, Africa for two months. I had an absolutely amazing team of 18, along with two great co-leaders.
Team Swazi- Summer 2008
About halfway through the trip other doors started to open for me to continue to lead trips. I was asked to lead a team of college students for 9 months to Nicaragua. My first reaction was “Absolutely not”. Last year on the World Race, Nicaragua was probably my least favorite country, for various reasons. But I knew that I needed to pray and seek the Lord with where he would have me go. After much prayer I knew the Lord was telling me to go back to Nicaragua, even though it wasn’t what I wanted to do.
So here I am a year after finishing the World Race, sitting in a café in Granada, Nicaragua. I have been blessed with a wonderful team and a great co-leader, once again. I will admit though that it has been a struggle at times, being back here. I think I had become a bit bitter about Nicaragua in general. The Lord is working on my heart though and I am coming to really enjoy the time and the people here.
My team in Nicaragua, minus Joanne, plus Heather and Don and Connie Rock!
