Just a fair warning, my grammar will not be quite as good as my other blogs since I’ll mostly be editing them myself from now on. At least this way you get my thought process, since I write like I think. This will just be the more unedited versions of my thoughts from here on out!
Well it is finally happening. After almost 7 months of blogs, fundraising, and stress I am finally launching on the World Race. At the moment I’m sitting in the Atlanta airport waiting for my flight to Houston, and after Houston I’ll finally be in Ecuador. It has been a crazy journey to get to this point, and to be honest for a while I did not know if I would make it this far. That has seem to be the theme leading up to launch, I have these fears of not being able to come due to this or that, but then at the last second God shows up and completely blows me away. Take my India visa for instance, due to some issues I had to wait until almost two weeks till launch to send it in. For almost three days the status of the visa had not changed and it was just sitting at the consulate for processing, that is until the day before I left my house. The visa came in on Friday and I was leaving on Saturday, so you could say that I was a little stressed. But my Father did what he always did, he blew me out of the water with His goodness. With the visa I was all set to go, my backs were packed, goodbyes were said, and the journey truly began.
I feel like that’s enough talk about the past, what my eyes are currently set on is the future and what the Lord has in store for me. My goal for the race is to be a completely obedient vessel for the Lord; I want to be this complete vessel so bad that I had the word tattooed on my arm in Hebrew as a reminder. I want it to be this constant reminder that I am filled with the Spirit of the Lord, and the He can do great works on the Earth through me. The word vessel really describes what I want my race to look like, I want it to be this experience where the Lord moves through me on the daily. That I will always be listening to the Lord’s voice; and not only that I will hear it, but I will actually submit to what I am being told to do.
The Lord has great plans for my squad and I in the the 9 months, and the word that seems to always be popping up around us is freedom. I don’t think I have ever seen a group of people and believers walk in such freedom. Maybe it is the fact that we know that the Lord walks with us, or maybe we just fully comprehend what we have received when Christ died on the cross for us. Whenever I think about what we have to bring to the table, the picture that I am constantly getting is just the ground covered in these broken chains. That is truly what I believe we will do, I believe that this squad will just bring about this air of freedom wherever we walk. After speaking to members of my squad and team, I am constantly reminded that we want to liberate the people of Ecuador, India, and Zambia from whatever is holding them back. We want to teach them that they are more than their broken selves. That they claimed children of the highest Father, that they will inherit more than they will ever know. I don’t think there could be a better group of people to lead people into freedom than Gap J. I know this because whenever we have any sort of time with the Lord, His presence just fills the entire room. We walk in the faith that our Father will care for us, and that He has gone before us.
So for the first month, my whole squad will be all together in Quito, Ecuador. While we may all be together, we will all be doing different ministries! My team, team Charismata (you can check out my teammates blogs in the side bar), will be working with a church called La Luz. We will be working with youths and the community, as well as getting the opportunity to teach English as well! I am excited to see all that we will be doing, as well as what the Lord will be doing through us in the process!
I don’t know when I will be able to write my next blog due to not knowing where wifi will be available, but I will do my best to keep you all updated! On another note, while I may be able to launch I am still not completely funded. I’m still around $2,500 away from being fully funded, and I have until January 31st to have it all. So please consider supporting me sometime in the next three months, because if I don’t get it all I will be sent home. Please continue to keep my team and I in your prayers as we head to Ecuador and start our ministry!
Blessings,
Tucker Stevens
