If you’re in Atlanta this week, you may experience an unusual sight — nearly 200 young adults walking around in Chacos, travel attire, and their entire life on their back.
This week, four World Race squads descend upon the city to prepare for launch and on July 3, we send them out to the nations. Over the next 11 months, our amazing D, E, F, and G squads will go to 30 different countries spreading the gospel in word and deed. We couldn’t be more proud of or excited for them.
The next 11 months are going to be a lot of different things for these Racers. They’re going to be exciting, exhausting, extraordinarily difficult, unbelievable, life-changing. They will be pushed out of their comfort zones in countless ways. They will need to confront parts of themselves they would rather ignore. They will need boldness, patience, vulnerability, grace and immense dependence on God to make it through these next 11 months. They will not come back the same.
If you know a Racer, do what you can to send them off well. Take them out for coffee, give them a hug, encourage them, and pray over them. They will be forever grateful knowing they have your support as they begin this journey.
Pray for them this week as they spend their final days in the states preparing for this incredible journey. Pray for strength, patience, rest, hope, hydration, trust, peace, and for everyone to remember their passports and daypacks.
We can’t wait to see all that God is going to do in and through these Racers between now and the end of month 11. We’re so excited for them and hope you are, too.
Once the Racers are out on the field, encourage them by following their blogs and social media. Let them know you’re right beside them
- Subscribe to our updates blog
- Follow individual squads’ blogs
- Follow the World Race on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram
- Follow the squad hashtags
- D Squad – #dauntless116
- E Squad – #Eroundtheworld
- F Squad – #fstandsforfamily
- G Squad – #weareg3
- Take it up a notch and commit to pray for a specific team of 5-7 Racers here
