Here’s a news release we just published about the World Race squad leaving in January 2010 (click here and here to view their blogs). Feel free to share it, re-post it to your blog, or send it to a local newspaper:
Over 100 men and women ages 21-35, compelled by issues of social justice and simple living, are leavingthe comfort of their homes and possessions in January of 2010, to
travel 11 to countries in 11 months, sharing the hope of Jesus Christ as
they go.
The
group is called the World Race and was first conceived by Seth Barnes,
founder and executive director of Adventures In Missions, in 2006. He
designed a trip that would remove young people from their comfortable
lifestyles for a year–to see the developing world and be transformed
by what they saw.
The
first team consisted of 14 people. Since then, AIM has sent 92 teams
consisting of over 630 men and women on 12 different trips around the
world and visiting over 64 countries.
group is called the World Race and was first conceived by Seth Barnes,
founder and executive director of Adventures In Missions, in 2006. He
designed a trip that would remove young people from their comfortable
lifestyles for a year–to see the developing world and be transformed
by what they saw.
The
first team consisted of 14 people. Since then, AIM has sent 92 teams
consisting of over 630 men and women on 12 different trips around the
world and visiting over 64 countries.
“While
I am excited to observe a medley of people this next year throughout
the world, I am more excited to love, serve, and care for the people
that God will place in my life,” says Hannah Vitkus of Nashville,
Tennessee, who is looking forward to leaving in January. “Be it an
orphan, a prostitute, the homeless, a college student or an older
family–with your help, I am able to do this–to be the hands and feet,
to go, to love, to serve.”
I am excited to observe a medley of people this next year throughout
the world, I am more excited to love, serve, and care for the people
that God will place in my life,” says Hannah Vitkus of Nashville,
Tennessee, who is looking forward to leaving in January. “Be it an
orphan, a prostitute, the homeless, a college student or an older
family–with your help, I am able to do this–to be the hands and feet,
to go, to love, to serve.”
“I
expect to be ripped from my comfort zone on this trip. I expect to see
Christ move in unimaginable ways. I expect to have the experience of a
lifetime. I expect to never be the same,” says Jesse Walsh of
Birmingham, Alabama who is also leaving in January. “But most of all, I
expect to not have my expectations met and in turn, be given something
I could have never even known to expect.”
expect to be ripped from my comfort zone on this trip. I expect to see
Christ move in unimaginable ways. I expect to have the experience of a
lifetime. I expect to never be the same,” says Jesse Walsh of
Birmingham, Alabama who is also leaving in January. “But most of all, I
expect to not have my expectations met and in turn, be given something
I could have never even known to expect.”
Each
World Race team relies on the hospitality and generosity of
strangers–whether this means living in a tent in a farmer’s field,
staying in an urban shanty or enjoying the rare comfort of a warm bed.
Through their experiences, World Racers learn to depend on each other.
They also learn to care more and live with less. It’s a journey of
self-discovery and worldview–a chance to explore life in a whole new
way.
World Race team relies on the hospitality and generosity of
strangers–whether this means living in a tent in a farmer’s field,
staying in an urban shanty or enjoying the rare comfort of a warm bed.
Through their experiences, World Racers learn to depend on each other.
They also learn to care more and live with less. It’s a journey of
self-discovery and worldview–a chance to explore life in a whole new
way.
“I’m
leaving behind the woman I thought I have always wanted to be, to
become the woman God intended me to be… which is someone I never had
the guts to be, ” shares Michelle Euperio from Mesquite, Texas, who is
also a part of the World Race in January 2010.
leaving behind the woman I thought I have always wanted to be, to
become the woman God intended me to be… which is someone I never had
the guts to be, ” shares Michelle Euperio from Mesquite, Texas, who is
also a part of the World Race in January 2010.
“Many
people look at the World Race and get the wrong idea,” says Barnes.
“They think it’s about young people seeing the world. The reality is
that, while young people often sign up because of the adventures they
know they’ll have and the worldview that a year of global travel will
give them, it’s really an initiation experience. On the World Race you
learn about what God is doing on the earth and how to join Him in it.”
people look at the World Race and get the wrong idea,” says Barnes.
“They think it’s about young people seeing the world. The reality is
that, while young people often sign up because of the adventures they
know they’ll have and the worldview that a year of global travel will
give them, it’s really an initiation experience. On the World Race you
learn about what God is doing on the earth and how to join Him in it.”
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Original Article can be found at ChristianNewsWire.
Original Article can be found at ChristianNewsWire.
