One of the best things about the World Race, and mission trips in general, is the face to face connection you get to have with people around the world. Whether you're the first Christian someone has ever met or you're visiting a thriving church in another country, being a missionary means loving individuals.
Kent Cranford, of the January 2013 M Squad, takes us on a journey through the faces he's come to love in the first six months of his World Race.
“Love is how you stay alive even after you're gone.” – Mitch Albom
Six months have come and gone since I started this crazy journey. It seems like yesterday that I was boarding a plane in Washington D.C. and heading toward the unknown that was the World Race. Now I find myself on the verge of heading to the middle of Africa and passing the halfway point.
Six months.
Six months of countless stories. Six months of countless faces I'll always remember. Six months of countless lessons learned from the living God.
Six months of having every single thing centered around the Father's love.
It blows me away to think of how a single day with someone you really love can change everything. How there's no such thing as random acts in our lives. We are all connected. You can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind. And that's how it should be. Connected. A community. One body pursuing to be like the one father.
As you look at the pictures below, I encourage you to open your heart and look closely. I encourage you to ask Jesus to see how your life is connected to the beautiful people I've met from all over the world.
Sometimes heaven can be found in the most unlikely of corners. For me, these are those corners.
Would you like to connect with people around the world like Kent is doing? We have four amazing World Race routes leaving in January 2014, and you could be on one of them. Click HERE to check out the routes.
