My First Post

Hello everyone!

Thank you for joining me on my blog! I am going to be able to update you all from here both before and during the trip.

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Why am I going on The World Race?

I have decided to go on The World Race because I feel it’s what God is calling me to. It is also something I would really love to do and believe I am well suited for. It was an answer to prayer as I poured my heart out to God, listing my fears and desires for my future, and the first thing I looked into was World race.

I prayed that night and told God that I was worried that I would not live a life that was what I wanted. I was afraid of what my job in the future would look like and felt trapped in the expectation of what a job and a future was supposed to look like. I told Him how I wanted to travel and how I wanted to be in and help build up a community of people. I didn’t know what I wanted to do for the rest of my life and I wasn’t ready to commit to anything in a permanent way, but I wanted something that would give me a lot of experience of all different kinds. I wanted hands on and to help people. I wanted to be able to focus on my relationship with God without my job distracting me, and to hear His voice. I poured it all out and asked to hear his voice.

I asked God for help. I asked him to help me find something I could love to do and not feel trap in the idea of.

So naturally I decided to go to Google to look into it lol

I have always been too nervous and felt it was kinda cliche for me, a Christian, to go into missions but, I do love helping people and sharing the love of Jesus and felt like if traditional jobs are lacking to meet my goals. So I decided I should Google some missions trips.

I asked God for one more thing. That I would find it as the first one.

I opened Google and typed some version of a long term (1 year) missions trip in the search bar, shrugged my shoulders and clicked the first thing that came up.

I may have been only doing a skim, but He spoke to me in every word I read- Travel, love, community, growth, and as I  looked at trips just 1 year long, only one came up so I clicked it and saw the experience, diversity and opportunity it offered. Their focus was our relationship with God, sharing Jesus with people and helping them in tangible ways. In my heart worry arose, about the time frame and I scrolled back up to see the EXACT month I had planned to be moving on from helping my mom with her feet surgeries was the month was the month they would be leaving. He had answered every part of my prayer.

I wanted to make sure it was really God and not myself, so I kept going and stumbled into a devotional specifically directed at helping you hear God, and I could just feel it that this could be something God can use for both of us. And that was just the start of every confirmation and word of encouragement. He even answered my prayer to learn to hear His voice using their devotional. (The theme of a lot of my pictures are flowers because their meanings have been a big way God has been talking to me) And dispite my worry and doubt He got me accepted.

I have been given peace in the midst of arising challenges because if God is for me nothing stands against me.

I want to go on The World Race because I believe God is calling me to. And there is no better place to be than where God calls you. And I am excited for this opportunity to share the love of Jesus in such a big variety of ways to such a large range of people, to live in community and continue to grow closer to God!

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How you can pray for me?

Please pray for:

Continued guidance and direction

God to provide in every way

Motivation and energy for the whole journey

God to move in my, and everyones lives in big ways

 

Thank you for taking the time to read my story. I hope you stay tuned and join me for my next blog post as I journey further into what God has for me.

If you feel led to give financially my donation page can be found at:

https://adventuresinmissions.servicereef.com/events/adventures-in-missions-3/august-2023-world-race-11-months/participants/Greggam01

God bless