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Welcome to my Blog! I am so excited to have you partner with me on this journey. From here you will be able to stay up to date with my Adventures of traveling around the world. Through my blogs you will be able to share with me in this experience as I record my stories, fears and joys.
On the left side you will see links to my blogs, pictures, teammates,
The World Race home page and other ways to be involved. If you click
on Update Alerts then you can sign up to receive emails indicating I
have updated my blog. Through God's gracious provision I have raised
all my support! But both my teammates Brenda and Bev still have a ways
to go. Please consider supporting them by clicking on their name
(10/25/08).
So what is The World Race? The World Race is a mission trip through Adventures in Missions (AIM) whose vision is to send people around the world as ministers of reconciliation. Through experiencing different cultures and ministries, participants gain a global perspective of needs of the world and how they fit into the Kingdom work of sharing Christ's love.
I will travel with a team of 7 people, living in community and working with existing churches and organizations that have roots in the local area. We will travel to 11 countries spending approximately a month in each country. There are other teams on The World Race that are partnering with different organizations concurrently in the same country as my team. At the end of the month all World Race teams meet up together for a time of discussion and debriefing. Then teams are presented with the meeting location in the next country and with a fixed budget teams RACE against each other to the meeting point in the next country. The race is similar to the TV series The Amazing Race, in which teams compete in challenges as they race to locations around the world. Our race will only be a couple days, but will be very challenging as we are left to ourselves to find means of transportation (bus, boat, car, walk, bike). The race is meant to provide a fun adventure while making use of a strict budget to creatively get teams from one country to the next. (AIM provides transportation when crossing continents - i think?)
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