Hey guys! This is Esther, tuning in from Siem Reap, Cambodia (where I’ll be for the next 2 months)!!! We made it here after 5 travel days, hitting Phoenix, San Francisco, Taiwan, and Phnom Pehn on the way. My team, Bethesda, had their first day of overseas ministry last week and it hit me, while sitting on the toilet at a quaint church in the middle of a Cambodian village, that I am on the World Race. Ag...
MEET MY LEADERSHIP TEAM! I wanted to introduce y'all to the people I have been and am going to continue to be leading alongside of for the next 9 months! They are fun and wild and some of the wisest people I've ever met and I am HONORED to lead with them. Here they are!! HALLIE MOFFITT Guys Hallie is something else. If you're looking for someone who knows how to make you laugh in the most out-of-poc...
It all started on September 2nd of 2020. Still living in a COVID world, 30 of us eagerly got ready to meet a bunch of random people who would soon be “family?” (I don’t know, that’s just what they told me). I do this random thing where I do really exciting things the day I’m about to go do a really exciting thing so the morning I left for training camp, I thought it’d be a great idea to jump off a plane. So I did. Th...
Goodbyes. They’re the worst. I think that when I signed up for the race, I definitely didn’t know that saying goodbye would be this difficult. To be fair, I also didn’t understand how attached I would get to the people at my ministry sites. When we got to our first ministry in Ecuador, El Refugio, I could’ve sworn to you then and there that I was just there to serve and be the Lord’s vessel in the place where I was a...
So my friend and squadmate Elina Landin posted a blog called, "What Jesus Would Look Like with a Mask on" and I could not have been more in awe of her words/the thoughts she had to express on what our time here has looked like. I thought it was so incredible that I decided to bring it over here and also translate it to Portuguese for my Brazilian followers. Here's the link for the original blog if you'd like to say a...
Alrighty, what’s up my friends. I’m back. But this time I’m not sitting in Gainsville, GA at the AIM base or in my bed at home. This time I’m sitting in the upstairs lounge area of Hacienda El Refugio in Calacali, Ecuador. Crazy. And this time I’m also no longer here asking for donations or financial support because I am FULLY FUNDED! That’s right... after over a year of fundraising $15,800 to be on the race, with th...
It’s not gonna be easy, but it’ll be worth it I know you think you’re gonna hate the bucket showers, but funny enough, you’re actually going to really miss them once they’re gone Squad Leader Regan is going to make you cry. A lot. Just remember that crying is healthy and good for you and you’re going to grow a ton from every tear You and Taylor are going to split your tents who will be n...
So this is a fun story. While at Samaritan’s Purse, we met the iconic and spectacular Aretta. The funny part is that we were only at her house for like 45 minutes because all she needed was this one tree cut down in her front yard. But let me tell you, this woman was a straight firecracker and if you even thought of getting a word in, you thought wrong. I don’t think she stopped talking once while we were at her ...
Over the past two weeks that we were at Samaritan’s Purse in Foley, Alabama, it’s safe to say that my squad learned and grew a whole lot throughout the time being. I was given several opportunities while being there that allowed me to introduce the Gospel, which sometimes is a difficult thing to navigate. The concept of the simplicity of the Gospel was first legitimately brought to my attention when we were at one of...
Over the past few weeks here at Adventures, I’ve come to incredible terms with how cool it is to be immersed in diversity (not only here but in the real world too). It’s cool because I’ve seen people go about that in so many different ways. Whether that be speaking on racial reconciliation, abortion, the death penalty, or anything else semi-political, I’ve become drawn to the importance of not only talking on these t...