*Repost from old blog 4/15/2022 Something that every Christian has to go through at some point in their walk with the Lord is their identity. Everyone puts their identity in something. It’s what you let define you. It could be your job, your relationships, your skills, whatever.  An example I thought of just as I started writing was from Spider-Man: Homecoming. Tony tells Peter that he needs to hand over the sp...

*Repost from old blog 3/13/2022 One of the things I wanted to grow in going on the World Race was evangelism. The thing I was also most scared of when it came to the race was evangelism. Before the race, the only thing I really did to evangelize was that I invited a few people to come to church with me. That only happened three or four times. I wanted to be able to fulfill the Great Commission and learn to do it w...

*Repost from old blog 3/9/2022 The day my squad flew out from Turkey to Georgia was the same day that Russia invaded Ukraine. Having just left Ukraine in December our whole squad has been having a hard time with this. The people that we lived with and became friends with are now caught up in a war that they didn’t ask for.  The place where my team was, Mukachevo, is in the far west of the country. They are gett...

*Repost from old blog 3/1/2022 I wrote on my last blog about getting sick for a week and a half and I couldn't speak. Even after I started talking again the idea of my voice kept coming up in different ways throughout my time in Turkey. Things like trying to have more biblical conversations with my team and voicing my opinion more and the Lord giving me the opportunity to meet with a local by myself. But the one t...

*Repost from old blog 2/27/2022 For the first few days after we got to the city we were going to be spending our month in I was able to do ministry like normal. We had an orientation with our hosts and got to help out with a youth event that was taking place while the kids were on their winter break. But that Sunday when we went to the church for service my throat started hurting. Didn’t think much of it at first ...

*Repost from old blog 2/26/2022 I haven’t really written much while I’ve been here in Turkey. I haven’t felt like I’ve had much to say this month. All my ideas have either not been long enough for a blog or something I feel I shouldn’t write about, at least not yet. So God told me to write a blog just asking for prayer. I don’t expect anyone to be continuously praying for all of these every day but if you could ju...

*Repost from old blog 2/5/2022 So I know my last blog was about the start of my time in Turkey but I’m going to go back to Jordan for this blog. The two weeks after we switched teams we had ATL, which I explained what that is in some previous blogs. One of the things my team decided to do was mosque ministry. So we went to the oldest mosque in Jordan which is in downtown Amman. Mosque ministry is just going into a...

*Repost from old blog 1/29/2022 Here is a bit of an update blog about what I’ve been up to lately. When my squad left Jordan we arrived in Istanbul, Turkey. We had planned to stay in a hotel in Istanbul for our squad’s third out of five debriefs that we have on the race. And we did stay there, just a lot longer than intended, which I’ll get into a bit later.  The idea of debrief is to spend time together wit...

*Repost from old blog 1/11/2022 Back in Kosovo, I was told that I focus a lot on my defeats and setbacks in my faith and not really on the victories that the Lord gives, however big or small they are. Then on Friday, January 7th, the Lord reminded me of this and then again when I was talking with one of my teammates later that day. In all honesty, this blog might be written just for me to remember them and if that...

*Repost from old blog 1/7/2022 Jordan has a very long history going all the way to biblical times. This country was partly owned by the ancient Israelites with the tribes of Reuben, Gad, East Manasseh having their tribal allotments here and the later kingdom of Israel also. And other parts of the country were owned by Moab and Edom. At the Jordan Museum in Amman, I read a tablet written by the king of Moab about f...