*Repost from old blog 9/16/2021 Month 1 of the World Race is done and sadly so is my time in Romania. But now we are in our second country, Albania. But I want to share a bit about the people of Romania from what I got to see from the one week that I was out in the city. Like most people, I try to find similarities between myself and the people I meet. It was no different when I came to Romania. Of course, diff...

*Repost from old blog 9/10/2021 While we’ve been in Romania our partner here in Craiova has been Hope Church. My entire squad of 34 people is staying at the pastor’s house. His name is Raul and his wife’s name is Ana. They are amazing people. Raul has so much knowledge and wisdom about the Bible and the Lord. He will challenge you in making you know why you believe what you believe. I don’t think there has been...

*Repost from old blog 9/2/2021 As I said in one of my previous blogs (which you can read here) a lot of people on my squad got covid immediately as we got to Romania. I didn’t get it so I and the 9 others who were healthy had to still isolate for 14 days as best we can from the rest of our squad while still living in the same building. We all had no symptoms and on the 14th day, we were going to get tested for cov...

*Repost from old blog 8/26/2021 In the World Race community, there is this thing called Keys for the Journey. It’s the opportunity to buy a  key and the person who makes it asks the Holy Spirit for a word to give you and they engrave the word on the key. The word is meant for your own personal spiritual growth and wearing the key around your neck as a reminder of what you are working towards. When you're about to ...

*Repost from old blog 8/17/2021 I wish I could say that after a few days of being in Romania that the ministry has already been amazing and we were joining our ministry partner in building deeper relationships with the community. However, I can’t because immediately after arriving we had to isolate ourselves. On Friday, August 13th my squad and I arrived at the place we are staying at in Craiova, Romania at aro...

*Repost from old blog 8/14/2021 As with anyone who does the World Race there were some obstacles that I had to overcome to get here on the Race. For most people that came in the form of fundraising. It's daunting raising $18,700. My main worry however was that the race wasn’t the best way for me to go down the path of long-term missions. I was thinking that while it would be amazing and the Lord would do great thi...

*Repost from 7/22/2021 I wasn't planning on writing another blog before I launched but I feel like I left some things unsaid about training camp. In my time there God has been calling me to a deeper level of trust and obedience than what I had already. I can think of multiple examples of this.  There were multiple times throughout the week where I felt God telling me to pray over someone or to go and talk to so...

*Repost from old blog 7/18/2021 Yesterday I came home from my training camp for the World Race in Gainesville, GA. It was a truly amazing week. So much learning, fellowship, preparation, and fun took place over this last week. I have to say the best part for me was actually getting to meet all the people that are going on the World Race with me. The people that I get to call my family for the next year. It was ...

*Repost from old blog 6/25/2021 Hey everyone, it's been a while. I haven’t forgotten to post. I just haven’t felt like I’ve had much to put here, not until after training camp happens. Which is just over two weeks away. It’s hard to believe it’s coming up so soon it felt like it was a lifetime away when I first applied back in September last year. But training camp starts July 10 and I’ll be gone for a week so I c...

*Repost from old blog 4/28/2021 If you can’t tell by the title, I’m officially fully funded for the World Race. I started fundraising right around Thanksgiving, last year. So in just over five months $18,000 has been raised (I started fundraising with about $700 already there from my previous trips). Fundraising did not go anything like I expected it to go. I expected to just barely be hitting each fundraising dea...