Mulling It Over

Well, I’m finally here. I’m sitting in my pretty awesome house in Gainesville, Georgia. Technically I’ve been here since September 12 th , but this is the first time life has slowed down enough for me to actually give everyone an update! Let me begin by saying that I am extremely pleased with my decision to come here. It’s been something of a non-stop ride since I got here, and I’ve loved it. Being at the Adventures in Missions headquarters is awesome. I could probably sit here and talk about how cool everything is, but then you’d never actually know what I’m doing! So I’ll talk about that instead. To preface, God has taught and spoke to me about a ton of different things in the short span I’ve been here. I mean, I’ve learned new lessons and re-learned old ones. Now that I think about it, it’s been kinda crazy. I’ll try and be brief to let you hear a bit about some of them! The first week we were here was called “Ramp Up Week.” Basically it was a week long orientation ...

Last week I was at Project Searchlight. It was amazing. A truly incredible time of worship and self-discovery through God. It’s essentially a time where all the squads that launched together come to Gainesville, Georgia for a week and hang out while learning more about what God has for them. It’s a time to be poured into by alumni racers, and the staff of AIM as well as many others. During this time I felt a huge push with my calling. I felt encouraged, emboldened, and just plain excited. Ready to go running into whatever God has for me. Ready to get shoulder deep in the issues of the American church. But more about that in a different blog. I wanted to address something else in this post. I wanted to send a message to the preceding generations. A message that is more or less on behalf of my own generation.  I wanted everyone to know that we’re coming. We’re on our way. By “we” I mean my generation. And by “coming” I mean we’ve heard our callings. We’ve hea...

Fundraising for CGA is in full swing. This post is just a quick update on where I am funding wise, and how much I need to keep on going. Currently I have $487 in my account, which is great! A lot more than I started with. I need to have $2,300 in my account by September 12 th . Which is in 9 days. My overall financial goal is $4,500 by November 1 st . While this isn’t a very long time, I have full faith that this is where I am supposed to be and that God will provide! God is going to use this period at CGA to train and equip me for what’s next in my life. Which I fully believe to be helping to fix the American church. I wanna ask two things of you as I continue this process. First, please pray for me as I fundraise. Prayer is both cheap and powerful, so please pray that I meet my financial deadlines. God hasn’t hung me out to dry yet, and I don’t think He will. But a little prayer never hurt. Secondly, while praying please consider partnering with me fi...

You no doubt have ready my blog about re-entry. It’s not the most fun thing to go through. One of my biggest issues was dragging myself out of bed and actually doing something. Specifically when it came to fundraising for CGA. Or blogging. Or anything really. I’m a bit of an external processor. I have to either talk, type, or write my way through issues or thoughts. So one night I was typing away on my laptop when a thought hit me that has really changed the way I do my day to day life in the States. First a little background. On the Race we’d have a different set of contacts every month. Each had different needs, and different things they wanted us to do. Different schedules and different environments. One unspoken rule on my squad was that you did WHATEVER the contact wanted/needed. We are servants first. Our own needs did not generally come before the needs of our contact. And our comfort zone NEVER came before the ministry. Which is why I’ve done the YMCA in front ...