I wanted to start by saying how truly blessed I am! I have raised a little over $14,000 which includes future monthly giving! God's hand has been firmly on my support raising and I praise him every day with how well it is going! I am so thankful for all my supporters who are getting me closer and closer to what the Holy Spirit is guiding me to do. God has surprised me during my fundraising journey. Everyone's generosity and the amount people have and are giving is beyond what I imagined back when I had not yet started to raise money. God's love and provision is bigger than what my pea sized brain could have thought of. He is going to get me out into this world who desperately needs Jesus. The prayers, encouragement, help from friends, family and even strangers is God's way of telling me he will. Praise God! 

 

I am about to go to Training Camp in less than a week and meet all the fellow Christians I am going to be doing the World Race with! I am so excited to meet them and I know we will all become great friends. I have been preparing myself for Training Camp and the journey in general physically, mentally and spiritually. I have been praying constantly, reading God's Word, overcoming temptations and sins, going to Bible studies, hosting zoom meetings for friends who are doing World Race with me, getting fit, going hiking, and working. I have been working hard in prepartion for this trip and honestly in becoming a better person. I want to become the man God wants me to be, a holy man of God. I am not going to be perfect because that's what I hear when God has called us to be holy but it actually means to be set apart. I desire to be set apart from the ways of the world and stay in the ways of God. "For to set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace." Romans 8:6. God has used this verse to help me in my mind battles because a lot of the times there is chaos up in there. When I am flooded by bad or condemning thoughts this verse gives me a direction I can go to. I can set my mind on the Spirit where there is life and peace. I used to let the devil make my mind his playground because I did not know how to get rid of the thoughts and lies he was putting in my mind. Now I read the truth from God's word and it has set me free. It's so amazing how much I have changed now that I use the word of God as a weapon against the devil's condemnations and lies that used to make me feel like I was worthless. Now that I believe who God says I am, I know that I am loved and that He can use me. I am not the devil's victim, I am a warrior in Christ.  Once I started believing that, I knew World Race was the journey God had for me so that I can love others and so the truth can set them free too. 

 

Thank you so much to everyone who has been praying and supporting me financially! God bless you!