Hello everyone!
First of all THANK YOU THANK YOU for all of the support so far! I am amazed and so grateful by all of the times people in my life have donated money, time or ideas. I am so grateful for all of you and can’t wait to share more about this experience and what God is doing!
As a follow-up to my support letters and postings, I realize it may be helpful to give you more information about what I will be doing and the specific needs in the different countries I will be going to. A challenging part of missionary work is the uncertainty of what we will be doing. With that being said though, we will most likely be doing different serves that other World-Racers have done in the past. The following is a list of possible services we may be doing in these countries:
What we may be doing?
- Teaching English
- Painting Houses
- Planted Gardens
- Door-to-Door Evangelism
- Helping Preach in many churches
- Building relationships with the community we are in
- Partnering with different ministries: Other World Racers have partnered with Hilltop Ministries, 6:8 Ministries, Hopethiopia and other churches in the areas.
For all those prayer warriors out there, I have a list of prayer request that I would be so grateful for your support! Thank you SO much!
What can we be praying for?
- The different organizations and ministries we will be working with and encountering
- Open hearts for the people we will be meeting in the countries and airports we will be in
- My squadmates and myself, preparing emotionally, physically, financially, and spiritually for the trip ahead
- The Believers in the countries we will be going to, for safety and renewed strength
Prayer requests for each country:
- Guatemala:
- Political stability and trust between the Government and citizens
- Equal distribution of income and resources
- Nicaragua:
- Peace between the military/government and the citizens
- Country income used more for citizens than for government and leadership
- ¼ of Nicaragua are starving or suffering from malnutrition
- Costa Rica:
- Unity between families
- People to come out of poverty
- Morocco:
- The Gospel to be welcomed
- The high population of people with strong Islamic beliefs (99% of the population)
- Ethiopia:
- Freedom of the press
- New leadership elected this year be a positive change for government and citizen relationships.
- Clean water and access to markets in rural villages
- Djibouti:
- Education access (less than 30% of kids attend school)
- The high population of people with strong Islamic beliefs (94% of the population)
- India:
- Safety and freedom of religion (all religions)
- Have no segregation of the rich and poor classes
- Get rid of human trafficking and forced prostitution
- Protection for the Christian community as well as all other minorities (people & religions)
- Nepal:
- Recovery from an earthquake in April 2015
- People who are in human trafficking
- Myanmar:
- Healing heart and trust in government as well as peace for the people (Military genocide against Muslims in 2017 killing 140,000 people)
- Freedom of speech and beliefs
- Thailand:
- Equality for men and women
- Healing and other solutions for those in prostitution
- Indonesia:
- Safety for all people from different attacks
- High Muslim community
This is what I have learned from different news, facebook and other media related avenues of communication. If you know more relevant news or info about countries I will be going to please let me know!
Thank you all for all of your support, excited to see what else God will be doing through this great opportunity!
Hope you have a blessed day!
