Whats up family 🙂
Training camp…wow, kind of felt like a dream to me. I’ve been home for four weeks now and not a day has gone by where I have not thought about it, my new people, and my great God who did some radical things those 8 days.
World Race training camp is intended to prepare us for life on the field. Life on the field entails many unknowns and is totally unpredictable so they try to arrange training camp to be the same. I tried not to do a lot of digging prior to training camp because I figured I just winged it, and to be honest I didn’t really have any expectations about what I was about to encounter. I wasn’t sure just how far it would stretch me.
Training camp looked like this: 8 days in October tenting in pouring down rain, finally getting to hug the people I had interacted with on my phone, taking cold bucket showers, ate many meals with our hands, sitting through hours upon hours of sessions, dance parties all day everyday, worshipping around a campfire, doing business in porta-potties, bonding with my squad, being surrounded by a community of salt and light, people ablaze for the pursuit of the Gospel, and exploring the possibilities of what life could look like over the next 11 months. But looking back, training camp was so fruitful and a beautiful thing I was able to experience. I miss it now, haha.
During training camp, everyday I would get memories of God’s faithfulness that I hadn’t thought of in ages would come to me as I was hearing men and women teach or as I was resting in prayer or as I was crying laughing with my teammates. I was pushed emotionally, spiritually, physically, and in every other way humanly possible over those 8 days. Jesus really was changing and shaping my heart and mind, empowering me in every possible way. I am living for Him now. I saw Jesus in so many ways, especially in the people on my squad and Adventures staff. I made long lasting friendships.
I left every sermon feeling peaceful. Passionate. Encouraged. Inspired
I walked away from camp hungry for more of God and beyond pumped to launch to Costa Rica in January!!!!!! Huge thank you to everyone who was praying for me while I was at training camp and whoever is continuing to pray for my journey. Love you all big!
till next time 🙂
mace
