WHY the World Race Gap Year!

Hi Everybody!!

I have said this on a few platforms but wanted to update it here on my official blog page! This is the page where I will be posting blog updates, pictures, and prayer/ financial requests throughout the 9 months that I will be gone! I want to say a HUGE thank you to whoever has already donated, supported, and committed to prayer! I am overwhelmed with joy by the response that so many have given already and can not wait to take everyone alongside me on this journey!

So you may be thinking why? There will be many more blogs in the next few week explaining the whole process of my decision to say YES to God, but it all started with a ride home from Guatemala city last high school trip 2020. The leader of Promise Land Ministries (the base we partner with) mentioned this program to me in full confidence that I would love it. Being me I forgot about it a day later but wrote it down unknowably why in my travel journal. 10 months later, a pandemic, 6/6 college acceptances, and an uneasiness in my future, God nudged me to look through my journals and there I saw ‘The World Race’ written in bold and my heart knew He was calling. 

However, although my heart knew, my mind was not willing but despite the hesitation, I applied and found out 4 days later that I had been accepted to this gap year. My heart wanted to commit right then and there but a day later my family and I got Covid-19. I believe God was using this forced time of rest to not only to slow me down from all other distractions, but to learn how to connect my mind and heart with each-other and his will, and truly meditate on where he was leading me.

I began to pray and pray that I would hear a voice, push, kick or, any sense of direction on what to do next year until I was humbly yet graciously reminded that Jesus had already given me the answer I needed. Matthew 28:19 says “Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.” Re-Reading that verse one night, the weight of knowing those where one of Jesus last commands to us before He died for our freedom struck me – I knew I couldn’t say no.

In full honesty I was and still am a bit terrified. Yet even in these few weeks that I have been committed – Jesus has shown up in my fear and replaced it with courage and excitement!!! He has reminded me that He has already paid the full price of fear, Judgement, and lies of this world on his shoulders, and the least I can do is follow him wholeheartedly. 

So now I am here writing to you and it does not feel real. The reality that in a short few months I will have no other responsibility except to wake up, praise, worship, and share Jesus’s love makes me jump for joy. That being said I will need to raise a good amount of money to send me off by September. I will be doing various different forms of fundraising and would appreciate any support possible! Whether its prayers, donations, or words of encouragement I am extremely grateful for your consideration!! If you have any questions please don’t hesitate to reach out! Id love to grab a coffee or have a phone call and chat more about this all!! 

Im so thankful to whoever has taken the time to read this, be involved, and come alongside me on this kingdom journey!

In christ alone, Emily Pomphrett