As our time on The World Race has come to end and we have returned home to visit with family and friends, there is one question that we have left unanswered.
“What are you doing next?”
The answer to this question is not at all a secret, but up until now we have not had a moment to properly announce what it is that God has been leading us towards since our time in Africa this past February. Over the course of the year, traveling to 12 different countries and witnessing first-hand what God is doing around the world, it has become very to clear to us what is next.
While we were greatly affected by the things we experienced this year, from holding infant orphans in Vietnam to celebrating and dancing in worship in a hut in Mozambique, nothing has affected us more than walking alongside those on our squad as they came to know the love and pursuit God has on their lives. Witnessing 30 other World Racers come alive with purpose and passion has sparked us to move farther into what God is asking us to do…
We are to serve World Racers and help rise up our generation to serve the nations.
With this next step comes more change. While we are currently enjoying our time back in the States with familiar faces and familiar foods, it will soon end. We will be leaving the country again on August 9th. We have decided to go back out on the field with The World Race for a second time. This next round will be very different, as our role will now be as squad leaders for a group of 42 new World Racers. We will be co leading along side fellow world race alum, Caitlin Woodward. We are looking forward to leading this group for the first four months of the race, as we train leaders and walk alongside the squad as they learn the day to day of the race, as well as logistical and ministry set up. After the first four months we will return to the States to allow for the squad to step into leading themselves and will remain a support to them via phone and email for the duration of their trip. We will also meet up with them briefly two additional times on the field for their mid-year and final debriefs.
We are passionately excited about this next stage in our walk. The World Race is a program that we have come to love. We believe so much in its ability to change the world through relationships and the initiation of those seeking God’s will for their lives. After experiencing it first-hand we are dedicated to helping this program grow in any way we can.
We are committed to bringing change to the world and we will do so by being the support to those God is using to bring that change!
Please join us in prayer as we walk into this next phase. We will be spending the next month and a half visiting with loved ones and support raising for this next year to cover the costs of this new position with the World Race. To find out more about how you can be involved, please email us at worldrace.alonzo@gmail.com.
Thank you and God bless!
To meet the group of new racers we are going out with check out Stacy’s photo slide show!
