If you love the Lord, love the Gospel, and love to travel... this is the trip for you. You'll live in at least 11 cultures while traveling through many more, sharing the love of Christ at every turn.
Read more about the World Race at www.theworldrace.org, including blogs from racers, pictures, and videos.
50+ young people racing around the world for a year: 11 countries in 11 months - ministering the hope of Jesus Christ as they go!
People in their 20 and 30's need to take a year of their lives to live like Jesus lived while traveling around the world. Most 20-somethings have never been initiated into the abundant life that Jesus promised. They look at American Christianity and say, Is this all there is?
The World Race will put you through the initiation process by taking you on an epic pilgrimage. Along the way, you will minister to the poorest of the poor, befriending those who have no friends and in the midst of the sorrow and pain, experiencing God in a new way without the trappings of success.
As one World Racer describes the year ahead, I will be discipled and trained in ministry and missions. It will be hard and I am scared at how it might change me, but I feel that it is what God wants for this period of my life.
What separates the World Race from many of the other mission trips is that for those who are serious about committing to a lifetime of radically following Jesus, it isn just another experience; it a commitment to a transformational discovery process.
Simplicity and servanthood are at the heart of the World Race. When teams travel, they do so cheaply. In many places, you will stay in tents or wherever people invite you to stay, just as Jesus instructed his disciples to do. As you go, you will seek to serve partner ministries that are caring for the marginalized of this world. You will partner with them to establish long-term Kingdom works that will last long after you leave.
Jesus-followers need to find something worth dying for to truly live. On the World Race, you will go through a two year experience with your team to get there, beginning the discipleship six months in advance, and continuing it six months after you return.
World Racer James Gilbert said this in advance of his January departure: I believe that by taking a year of my life and intentionally learning to live as Jesus lived, touching the poor, learning to live on little, I will become the world changer that God intended me to be. I got one life to live and I want to commit to making it the radical life that Jesus himself modeled. I know I learn to abandon all that has made my life comfortable and will learn to depend on him as I never had to before.
