Hey everybody! I am SO excited to go on The World Race, but it took me awhile to get here. So here is my story:

Last year, I was at camp, and my mom heard about the World Race from one of our guides who had done it. My mom told me about it later, and I told her there was no way I was going to do it. Months later in September, I decided to look it up. I wasn't sure what I was going to do after high school, and felt like I needed to figure something out. So I searched World Race Gap year, and clicked the link to the website. After looking around, and watching some videos, I decided that it looked awesome... for some people. But there was no way I could possibly go away from home, living in foreign countries for that long. Yet I kept finding myself back on the World Race website, wanting to learn more. By the time it was November, I had just given up on the idea. Something else you should know is that I have never really liked most academics. Math and science were very difficult, and I just had trouble seeing the point of it all. But then while I was praying on my way to youth group one day, God spoke to me. He told me that if school was easy for me, I wouldn't have looked up the World Race. Looking back, I realized that it was true. It was then that I knew that I had to go. I had to say yes to the World Race, and all God was calling me to do.

So here I am, not exactly sure what I'm getting into, but ready to live out whatever God has in store for me! Thanks for taking the time to read my blog!

Korina Crowder