So yeah..............I'm at Search Light and I'm telling you it's FANTASTIC!
Coaches, mentors, teachers, Seth's galore! It's all here. Ok, that was my sales pitch. Here is the truth:
This week has been totally devoted to us alumni racers. AIM and Seth Sr. have pulled all his resources and brought them to us. We have been surrounded by incredible, honorable, great men and women of God and influence. They have poured into us everything they have. This has been a place where we can talk about those wild, crazy, out of reach Kingdom Dreams and are seeing that they are ACTUALLY possible.
Let me give you an example:
I came with my Kingdom Dream and now I have .com business! Yep! Kayzaa is my new business. I will keep you all updated.
Kingdom Dreams is great and all World Race alumni should come. It is one of the best decisions you will make for your future.
So how do I explain it? How do I summarize the past 11
months? How is that even possible?
I have come to the conclusion that
it isn't. There is no way to write a cute little blog wrapping up what I have
experienced during this journey. What I will do is continue to actually write
blogs about all the experiences and memories I have from the past months. I am
committing to writing at least a blog a week. I know the timing seems off
because we are supposed to be doing that anyway but I have had time to process
and am ready to share. I'm going to share EVERYTHING! All the emotions,
precious moments, hard times, good times, embarrassing times, and everything in
between. I will be completely transparent and vulnerable. Two characteristics
that I must admit I did not bestow pre-race.
What I can say for now is YES, I am
different. I am the same Jeannie in some aspects but expect to see changes.
Changes for the better, changes that needed to occur in my life in order for
growth and healing to have taken place. And boy oh boy I needed A LOT of
healing. See, for most all my life I was that girl that responded with, "I'm
fine," or "Everything is ok." When most of the time it wasn't. There were
problems and pain. There was also a little girl screaming on the inside, I'm
not as strong as I seem. We all have "junk" in our lives. I'm no exception. I
didn't have the perfect childhood and I wasn't the most popular or the star
cheerleader. I just held everything in.
Guess what? When you sign up for a
community like the World Race you say goodbye to holding everything in and
carrying the burden all alone. I entered into a family that said: Jeannie, we
love you despite it ALL. And when they said ALL, they meant ALL. I have shared
stories, experiences, trials, and victories. You name it and I have shared it.
These people have become my family. They love me enough to carry some of my
burden. They cover me in prayer and encouragement. They also call out the
things in me that could be better. How else could I grow and change if actual
change doesn't occur? In doing so, I know it all comes from a love they have
for me. Does it sometimes hurt? Yes. Is it sometimes embarrassing? Yes. Has it
made me better and refined me? Absolutely!
What now? Now I reenter "life." My
family, supporters, friends, and community wait. I enter back into my old world
where things are just different. Community will be different. We hear from just
about every Alum Word Racer that re-entry is hard. I can prepare myself as best
as I know but I will need help from YOU. I'm not even sure what that help
should look like. I'm asking every one of you to cover me in prayer. Pray for discernment
regarding the next step in my life is. Pray for direction. Pray for my family.
Pray for financial favor (missionaries aren't exactly rollin' in the dough!)
Pray I walk out the call that God has placed on my life, and please pray that I
see the dreams Jesus has for me!
I give all of you permission to go
deeper with me. I open my heart to deeper more meaningful relationships. Ask me
the hard questions, challenge me to be better, and insist I walk more Christ
like every day. There will be mistakes and there will be errors. Have grace
with me. I promise to extend the same grace our Father has given to me the best
I can to you.
Thank you all for supporting me
through this incredible journey. Thank you for praying for me and loving me.
Thank you for having grace when I don't post blogs regularly, lol.I have one week left at final debrief with
the squad then I am stateside again. I look forward to sharing more with you in
the weeks to come so stay tuned!
An update from our outreach in the village. For those who are wanting to donate, the paypal link is down. We are trying hard to get it back yup and running. Keep checking for more updates. Thank you Theresa for editing all the videos.
Happy Mother's Day to all you mothers out there. I love you all for.
The first night we hold a "church service" in the remote
village Jesus shows up and shows off.
Our days consist of outreaching to the families of the
village we are staying in for 3 weeks. We break into teams of 3 and walk door
to door telling people who we are and why we are here. We must take
interpreters with us because English is not a language people here learn.
Nonetheless, we are able to communicate the best we can that we are staring a
church in their village and we would like for them to join us in "church
fellowship. After the time and place is conveyed, we are off to the next home.
This is where things get interesting. There are children at
almost every home we visit and they LOVE these new white people. This is the
first time around 90% of the people here have seen any white person. Imagine
the look on their faces when they see me, this extremely white girl coming to
see them. They are delighted when we want to come in their homes. They
don't even ask why you are there. It seems every home has a "guest bed." This
is a 4 post contraption that sits maybe 3 feet off the ground and is made of
intercrossed ribbons of fabric. We hold our breaths each time we sit down in
fear if breaking them. So, they pull these things out in the yard usually and
offer us a seat and sit cross legged on the ground in anticipation of what we
have come to say.
As we journey from one home to the next, which is about 4
feet until you reach the next small one bedroom home, we notice we have a
following. The residents of each home follow us to the next home. At house #5
instead of talking to the 4 people that live there, it has turned into 30+
people. They stand and sit with eager faces and graciously offer us an orange,
banana, or juice as a small thank you for gracing them with our presence. Their
hospitality should be a lesson to us.
After only 2 days of invites and visits we hold our first
"church meeting. Allow me to paint a picture of how this looks. All we have is
a 2 bedroom home with a tiny porch and a 50x50 ft yard, if that, and 9 white
people excited to share about this man named Jesus. After all, Jesus tells us
he has fully equipped us so what more did we need?Just for Him to show up and that He did!
Even though the sun had set, the heat is still unbearable.
We were all dripping with sweat and hadn't even begun the service. Instead of
making everyone more miserable and cramming into this tiny home, we spread a
large tarp down for everyone outside and began. You would think we had this
grand plan going into this but all we did was pray for the Holy Spirit to guide
us and we went for it. The adults and children we separated into 2 groups so
our teachings could be more customized to ages. I was the one standing in front
of all the children, approximately 15-20, so lucky me, I started talking to them
first. It started with "Tonight I'm going to tell you about this man named
Jesus......," I told a simple story on a child's level to best explain who he was
and is today and why we need him in our hearts. They were captivated by what
they were hearing. I remember one moment noticing Michael wasn't talking to the
adults like he was supposed to be. Everyone was listening to me including all
the adults and all the team. No pressure..........right! The enemy tried using that
moment to distract me but I could feel every one of my team members praying for
me.
Out of complete holy spirit God driven boldness I finished
my simple story with " Ok, now who wants to know this cool man, Jesus? And who
wants to ask him into their hearts?"
Every child's hand went up! I was expecting 2 at the most,
and I knew that would be expecting a lot. I looked at my team with a sort of
what do I do now look and Leyna just says," keep going." I led those children
through the prayer of salvation and they accepted this man name Jesus into
their hearts for the first time.
Words will never be able to describe what God did in that
moment. It was His words, His moment, His timing, and most importantly His
children entering the Kingdom of God.
Those children WILL be a light to their parents,
friends, neighbors, teacher, and their own families.
As I am finishing up the last chapter of Captivating, I set
the book down to take the children to the park. The chapter ends with a request
to ask God to show you his beauty and to show what he created just for me.
I spent some time in prayer asking for these things and for my eyes to be
opened to His beautiful creations and the things he finds beauty in. I asked
him to romance me.
We spent time with the children in the park overlooking the
countryside of Nepal. The kids loved going to the park. They run, laugh, play
in dirt, you know all the things that make kids happy. On our walk back to the
orphanage we noticed the clouds were thick and low. Holding on to small hands
as we walk down the street, we look to the right and see the most amazing,
breathtaking, stop you in your tracts sigh I have ever seen. Literally!
Through two tall building and through all the murky clouds we
see the mountains exposed with their snow capped tips staring us in the face.
It was a scene straight out of National Geographic. They appeared close enough to
run up to and touch. Theresa, Jordan, and I stood still in the road and admired God's
beautiful creation. For about 30 seconds none of us said a word. We hurried to
the orphanage to get to the roof for a better view. Once again we marveled
at his creation. We talked among ourselves for maybe 2 minutes, looked back and
there appeared a beautiful rainbow coming out of the mountains. It had not
rained that day. Now He was showing off, and we were absorbing everyminute.
I immediately remember what I asked God for just earlier that morning.
This was for me. This moment was mine to keep forever. I knew pictures would
never do justice what we were seeing but I couldn't resist trying to capture
it. I stood there on that roof and experienced God, my father, in a new and
intimate way. He loves me so much he wanted to romance me. Me! Of all people,
me.He delights in me and I in Him.
This month team Zion and team Hadassah are headed into a rural Indian village to plant a church. Partnering with Indian Christian Ministries (ICM), we have the opportunity to literally reach the unreached in one of the world's most densely populated countries. We will spend the next 3 weeks living amongst the people of a small village building a community around us.
As part of the process, we are going to be looking for someone to donate a plot of land that the church will be built on. After we establish the plot, we will physically be building the church structure, and this is where we really need your help. In order to erect the church we need to raise $2,000 in the next two weeks. Between the nine of us here, each one only needs to raise $220.
Our squad has been fully funded because of the hundreds of thousands of dollars generously donated by our friends, family, churches, and even complete strangers. We know first-hand how God provides for His children, and we are asking for more of his favor as we tackle this next endeavor.
If you have ever wanted to preach the Gospel to someone who has never heard it, to reach out a hand to a community who has no church, or plant a seed in the hearts of people who have never heard about our God's love, please help us in this challenge. Every amount helps, and we fully believe, by God's grace, this church will be raised before we leave.
It doesn't end with finances, though, we need a team of people back home praying for us as we go into this village and reach this community. We know how powerful our prayer warriors across the world have been in the last 9 months, and we truly couldn't be here without all of you.
At the end of each week, we'll have the opportunity to update you on our progress in the village, as we'll be coming back into town each Friday. We want you to be a part of this with us, each step of the way.
Step up, reach out, and love our brothers and sisters in India who need to know the love and hope of Jesus Christ.
To donate to our fund please click HERE. Thank you.
Myself and 5 others WILL be sent home in 2 days if we don't become fully funded !
Christopher Garcia, Jeannie Moore, Curt Devine, Lacey Malcomson, Leyna Quintero and Janelle King do not have plane tickets booked to India because they are not fully funded.They will be flying home. unless you help. Lacey, Curt & myself are all on the same team!!!
AIM cannot purchase our tickets on MONDAY if they are not fully funded by SUNDAY MARCH 20TH.
You have hours to make a difference in their lives and the lives & eternities of hundreds around the world. Save A Life.
I know this is drastic and sudden, but we just got the news and the weight of it is heavy.
I cannot do this race without them. R Squad cannot finish this race without them. The Lord has provided OVER FOUR HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS for R squad thus far. $400,000 people! We are only in need of around $13,000.NOTHING for what God can do. Nothing we as the body of Christ cannot do right?
I am asking you, pleading you to help in any way you can. AIM is asking for donations and they will even take pledges. ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS MAKE A PROMISEof something you can give between now and July. All you need to do is email me at tduffy10@elmira.edu telling me what you can donate and I will pass the information along. ANY AMOUNTWILL HELP. Do not let the enemy win by saying 5 dollars will not do anything, it will. Please pass this blog along to anyone who will read it.
I also am asking you to cover them in prayer, and our squad, as this is a heavy and stressful time for all of us. Perfect Love casts out all fear.
We have 48 hours to watch God do a miracle... or as I like to think it throw some chump change around.
Myself: just click the SUPPORT ME tab or email me and tell me you would like to pledge an amount !
Chris Garcia: http://christophergarcia.theworldrace.org
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So in
spending so much time with Jesus and asking him to speak to me, he has. He has
opened my eyes to so much. I see things differently, I love differently, and I
forgive differently now. I can do all these things now because before I was
trying to do them on my own but couldn't. None one can have breakthrough and
freedom in their life when trying to do it on their own. I was trying for so
long to be something I thought was right. Be someone I thought was pleasing.
All the while God was trying to tell and show me that HIS way and HIS plans for
my life were better than I could ever accomplish. Sadly, I was scared to give
up all control to him because I thought that would be me living a boring
Christian life. Oh was I wrong! Living and walking in freedom brings so much
joy, a joy that we can't get from anywhere else. A joy that other people can't
even give us.
I have
made so many mistakes in my life. I'm only 26 years old but I have made more
mistakes and messed up more than a lot of people I know. But you know what?
That is ok. God says "In me, all things are made clean again." That means
despite anything we have done in this world, we have the amazing GRACE from God
for him to FORGIVE us. God sent Jesus, his ONLY son to be brutally crucified
and humiliated in front of everyone just so that when we as humans sin, we can
be forgiven. FORGIVEN!!! When Jesus forgives us that doesn't mean he wipes it
away for a year or two. It means he keeps no record of us even sinning. When we
keep bringing it up and punishing ourselves it is like sending Jesus to the
cross all over again. He doesn't even remember sins we committed once we asked
for forgiveness. There is one very hard part to this though. It is forgiving
OURSELVES! Once God has said you are forgiven, we must forgive ourselves. I
have realized in my own walk that this is one, if not the hardest thing for us
to do as humans. We want to keep record of wrongs committed against us and we
even keep record of wrongs we do. How can we do that if we expect God to let
our past go when we can't. So this is how you do it.
First,
you pray A LOT! You talk to Jesus. Talk to him like he is your closest friend.
We shouldn't view him as this big voice in the sky. He isn't. He is our FATHER.
Just like you love your children, he loves us a million times that much. And
when we hurt, he hurts worse. So talk to Jesus and say: "Lord, thank
you. Thank you for all you have done for me. Thank you for protecting me,
loving me, and most importantly dying to save my life. Thank you God for sending
your son to die and save my sins. I confess I am a sinner. I confess I am need
you in my life. COME INTO MY LIFE NOW JESUS. COME ITO MY HEART NOW JESUS!!!!!!
Save my soul and make me a new creation. Wipe away all my sins, wipe away all
my shame, wipe away all my pain. Fill me up with your love, Father. Show me how
to love like you do. I can't do this alone Jesus, and I confess I need you to
take control of my life. ANYTHING THAT IS NOT OF YOU LIVING INSIDE OF MY MUST
BE GONE IN THE NAME OF JESUS. I love you Lord and I worship you. Thank you
Jesus for the work you are doing in me and my families lives. AMEN !!
It is as
simple as that. In order to ever be happy and live a peaceful, truly happy life
this is how we must do it. It is the best decision you have ever made in your
entire life, I PROMISE. It is crazy because you will be able to sit back and
literally watch things change in your life and in your heart. Sadness starts to
leave you. Disappointment leaves you. God has so many blessings he can't wait
to pour all over you but he won't do it if we aren't living for him. Why would
he if we aren't loving and worshiping him? God is a jealous God. He tells us
that. This is how it all has to begin. Following him won't be easy because as
soon as you start living for Jesus the enemy will try even harder to get you
back living for the world. The devil can't stand us even talking to Jesus. He
loves to hear thanks. He loves for you to talk to him. Tell him everything, I
mean he already knows but he wants to be close to us. At first it may feel
awkward but the more you do it, the more you feel like he is your close
intimate friend.
The
hardest thing to do is to FORGIVE ourselves. Think of the worst, most
discussing thing you have ever done in your life...... really do it now. Ok, even
that thing you just thought of is forgiven and never to be remember by God ever
again. Isn't that amazing? It is hard for us to comprehend that but it is how
Jesus works. He has so much grace that we as humans can't understand it. BUT,
we have to ask Him for more grace in order to forgive ourselves. Forgiving
myself didn't happen overnight. Trust me when I say it takes prayer. I am still
dealing with issues myself but there is so much I have forgiven myself for and
the freedom I can literally feel. Weight has come off me. It's crazy. You even
start walking lighter.
My team
has been praying for healing and blessings, and for generational curses to be
broken off our families. Prayer works. None of us want to keep living like we
are. It's time for a change, and that time is now. We are all committed to
doing our part. It's going to get rough but we can do it. You can be happy
again. Truly happy like when you were carefree as a child. It all starts with
forgiveness.
I want
to express the best way I can that you are WORTH? You are worthy of all the
love God has to give. God loves you just as much as he loves a newborn child.
Crazy, huh? It's true. He does. When he looks at you he sees his BEAUTIFUL son/daughter
that he created individually. He took time to create you hair by hair, cell by
cell. He knew you before you were even in your mother's womb. That is how much
he loves you AND MORE! His heart breaks and he weeps when you don't believe you
are WORTHY. YOU are worthy of other's love. I don't care what your past holds.
HE holding no records of wrongs you have ever committed. I, nor anyone has any
right to judge or hold bitterness for anything in your past. You are WORTHY.
You are WORTHY of love. You are WORTHY to be called Jesus' beautiful son/daughter.
You are WORTHY of respect. You are WORTHY of honor. You are WORTHY of
forgiveness. YOU ARE WORTHY! YOU ARE WORTHY! I can't tell you enough times. You
are!
You no
longer have to live carrying around baggage of the past. You don't have to
carry those on your heart anymore. God is the ONLY thing that can release those
things from your life. We let things of our past control us. Sometimes we don't
even realize that our day to day decisions are influenced by what we carry around
with us from the past. Depression, anger, hurt, pain, weakness, turmoil,
bitterness, and anything else in our lives CAN BE GONE! What if didn't live
with any of those things? You don't have to. We are in this together. You are
not alone. You have family that loves you. You have friends that love you. You
have a people that loves you. You have a FATHER that loves you. We love you
because you are WORTHY! You were no accident. You are on this earth because God
wanted you here and he has a plan for your life.
I have a
challenge for you. Once a day, give someone a compliment. We call this
FEEDBACK. But this is going to be positive feedback. It can be telling someone
you appreciate them. It can be saying thank you for something done especially
for you. It can be telling your family you love them, intentionally. ANYTHING
positive. And believe me, it will be hard to do this every day. There will be
some days where you don't want to say or do anything nice for anyone but
speaking things out loud are so powerful. I really hope you will do this for
me. I'm not asking you because it will be easy but I'm asking because I love
you. And know that other people aren't always going to respond the way WE want
them to. So when you give your positive feedback, give it not expecting
anything in return. I promise you, it will bring you joy mom. Speak these
things out OK. I know you love me enough to do this. J
Declarations
for you!
You are created
perfectly. You are beautiful. You are smart. You are loved. You are caring. You
are uniquely made. You are WORHTY.You
are a good person. You are an AMAZING child of God. You are loved. You are
appreciated. You are deserving of all God's love. Tell yourself these things
when you are feeling down. Ask God to renew your strength when everything seems
crazy and hard. Thank him for any and everything EVERYDAY. Talk to him every
day. Just like we give our bodies food every day, we must take of him everyday
too. I can't wait to get back from the village and read your response after
reading this and saying aloud all that is up top in red. There is no judgment.
Only love and honor.
After 172 days of ministry in six different countries, we (R-squad) have seen God do some incredible things. From restoring the lives of gangsters in The Philippines to redeeming women in the sex trade of Thailand and healing crippled widows in Kenya, He has made the impossible possible. The journey is only half over and yet we've already seen that the Kingdom of Heaven is more than an abstract idea or a fantasy to hope for-it's a reality to live in. In the next five months, we plan to take this kingdom to Tanzania, Nepal, India, Ukraine and Romania. We will continue to be the hands and feet of Christ, working for the least of these, loving the world as God loves it-but we need your help.
As a squad (31 members), we owe about $30,000 by March 15. Knowing that God has been faithful to get us this far, we have full confidence that He will continue to provide. But for the sake of glorifying His name and staying united as a squad, we want to take care of this burden together and meet the deadline once and for all. Whether you're a broke college student or fortune 500 big shot, we want to invite you to take part in what God is doing in and around us, no matter the amount. Let's show the world that money isn't an issue when it comes to bringing Christ to the nations.
We have two options available for giving. You can follow the Paypal link below and give any amount to our squad. This account is NOT tax deductible. Tax deductible donations can be made into the AIM accounts of individual racers linked below (jeanniemoore.theworldrace.org). The Paypal account is a general fund for the squad, co-managed by our squad leaders, Michael Perez and Joni Viets. Any extras funds will be used for ministry opportunities that arise on the field. We're excited to see the miracle God is about to do.
Thanks and much love,
-R-squad
Paypal: http://bit.ly/eTzz5g
Racers needed to be fully funded by March 14 !!!
To all my supporters: I need $3,400 to be fully funded. Thank you for supporting my with over $10,000 already! God is so great.
