http://beckytaylor.theworldrace.org The World Race - Becky Taylor en-us Thu, 3 Jul 2008 20:41:50 GMT 30 http://beckytaylor.theworldrace.org/?filename=training-camp-part-1 http://beckytaylor.theworldrace.org/?filename=training-camp-part-1 I can't believe it is Tuesday already. I seriously woke up this morning and thought it was Monday. Someone had to convince me that I was wrong! These first few days of training camp have been a rigorous process of "unpacking" ourselves so that we can surrender what needs to be surrendered and receive everything the Lord wants to give us in preparation for The World Race. We have learned from incredible teachers and participated in various activities to help us unpack. One of those activi Tue, 4 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://beckytaylor.theworldrace.org/?filename=fundraising-update http://beckytaylor.theworldrace.org/?filename=fundraising-update Many people have asked me to let them know how much money still needs to be raised for this mission trip.  I am excited to say that I have raised $11,500 so far!  That leaves $1,500 that I still need.  I want to thank those who have supported me so generously already.  This is truly God's trip.  He has shaped it from the beginning and I know He will continue to shape it throughout the year.  Certainly I could not have come up with such a large sum of money m Fri, 31 Aug 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://beckytaylor.theworldrace.org/?filename=getting-closer http://beckytaylor.theworldrace.org/?filename=getting-closer I leave in one month.  Four weeks and three days from now I will be almost to Atlanta to begin training, and shortly after I will leave with my team to our first destination.  Surely I have been aware that my leaving date is getting closer and closer, but something about tomorrow being August 1st makes it seem really CLOSE.  I have "left" a lot of different times in my life.  I left for India for a month when I was 16.  I left for college in Colorado after high s Tue, 31 Jul 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://beckytaylor.theworldrace.org/?filename=fight http://beckytaylor.theworldrace.org/?filename=fight Do you ever have days when you feel like you are swinging back and forth between the truth that you know is real and the lies that seem real? The lies come from all directions: from inside our minds, from the people around us, from the mediaa constant barrage of nonsense that Satan twists and manipulates to assault us at our core. The closer I get to The World Race, the more this warfare intensifies. Putting on the full armor of God has rarely seemed so imperative to my journey as it doe Thu, 5 Jul 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://beckytaylor.theworldrace.org/?filename=total-access http://beckytaylor.theworldrace.org/?filename=total-access Total access.  It's a theme that has come up consistently in my life over the last year.  Americans are used to living in a compartmentalized reality.  For some it just makes life easier, for some it is a means to survival, and for all it is a way to deal with one thing/person/emotion while shutting everything else out. How does this compartmentalization carry over to our relationship with Jesus?  For me, I like to "allow" Jesus in to the parts of me Wed, 30 May 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://beckytaylor.theworldrace.org/?filename=where-the-spirit-of-the-lord-is http://beckytaylor.theworldrace.org/?filename=where-the-spirit-of-the-lord-is Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. And we, who with unveiled faces all reflect the Lord's glory, are being transformed into his likeness with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit. 2 Corinthians 3:17-18 I recently returned from a two-week trip to Zimbabwe, Africa with a group from my church in Kentwood, Michigan. This was my first trip to Africa, and as I reflect on my experience there the overwhelming Mon, 14 May 2007 00:00:00 GMT