Calling all Texas residents! The World Race and Real Life are going to be in College Station, TX this Friday, Saturday, and Sunday (February 19-21) for a weekend conference at LifeChurch.  It’ll be a time to come and learn more about the World Race and Real Life, talk with the staff, and more.  Here is the schedule: Friday, February 19th @7:00pm Location: Buffalo Wild Wings (903 University Dr. College Station, TX 77840) Any World Race or Real Life alumni are welcome to come to dinner with Michael and the staff!  It’ll be a good time to reconnect with each...

  Project Overview: It was Winston Churchill, at the beginning of the century, who said “…for magnificence, for variety of form and color, for profusion of brilliant life – plant, bird, insect, reptile, beast – for the vast scale… Uganda is truly “the Pearl of Africa.” From the Source of the Nile flowing out of Lake Victoria, to the spectacular assortment of wildlife, to the incredible hearts of the Ugandan people, Uganda truly is an incredible country. It is still recovering from civil wars that threatened to destroy its spirit, but Uganda is...

The India Real Life team is serving in a Leper Colony for part of their ministry.  Though leprosy is treatable, those in India often can’t afford it; so when someone in India contracts leprosy they are exiled to a leper colony.  As a leper dies, sometimes a family member is able to help care for them in the colony; but often they are alone.  The Lord has wrecked Kendra’s world and is continuing to use her to minister to the least of these.   As soon as we pulled into the little colony we were greeted with immediate smiles and hand shakes. You...

  Real Life: Amazon Jungle, Peru 2 months    Project Overview: Iquitos is the largest city in the Peruvian rainforest. Located on the Amazon River, the city itself can only be reached by airplane or boat. The Peruvians here are the descendants of the Incas, and many of the people of this region consider themselves separate from the rest of Peru, as they are isolated from the capital Lima by miles of jungle and the Andes Mountains. Like many Latin American areas with large indigenous populations, Peru faces high levels of poverty and inequality. Decades of political...

 Real Life: Nicaragua 2 months, 3 months   Project Overview: Nicaragua is the largest nation in Central America, and contains regions of thick rain forests, rugged highlands, and fertile farming areas. About half of Nicaragua’s territory consists of the eastern lowlands, known as the Mosquito Coast, which extend 40 miles inland from the Caribbean. Tropical rain forest covers much of the area, threaded with rivers that begin in the highlands and empty into the Caribbean. War and natural disasters, including earthquakes and hurricanes, have wreaked havoc on the area....

  World Race Exposure 1 month Project Overview: World Race Exposure is your chance to get involved with the World Race for a month this coming summer. The idea behind this new Real Life program is to submerge you in the lifestyle of a World Racer. For one month, you will be meeting up with one of the World Race teams on the field and living life with them. You’ll do what the team does, go where the team goes, and live like they live. This isn’t for the lighthearted though. World Race Exposure is a month exactly like your average month on the World Race – so...

Dear parents,   This past summer, my oldest daughter spent a month in Swaziland with the Adventures in Missions Ambassador program. At age 15, she had been to plenty of sleepovers and week-long camps. She had even been on one mission trip to Africa, but it was with me. This was her first time ever to leave the country without us and to be gone for so long. By nature, I am an over-protective, worrywart parent. I send a cell phone with my 14 year-old daughter when she goes bike riding in our neighborhood and am famous for telling everyone to wear their seat belts and lock their...