We recently started sending teams on mission trips to the African country of Uganda. It has become a well-loved place for World Racers, Real Life participants, and others who have visited this country that is rich in love and generosity, despite some of the horrors she has endured.   Last year, we launched a blog to catalog the experiences of our college-age participants who were serving in Uganda. Here are some of the highlights (click the titles to read the whole blog post) from the summer:   To the numerous Ugandans we nearly hit we were little more than a big blue blur...

Ever since she first learned about human trafficking at a Sara Groves concert, Tamara Powers had studied and researched the issue. Then on the World Race, last month, she got to encounter it first hand in Cambodia: A single day of my little life. Such drastic things. Words really don’t flow well over this event.   Holding hands with a young girl, HIV positive, tuberculosis, and pregnant. Only knowing how to sell her body. watching a man enter a tiny building and forcing my brain to not picture what will happen. Looking into the eyes of teenagers knowing what all the research...

What if you spent next Christmas overseas… in the mission field?   What if, instead of exchanging gifts with family and friends, you shared the hope of Christ with those who have never heard the gospel?   What if?   Have you ever thought of spending Christmas in the mission field?   Watch the following video and consider how next Christmas could be different — whether you’re in Haiti, Kenya, or Cambodia.   If you’re thinking about spending next Christmas in the mission field and you’re 21-35 years old, consider going on the World...

In October, 22 year old Emily Tuttle of Duluth, Ga. was in training in the rural northern part of her home state for the World Race.  She, along with over a hundred other young-adults, begins her trip in January in Haiti, then will minister in South America, Southeast Asia and conclude in East Africa. But Tuttle already grew up with the world at her doorstep; her family lived in a neighborhood populated primarily by recent immigrants.  Whereas her classmates from her Christian school were mostly white, her friends and neighbors were diverse not only in culture and...