This year, we’ve focused on stories inspired by our We Are the World Race Campaign. This month, we’re sharing stories inspired by women on the mission field. (Don’t worry guys, your turn is coming next month!) Our experiences with women worldwide have taught us what womanhood really means. Women are wired for intimate relationships and deep, abiding love. And even when that “love” is used to take advantage of them—things like human trafficking, prostitution, and exploitation, to name a few—women teach us about beauty, femininity, joy, and God’s love for each one of his daughters.
We shared stories of hope, stories of beauty, stories of pain, and stories of our women. But we weren’t the only ones.
You shared some pretty incredible #AdventuresInLove stories this month.
Here are some of our favorites!
“One hundred twenty roses, one hundred twenty smiles, and then some faces of confusion and shock. “FOR ME?!”
Tonight I went into strip clubs and to fake massage parlors for the first time. One was even right below where we have been living all month. The statistics are shocking, but experiencing it first hand is heartbreaking. The darkness comes alive.
The girls are real women who have been robbed of their dignity and hope, but to see the excitment they have over a little rose reminded them that they are not forgotten and they are SO loved.” – @naegnar8 and @shelby_thayer
“For so long I’ve held into this proverbial pregnancy test with both hands, cluched closely to my heart. Almost willing it to someday turn into the baby I lost. The baby that existed just long enough to change the one blue line to two pink lines. Knuckles white, my fingers locked, I haven’t been able to let it go. To not allow it to be my identity.
I haven’t found the balance between the “What-could-have-been”…and the “I-wish-it-was”. But God knew. Man, did God know.
God used this broken baby girl to heal this broken would-be momma. Ruby, abandoned at two months old to a hospital here in Hyderabad, India. Ruby, who by the grace of God survived a terrible MRSA infection and sepsis. Ruby, who was a mere 4lbs as a three-month-old. Ruby.
God placed this broken child into my broken arms, and brought freedom.” – @brittdietzman
“I have been in love every month of my race. My heart stayed in Swaziland at El Shaddai. I feel in love with the ministry, the place, and most importantly the kids and staff! This group of 9 year old girls made me laugh, dance, sing, exhausted, and cry. They showed me what love really looks like.
That sweet girl under my right arm, her name is Life. She showed me what Christ looks like. I love you in every way.” – @jena_bea
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