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How God Used the World Race to Change My Life

Like many young adults graduating from high school, Shanan Zavocki was bombarded with decisions about the future. Do I want to go to college? Where do I want to go to college? What do I want to do as a career? What job do I want? What’s God’s plan for my life? What should I do next? What’s the right path? So much opportunity at her fingertips, and so much stress on her shoulders. She thought about taking a Christian gap year for a long time. But even choosing a gap year program felt like another big decision to make. She heard about the World Race: Gap Year, but originally...

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3 Hard Truths About the World Race

adapted from Emma Austin. Maybe you’ve been scrolling through the website or even an Instagram profile, trying to understand what the World Race really is. The truth about the World Race is it’s a mission trip for you to serve others and hear the voice of God. But it’s also so much more than your average mission trip. It’s a step outside of what you know. It’s a chance to be part of what God is doing and to understand who He is beyond your own life and culture. The reality is that once you do that, you’re also going to learn some things about yourself as...

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What do you do on Gap Year?

So you’re graduating from high school…what now? With the way the world, and especially education, has changed recently, making decisions about the next steps of your life are even more complicated than usual. The path you have envisioned for yourself over the past few years—graduating from high school, going to college, and landing your dream job—may no longer be the best path to where God wants you to be. It’s not too late to take a gap year. Maybe you’ve considered a gap year before, but are unsure how it would affect the plans you know God has put on your heart....

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5 Reasons You Should Do the World Race: Gap Year

As a young adult just graduating from high school, you have a lot of decisions to make. The decisions you make now will set the foundation for your future, and you want to make sure you are doing it right. That’s why we created the World Race: Gap Year program. It’s a 9-month Christian gap year program designed for young people like you.  Taking a gap year, especially a Christian gap year, will help you discover more of who God created you to be. It will also impact the choices you’re making for the rest of your life. By stepping away from the classroom, intentionally...

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What is a Christian Gap Year?

You’re at a pivotal point in your journey. As you graduate from high school and make significant decisions for the rest of your life, you want to discover who God created you to be and how that should impact your choices. You’re not alone. That’s why we created World Race: Gap Year, a life-changing Christian gap year program. A Christian gap year is an opportunity to intentionally discover more of God, yourself, and your calling. World Race: Gap Year is a 9-month Christian gap year program of Adventures in Missions that allows you to serve missionary bases and ministry partners in 3...

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Best Ways to Fundraise for a Mission Trip

Whether you’ve fundraised for a Christian mission trip before or are starting the process for the first time, you can feel confident that God can and will provide everything you need. Fundraising for short-term mission trips, a Christian gap year program, or World Race missions is not just about the money. While money is necessary to make any Christian mission trip possible, fundraising is also about building a team to join in the Great Commission to share Jesus with the world. A Christian mission trip isn’t a vacation. This is Kingdom work!

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