Hello to whoever is reading this... Welcome to my World Race Blog! 

Wow...

I knew I 'd be able to say that one day but it took almost 3 years after hearing about the race until I felt God nudge my heart and say, "Its time to apply". I currently live in Boston, MA and have been since August of 2017. Boston is where I found Jesus and started having a personal relationship with him.

Backtrack to the first 23 years of my life where I was born and raised in a small Texas town called Uvalde. I was raised up in the Catholic Church and spent my childhood in a pew with my uncle and grandpa by my side. I received the sacraments of Baptism, communion, confirmation all in the Catholic church by the time I graduated from high school. It was all I knew. I never felt like I fully connected to the church in this setting. Every Sunday morning it was where I spent my time but that never continued into the other days of the week. 

It was always apparent to me that I loved serving people. From people in my family, to my friends and strangers. I enjoyed helping people as much as I could. In college, I studied abroad and spent a semester in Rome, Italy. This is where I got bit by the travel bug. After graduating college, I served with AmeriCorps NCCC and spent 10 months traveling the country doing disaster relief work. When I was finishing this up I knew I still wasn't ready to go back to Texas so I found another program in Boston. Looking back I made the decision to move so quickly, without second guessing it and now I know that was lead totally by the Holy Spirit. 

God has grown me tremendously since moving to Boston! I found a church that felt like home even though I did not know a single person when I walked into a YMCA gym that Sunday. I was baptized on November 4, 2018 and have grown in spiritual community I never knew was possible. Over my time in Boston God has encouraged and grown the servants heart that he has blessed me with. So much so that now I am taking on this journey to bring the Gospel to people all over the world by serving them and telling them about Jesus. 

I hope that my blog entries will do some justice in sharing what I know God is going to be doing while I prepare for the race and while I'm on it! The places my team and I will be going to are: Malaysia, Thailand, Myanmar, Nepal, South Asia, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Spain, Chile, Uruguay and Argentina! 

Thank you for reading and following along! Prayers in this time throughout the next two years are greatly needed and appreciated. I hope that I can be growing in hearing and listening to Gods voice, his word, my prayer life and so much more I'm sure he's waiting to reveal. 

-Cyntya