Since I haven’t taken the MCAT yet, I have to wait atleast one year after graduation before going to medical school. I have three options on what to do after graduating.

1) One year to get a Masters in Cellular & Molecular Biology at U of M
2) Two years to get a Masters in Public Health
3) Three years to go on The World Race (theworldrace.org) and get a Masters in Public Health

I’m confused. I’m praying on what God wants. I’m talking with different people on this subject. God’s voice can be heard in many ways. Option number three seems to weigh the heaviest on my heart, because it is the most internationally social active.

My parents vehemently support opition number one, because they want me to start working sooner. It’s difficult for me to see why God would want me to work sooner. The World Race is working for God in one of the purest senses, because it’s a 11-month missions trip around the world where I minister in 11 countries (Mexico, Guatemala, China, Tibet, Thailand, India, Bosnia, Egypt, Kenya, South Africa, and Lesotho) for one month each, working to share the Gospel, help orphans, plant churches and reach the nations. Proverbs 3:5-6, "Trust in the Lord with all your heart, do not depend on your own understanding. Seek his will in all that you do, and he will direct your paths."

Tom Davis describes World Race participants like this,

They live in community and work by teams. They are initiated into life in the Kingdom and know what it is to celebrate and minister on a daily basis.They have been deeply discipled and have experienced the walk of intimacy with the Father and the flow of ministry thru their fingers to broken people in their community and around the world.

They have been broken by the world’s pain and have abandoned the idols and adolescent amusements that used to keep them numb and ineffective. They have connected with widows and orphans in war-torn and AIDS-devastated places and understand what it costs to bring Jesus there. They have laid down their lives.

They have sold their earthly treasures for the pearl of great price, living simply and unencumbered so they can travel light. They are scattered across America and around the world. And in those places, they have awakened to their Kingdom identity and call. They have learned how to incarnate Christ in places where Hell had established a stronghold. They are building churches and orphanages. They are transforming their communities.

They are a generation that will cross over the Jordan to the promised land. They have their eye on the prize and are running hard after it.

If you know me well, you’ll know that simple living, evangelism and helping orphans are passions of mine. Please share your thoughts with me.

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This entry was originally published at Interconnectedness by Mikhail (Misha) Lomize