Team 1dentity has finished up their second week in India.

We have prayed for people in the hospital, done VBS for children, played volleyball with the Bible college students, done devotionals with the same students, participated in sports day, and even worshipped in a school talent show. And that is only the list of ways we’ve served!

As a team we have tapped into vulnerability; discussed the highs, lows, and Jesus moments of our day; practiced hearing God’s voice; spent time giving edifying and encouraging feedback; broadened our relationships with God through creative worship; and learned more about Him through Bible studies.

Needless to say we have been busy!

But why are we so busy? What is the point of doing all this stuff? What do we hope to gain from it?

While it is great to do and live out our mission for the kingdom, we are nothing without love.

“If I speak with human eloquence and angelic ecstasy but don’t love, I’m nothing but the creaking of a rusty gate. If I speak God’s Word with power, revealing all his mysteries and making everything plain as day, and if I have faith that says to a mountain, “Jump,” and it jumps, but I don’t love, I’m nothing. If I give everything I own to the poor and even go to the stake to be burned as a martyr, but I don’t love, I’ve gotten nowhere. So, no matter what I say, what I believe, and what I do, I’m bankrupt without love. Love never gives up. Love cares more for others than for self. Love doesn’t want what it doesn’t have. Love doesn’t strut, Doesn’t have a swelled head, Doesn’t force itself on others, Isn’t always “me first,” Doesn’t fly off the handle, Doesn’t keep score of the sins of others, Doesn’t revel when others grovel, Takes pleasure in the flowering of truth, Puts up with anything, Trusts God always, Always looks for the best, Never looks back, But keeps going to the end.

Love never dies. Inspired speech will be over some day; praying in tongues will end; understanding will reach its limit. We know only a portion of the truth, and what we say about God is always incomplete. But when the Complete arrives, our incompletes will be canceled.

When I was an infant at my mother’s breast, I gurgled and cooed like any infant. When I grew up, I left those infant ways for good. We don’t yet see things clearly. We’re squinting in a fog, peering through a mist. But it won’t be long before the weather clears and the sun shines bright! We’ll see it all then, see it all as clearly as God sees us, knowing him directly just as he knows us! But for right now, until that completeness, we have three things to do to lead us toward that consummation: Trust steadily in God, hope unswervingly, love extravagantly. And the best of the three is love.”
1 Corinthians 13:1-13 MSG

We are here in India to share the love of Christ, but how can we do that without stepping on all the land mines of sin that surround our goal to love?

We must accept the love Christ and abide in Christ!

So as we continue our journey to love around the world, and specifically around India, we take the time to let go of perks, adventure, and other glorious things that attracted us to this mission and instead we focus of going deeper in our intimate relationship with Jesus Christ.

I want to also take the time to appreciate a couple special people who have join this journey through financial support of this mission.

Thank you Ms. Kim, Ms. Delores, Simone, Kayla, & my mom for donating! You hearts of generosity humble me greatly. Thank you for supporting me, supporting this mission, and supporting the kingdom work God. has sent me and my team to do.

If you have been blessed by my blog, the kingdom work I am doing, and growth you have seen brought about in me through my relationship with Christ I ask that you consider making a donation to help me achieve my fundraising goal. You can donate at rashidatodeyemi.theworldrace.org.

Thank you for your consideration and prayers!