While the humid heat of summer is ablaze, Chester native Sarah Perkinson will board a plane, embarking on an 11-month trip that will take her around the world.
Back in October of 2015, Perkinson, a graduate student at Liberty University majoring in elementary and secondary education, applied to be a participant of the World Race, a program through Adventures in Missions. Her hopes quickly became reality when she was accepted just two days after submitting her application.
Come August of this year, Perkinson will travel to West Africa, visiting the Ivory Coast, Ghana, and Burkina Faso, to Asia, where she will disembark in India, Nepal, Cambodia, and Thailand, and finally to Central America, journeying to Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, and Belize. Though no stranger to mission work or Central America, as she has previously worked in Panama, she has yet to experience a trip of this magnitude.
On this trip, she and a team of about 45 others will spend about a month in each place, spreading goodwill and good deeds. Together they will participate in a multitude of projects, providing important service to help address the needs of the people and villages of the above countries. More specifically, the mission work will involve teaching English, gardening and farming, performing clerical work, working with orphaned children, and building schools and churches.
To follow her story as she prepares to leave and as she travels the globe, visit her blog, sarahperkinson.theworldrace.org. There, she will document her exciting and enriching World Race experience several times a month until her return in June 2017.
