Book
Leave It All: The Journal of a Maybe Missionary is a travel memoir about circumnavigating the globe as a fresh college grad in 2014 on the World Race, a Christian missions program that sends participants to 11 countries in 11 months. Distilled from my diaries, blogs, and conversations, this is an honest, funny, swear-wordy book for anyone interested in roughing it, growing up, and wrestling with questions of faith.
Writing it was hard. But it was worth it, and it’s the reason I became an editor.
The book’s available to order online, but for US customers who want to support a small business (me), contact me and I’ll send you a signed copy for a flat $20.
11 countries. 11 months. A radical choice. A gutsy move. A decision that changed her life forever.
Shortly after graduating from college, young, witty, and vibrant Chelsea Greenwood made the decision to embark on the World Race, an opportunity to visit 11 countries in 11 months as an evangelizing Christian missionary. The problem was… she wasn’t even confident about what she believed, much less her ability to convince someone else of it.
How could she share her shaky faith with others as “the Truth”? How could she be a missionary to the world, when her own internal world was full of turmoil and doubt? Could she pray on behalf of other people to a God she was not even quite sure exists?
Leave It All is Chelsea’s story, told in her own words with lighthearted candor, poignant anecdotes, and hard-hitting transparency. Her honest, sometimes raw first-person account of her travels with leave you laughing, crying, and wanting to question life’s deepest meaning for yourself.
“Chelsea’s book is raw and real. It’s an honest look into not just the life of a short-term missionary, but also into the doubts, joys, insecurities, and unexpected blessings God brings us through whenever we take a leap into the unknown. Chelsea’s vulnerability is inspiring and will challenge you to leave your preconceived notions about following Christ behind.”
– Kelly Griffin
“I devoured this book.”
– Canoe
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