Thank you for all the ways you have… Thank you for all the ways you have prepared us for intimacy, community, missions and for settling back in the US. I really needed the guidance of PSL. It has been very helpful. Thank you so much!

The best way that I found God was… The best way that I found God was through this organization

0/100 would not recommend I went on the World Race: Gap Year trip in 2016 and there are few, if any, experiences in my life that i regret more. My leadership team was completely inadequate and did absolutely nothing to remove me from a team that was very emotionally abusive to me. 0/100 would not recommend. I also felt that many people on the World Race trip either cared very little about helping others and were there for the instagram photos, or had a strong white-savior complex (which AIM definitely has as a company as well)

Reflections It was a good experience and I learned a lot about what to do and not to do in community with my teams. After being away from it for a while and reflecting I have come to realize that though we do community our leadership was not the most relational and there has been no emphasis on discipleship, or how to make disciples.

I do not recommend this trip!!!! I do not recommend this trip for anyone. First of all, I took myself off the emails from this organization and I still get emails from you all. Second, I experienced something called inner healing on this trip from my mentor and that is not biblical. I recalled memory and left the inner healing believing something very traumatic happened to me and there was no follow up and no one tried to get me mental health help. A memory I did not remember and obviously should have seen a professional counselor about it. There is no follow up when mental health issues are spoken about. We were asked to just give it to the Lord. I am currently getting my counseling license and I was taught about how unethical inner healing is and can be. Just so everyone knows being taught on inner healing for a week or so does not qualify you to do it on others. You should be a licensed professional when doing inner healing. It takes years to get your license not a week. .That is not okay and that is probably why so many racers come back home with tons of issues. Thirdly, I love my bible and read it everyday. When I saw my leadership do something that was heretical I was told to stop reading my bible so much. That is not what anyone needs to do. Your leaders need to read the bible more! Fourthly, my leaders got drunk and team leaders got drunk on the trip. One night two team leaders got so drunk they had to be carried back to our hotel. What kind of leadership do you want??? Drinking is not a sin, but being drunk is. I pray that the Lord sends a leader into this organization to make it fruitful or this organization gets shut down completely. Lastly, I think everyone needs to acknowledge how many people finish this trip and walk away from the Lord. If most of the people who went on this trip walk away from God, isn't that a red flag???