If you would rather pay by check, make checks payable to G42 and mail to:

G42, Inc.

P.O. Box 17419   

Fountain Hills, AZ 85269

In the MEMO section of the Check please write Taryn Mast 

G42, the 42nd generation is a registered 501(c)3 non-profit, and most donations to G42 are tax-deductible. You will be a sent a tax receipt for all deductible donations.

...And so it is, that quiet voice all along was saying SPAIN!  I know without a shadow of a doubt now that I'm suppose to be in Spain in April!!!!!!  I didn't have total and complete peace before now because God still had a lot of work to do in me, but now He is ready to move me to the next season.  No more 90/10, but 100% peace of Spain!!!!

                                                                 My brother, Sister-In-Law, April, and I!

As I walk into this next chapter, I sit yet at another fork in the road, a fork where I can walk in faith or walk in my own flesh of not trusting.  About a month left before I depart and I have $300 in my account.  But this time, I choose the road of faith...a faith that is still being tried, but I am stepping out in it.    

You see, we were created as dependent beings, and I not only want you, but need you to step out with me.  I ask that you seek the Lord prayerfully about how you can push your faith.  I know times are hard, but one thing I know is times are not hard for our God who holds it all in His hands.  As much as this has been a trying season for me, I want the same for you...in a way THAT PRODUCES MORE INTAMACY WITH OUR FATHER.  I ask that you would not just give to give, but that you would first ask the Lord and obey what He puts in your heart.  I want nothing out of the flesh, but everything out of the call of God.  Whether that is prayer for me before I depart, prayer while I am gone, miles to help purchase my plane ticket or supporting me financially. 

I want this season to be one of growing more intimate with the Lord for both of us, a season that grows the Kingdom, not just a generous thought that puts money in my account.  This really is not about me, it's about Him.

Whether you're a believer or not, it makes no difference.  There are clear examples in the bible where God speaks to those who do not know Him.  If you feel that tug in your heart from somewhere unfamiliar, as likely as not, God is drawing you nearer to Him.  "Trust in Him with all your heart, lean not on your own understanding...and He will direct your paths." (Prov3:5-6)

                                                                                 Sweet baby Ava Jean!!!!!!!!

If you would like to support me financially for G42, please Follow this Link, and click on "Intern Support" where you can enter credit card/bank information on the first page, and then my name during the second step. Please note: this is a completely different account than my World Race account, so please do not use the same website or mailing address as you have used in the past. 

If you would rather pay by check, make checks payable to G42 and mail to:

G42, Inc.

P.O. Box 17419   

Fountain Hills, AZ 85269

In the MEMO section of the Check please write Taryn Mast 

G42, the 42nd generation is a registered 501(c)3 non-profit, and most donations to G42 are tax-deductible. You will be a sent a tax receipt for all deductible donations.

It's been a long couple months since I have been home from the race.  It has truly been a time of testing in more ways than one. 

                                                           My bro, Sister-In-Law, Erin and little Joshua David in Colorado!!!

In Exodus, Moses is talking to the people and they simply tell him that they can't hear from God himself or they will die, they would rather Moses be the middleman and relay the message.   Not intentionally, but what a scary parallel that is to my life far to often.  I believe it's  literally a process of us dying when we don't hear directly from God, our intimacy with the greatest of all fades away.  I think sometimes I don't hear God how I think I should, or am scared to hear the truth that I try to hear him through those spiritually wiser in my life.  But thankfully, those spiritual leaders continue to tell me that ultimately I must hear from the Lord himself!

I felt the call to go to Spain before I came home from the race, but the moment I returned home things changed.  The best way I can describe it  is  90/10...I still had that little part of me that did not have peace with going to Spain.    Moses replied to the people, "Don't be afraid.  God has come to test you and instill a deep and reverent awe within you..." I believe that God tests us so that we may know what is in our hearts.  He already knows what He has placed there, but far to often we don't!

                                                                                                   My bro and I!

As I continually thought about and prayed about other options, I still did not receive great peace until one final option.  I don't believe that option is for me right in this moment, but I do believe God needed to test me greatly through it.   Though I know it was a godly venture and I would have been blessed if I had traveled that road, I don't believe it was what God really wanted for me at this time.

Though a billion pages could not begin to tell what more maturing I have to do, God is showing me that I am maturing and He will speak to me in various ways through it all.  I was looking for a loud and clear message from God to go to Spain, much like I heard when I felt the call for The World Race.

                                                                                                  Shelby and I! 

Elijah was told to go stand on the mountain before God and he would pass by.  Then, "A hurricane wind...shattered the rocks before God, but God wasn't in the wind; after the wind an earthquake....and after the earthquake a fire, but God wasn't in them; and after those a gentle and quiet whisper."  As we mature as Christians, God will indefinitely use other ways to speak to us, ways that are His and not ours.  Before I left for the race I needed to hear a blunt and loud call, now just a tad bit more mature He is stretching my faith and speaking to me in a quiet whisper.  You see, I heard that whisper all along, but thought it couldn't be God.  I thought a big decision like this should be announced with bells ringing...but where would the faith be in that at this point in my life.

Hebrews says, "Without faith it is impossible to please God."  I want God to stretch my faith, I want to grow, even if it takes seasons of testing just like the one I went through.  At the end of the day, God's ways continue to be so much better than mine.  He never promised us that this life would be easy, but He did promise us that He would never leave us nor forsake us.  Thank you Lord for calling me to this life...I want nothing short of a life of following hard after You.

                                                                                               The cutest little boy ever!!!!!! 

The other night I was thinking and praying about some scriptures that I had read. From prayer to prayer, scripture to scripture and thought to thought I couldn't get past two particular words...persevere and rest. I thought to myself, "How could these two words go together and why are they coming up so much? "

So, as precise as I am at times, I wanted to read the exact definition of these words and so that is what I did. The dictionary defines persevere as: continuing in a course of action even if in the face of difficulty or with little or no prospect of success and rest as: cease work or movement in order to relax. 

Then it hit me, those two words thrown into the same pot and rearranged a bit encompass the season I'm in right now. God is calling me to dream big and walk out those dreams. He is calling me to learn from those who have gone before me and have a passion to pour into my generation. God is calling me to become more like Him in character, servanthood, self-sacrifice and commitment. And to say the least, this will all come soon after a lesson in rest and perseverance!

So rewind through months of prayer and fast-forward back to now, I believe God has once more called me to leave the USA. Beginning April, I will travel to Europe to live for 6 months at the G42 Leadership academy in Spain! (more on G42 later!) A place where my dreams will begin to unravel and God will set me into motion to live passionately as a leader, with an attitude of thankfulness and worship and set me up to live a life fully alive!

"But God, I can't sit back and cease work when I have $7k to raise to do this...that is not right!" That was my immediate response to the One who holds it all in His hands. He gently moves my heart and says, " You're not going to, it's just not going to look how you think it should!" 

So here I am now, weeks before I need to purchase a plane ticket and only a couple months away from my departure date with thankfully a start of at least $100 in my support account, but much more to go. I have tried to attain jobs that would bring in large amounts of money quickly, but the doors have been closed. Yet, still other doors have opened, just doors I can't fathom bringing in all the money...and so patiently as He is, God tells me, "you were not meant to live this life alone and you're not meant to raise a generation up alone...this means from start to finish!!!"

Thus, I wait patiently working odd jobs, babysitting, cleaning homes and whatever else I can get my hands on and rest in a course of action to move forward even if I face difficulty along the way. Through all of this I learn to PERSEVERE not knowing how it will all come together, but holding on to truth that God is faithful and will finish the work He has started.

I heard this great sermon at church  on Genesis 11:27-32. In short, I will explain the scripture. Terah had three sons, Abram, Nahor and Haran.   Haran died and the rest of the family set off to Canaan (the promised land). When they got to a place called Haran (on the way) they settled there. Terah died in Haran. He never reached Canaan.

                                                Just random pics from the past year!!!!!  (Me on my brothers engine!)

Sounds simple, right? Well, God packs more to His punch that just a simple paragraph. You see, Terah was so upset over his loss, over the death of his son that when he arrived at a placed called Haran he could go no further. He and his family were on their way to the promised land, but they got stuck on the way and fell victim to it, resulting in death before the promise.

I thought for a couple days and I realized this is happening all the time. As I am home from the race, I sit and look at the loss of a corporate job, a loss of a car, the loss of having the option to go shopping and even further, the loss of any income (until I find a minimum wage job.) I sit and think, am I really giving all that up to live this life? And all I have to do is look at my God and I know that is a YES! (It may sound stupid to some, but God is far smarter than we will ever be...so I will go with His ways for this one!)

                                                I miss these people so much, but I know we are all on our way to our Canaan!

I know God has promises far greater than I can imagine for me, promises that may not happen tomorrow or in 5 years, but promises never the less. If I get my little mind stuck in the loss of these things I will never be able to move forward into what He is calling me to.   I don't want to die in Haran!   I want my Canaan and I pray that I can mourn the hard parts healthy, seek God's direction in it all and move forward to what He is calling me too. It's ok to mourn our losses, but God does not call us to get stuck in them...we were inteded for more and that is what I want...MORE OF GOD! I pray this for you too.  

                                                                   My brothers and I just chillin!!!!