All Squad Month – Comayagua, Honduras

It’s all squad month! And because of that, I thought it would be sweet to introduce you to the squad and teams! I hope that this will be an opportunity to get to know them better and join me in praying for my leadership and fellow Racers! Blessings 🙂

 

Leadership

Cami – Squad Mentor

Hometown: Youngstown, OH

Month 1 Lesson: Deeper trust in God’s faithfulness.

Favorite Bible Verse: “The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy, I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.” – John 10:10

Prayer Request: That I would lead from a place of dependence on the Holy Spirit.

 

Keith & Karen – Squad Coaches

Keith

Hometown: Roekford, Illinois

Month 1 Lesson: God actually can be trusted to do what he said he would do.

Favorite Bible Verse: “And he who was seated on the throne said, ‘Behold, I am making all things new.'” – Revelation 21:5

Prayer Request: More wisdom.

 

Karen

Hometown: Roekford, Illinois

Month 1 Lesson: Letting gratitude shape my thoughts.

Favorite Bible Verse: “I believe that I shall look upon the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living! Wait for the Lord; be strong, and let your heart take courage; wait for the Lord!” – Psalm 27:13-14

Prayer Request: Loving with discernment.

 

Abby – Squad Leader

Hometown: Greenville, South Carolina

Month 1 Lesson:

• Deeper dependence on God
• Patience
• Dying to self as a leader
• Creating open space for God to move instead of just myself

Favorite Bible Verse: Psalm 23

Prayer Request:

• Health – cough to go away
• Further understanding of the power of the Holy Spirit
• Provision

 

Hannah – Squad Leader

Hometown: Evergreen, Colorado

Month 1 Lesson: Empathy for others can be used to pray powerfully for people and places.

Favorite Bible Verse: “Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, ‘Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.'” – John 7:38

Prayer Request: 

• Fundraising
• Protection
• Stewardship of gifts and callings

 

Sol Sisters

Katherine

Hometown: Greenbrier, Arkansas

Month 1 Lesson: Child-like faith. Our God is the same everywhere and in every nation.

Favorite Bible Verse: She opens her mouth with wisdom, and the teaching of kindness is on her tongue. –Proverbs 31:26

Prayer Request: Unity for the squad and growth in biblical knowledge.

 

Caitlyn

Hometown: Abilene, Texas

Month 1 Lesson: To let go and stop idolizing the future.

Favorite Bible Verse: I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you with my eye upon you.-Psalm 32:8

Prayer Request: Perseverance.

 

Brittany

Hometown: Joliet, IL

Month 1 Lesson: The way God shows his LOVE looks different in different places.

Favorite Bible Verse: For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.-2 Timothy 1:7

Prayer Request: To let my voice be heard. To grow in deeper intimacy with Jesus.

 

Makalah

Hometown: Chicago, IL

Month 1 Lesson: Love has no language.

Favorite Bible Verse: I waited patiently for the Lord; he inclined to me and heard my cry. He drew me up from the pit of destruction, out of the miry bog, and set my feet upon a rock, making my steps secure. He put a new song in my mouth, a song of praise to our God. Many will see and fear, and put their trust in the Lord.-Psalm 40:1-3

Prayer Request: I can love people the way God loves us.

 

Lauren

Hometown: Bismarck, ND

Month 1 Lesson: I am already enough in my faith. More is always God, but I am enough for God.

Favorite Bible Verse: If the Lord had not been my help, my soul would soon have lived in the land of silence. When I thought, “My foot slips,” your steadfast love, O Lord, held me up. When the cares of my heart are many, your consolations cheer my soul. –Psalm 94:17-19

Prayer Request: More of God’s presence.

 

Kaylee

Hometown: Concord, CA

Month 1 Lesson: The Lord used Guate to redeem my view of love.

Favorite Bible Verse: I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called -Ephesians 4:1

Prayer Request: For the Lord to continue using my story.

 

Ablazed

Joey

Hometown: Phoenix, Arizona

Month 1 Lesson: Holding my tongue.

Favorite Bible Verse: The Bible

Prayer Request: Strength, patience, and wisdom from the Lord.

 

Jack

Hometown: Avalon, NJ

Month 1 Lesson: The importance of choosing joy in hardship and being vulnerable.

Favorite Bible Verse: But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you. -Matthew 6:33

Prayer Request: To continue knowing more of God’s love for me.

  

Colton

Hometown: Andover, MN 

Month 1 Lesson: Be a part of the solution instead of trying to separate God from the church.

Favorite Bible Verse: Then Jesus told his disciples, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it. –Matthew 16:24-25

Prayer Request: For friends back home who don’t know the Lord.

  

Maria

Hometown: Luray, VA

Month 1 Lesson: I learned how to be humbled and be gentle, dying to myself for the sake of others.

Favorite Bible Verse: Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me. I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. –John 15:4-5

Prayer Request: Peace and discernment.

 

Emmery

Hometown: Lake Wylie, SC

Month 1 Lesson: Invite the Lord into every situation. He comes and does amazing things.

Favorite Bible Verse: For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin. Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need. –Hebrews 4:15-16

Prayer Request: Grow deeper in my identity with Christ.

 

Gabi

Hometown: Norman, OK

Month 1 Lesson: To say yes to God without knowing what I am saying yes to “Hineni.”

Favorite Bible Verse: For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord. –Romans 8:38-39

Prayer Request: Forgiveness and humility.

 

Evergreen

Nicole

Hometown: Phoenix, Arizona

Month 1 Lesson: Trust in the Lord deeper than ever before. He has equipped me enough even if I feel unequipped. He is my strength.

Favorite Bible Verse: He will dwell on the heights; his place of defense will be the fortresses of rocks; his bread will be given him; his water will be sure. –Isaiah 33:16

Prayer Request: To continue to grow and stand firm in what I know as truth while remaining open and not boxing the Lord in.

 

Aliseya

Hometown: Warner Robins, GA

Month 1 Lesson: There are no physical boundaries that the Lord cannot cross.

Favorite Bible Verse: For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart. -Hebrews 4:12

Prayer Request: To continue to grow in the gifts the Lord has given me, and that as a squad we would step into deeper surrender in Christ.

 

Michaela

Hometown: Columbus, OH

Month 1 Lesson: That there is so much more that God has in store for me. To be vulnerable and use the community around me.

Favorite Bible Verse: When I am afraid, I put my trust in you. –Psalm 56:3

Prayer Request: Inner healing and dependence on the Lord.

 

Jessie

Hometown: Merrimack, NH

Month 1 Lesson: Learning of the Lord’s mercy and how to show and be mercy to those around me / those I meet.

Favorite Bible Verse: But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong. –2 Corinthians 12:9-10

Prayer Request: For joy and to be present here as we serve the community.

 

Talaya

Hometown: Joliet, IL

Month 1 Lesson: Grew more in intimacy with God and more in tune with the Holy Spirit.

Favorite Bible Verse: Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might. -Ephesians 6:10

Prayer Request: Pray for boldness and grow more in hearing his voice.

 

Team 217

Gwen

Hometown: Williston, SC

Month 1 Lesson: Jesus is a healer. When it gets hard, just keep having faith and trust Him.

Favorite Bible Verse: My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever. –Psalm 73:26

Prayer Request: Confidence and boldness to speak up. To hear Jesus’s voice more clearly.

 

Lindsay

Hometown: Clermont, FL

Month 1 Lesson: That having faith is so much more of the relationship than we realize.

Favorite Bible Verse: Strength and dignity are her clothing, and she laughs at the time to come. –Proverbs 31:25

Prayer Request: For my sister that I stop overthinking.

 

Allie

Hometown: Columbus, Indiana

Month 1 Lesson: I process things very slowly – like a week or more.

Favorite Bible Verse: Proverbs 31

Prayer Request: Be more thankful when receiving gifts and compliments.

 

Jose

Hometown: Morganton, NC

Month 1 Lesson: That every person desires to be loved uniquely.

Favorite Bible Verses:  I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. -Galatians 2:20

But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. -2 Corinthians 12:9

Prayer Request: Pray for my sister.

 

Jacob

Hometown: Boerne, TX

Month 1 Lesson: How to be bold in sharing feedback with others.

Favorite Bible Verse:  I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. -John 15:5

Prayer Request: For me to keep relaxing and trusting God, instead of putting pressure on myself to make ministry happen.

 

Treasure Seekers

Daliah

Hometown: Westminster, MD

Month 1 Lesson: Be still and trust God.

Favorite Bible Verse: For if you live according to the flesh you will die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. -Romans 8:13

Prayer Request: For patience and understanding.

 

Katie

Hometown: Grand Rapids, MN

Month 1 Lesson: To be slowing down, to seek what He has in each day, finding contentment in the slow paced lifestyle.

Favorite Bible Verse: “Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth!” –Psalm 46:10

Prayer Request: To love others where we are fully and to seek Him deeper – pressing into more of Jesus.

 

Abby

Hometown: Mosette, MS

Month 1 Lesson: Learning to slow down. Fruit is being pruned so new fruit can grow.

Favorite Bible Verse: Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God. –Hebrews 12:1-2

Prayer Request: Endurance for ministry and endurance for everything the Lord is teaching me.

 

Chanel

Hometown: Columbus, OH

Month 1 Lesson: Be content.

Favorite Bible Verse: Isaiah and Revelation

Prayer Request: For gentleness.

 

Samantha

Hometown: Greenville, NC

Month 1 Lesson: The Lord can be found all around. Fighting for understanding and unity is worth the battle.

Favorite Bible Verse: Search me, O God, and know my heart! Try me and know my thoughts! And see if there be any grievous way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting! -Psalm 139:23-24^b]”>

Prayer Request: Unity on our squad and in the body of Christ. The gospel would go forward in this place. Remembering that the battle is not against man, but the spiritual forces of evil (Ephesians 6:12). Be bold in encouraging my brothers and sisters / being willing to step in even when it’s hard.