Who would have thought that 4 ladies who are basically strangers have already become family to me? Not me! But that is what happened when my World Race team was formed. We are team 5 Alive!
Ali Page (leader) Melanie Barber Natalie Montgomery Sara Ellis
After we were told our team assignments at training camp the staff asked us to go and make our first memory together and also to come up with our team name. Ali’s, our team leader, first thought was…awww let’s make a precious moment together. The word precious stood out to us, so Sara looked the word up in the concordance of her bible. That led us to the following verse that spoke to each of us directly.
As you come to him, the living Stone–rejected by men but chosen by God and precious to him– you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. For in Scripture it says:
“See, I lay a stone in Zion, a chosen and precious cornerstone, and the one who trusts in him will never be put to shame.”
…But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.
1Peter 2:4-10
We now have a team verse…but the name was a little trickier. We thought about words stemming from precious: stone, gems, living Stone. But nothing seemed to be a good fit. 
Then we started to think about what a living stone is and how does that relate to 5 spunky and spirited women of God. We are alive.
We are 5 women alive in Christ, alive in the Spirit, and alive in life! I think that name is the perfect representation of my team, my new family.
Our first memory was going to a precious consignment shop and trying on a little bit of everything in the store. And of course, we bought everything! This is just the start of 5 Alive memories!
