This blog is way overdue! We are going on month 4 together as a team BUT I realized something….I haven’t actually given you all a proper introduction of my current team! On the World Race, we went through team changes in month 4 and so I thought it would be fun to introduce the amazing women I get to do life with every day! So, without further ado…I present to you the members of Team Bold And Relentless Edge (Team BARE):
Jess:
Enneagram Number: 4
Spiritual Gifts:
Mercy, Encouragement, Faith
Favorite Team Moment:
The making of the Jess “Wait” music video on the bus to Chitwan in Nepal.
(Shout out to Adam Levine)
Unique skill(s) that you wouldn’t find on her resume:
-Ability to describe any type of food with specific detail & precision
-Impressions
-Interpretive dancing
Rebecca:
Enneagram Number: 4
Spiritual Gifts:
Encouragement, Hospitality, Mercy
Favorite Team Moment:
Spending quality time together, having “bites to eat”
Unique skill you wouldn’t find on her resume:
Ability to construct a tent anywhere, anytime.
Viktoriya:
Enneagram Number: 8
Spiritual gifts:
Faith, Knowledge, Intercession
Favorite Team Moment:
Trying to find and frantically kill a flying cockroach in basement room of Myanmar.
Unique skill you wouldn’t find on her resume:
Often breaks out in Russian when she doesn’t want people to know what she’s talking about.
Vanessa:
Enneagram Number: 6 (We think…she has yet to take it)
Spiritual gifts:
Evangelism, Prophecy, Teaching
Favorite Team Moment:
Showering as a team in a stormy rain gutter in Myanmar
Unique skill(s) that you wouldn’t find on her resume:
– Can out eat any one in spinach consumption
– Horizontal running
Kim
Enneagram Number: 5
Spiritual Gifts:
Giving, Prophecy, Missionary
Favorite Team Moment:
Kurta sumo wrestling
Unique skill you wouldn’t find on her resume:
Ability to freakishly read people’s minds and know their needs
Alexis
Enneagram Number: 6
Spiritual Gift:
Discernment
Favorite Team Moment:
Reminiscing about the interesting bus adventures we have been on together
Unique skill you wouldn’t find on her resume:
Essentially is a walking Walgreen’s
Chloe
(Honorary Member of Team BARE, AKA our beloved Squad leader)
Enneagram Number: 9
Spiritual Gifts:
Administration, Mercy, Shepherding/Wisdom
Favorite Team Moment:
Witnessing Kim’s undercover wedding in India.
Unique skill you wouldn’t find on her resume:
Could be a one woman show of “Rent” the musical
Bri
Enneagram number: 7
Spiritual Gifts:
Mercy, Encouragement, Hospitality
Favorite Team Moments:
Taking jokes way too far & late night talks about the Enneagram
Unique skill you wouldn’t find on her resume:
-Professional curry eater
-Mostly thinks and communicates through puns
And…there you have it! We laugh together, cry together, build one another up and call each other higher daily. I am honored to be on a team with these beautiful souls and I am beyond thankful to be able to learn from them each and every day on the race.
I will end with this blog with a video that Vanessa put together for us as an amazing team time one hot Indian afternoon….an original from Team BARE to you….
The Kurta Fashion Show!
Pictured from left to right:
Bri, Alexis, Chloe, Kim, Viktoriya, Vanessa, Jess.
(Not pictured: Rebecca, we love you!!)
Love,
Team BARE
