This picture depicts our team “Agua Viva”, which means “living water”.
While at training camp one of our Squad Leaders, Destiny, came to our team and prophecied over us that she felt we all combined were a gentle rushing river. Although we can’t remember much else from that conversation we were left with an impression of that visual, so that later when we had to come up with a team name we started throwing around embracing the idea of water with what we wanted to share with – and bring to – people this year: the life Christ gave us.
A few days later we had training camp exercise where we were dropped off in a small town to do some ATL (Ask The Lord) prayer. We spent some time in prayer and then split into two teams. While my half was talking with two amazing girls we met at an icecream shop, the other half of our team ran across a church sign boldly exclaiming “Agua Viva” and they came back excited to share the name since it was in the language of the first countries we would visit. We all agreed that it was what we were looking for on the race: the full life God offers! John 7:37-38 says, “Jesus stood and said in a loud voice, “Let anyone who is thirsty come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them.”
We decided that as we moved to each new place we would translate our name into the language of the country we were in.
Later at launch, after we’d already submitted our team name, we discussed our goals as a team to live inwardly, upwardly, and outwardly. This further solidified our team name choice, that we desire to take Christ’s invitation to come to Him and from that life rhythm have life flow up from within us to others.
The six of us desire that our team name be a daily reminder to us to be rooted in Christ and from there be gentle yet bold as we interact with eachother and others.
