Yes, I have spent the last five months with the same people 24 hours a day and 7 days a week. These five have seen me at my absolute best and worse. Cambodia was the first month of leadership, Africa was hard… India was breakthrough, and I am sad to say good bye to the people that went through all of it with me, but God knows what He is doing. I knew team changes were coming, so I am writing this to let you in on what happened over last debrief.

      I am not in leadership anymore which is sad and weird, but needed and I am thankful. I had like three days of an identity crisis, but I’m good now… The transition from my first team to my second wasn’t that awful, because I had three of the same people to continue on with. For the first 8 months I was with those three same people. I gained 2 more on the team that I lead – Sarah and Samantha– and they quickly became family. I feel like while the first three months were so transformational, the middle five were the hardest and the time where I think I grew the most. I loved leading that team, and I think that is what I miss the most. I know, though, that these last three months (two by the time you read this) is a gift from God to be drawn so much closer to Him.

      So without further adieu, my new team is Jared Messenger (leader), Samara Murtaugh, Taylor McKellar, Gina Beukelman, and me. I will spend the entire race with Jared which is cool… we were under one leader, I was his leader and now he is my leader. Other than that, I am happy for a small team, and as much as I wanted to be on an all girls team, I am happy that I’ve been with guys this whole time. I am excited for the last bit and am so excited about what I am going to learn from the Lord through this new team as we run it out together… oh, and our name is The Messengers… look Jared’s last name and guess why… we thought it was catchy…