to be honest, i was probably the only one of the team members who had no input whatsoever in the decision making process that led to our team name. perhaps i was still buzzing from the nasty stink bomb that patrick blew up underneath jimmy mac’s car which rendered me unavailable. and given that my only idea (jokingly) was tex-mex ballerinas, it is probably a good idea that choosing a team name was left in someone else’s hands! however, i am a part of team JOY, which is an acronym for Jesus Overcomes You. there are two definitions to JOY. one being the definition you can find in webster’s and the other lies within the acronym itself.
first, it seems that all members of our team (tara stephenson-leader, jess edquist, jessie miller, mighty maithili johnson, patrick baez and myself) are overly joyful people. websters defines joy as great pleasure or happiness followed by an outward expression of this emotion. we tend to be the light-hearted ones who don’t doter to the negative side of life, whose happiness is unmistakable, whose laughter could be picked out of a crowd. why are we joyful?? we are joyful because we have a firm understanding that Jesus gave us life and is living up to his promise of giving us life to the fullest. He took my place on the cross so that i could live! that single truth is the only reason i need in order to live with joy beyond measure, and i feel that this is so for the rest of our team as well.
secondly, our team has embraced the idea that indeed Jesus has Overcome us (despite our most sinful natures and selfish desires). He has put us in our current position so that we can take His message to the four corners of the globe in order to show a non-believing world that Jesus needs to Overcome You as well. anyways, i am sure that this brief and probably somewhat ambiguous picture of what our team stands for will begin to make greater sense to me with the passage of time!
