Introducing Our First Squad Blog!!!

Welcome to T-Squad’s first Community Blog! We are going on an eleven month trip to the following six countries: Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Romania, Albania, Eswatini, and South Africa. We are partnering with pastors and communities in each country to greater grow in our relationship with Christ, learn from each other, see the beautiful diversity in cultures across the world, and to have conversations about our Savior Jesus! If you want to hear more or get a weekly/bi-weekly update on where our team is and where we are going, you can email me at: [email protected] and I will send you the link to our new blogs as they are posted.

To start us off, I’d love to tell you what our squad is all about. We are T-Squad, and we seek the truth of who God is and who we are to bring Him glory. We treasure Growth, Obedience, Devotion, and the Fruit of the Spirit (Galations 5:22-23). We value sharing testimonies (what God is doing in and around us); resting once a week to remind ourselves our worth is not in our productivity; asking the Lord what He is doing and how we can partner with Him; connecting as a team through fun activities; giving and receiving respectful feedback; and finally, checking in with each other on their Kingdom journeys of abandonment, brokenness, and dependence on God.

Let’s meet the squad!

Coach Chach

• Fun Fact: sells drugs (is a pharmacist 😉
• Looking forward to most about trip: laundry! “There is something so beautiful about taking something dirty and making it clean!”
• Current favorite Bible Verse: James. All of it. Hebrews 12:1, Romans 8, and Psalm 23

Coach McKay

• Fun Fact: she laughs really easily
• Looking forward to most about trip: being with the squad
• Current favorite Bible Verse: Psalm 27:13

Mak Adams

• Fun fact: is the absolute sweetest and makes her squad coffee pour-overs like a boss
• Looking forward to most about trip: Beauty for Ashes!! (She’s pumped)
• Current favorite Bible Verse: 2 Corinthians 5:15

Lee Bechtel

• Fun fact: is our worship coordinator and was gifted a guitar at training camp!
• Looking forward to most about trip: the community of our team
• Current favorite Bible Verse: Psalm 46

Rachel Knox

• Fun fact: sometimes breakdances in her sleep 🙂
• Looking forward to most about trip: dependence on Jesus
• Current favorite Bible Verse: Matt 11: 28-30

Bethany Heitland

• Fun fact: can do a three-leaf-clover with her tongue
• Looking forward to most about trip: to see the Lord at work in other cultures
• Current favorite Bible Verse: 2 Timothy 1:7

Megan Dailey

• Fun fact: my pupils dilate unevenly when I get really tired
• Looking forward to most about trip: learning how to love people in cultures different from my own in a way that honors them and seeing God in a bigger way
• Current favorite Bible Verse: Zephaniah 3:17

Taylor Tomlinson

• Fun fact: makes the funniest faces and sounds when you least expect it
• Looking forward to most about trip: growing and experiencing God more and seeing different places and cultures
• Current favorite Bible Verse: Colossians 1:9-14

Gibson (Gibs, Gibby, Gibbisus, Gibothy, etc. ) White:

• Fun Fact: he likes to make chill lofi beats
• Looking forward to most about the trip: to go explore and expand people’s minds on the love and word of God
• Current favorite Bible Verse: Jeremiah 29:11

Sierra Wolverton

• Fun Fact: lived in a van for six months for fun 😀
• Looking forward to most about trip: a greater intimacy and sensitivity with God
• Current favorite Bible Verse: Mark 5:41

Laura Lowry

• Fun fact: she is super low-key about being the coolest and cave diving!
• Looking forward to most about trip: excited for all of the above
• Current favorite Bible Verse: Ephesians 3:20

Some prayer requests from the squad:

• We are going to Dominican Republic January 30^th! Please pray for safe travels, and for us to honor our host families and communities well
• That we will learn a lot and have grace for ourselves and each other
• For us to step out and be bold in the faith