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Dear B Squad,

 

We finished! Wow. What a year. 

 

I look back at all of us meeting at training camp, wide eyed and bushy tailed ready to explore the world and tell people about Jesus. Having no clue what God truly had in store for us. Ten strangers coming together for the sake of the Gospel. 

 

January 2020:

10 strangers with ten different stories, up-bringings, preferences, convictions, and patterns all under one roof. 

 

November 2020:

10 different strangers changed, equipped, unified, transformed, loved, wanted, cherished, fought for, and made new.

 

10 different reasons for coming on the race, but one unified vote that we chose to be obedient to our Heavenly Father and pursue this journey he called us on. 

 

10 changed human beings, transformed by the renewing of our minds and hearts now all back home. Look out world, B Squad is invading. 

 

10 different words for the people who made a huge impact on my life this past year (including myself)

Jenkins – pursued

Ryan – deep

Connor – intentional

Eva – rooted

Rebekah – brave

Hannah – step out

Kris – rely

Sabrina – confidence

Bethaney – trust

Kellie – change

 

Waking up and knowing you guys aren’t there has been hard, and doesn’t feel normal just yet. But I am so excited for each one of our journeys in this next season and I can’t wait to watch you all thrive in them. 

 

10 strangers

10 friends

10 roommates

10 Christ followers

10 brothers and sisters

Family. 

 

It was prayed over us to be the healthiest squad to have ever walked through AIM, and I truly believe we were. Healthy doesn’t mean all agreeing and always getting along, it means hard work. I think about the work it takes to be healthy. It means removing the junk (and y’all know I love pizza and donuts), exercising, eating the foods that will do good and not harm to your body, and being consistent. We didn’t allow the junk to stay, we exercised by having hard conversations, we ate the food of the Spirit to bring good to our souls, and we did our best to remain consistent in making changes and moving forward. 

 

That’s what family is and that’s what it looks like to fight for community. As easy as we could dwell on the negativity and what went wrong (and don’t dismiss them, we learned from those things), but don’t go in that spiral. Our race was hard no doubt but it wasn’t horrible. We shared so many tears, heartache and pain, but we also shared in so much joy and laughter.

 

Each one of you is valued, cherished, appreciated, wanted, and loved and if you walk away from the race with nothing else, walk away knowing that deep in your heart. 

 

We did it B Squad. 

And we came back home, home again!