There is no I in Team

God moment, Week 8


Continuing my stories from Team Huntsville:

Every team that comes here touches me in one way or another. And they all grow close together and witness God’s love in new, unimaginable ways.

However, this group of 22 adults from Huntsville Alabama grew together in a way that I never thought possible. Only a handful of them knew more than four other people on the trip, and many knew only one or two. Yet, by the end of the week, they were one. They became a family over the course of six days, bonded together by their love of Christ and their trust in one another as fellow believers.

Each night this team would meet in the common room of the Methodist Seminary dorm house, and they would day debrief. They would ask each other questions about what they saw that day, about what they felt that day, and about what they learned that day. They would analyze the church services we attended, they would analyze the type of people they saw, they would analyze the type of work we were doing, and they would analyze the love of God they felt from all the Costa Ricans with whom they interacted.

And, in the midst of 20+ other successful adults from their community and their church, the team members would open up and be real. They would share what was on their hearts, they would shed tears, and they would pray together. By the end of the trip, we were circling up around those in need and praying for them on the spot, dropping behind all of our insecurities and being real in the presence of God’s Holy Spirit. It was amazing.

I used to spend months trying to get groups of 15-20 college age guys—guys who could relate to each other much more easily—to open up to one another, and it was often a daunting task. Yet this team, in a matter of days, became one. They opened up their lives to one another, and they trusted in the bond of Christ, the bond that brings us together under one God, under one Holy Spirit.

Now I’ve seen, firsthand, how God can move through anyone and in any situation, as quickly and as powerfully as he desires. And my life was changed forever because of it.


"For where two or three come together in my name, there am I with them."
Matt 18:20