Thursday, September 9, 2010

The Avanti 2010 team!

Here are the introductions to the 2010 Avanti team.  I know I said that I would post it last week, but I have been sick, so forgive me.  So here are the amazing people that I got to know during training and will be working with in Italy.

 This is Ryan and Laura Stevens.  They were both nursing majors at Harding and graduated in 2008.  Since then they have both been working as nurses in Memphis.  Ryan is originally from Mobil and Laura is from Memphis and Laura and I were in the same youth group at Highland Church of Christ growing up.


 This is the other married couple on our team, Eric and Jessica Smith.  Eric graduated from Ohio State and Jessica graduated from Harding with an art degree.  They are from Ohio, but have been living in Arkansas where Eric was working as a surveyor and Jessica has been working in an art gallery.



Here is Andrea Gallman from Houston, TX.  She is a graduated from ACU in 2006 with a secondary education degree.  After she graduated, she moved back to Houston and has been working as a government and economics teacher.



And last but certainly not least is Angela Withrow (right).  She is from Garland, TX.  She graduated in 2009 from Harding with a degree in Computer Science and a minor in Spanish.  She moved back to Garland after she graduated and was working there until she left for Italy.

Here is the team that I will be working with and God has really blessed me with such amazing people.  I am the last of my team here in the States and I will leave on October 4th and arrive in Italy on October 5th.  I ask that you will please continue to pray for my team.  Pray that God will use us for his glory and that we will grow closer to him as well.  Thanks and God bless.