quad.

Today, I want to brag on my best friends and co-leaders, Grace Hobin, Derek Brooks, and Blake Staley. Wow, this past year, I've been loved, encouraged, challenged, and strengthened by our friendship. They are the most fun, refreshing, anointed, gifted, and faith-filled people I know.

Grace is a fiery, secure woman of God. I process best when I process with her. Sometimes, we read each other's thoughts. We are sneaky partners in crime, and I love walking intimately with her. She challenges me by the way she is constantly led by the Spirit and sees the gold in people. We've grown in friendship so much in the last couple of months. Derek Brooks is my brother. He embodies the father heart of God like no one else I've seen. He is one of the most pastoring people I know because he is always looking to what others need. I love that Derek and I have tiffs a lot just like real siblings. I've learned so much about humility by the way he lives. Blake Staley is both one of the funniest and most discerning people ever. He is a thermostat in the way he sets the tone for running after Jesus with everything. He makes life with Jesus so normal, and he is a powerful evangelist. People just want to be around him because he knows how to enjoy the abundant life Jesus has given him.

I love this. I love that community is where I get to be refined, and I really wouldn't want to be refined by anyone else. Every encouragement, challenge, and correction has pressed me into more intimacy with God, and I know they are for me because they've seen me on my really good days and my really bad days. I love changing the world with these people. This is my kingdom dream team... So cheesy, but really.