Above and Beyond - Virginia Dunk Team

Mindy Littleton

Personal

1.	What is you name/Age?	Mindy Littleton; 20

2.	Year in school?	Junior

3.	Major?	Nursing

4.	Hometown?	Dallas, Texas

5.	Members of your family?	6

6.	Birthday?	July 1, 1985

7.	3 favorite bands?	The Beatles, Chevelle, Hillsong

8.	3 favorite movies?	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II, The Sandlot, Edward Scissor Hands

9.	Favorite sports team?	Dallas Mavericks

10.	How long have you been apart of the team?	1^st year

Preferences

1.	Seinfeld or Friends?	Definitely Friends

2.	Shoes or Sandals?	Sandals

3.	Beaches or Mountains?	Beaches

4.	Right or Left handed?	Right

5.	Double mini or Mini?	Double Mini

6.	Main Course or Dessert ?	Dessert

Fun

1.	Your best dunk ? Your favorite dunk? Your favorite dunk to watch? A. Front flip 180 dunk - Baroni dunk B. 360 around the back C. A huge three person pass. 1^st person does a baroni pass from the side mini to the 2^nd person who does an under the leg off the backboard pass coming from the middle mini to the 3^rd person who dunks it from the double mini. - Couch

2.	Dunks that you have invented and named? 1. I run under Issiah after his first bounce then blindly passes it up to him without getting landed on – “Grand Central Station”

3.	Most embarrassing moment on team? I don’t get embarrassed … haha… yeah right. In my 2006 spring break tour. We were jumping on one of those big circular backyard trampolines and I got tripped up and face planted into the safety net. Wow, embarrassing picture!

4.	Most inspiring moment on team? A girl at one of the schools that we had an opportunity to ministry at accepted Christ as her Savior and I got to talk to her and keep in touch with her for discipleship.

5.	Favorite cartoon character? Stewie Griffin from Family Guy

6.	Your biggest fear? My biggest fear is being trapped in a shark cage surrounded by clowns.

7.	What is your nickname on the team? I actually don’t have one

8.	Injuries? None, I am super woman. Just kidding. Actually I have hurt my knees, ankles and back multiple times but nothing too serious.

Relationship

1.	Favorite Verse?
	II Corinthians 5:21 “God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.”

2.	Why did you join Above and Beyond?
	Because I want to glorify God with the gifts He has given to me.

3.	Best aspect of Above and Beyond?
	Getting to be a witness to kids throughout the country.

4.	Favorite ministry experience?
	When a girl got saved at one of the ministries and I along with another member of the team got to go give her a Bible and talk to her about the decision she made.

5.	How do you prepare yourself for a ministry?
	I get into the Word and make sure that my heart is where it is supposed to be - focused on bringing God glory. I also pray it up.

6.	At least 3 people that have influenced you the most?
	1. One of my really good friends from home that I worked with. 2. One of my professors at Liberty. 3. Both of my parents. 4. My old youth pastor. 5. And of course most of all Jesus Christ.

7.	How did you get saved?
	I got saved when I was four years old. I was at my house and my two older cousins were over. They were talking about being saved and one of them asked me if I was saved. I didn’t understand what that meant so I asked her and she told me that I should go and ask my mom what it meant. Accordingly, I went into my mom’s bedroom and asked her what it meant to be saved. She led me to Christ right there. I know that even though I was so young I completely understood the concept of salvation and I know that I was saved that day. However, it wasn’t until I came to college that I truly understood who I was in Jesus Christ. All growing up, I knew what it meant to be a Christian and I knew the right things to do and the right ways to act. But I didn’t truly understand, with my heart, what the Christian life was all about. It is about knowing, truly knowing with your heart not just with your head, who God is. It is also about truly knowing who you are because of Christ Jesus. True understanding is when knowledge or faith meets revelation. The knowledge or faith comes from reading the Word; the revelation is when God reveals the truths of His Word to you through His Holy Spirit. One cannot truly have a heart knowledge of anything until God reveals that truth to him or her through His Spirit.

8.	How have you grown since joining Above and Beyond?
	I have really grown since I have been a part of this team. It is so encouraging to be around a group of people that are going through the same kind of things that I am going through. I know that every single team member really cares for each other and any troubles that they are going through. I really feel like this team is a place of refuge for each of us. We know that we can come to the team for support, comfort, challenge or anything.

9.	What aspect of the Above and Beyond life still challenges you the most?
	Remembering who I am in Christ Jesus and living from that.

10.	Where do you see God calling you?
	I see God calling me to use my nursing in a Spanish speaking country.

11.	What is your vision for Above and Beyond’s future?
	I hope that this ministry continues on for years and years to come. God has given Above and Beyond such an awesome tool to draw in every different kind of person in every different age group in order to share with them the Gospel. I hope that is a fact that every member of this team now and in the years to come is aware of and thankful that God has allowed them to take part in it.