Our Team

Top Row (Left to Right):  Jimmy Buehler, Chris Earl, Nikki Seviola, Christel Rock, Jens Paulson, Kelsey Simmons, Drew Kirch, Anna Johanek, Chris “Rolo” Rolson.  Bottom Row (Left to Right):  Elliot Stokes, Laura Watkins, Curt Szabo.

Team Members-

Jimmy Buehler:

• My Full Name: James “Jimmy” Buehler
• School/Major: Northwestern College; Biblical Studies
• Greatest fear in going to India: Greatest fear is probably adjusting to the culture shock and learning how to fit in when I am sick and over-heated.
• What is you most excited about for your trip to India? I am most looking forward to getting out of my comfort zone!
• Random Fact: I love photography, even though I don’t do it much and don’t have a camera (yet). Hate Italian food. Love English soccer; go Liverpool.

Chris Earl:

• My Full Name: Christina “Chris” Earl
• School/Name: Northwestern College-Communication Studies
• Greatest fear in going to India: My greatest fear would be failing to truly care for their souls and understand where they’re coming from in my efforts to share Christ with them. And sweating.
• What is you most excited about for your trip to India? I’m most excited about making new friends in India and also being stretched personally and with the team–and SCARVES and CURRY and CULTURE!
• Random Fact: I love mass media, hymns, diet coke, and I wanna be in a Bollywood movie!

Anna Johanek:

• My Full Name: Anna Marie Johanek
• School/Major: U of M, Nutrition.
• Greatest fear in going to India: My greatest fear is not connecting with the Indian students and not being able to answer tough questions they have. Also not being loving to my teammates when I’m crabby, tired, and hot…………and getting worms
• What are you most excited about for your trip to India? I’m looking foward to seeing India! and learning how to minister to people from a different culture.
• Random fact: This trip will be the first time I’ve ever been out of the country (I’ve never even been to Canada)

Drew Kirch:

• My Full Name: Andrew Steven Kirch
• School/Major: Northwestern College, Psychology
• Greatest fear in going to India: Getting left behind someplace in Delhi. Or getting a huge tape worm. But that would also be kind of cool.
• What are you most excited about for your trip to India? I’m most excited for growth! I know that there will be growth as a result of this trip. Growth in my relationship with God and my dependency on Him, and growth that I will see in my teammates too. And hopefully there will be growth in our relationships with the students on the campus of St. Stephens, and their relationship with God too!
• Random fact: Love basketball and golf. I can sleep anywhere, anytime and in any position.

Jens Paulson:

• My Full Name: Jens Carl Paulson
• School/Major: Northwestern College, Biblical Studies (the Logos of Theos)
• Greatest fear in going to India: Leaving India and the students with a bigger view of Jens than of Christ.
• What are you most excited about for your trip to India? To see God’s work somewhere other than my natural, comfortable context and having the privilege of being a part of that.
• Random fact: I make up more than one percent of the population of my hometown, which has a name that means “Mud.”

Christel Rock:

• My Full Name: Christel Lee Rock
• School/Major: Bethel University/Organizational Communications
• Greatest fear in going to India: I think just being uncomfortable and that this might take away from my focus of why we are there…oh, and the food.
• What are you most excited about for your trip to India? I’m just excited to see the Lord work. I know he is going to be  moving and working and I’m so excited to see how. soo excited.
• Random Fact: I love Coldplay, reading and sweatpants (but not in India). I have also had the same ringtone for the past five years- We Never Change by Coldplay. Pretty impressive huh?

Chris “Rolo” Rolson:

• My Full Name: Christopher Mark Rolson
• School/Major: University of Minnesota – Chemistry
• Greatest fear in going to India: Nothing.
• What are you  most excited about for your trip to India? For Indian college students to receive the Gospel and share it further and better than I ever could across India.
• Random Fact: I made a hobby out of exotic aquatic plants, studying their growth and native water chemistry.

Nikki Seviola:

• My Full Name: Nikki Renee Seviola
• School/Major: Northwestern- Marketing Graphic Design
• Greatest fear in going to India: I dont really have an enormous single fear.  I have little worries here and there but I do trust God is going to work through our weaknesses and struggles.  I do think I am going to be quite overwhelmed when we arrive struggle with that.
• What are you most excited about for your trip to India? I am so pumped for the trip to India!  First just to put a face to the people we have been praying for so much in the last year.  I am excited about our team and the dynamic we have as well as just experiencing another culture.  Most of all I am excited to share the Gospel and meet students and the challenge that may be.  I have never experienced something like this and I am so blessed to have an opportunity to do so!
• Random Fact: I love sports and art, which is a weird combo.  I broke my pelvis and face once in a ski accident and now I can predict the weather like its my job.  I can be amused with almost anything and rarely am I bored.  I sometimes talk in my sleep so my roomies are in for a treat this summer.  I love to be outside and summers on the lake are my favorite.

Kelsey Simmons:

• My Full Name: Kelsey Rae Simmons
• School/Major: I attend Bethel University and am pursuing a degree in Nursing with a minor in Psychology.
• Greatest fear in going to India: I will get a parasite.
• What are you most excited about for your trip to India? I am excited to share the gospel in a culture different than mine.  Most people at Bethel will at least acknowledge Jesus Christ, so I’m excited to be in a country that this isn’t true.
• Random fact: I broke my ankle during my first time ice skating while on a group date.

Curt Szabo:

• My Full Name: William Curtis Szabo
• School/Major: University of Minnesota – Life with an emphasis in leisure studies.
• Greatest fear in going to India: Fear fears me.
• What are you most excited about for your trip to India? Causing social reform by sharing the Gospel.
• Random Fact: I can eat food like it’s my job.

Leaders-

Elliot Stokes:

• My Full Name: Elliot Nathan Stokes
• School/Major: Graduated NWC in 2007 with History major & Biology minor
• Greatest fear in going to India: Getting ripped off by rickshaw drivers
• What are you most excited about for your trip to India? Watching our team minister to students at St. Stephens, seeing our students grow, interacting together as a team
• Random Fact: I am terrified of losing to the Indian basketball team…I will be practicing vigorously until we have a victory

Laura Watkins:

• My Full Name: Laura Grace Watkins
• School/Major: Graduated from the U of MN majored in political science and history
• Greatest fear in going to India: My greatest fear… Probably getting interrogated by the BJP (see major above )
• What are you most excited about for your trip to India? I’m really looking forward reconnecting with the St Stephens students we met last year and for fun team memories.
• Random Fact: I’ve been to India, China, the Middle East, and South America, but I’ve never been to California.