Meet Our Team

Angelle is from Nashville, TN, but now resides in League City, TX with her husband, Carter, and two young sons, Charlie & Luke. She formally worked as a Nurse Manager at an HCA hospital in the south Houston area, but has been recently called to step aside to raise her children at home and focus on growing Upward Twist. Missions has been a huge part of Angelle’s life and story since 2007. She’s been to Honduras multiple times, Haiti, Nicaragua, Uganda, Ecuador, and India. Since then, God has opened her heart to combine her love for missions, nursing, and the desire to help others serve on medical missions, together into one entity by starting her own ministry, The Upward Twist. She has a vision for this ministry that she hopes will create life-changing experiences for those who serve through The Upward Twist!

After a 15 year career in Human Resources with companies like Frito Lay / PepsiCo, Steve spent the next 20+ years leading The Human Capital Group, a Retained Executive Search firmwhich, through God’s amazing grace, was ultimately acquired by a Fortune 250 company. Steve is now the Senior Partner of Serve In Love, a faith-based Executive Coaching and Leadership Advisory firm. Steve and his wife of over 37 years, Adrienne, are blessed with 5 grown children and 7 grandchildren. He is an active member of Holy Family Catholic Church in Brentwood, TN and has been leading mission teams to Honduras since 2006, which eventually led to a partnership with The Olancho Aid Foundation in 2009 where over 750 people from the US have experienced Education, Hope and Transformation by going to serve in Honduras. Steve serves/has served on numerous boards such as: The C12 Forum, GraceWorks, Best Christian Workplaces, Young Catholic Professionals (YCP), The Parish Pastoral Council of Holy Family Catholic Church, The Olancho Aid Foundation, Mission Honduras Advisory Board, Catholic Charities of Middle TN, YMCA of Middle TN, Fellowship of Christian Athletes (Middle TN), and The Catholic Business League of Nashville. His love for missions has made a tremendous impact on his family’s lives, prompting all five of his children to grow a love for missions abroad.

Ade was born in Lagos Nigeria. She immigrated to the US with her family in her childhood years. She is the director of a nursing unit in one of the HCA Houston facilities. Ade has a passion for travel and medical missions. In 2012, Ade went on her first mission trip to Panama and it sparked a heart to bring the skills she learned as a nurse to countries that healthcare is not readily available as well as sharing the gospel with the people. Since then she has gone on multiple mission trips. Her heart is to see lives transformed medically, spiritually, and emotionally. One of her goals is to ignite that same passion in others to go on medical mission trips.

Mike is a Certified Public Accountant in Nashville, TN. After graduating from the University of Kentucky, he spent 5 years with the firm Ernst and Young and the past 36 years as the director of Financial Reporting for HCA and its affiliates. He is a husband of 36 years and father of three grown children and he and his wife are currently raising their 7 year old great niece. Mike currently services on the Finance Board of St. Henry Catholic Church and School, is a monthly volunteer at the Ronald McDonald House and serves as a Team Leader for HCAs Caring for the Community Program. In Mikes’ free time he enjoys playing, watching and talking about all sports, plus he loves to travel and has visited over 30 countries. Mike values the virtue of charity as one of the most important virtues that you should pass onto your children, friends and associates.

Julia grew up in Phoenix, AZ but now considers Nashville, TN home. Nashville is where she met her husband Hunter and where they had their first child Emy Grace. Julia has been a nurse at Vanderbilt Hospital since 2017. She has worked with both adult & pediatric patients in transplant, trauma, and surgery. She has always had a heart to serve others and travel. Since 2012 she has served in Mexico, Puerto Rico, and Africa. She is excited to continue her desire to travel around the world, help medically treat others, and spread the love of Jesus at the same time while serving alongside Upward Twist!

Jason is an Emergency Medicine Physician in Nashville, TN and trained at the University of Birmingham, Alabama. He is a devout Jesus follower, husband, and father of three. Jason enjoys spending time with his family - living room wrestling, doing all things outdoors, and travel. He loves going on mission trips to further the Kingdom of God and to see His beautiful creation. Apologetics, defending Christianity, has become a new passion of Jason’s. He is a leader and looked very highly upon his peers and co-workers which became very apparent as he received the HCA Frist Humanitarian Award and was voted upon to be recognized as Physician of the Year in 2017. Subconsciously or consciously, Jason adds value to not just his patients, but all those that enter his life!

Sammy resides in Knoxville, TN with her husband and 2 young children, Cameron and Natalie. Sammy works for JonnyPops as a Director of Strategy and Technology. In her free time enjoys gardening, spending time on the lake, and enjoying any type of outdoor adventure! Sammy went to Morency, Haiti with Cross Point Church in the Spring of 2018 and believes that everyone who has it on their heart should go and serve, whether that is down the street or across the globe!

Bob is the owner and CEO of Star129 and Diamond Outlet, diamond businesses based out of Nashville, TN. Bob has lived in Nashville for 23 years with his wife and 3 grown children. Although he calls it home, Bob has traveled all over the world for work, adventure, or mission work. He is very passionate about suicide prevention which has lead him to become a Tennessee Suicide Prevention Network QPR Trainer. He has served on a handful of boards including Boy Scout Scoutmaster, Boy Scout Boards of Review for Eagle Candidates, Holy Family Council, Honduras Advisory Board, and is a Brown University Hall of Fame Member. Bob cares deeply about each individual who enters his life with is very apparent if you ever get the opportunity to meet him. Bob has a heart of gold and an incredibly contagious spirit!

Brandon works as an emergency physician in Nashville, TN. He grew up in Nashville and has lived there nearly his entire life. He and his wife Meaghan have two wonderful daughters, Madelyn and Amelia, and a chocolate lab named Lucy. He enjoys the outdoors and traveling with his family and friends. Brandon is a member of Otter Creek Church and has a heart for service. He has been on two medical mission trips to serve the people of the Baja peninsula in the area around Ensenada, Mexico, and feels that everyone who has the desire to serve others should have the opportunity to do so, whether it is traveling internationally, domestically, or volunteering with local organizations in their own area.