Abbie’s Story
I came to know Christ personally at a young age, and walked with Him throughout my school years. When I got to college, however, I was met with a barrage of ideas contrary to all I had ever heard growing up.
My professors told me that truth was relative. They told me that the Scriptures weren’t historically reliable, and that Jesus definitely was not who the Scriptures say He claimed to be. My peers made fun of me, saying that believing in Jesus was an irrational position. Disillusioned, I decided that I wasn’t going to believe in Jesus unless I was convinced that my faith was based in fact. I began to research the claims of Christ, and after 1 ½ years of searching, decided that He is who He said He was. But that wasn’t the most convincing thing to me. During those years, I had also seen lives transformed by Jesus. Around me, broken hearts and lives were being helped and healed by Jesus. I was convinced that Jesus alone had words of life to offer a dying world.
God used this time in my life to call me to work full-time in the fulfillment of Jesus’ Great Commission. As a student, I saw people seeking the truth all around me, as I had. Most of all, I had seen that the deepest needs of the human heart can be satisfied only in a relationship with the Creator. In college, I decided to allow God to use me for His glory in helping to bring students into a personal relationship with Him for the rest of my life.