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North Central University
Aaron Smith
Extreme sports, extreme ministry
Aaron Smith gets good
grades; played four years of varsity soccer; served as a discipleship
leader, resident advisor and as a student government official; and
he has spent the past two summers raising funds for missions projects.
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Northwest College
Christina Pablo
Good company
The only dose of religion
Christina Pablo knew was the year she spent at a Catholic school
as a child. She spent the rest of her childhood, she says, in an
agnostic home. By age 12, her parents had divorced.
“That was the beginning
of a downhill slope for me,” says Pablo.
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Southeastern College
Lequient Bethel
When God calls you, He’ll provide the way
Lequient Bethel, 22,
sat at home in Nassau, Bahamas, on the first day of classes in the
spring 2002 semester. He had arrived home just before Christmas
2001 after leaving Morehead (Ky.) State University, where he drifted
through four different majors in a two-year span. He says he was
running from God’s will until he decided to rededicate his
life to Christ and attend Southeastern College of the Assemblies
of God in Lakeland, Fla., in 2002. But he lacked the $5,500 necessary
for a new student visa.
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Southwestern Assemblies
of God University
Keyanna Barr
Eyes on the future
“I want to make
a difference in everything I do,” says Keyanna Barr, a very
involved student at Southwestern Assemblies of God University. “When
I arrived at Southwestern the doors of opportunity were wide open.”
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Trinity Bible College
Evan Cummins
Evangelism on the road: a family tradition
Music has always been
part of Evan Cummins’ life — he’s been playing
drums since age 5 — and he hopes it will be the gift that
propels his future in ministry. Cummins accepted Christ as Savior
in 1997 at age 15 while living at Fort Peck Indian Reservation in
Poplar, Mont., where he was born and raised. Within the year, he
was traveling to various Indian reservations throughout Canada and
the western United States with his family evangelizing and playing
guitar in the family band.
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Valley Forge Christian
College
T.J. Reid
Reaching a new generation
For T.J. Reid, a shopping
mall is not just a collection of name-brand outlets and food courts.
It’s an evangelistic field. The 21-year-old junior at Valley
Forge Christian College in Phoenixville, Pa., is a youth ministry
major, but doesn’t see his future tied to a church’s
youth hall.
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Vanguard University
Jessica Lenderman
Motivated and guided
Jessica Lenderman was
an activities maven in high school: ASB president, three-letter
athlete, active in her church youth group. But when she came to
Vanguard University of Southern California, she added something
more: spiritual depth.
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Western Bible College
William Jordan
Things have never been better
William Jordan used to
do crack cocaine. Today, he is active in church, has a good job
and attends Western Bible College in Phoenix. In the early 1990s,
Jordan’s life was in shambles. Realizing he might end up in
prison or dead, he made a promise: “Lord, if You do something
with me, You’ve got me.”
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Zion Bible Institute
Juleen Pataro
No fear: discovering a call to ministry
At 21, Juleen Pataro
thought her life was just the way she wanted it to be. The “good
money” she made as a hairdresser allowed her to rent her own
apartment in Lagrangeville, N.Y. Pataro seemed to be on course for
a hairdressing career. But it wasn’t meant to be.
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