At a glance
Exciting news: I'm engaged to this man on the left, Andrew Knight! Check out his blog at www.AndrewKnightOnline.com. He's originally from Georgia, went to Furman University and on staff with Campus Outreach in Minneapolis, MN AND he's a Georgia fan!
Hometown: Alpharetta/LaGrange, GA
Birthday: December 17
Current verses: 1 Corinthians 2:1-5
Favorite things: being outside, Braves baseball, college football (UGA and I guess GT now too!), cajun food, good conversations
Walk with Christ: 5 years now!
Current reading: "As for Me and My House" by Walter Wangrin, "Beyond Opinion" by Ravi Zarharias
Ministry focus: Alpha Delta Pi, Zeta Tau Alpha sororities at Georgia Tech; soon to be at Northwestern College and help spark a women's movement at Bethel College in Minneapolis
My story
After graduating from the University of Georgia in May of 2007, I continued seeking the next step in my life. Although I had planned on moving to Washington, DC for several years to begin a career in political communications, everything changed in just a few months.
Let me back up first though. I was raised in Alpharetta, GA with great parents and an older sister, Courtney. We went to Catholic church my entire life, but spiritually I was uninterested and bored. Throughout middle and high school, church was at most a social thing. Instead I was focused on obtaining other people's attention and craving popularity. I wanted to please everyone.
I left for UGA in the fall of 2003 where I excitedly awaited "the best four years of my life" without supervision at one of America's top party schools. However, God interrupted my life and turned it upside down. He surrounded me with amazing Christian women who had real hope and faith, were loving, and were not hypocritical, but real. It astounded me.
The first semester of my freshman year at UGA, I heard and understood what a relationship with Christ meant for the first time. I began to crave the Word and my perspective on life was radically different. With this desire for personal change and growth, I got involved with Campus Outreach where I learned how to study the Bible and apply it to my life, about fellowship, how to pray, and how to have a ministry.
During the summer of 2007, I went to Johannesburg, South Africa with Campus Outreach where God really began to change my heart to live missionally and radically for Christ. After experiencing God's power in bringing four girls into relationships with himself, I felt the weight of my life purpose. Soon I began to rethink Washington, DC and considered working for Campus Outreach full-time. Finally, I was convicted that full-time ministry was my next step after hearing about an opportunity to move back to South Africa and see God change the heart of college students in Cape Town. That was it.
Despite my heart for Africa, the logistics and planning for a Cape Town expansion have been pushed back. However, I am incredibly grateful that I can really pour into women at Georgia Tech and I'll be able to walk with them through life for even more time!
Now, I am on campus full-time, living in Atlanta, and dreaming about all God will have for me and other college students around the world. I love being at Georgia Tech and investing in these women who I hope help to build into laborers. Then together we can reach GT and the world for Christ.
Thank you again for being a huge part of this chapter of my life. I am thrilled to see where God will take us and how He will use us!
My family
This is Courtney, my sister who is one year older than me. She graduated from Ga Tech in 2006 and is currently working at an architecture firm here in Atlanta.
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Courtney and her husband Scott just got married this past September. I love that they now live a few blocks from me in Atlanta and that I finally have a brother!
These are my wonderful parents, Patrick and Molly, when they came to visit Athens my senior year!