Spiritual Mentors that have Changed My Life

Wendy ('04-present)

• First christian to affirm and validate my pain and exclusion and disappointments with the christian bubble my freshmen year. She said it was bold of me to share the way God was healing my heart. AFFIRMATION
• Ventured into starting the first social justice bible study at our campus, enabling me to reconcile some very disparate parts of my life in a Christian setting. The honesty and courage of the group was healing and loving. Supported Darfur activism ideas; She introduced the idea of community-oriented ways of doing things, thinking about things and thus, showed how I needed people and how I was made to be apart of a movement and recieve help and partnership in all I do. INTEGRATION
• Discipled me through a tensious semester of hostility toward American Christianity and my first encounters with the spiritual realm: backpains, dreams, holy spirit and prayer language. She was so open, supportive and paved a way of peace and integration for my spiritual life. Had it been anyone with less of a relationship with the spirit, it would have been hell. HEALING
• She called and stood with me through death, cancers, heart attacks and more. She assured me of God's comforting presence and loving gestures toward everyone. COMFORT
• Befriended me and models. Continued to take risks of Faith. In her places of leadership she leads out of vulnerability- sharing her own insecurities, embarassing stories, and hardships. She renounces self-protection to recieve life. VULNERABILITY

Nestor ('05-present)

• Hospitable and welcoming me into a family of God at Lighthouse Church in Ghana TREATED AS A SISTER IN CHRIST
• Challenged me out of my comfort zone to share "what has God been teaching you?" ENCOURAGED ME IN SPIRITUAL DISCIPLINES AND SPEAKING OUT
• He would look at me with so much love and say I know you have a song of worship in your heart at all times. I know you love the Lord with all your heart. Though it wasn't all true, he opened me to the possibility of living this way- it was a prophetic declaration CONSTANTLY ENCOURAGING & LEADING ME TO NEXT STEPS OF LOVING GOD
• Took many risks with him- praying late hours outside, singing a song to whole church, verbalizing what lord has been saying to me, praying over his family, recieving teachings. TOOK RISKS OF FAITH UNDER HIS MENTORSHIP
• He spoke truth into my life- I relied too much on emotions for my stability in the Lord; lived with the standard of the word despite the harsh realities of the world TRUTH IN LOVE
• His prayers for me: healed me from malaria, embodied love of Christ when he spent time with me, the sick- fed me, prayed for me, spent time with me; nothing I could do to give back- just recieve- it was a breakthrough for me spiritually UNCONDITIONAL LOVE MODELED LIKE JESUS WITH THE SICK
• Enduring friendship. Always prays for me, Spirit-led in all things, perserving in hope and leaning on God's grace. PRAYER and FRIEND