Jerod Quinn, from SMSU

Chi Alpha has rocked the very foun­da­tion of my life. 35mm lens on canon dig­i­tal cam­era
It pro­vid­ed an out­let for God to take a pride­ful, back­slid­ing kid who enjoyed
play­ing church and turn him into some­one who is con­stant­ly seek­ing and fol­low­ing
after God. I became a believ­er in high school, but XA is where I learned
to walk the path of the believ­er. The course of my life was changed because
an intern from XA decid­ed to talk to a young, pur­ple-haired, fresh­man while
he was tak­ing a nap out­side. This is my third year in col­lege, and my third
year in XA. Last spring break I had the priv­i­lege to go on a XA mis­sion
trip, led by Glen Davis, to South Beach Mia­mi. A good word to use when describ­ing
Glen is knowl­edge­able. When men­tion­ing him to oth­ers I often say, “If it’s
a book, Glen has read it.” But know­ing about God only takes you so far;
know­ing God is much more impor­tant. Both of these kinds of knowl­edge are
dis­played through Glen. I real­ly saw this dur­ing the mis­sion trip. We did
some wit­ness­ing on the cam­pus of the Uni­ver­si­ty of Mia­mi. While we were
there, Glen did some open air preach­ing. This was not “hell-fire and brim­stone”
stuff, but the respectable, hon­est address­ing of ques­tions peo­ple had about
Chris­tian­i­ty and Jesus. Not only does an activ­i­ty like this take gall, but
also it takes authen­tic wis­dom to do it effec­tive­ly. Need­less to say, Glen
knows his stuff. But as I men­tioned ear­li­er, knowl­edge about God can only
take you so far. Glen’s knowl­edge of God is dis­played just as much. We did
home­less min­istry in South Beach. We did more than just tell these peo­ple
about God’s love for them; we actu­al­ly demon­strat­ed it in a prac­ti­cal way
(James 2:15–17) by feed­ing them and lis­ten­ing to them. When­ev­er I have a
ques­tion about, gen­er­al­ly any­thing, Glen is almost always the first per­son
I go to. Glen and Paula are both real­ly great, God-fol­low­ing peo­ple. And
I would be say­ing that even if they weren’t let­ting me do my laun­dry at
their home. 🙂