Nicholette Lockwood, from SMSU

Wow!
How can I begin to describe how Chi Alpha has lit­er­al­ly changed my world,
turned it upside down, made me a new per­son! When I came to col­lege my
heart was aching and ready to encounter Jesus Christ, although I didn’t
know it. When I first came to Thurs­day night fel­low­ship, I was uncom­fort­able
and a bit tak­en aback by the atmos­phere. But soon God dis­played His incred­i­bly
amaz­ing love through all of the peo­ple involved at Chi Alpha. I joined
a small group, and in Novem­ber of my fresh­man year, after TNF one night,
I gave my life to Christ. I began an amaz­ing jour­ney into life
with Him. Through Chi Alpha here at SMS I have met two of the most gra­cious,
lov­ing, and influ­en­tial peo­ple in my life, Glen and Paula Davis. Start­ing
my sopho­more year I was just fine, but dur­ing the Christ­mas break I expe­ri­enced
an enor­mous­ly con­fus­ing, depress­ing, and life-chang­ing stage in my Chris­t­ian
walk. I began ques­tion­ing almost every­thing I could make up a ques­tion
for. Dur­ing this time Glen began doing his “Bowl­ing Alley The­olo­gian”
thing, and I start­ed com­ing to talk to him about my ques­tions. I found
that he has abound­ing wis­dom from God, and uses that wis­dom to share God’s
love in a prac­ti­cal way. I dis­cov­ered that he was able to explain things
in ways that I could under­stand, ways that no one else could. And he cared
deeply about me and my life. Because of Glen’s help, I grad­u­al­ly made
my way back to a healthy life of love for Jesus. Last semes­ter I also
began to talk to Glen’s wife, Paula, about oth­er issues I could not talk
to Glen about because he sug­gest­ed she could help me. I am now in my junior
year, and Paula and I have become very close friends too. She has shown
me so much love and appre­ci­a­tion that when­ev­er I need or desire com­fort
and care, I can just seek this awe­some cou­ple out and they let me know
how much Jesus loves me. They dri­ve me to church every Sun­day, take me
out to lunch to talk with me about my life on a reg­u­lar basis, and inspire
me to love peo­ple more. I can­not thank God enough for plant­i­ng Chi Alpha
here at SMS and for plac­ing Glen and Paula here at this time to min­is­ter
to me and the oth­er needy stu­dents on cam­pus.

P.S. Nic­ho­lette has her own blog!