{"id":9,"date":"2002-07-04T18:42:33","date_gmt":"2002-07-05T02:42:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/archives\/2002\/07\/04\/nicholette-lockwood-from-smsu\/"},"modified":"2002-07-04T18:42:33","modified_gmt":"2002-07-05T02:42:33","slug":"nicholette-lockwood-from-smsu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2002\/07\/04\/nicholette-lockwood-from-smsu","title":{"rendered":"Nicholette Lockwood, from SMSU"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

P.S. Nicholette has her own blog<\/a>!<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 didnt know it. When I first came to Thursday night fellowship, I was uncomfortable and a \u2026 Continue reading \u201cNicholette Lockwood, from SMSU\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-student-testimonies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}