{"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 lit\u00ader\u00adal\u00adly changed my world,
\n turned it upside down, made me a new per\u00adson! When I came to col\u00adlege my
\n heart was aching and ready to encounter Jesus Christ, although I didn\u2019t
\n know it. When I first came to Thurs\u00adday night fel\u00adlow\u00adship, I was uncom\u00adfort\u00adable
\n and a bit tak\u00aden aback by the atmos\u00adphere. But soon God dis\u00adplayed His incred\u00adi\u00adbly
\n amaz\u00ading love through all of the peo\u00adple involved at Chi Alpha. I joined
\n a small group, and in Novem\u00adber of my fresh\u00adman year, after TNF one night,
\n I gave my life to Christ<\/b>. I began an amaz\u00ading jour\u00adney into life
\n with Him. Through Chi Alpha here at SMS I have met two of the most gra\u00adcious,
\n lov\u00ading, and influ\u00aden\u00adtial peo\u00adple in my life, Glen and Paula Davis. Start\u00ading
\n my sopho\u00admore year I was just fine, but dur\u00ading the Christ\u00admas break I expe\u00adri\u00adenced
\n an enor\u00admous\u00adly con\u00adfus\u00ading, depress\u00ading, and life-chang\u00ading stage in my Chris\u00adt\u00adian
\n walk. I began ques\u00adtion\u00ading almost every\u00adthing I could make up a ques\u00adtion
\n for. Dur\u00ading this time Glen began doing his \u201cBowl\u00ading Alley The\u00adolo\u00adgian\u201d
\n thing, and I start\u00aded com\u00ading to talk to him about my ques\u00adtions. I found
\n that he has abound\u00ading wis\u00addom from God, and uses that wis\u00addom to share God\u2019s
\n love in a prac\u00adti\u00adcal way. I dis\u00adcov\u00adered that he was able to explain things
\n in ways that I could under\u00adstand, ways that no one else could. And he cared
\n deeply about me and my life. Because of Glen\u2019s help, I grad\u00adu\u00adal\u00adly made
\n my way back to a healthy life of love for Jesus. Last semes\u00adter I also
\n began to talk to Glen\u2019s wife, Paula, about oth\u00ader issues I could not talk
\n to Glen about because he sug\u00adgest\u00aded 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 appre\u00adci\u00ada\u00adtion that when\u00adev\u00ader I need or desire com\u00adfort
\n and care, I can just seek this awe\u00adsome cou\u00adple out and they let me know
\n how much Jesus loves me. They dri\u00adve me to church every Sun\u00adday, take me
\n out to lunch to talk with me about my life on a reg\u00adu\u00adlar basis, and inspire
\n me to love peo\u00adple more. I can\u00adnot thank God enough for plant\u00adi\u00adng Chi Alpha
\n here at SMS and for plac\u00ading Glen and Paula here at this time to min\u00adis\u00adter
\n to me and the oth\u00ader needy stu\u00addents on cam\u00adpus. <\/font><\/p>\n

P.S. Nic\u00adho\u00adlette has her own blog<\/a>!<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wow! How can I begin to describe how Chi Alpha has lit\u00ader\u00adal\u00adly changed my world, turned it upside down, made me a new per\u00adson! When I came to col\u00adlege my heart was aching and ready to encounter Jesus Christ, although I didn\u2019t know it. When I first came to Thurs\u00adday night fel\u00adlow\u00adship, I was uncom\u00adfort\u00adable \u2026 Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading \u201cNic\u00adho\u00adlette Lock\u00adwood, 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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"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}]}}