• Please provide us with an expression of your Christian faith. Describe your initial encounter with Jesus Christ; Relate how and when you became a Christian, What is your understanding of the basis of your salvation; What does Jesus Christ mean to you in your daily life. Required o As a child, I grew up attending the same church and went to the same private school from K-12th grade. I was raised in God fearing and loving family. I also believed in God, and can truly say I was a “believer”. However, I would say that the majority of the time I was just going through the motions. I had spurts of interest in what a true relationship with Christ looked like, but I was never starving for the Word of God, pursuing His presence constantly, or abiding
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My family, church, and school all continually pushed me to look to the Lord first above all else. Sports on the other hand, told me to look toward myself for problem solving. I was good enough at sports that when I applied this concept to sports and it worked I applied to all other areas. Making God, other people, and outside circumstance obsolete. All the while my family, church, and school are saying the Lord is the only true sustainable source of life. I realized this when I went to play college basketball, and fulfillment in sports was not enough to fill me. o These two groups however did work together often too. My core values of purpose, excellence, integrity, and hard work are built off of a foundation of teaching from a variety of coaches, teachers, and mentors. These values truly shaped how I approach goals setting and completing tasks set before me. They also impacted my perception on my view of not looking at goals and tasks with the question, what I can do, but what God can do through me. These core values have guided me to a life of excellence that is focused solely on the …show more content…
This is a large reason why Samaritan’s Purse was my first and only choice for internship this summer because of the ability for growth in organization that has continually shown that Glorying God and spreading the message of the Gospel is of the utmost importance. The ability to learn how to better share the Gospel of Jesus Christ better will enable me to gain a very valuable tool to my skill set to glorify the
My family, church, and school all continually pushed me to look to the Lord first above all else. Sports on the other hand, told me to look toward myself for problem solving. I was good enough at sports that when I applied this concept to sports and it worked I applied to all other areas. Making God, other people, and outside circumstance obsolete. All the while my family, church, and school are saying the Lord is the only true sustainable source of life. I realized this when I went to play college basketball, and fulfillment in sports was not enough to fill me. o These two groups however did work together often too. My core values of purpose, excellence, integrity, and hard work are built off of a foundation of teaching from a variety of coaches, teachers, and mentors. These values truly shaped how I approach goals setting and completing tasks set before me. They also impacted my perception on my view of not looking at goals and tasks with the question, what I can do, but what God can do through me. These core values have guided me to a life of excellence that is focused solely on the …show more content…
This is a large reason why Samaritan’s Purse was my first and only choice for internship this summer because of the ability for growth in organization that has continually shown that Glorying God and spreading the message of the Gospel is of the utmost importance. The ability to learn how to better share the Gospel of Jesus Christ better will enable me to gain a very valuable tool to my skill set to glorify the