Georgia College Students Make a Big Difference in New Orleans

Spring break. You know the scene. Uninhibited revelry. Youthful self-indulgence. Partying, drinking and girls gone wild! Stop the tape.
Call CNN, Fox News and MTV. It seems there’s a group of young people that are seriously breaking the mold. They are doing unto others, they are loving their neighbor and changing their world.
They rise early and retire late.
They serve others selflessly by gutting flood damaged homes, assisting minority owned small businesses, tutoring inner-city youth and restoring order from chaos by meeting basic administrative and marketing needs of recovering ministries. They paint walls, build furniture, design logos, organize mailings. They awaken to reading the scriptures. They do not retire until they’ve pondered and internalized the hardest sayings of Christ and have considered the lofty character attributes of sacrifice, justice and mercy, redemptive suffering and of charity and love towards those who are poor. They raise their own support from willing donors. They encourage, smile and are grateful for the opportunity to serve.
Wow! If this is the next generation of young Christian leaders…then the church will indeed be in good hands. They have served their college in the most distinguished way. They have represented their college ministry as worthy emmissaries. They have honored their families and their hometowns at heroic levels. They have made us proud. And yet they will defer the credit and hope that their service was used by God for His glory. All I can say is…wow!
I know you will want to join me in honoring their service and in following their example. These 19 students from Georgia College’s Campus Outreach, we salute you and express our heartfelt gratitude!
Sam Rauschenberg - Senior - Economics and Political Science, Dalton, GA

Jason Berl - Senior - Rhetoric, Moultrie, GA

Ashley Bohanon - Senior - Mass Communications and Public Relations, Conyers, GA

Jason Hughes - Junior - Special Education, Lillburn, GA

Richard Kerr - Junior - International Business, LaGrange, GA

Emily Allen - Sophomore - Economics, LaGrange, GA

Elyssa Sanner - Sophomore - English, Evans, GA

Bonnie Kelly - Sophomore - Special Education, Lillburn, GA

Jess Parks - Junior - Art, Lillburn, GA

Katie Woods - Sophomore - Special Education, Kennesaw, GA

Jenny Proffitt - Sophomore - Community Health, Marrietta, GA

Nadirah Ross - Senior - Mass Communications and Public Relations, Sparta, GA

Kat Mann - Junior - Psychology, Macon, GA

Lane Coursey - Freshman - Undeclared, Conyers, GA

Brent Adams - Junior - History, Savannah, GA

Brian McDaniel - Junior - English, Lawrenceville, GA

Lauren Crowley - Freshman - Undeclared, Augusta, GA

Whitney Fee - Sophomore - Mass Communications, Martinez, GA

Kelly Hartman - Graduate - Campus Outreach Staff, Augusta, GA