Student Blog Written By: Selah Lethers, Fellows
Nine months ago, I walked into Heritage 107 West, overwhelmed and behind. I was the second-to-last person to arrive on campus. Out of 103. Off to a smashing start, I thought, feeling more nervous by the minute.
The first week was spent in survival mode. Fire me up, bus trips to various events, and getting to know one or two people at most.
I was proud of who I had been and not sure what else I could really grow in, if I was being truly honest—and I probably wasn’t. I was afraid because I had spent the last few months praying—somewhat desperately—for a good community at Impact360. What if I had prayed too hard, set my expectations too high?
The Lord, unsurprisingly, had plans to wreck my expectations.
Only a month or two in, I was in awe of how He had provided, above and beyond. Our Father delights to give us good gifts, and He proved it over and over again to me.
When I prayed to grow in vulnerability, He stuck me in a tiny prayer room with my Bible Study and let me cry and allow myself to be unmasked. He even forced me to take the mask off myself instead of waiting for others to do it for me.
When I prayed to learn gentleness, He gave me people to hold, both physically and metaphorically.
When I begged him to break my pride, he sent me to Brazil, where I felt like a child fumbling for my purpose in a situation that didn’t seem to need me. He dropped me in a roomful of teenage girls who couldn’t understand my words and told me to care for them in my actions and prayers instead.
He has taught me that he is my only possible source of satisfaction, strength, and stability.
He has taught me to rest in him in six hours of silence and solitude.
He has taught me to be bold for him on a day of student-led evangelism.
On a misty sunrise on top of a mountain in Utah, when I was too cold to flex my fingers, he showed me the reality of his armor protecting me against spiritual warfare.
So I move forward, because this place was never meant to keep me.
I’m going to study criminal justice in college and pursue reconciliation for the harassed and helpless in a broken world. I’m going to root myself in a church that will be my family and seek to grow with those I find there.
I will set up habits and consistency—because a person who is the 101st to arrive on a campus could clearly use some of those in her life—that will strengthen my resolve for the Gospel that has changed my life.
Work, community, whatever else the Lord sends my way, I pray only that I will remain faithful with the big and small alike.
Praise the Lord for how he has changed me, and for how He has brought me to that place of change.
It would have been impossible without the challenge of leaders and peers here, the support of family and friends, and the prayers and support of many. Glory to God!
We believe that when a student is rooted in truth, they become a catalyst for the Kingdom wherever they go. Help us continue to forge disciples who possess the resolve to stay faithful and the tools to make disciples. Your investment in the Multiply Fund makes this transformation possible.