When i first saw courtney, i thought she was a student here to visit for the night. I also when she got up in front of us thought she looked like a girl who graduated from here that i liked so i automatically liked her! I was shocked by the fact that she is now a full time pastor as a woman but graduated with a secular college with a degree in communications and history ... i think! Somewhere along the way God had tugged on her heart to continue in this chi alpha ministry she was doing which lead her to DC. She called it "where the party's at" because of all the chi alpha people who were working in that area with. It seemed like a comfort zone for her, but very much needed at first so learn under people who had been doing chi alpha longer. I admire her for taking this step in the first place. I know it would probably be so hard to move away from home, espically your home state and go to DC a crazy busy place. even though she knew she would have others supporting her there it still took courage.
then i dont remember the details of how, but God called her to PA! She at first wanted to start a chi alpha at Villanova University. She had to start raising support just like a missionary that would go over seas, except she was a missionary to a college. Well since Villanova is such a prestigious college she had a hard time raising support from churches. I think it's soo horrible that churches wouldn't give her support, i mean i know that you can't support every missionary alive, but for those that told her that she wasn't going into the deepest darkest side of Philly that this must not be from God! well that just makes me very angry. Well after a while she got enough of her support, but ended up at Temple for some reasons that i dont remember because i forgot to write them down, but i think it had something to do with the fact that the college didnt want her on the campus.
So courtney started this amazing journey of faith, believe God was calling her to Temple to minister to these college students. I can only imagine how she felt, excited and probably at the same time scared to death. And her parents, i know when i get out of college and i take my first job that calls me states away from home, to a place i've never been, where i dont know anyone, my parents would have such a hard time letting me go. Ha, they have a hard time letting me go as it is just to college...haha. courtney is now ministering, discipling and buiding relationships with 8 college students so far, 4 who are saved and 4 who are unsaved. I think that God will continue to bless her and this ministry because she has a heart for this, and not many people seem to, at least in this area. She is hopefully not letting the number game get her down, i've learned so much in this class so far and one of the most important things i think im learning is that relationship take time to build. So real deep strong relationships that she's trying to build to bring these people to Christ it'll happen through time, i believe God in that He will do so. Thank God for women like courtney who will stick out the rough times and not give in, but stand firm in God, in His strength!
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