How did you rst meet Davis?
What happened while you were ministering to him?
How did you rst get involved with Campus Outreach? What has God done in your life personally over your time in college?
Landon Tucker
Landon and Davis
How did you meet Bentley?
How have you been trying to minister to him?
What has it been like to see him come to faith?
How did you rst get involved with Campus Outreach?
What were you praying for your brother as he was entering college?
What has it been like to see him come to faith?
When did you rst hear about Campus Outreach?
What were your thoughts about Campus Outreach as you were entering college?
How did you meet Davis?
When did you decide you were going to get more involved?
How has God been working in your life over this past year?
Bentley and Sarah Davis and Bentley
How did you rst get involved with Campus Outreach?
What has God done in your life personally over your time in college?
How did you meet Allie?
Kate and EmmaHow did you rst get involved with Campus Outreach?
What’s one way you’ve seen God transform your life since that time?
How have you been doing ministry with your sorority and what has that been like?
Any cool things you’ve seen God do through it?
How did you rst get involved with Campus Outreach?
What has God done in your life personally over your time in college?
Where do you spend your time doing ministry at UofSC?
Kate and Allie Emma Christian
The Hawkins have been on sta since 2009 when Andrew became a Campus Sta for Western Carolina University. He and Ali married in 2011 and since then have had three boys (Charlie, Daniel and Grady). They live in Clemson, SC and Andrew serves as the Area Director for Clemson and Western Carolina.
How did you guys rst get involved with Campus Outreach?
I (Andrew) got involved in Campus Outreach my Junior year at PC. I had transferred to PC and right a er my rst class I came back to my dorm room and a guy named Ben Creasman was sitting in my room talking with my roommate Brinck. We started talking and wound up with the three of us grabbing lunch together at Whiteford’s. During lunch Ben shared the gospel with Brinck and me by drawing the bridge diagram on a napkin. A erwards he told us that he worked for Campus Outreach and we should get involved. I knew that as a Christian I should be sharing the gospel so I gured that I should spend more time with Ben, so I asked him what that meant. From there he introduced us to the other sta guy Devin and we jumped right in.
What’s one big thing that sticks out that you’ve learned together throughout your time on sta ?
The value of being a team. We both realize that in order to be on mission we both have to want each other to make a di erence in this world. There are few things in this world that feel better than to know that your spouse is proud of the labor that you put in with other people.
What does ministry look like for you as your family has grown over the years?
Ministry has certainly changed over the years as our family has grown. We try to have people over for dinner 2-3 nights a week in order to have a shared ministry experience as well as exposing our boys to college students who are lost, or sta and students that really want to know Christ. That has been a gi to our family for our house to be a revolving door of people.
Personally as my experience has grown, I also spend a lot of time with other sta helping them navigate the complexities of ministry personally and practically. Ali being a stay at home mom has shi ed her ministry focus. She spends time with some of the younger sta women as well as ministers to other moms in the area.
What keeps you going in ministry year a er year?
I think of a few things that keep me going. The vision of making disciples of the campus for the lost world is still front and center. I can’t think of a better way to use our one life. Being a part of a team of people, some of which are my best friends, that are trying to accomplish the same vision, and the consistency of seeing people’s lives changed year a er year really spurs me on.
What’s one prayer for your family going forward?
Pray that the Lord would use our family to bless all the people whom we get to rub shoulders with.
My name is Ben Creasman and I am the owner of Owners Choice Construction in Greenville, SC. I also worked for Campus Outreach for almost 14 years and spent 4 of those years as the Regional Director. I’m married to my wife, Kaye. We have been married for 16 years and have 3 boys: Jackson (12), Hayes (10) and Abraham (6). They are all beasts.
My RAR (RA roommate) was a guy named Aaron who was involved in Campus Outreach and began hanging out with me. He eventually convinced me to attend a fall retreat with him where we began to explore the faith much deeper. My wife met some upperclassmen her freshman year who invited her to be part of a freshman bible study and things developed from that point.
Aaron was a significant part of my process of understanding the concept of grace. I grew up around the faith and thought I was a Christian for most of my life, but I don’t believe I understood grace until the fall retreat my freshman year. There were many other experiences throughout my time in college where this concept of grace was continually deepened, but I literally had no framework for this Gospel essential until this pivotal retreat. I still remember the moment when this concept took root… I cried for like an hour because it was so unbelievable.
I literally would not be doing what I do now without the time I had on staff to grow and develop as a person and in my faith. It’s like our experience on staff set us on a trajectory in life that we are now continuing. We are doing ministry in the workplace and cultivating the space for people to build lives and experience the love of Christ is tangible ways.
I know my life mission and why God has placed me on this earth: to pioneer new spaces and push back the boundaries to create opportunities for others to be successful. I have been given the gifts that I have for the benefit of other people.
I see everything I do through the lens of the Gospel. There is no space in my life that the truth about Christ does not creep in and take over. I make daily decisions for my business and my employees with just a few principles in mind: 1) We must be profitable so that we can do the really cool things we do to help our people be successful, 2) We must always remember the value of human life. Everyone is deserving of dignity because they bear the image of God. This is true for the people I work with and the people I work for.
Some of the spaces Ben’s business has worked on since he left Campus Outreach in 2019 to start Owners Choice.
I rst got connected with Campus Outreach my sophomore year (Fall of 2019). I was chaplain of my sorority and a new member decided to join my weekly Bible study and asked if she could bring a friend of hers to my Bible study that was not in my sorority. Of course, this was not just any friend, it was a sta girl for Campus Outreach, who loved getting connected with girls in sororities during her time on sta .
Through her coming to my Bible study, we got connected and she started inviting me to co ee and other Campus Outreach events. I did not initially go to all the events she invited me to, except for the way too early Christmas party and Friendsgiving. She ended up telling me about New Year’s Conference (continued next page)
a er we had co ee one day, which looked to me like a lot of fun. A er talking to my parents, the next day, they thought it would be a great idea for me to go, so without knowing anyone except for my friend Josie, I decided to sign up and go.
I wanted to go because it sounded like a great time to connect and reset for the upcoming semester, and to just do something fun over break other than work. Through this experience I was able to see what it looks like for me to step out of my comfort zone and attend an event where I knew only 2 people and was able to see the real community.
I was able to nd joy in the CO community that I had been missing my rst year and a half of college and found purpose for my time in college. Before going to the New Year’s Conference, I was prepared to transfer from USC and head back home, because I dreadfully felt so lost at USC. Through the conference I saw that God could use me in more ways than I originally thought, and he had plans beyond my understanding.
Through the Conference I decided to switch my major that following week, because I realized that Physical Therapy was not my calling anymore, and the Lord could use me in better ways to connect with people on a personal level, through my love of sports and teaching. Going forward, I can use what I gained from New Year’s Conference as a reminder that the Lord has more set aside for me than I can imagine or plan for myself and that there is true joy in community and living life fully for Him.
I went to LP this past summer, because I heard other Campus Outreach students re ect on the importance LP had on their faith. I also attended LPO during the summer of 2020, so I was excited to experience LP in person. My entire MC committed to going to LP, so I also knew it was a great way for us to grow as a community. I learned so many things at LP through prayer, worship, leading, and meeting new people, and the talks each night. One thing the Lord taught me at LP was dependency; through being a room leader, beach evangelism, and connecting with new people, I realized the inadequacy of my own strength. At LP, we talked about the trustworthy character of the Lord, and it was so fruitful to lean into that in so many di erent aspects while I was at LP and now. Along with dependency, I learned a rhythm of reading the Bible, prayer, and worship alongside community; I was able to realize how I grew hearing interpretations and takeaways on the sessions from others. Lastly, I learned how the Lord is far more concerned about who I am becoming than what I am accomplishing. I am thankful I went to LP because it changed the trajectory of how I am choosing to spend the rest of college, living in dependence on the Lord and not my own strength.
I rst got connected to Campus Outreach through upperclassmen reaching out and pouring into me while I was a freshman. I had been excited to go to Leadership Project ever since then. I had heard of how much people were able to grow in their walks with Christ at LP, and it truly gave me a renewed heart for spending time with God in His Word and telling others about His love. Part of our time there was spent learning evangelism tools which included learning to share the bridge diagram. Through this I got to share the bridge with a freshman girl in my room (Ellie). Sharing the bridge led to conversations about confessing our sins and believing in Jesus as our Savior. Later that week she ended up accepting Christ as her Savior! It was amazing to see God work! He is still moving and changing lives!
This year we had an opportunity to send our staff on three vision trips around the world. The purpose was three-fold:
1. We want our staff to have a growing heart for the nations and a new perspective for what and how ministry is done on campuses around the world.
2. We wanted our staff team to be refreshed in their hearts for the gospel by putting them in new contexts to grow and share Christ.
3. We wanted to partner with Campus Outreach LEAD (see pages 45-46) who are always seeking to partner with churches around the world to launch new Campus Outreach regions. Our teams met and partnered with local church es in Peru, England, and Greece; met students at the local universities; and helped make new gospel connections be tween non-believers and the local churches in the cities they were based in. The goal was that these churches would get a taste for what it would be like to have a Campus Out reach region operating in their city and build a foundation to hopefully launch future teams to.
December
December
December 7, 2016
December 5, 2018
@pccookies: Introducing some of the nest delivery men across the USA: Christmas Willy, Whole MilkMiller, Rudolph the REIDnose reindeer, and J DUNCyocookie
December 7, 2015
@pccookies: J DUNKyocookie recently completed his cross-continent tour of Africa delivering cookies to native villagers and hungry hippos.
December 7, 2015
@pccookies: {Reidnose’s} unique understanding of cookie chemistry puts him among the likes of Betty Crocker and Walter White.
7, 2015
@pccookies: Christmas Willy joined this famous group of cookie enthusiasts to bring his cookies to the weary-eyed students of PC, during the world’s most formidable week of exams.
December 7, 2015
@pccookies: As the night comes to its end, Miller sees his cookies, nay, his craftsmanship, and knows they are going to the right place. Right into the beautiful mouths of PC students.
December 7, 2015
@pccookies: Josh, our delivery man, broke the sound barrier at age four, delivering a glass of milk from Miami to Canada in less than two hours.
7, 2015
@pccookies: Emily Swans-a-Swimming left home at 8 years old informing her parents she must ful ll her life’s purpose, to nd the greatest grain in the universe.
@pccookies: After surviving 867 straight days of “wintry mix” weather, Sarah the Magical Mixing Marshall became imbued with incredible mixing powers.
December 5, 2018
@pccookies: Meredith Moore-Dough Please nished her undergraduate degree at MIT with a double major in Doughology and Spanish.
December 5, 2018
@pccookies: Chris the Advertising A cionado Amond invented the world’s rst “Cream- lled crunchy cookie sandwich”, which he sold to a edgling company called “ reo” for 10,000.
@pccookies: 12-time Baker’s World Cup Champion 11 K , 1 Majority Decision Tracy Joyce the Choice Johnson baked her rst mu n at the age of three, while simultaneously directing her father to shepherd her stroller between ingredients and the oven.
December 5, 2018
@pccookies: rgani ational Director Katie Thompson studied the ancient art of structural and relational regulation and statistics under the famed scholar, Dan.
December 5, 2018
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