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A of Faith
Michelle Hicks helps women learn to be in God’s Word as they walk with the Lord BY ASHLEY ALLEN
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t the start of the winding, gravel road that leads into Mt. Lebanon Baptist Encampment in Cedar Hill, Texas, is a weathered wooden sign that reads, “Where People Meet Jesus.” As a rising eighth-grader attending her first-ever church-related event, the sign proved prophetic for Michelle Hicks (’89). When her classmate invited her to take part in a youth camp at Mt. Lebanon the summer following seventh grade, Hicks said, “yes.” The native Texan who was living in Garland, just outside of Dallas, “didn’t grow up in a Christian home” and her family did not go to church, but that summer at camp she heard the Gospel and accepted Christ as her Lord and Savior. Hicks, who has served since 2020 as the managing editor of Journey, Lifeway’s devotional magazine for women, and is a trainer with Lifeway Women’s ministry training team, did not know at the time how the Lord was ordering her footsteps for a lifetime of ministry. The friend who invited Hicks to the camp was the daughter of the then-pastor of Calvary Baptist Church in Garland. He followed up with Hicks to ensure she understood the decision she made, and she followed the Lord in baptism, but as Hicks explains, it wasn’t until she began as a college student at the University
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