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Investing in others for the work of the Kingdom
The Southwestern story of Aaron and Clainetta Jefferson BY ASHLEY ALLEN
A Southwestern News
CHOKED-UP RETIRED CMDR. AARON JEFFERSON (’82, ’88) EXPLAINS that during his last year as a Southwestern Seminary student people who “invested” in him are still a “blessing” today. Aaron and his wife, Clainetta, were a young couple with three children living and serving in the Houston-area. Aaron was serving as a chaplain and taking classes at the Southwestern campus that was then located at Houston Baptist University. He mentioned to a fellow chaplain money was “kind of short” and he was not certain how he was going to pay for classes for the upcoming fall semester. His chaplain friend told him if he was not able to