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came in the form of a call to full-time<br />
pastoral ministry. More specifically, I<br />
want to help youth and young adults<br />
experience the same love that I encountered<br />
as a junior in high school. To put it<br />
simply, the phrase “to know, to love, to<br />
serve” is essentially just disciple-making<br />
101 and I believe GCA is doing just that;<br />
making life-long disciples both on this<br />
side of eternity and the one to come.<br />
To Love God and Those He Brings Into Our Lives…<br />
Class of ’76 friends (left to right) Peggi Noon, Beverly Johnson Jerman, Tami Baker<br />
Richardson, Nancy Smith Barnhart, and Carolyn Harris Dalton.<br />
So the saying goes, “If you can count your friends on one hand you are blessed!”<br />
GCA gave us this opportunity to make that kind of true friend. We bonded<br />
at a time when emotions, hormones, and desires ran high, but we were in a safe<br />
place to grow.<br />
We are extremely grateful for the bonds we formed; a sweet connection<br />
that has continued 45 years. We have tasted a lot of life…education, marriage,<br />
raising children, cancer, divorce, the care of and death of our own parents-the<br />
parents who sacrificed to send us to GCA. Through all of these life experiences<br />
we always knew there was a GCA friend we could count on. Two of us even<br />
have GCA husbands!<br />
<strong>Annual</strong> <strong>Report</strong> 4
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