Spring 07' Finishes with a BANG!

It has been an incredible Spring 2007 semester!! God worked powerfully through the campus ministry and many victories were won. We can't wait for the summer where God will be heating things up in the ATL!

We welcomed Easter baby Barrington Harvey, spiritual twins Tashimah Evans & Rick McGee, along with Shay Deshields to the Kingdom of God at the end of the spring semester. Check out some of their conversion stories below as well as pictures and links to baptism videos:

“Life will leave you physically, mentally and emotional scarred.” That was my motto for life. It seemed that every event in my life lead to anger, sadness, and heartache. Of course there were those joyous occasions when there seemed to be some good in the world. But unlike most, I kept these emotions to myself and learned to become content with these painful feelings. It was at Morehouse College where my mentality slowly started to change. For the first time in my life God became the center piece through which I believed held me together for so long. My lifestyle changed dramatically. During the Spring 2007 school year I was determined to form a closer relationship with God by opening my mind to people who claimed to be Christians. I couldn’t find any church that was loyal, honest and committed to their ideology and practice until I came to the Greater Atlanta Church of Christ. As my life underwent additional changes while studying the Bible, I began to see that the Church of Christ was extremely noble to there teachings. As I eagerly studied the Bible my faith grew exponentially and I began to see the truth. It was at that point I knew and understood that making Jesus my Lord was the only way to save my soul. Now I know that life does not have to leave you physically, mentally and emotionally scarred if you follow Jesus.

Barrington Harvey
Morehouse College Ministry of the GACC

I was raised in a Baptist church. I was involved on the Praise Dance Team and Youth Choir. I attended Bible study every Wednesday, but as I now reflect on my past and all of things I have done, I didn't know God at all. I was previously baptized at the age of 14, but now I realize that I just got "wet." I did not know what I was doing. I did not know the tremendous affect being baptized would have on my life and how much it would change it. Of course, the day after I was back out with my friends again.

Now I realize that it was all in God's plan. He knew how simple minded I was and how much more I had to experience and struggle in order to make the decision to make Him my everything; my everything meaning my life, my breath, my thoughts, my complete existence. Coming to Clark Atlanta University I had no plans to get to know God. In my eyes I already knew him. I prayed but never once did I pick up my Bible. It's sort of humorous now because I never did what God wanted me to do. I sort of made my own sector of Christianity. I would proclaim it from the mountain tops that I believed in Jesus, but it was my life that really spoke volumes.

I was invited to Bible Talk almost three months ago and my life has not been the same since. I began studying the Bible and earning about the powerful, perfect, truthful, loving, compassionate man named Jesus Christ. My eyes were opened to the truth and could never again accept anything other than the truth. I learned I was nothing like Him. I was by no means loving. If I knew you I loved you or I didn't talk to you at all. I was not compassionate; I was more into judging people as if I were perfect.

Once I learned that I should be like Jesus, I made the decision on April 11, 2007 to make him my everything. I try my hardest everyday to be more like Him. It is a decision that I am glad I made, but it was all in God's plan. Now everyday I make it my purpose to spread his Word and love everyone the way he loves me.

With Love,
Tashimah Evans
Clark Atlanta University Ministry of the GACC

Click Here to See the Video of Tashimah and Rick Getting Baptized into Christ!