What are your religious beliefs?
Love Jesus. Love people.
When did you accept Christ?
Even though I grew up in a Christian home, it wasn’t until I was 18 that I accepted Christ. One summer at VBS, there was a little girl in my group from the local children’s home. The girl just had such a passion about God, and always talked about how Jesus was her best friend. She had something that I realized I wanted. At the end of the week, I felt like God was saying: “Caitlin, I can love you just as you are. Just come to me.” And so I did.
What church do you attend? How are you active there?
I attend Pleasant Ridge Baptist Church on Sundays. And than on Wednesday nights I attend West Wood Heights and help with the Youth.
Are you active in the community?
I am a FOCUS leader. And I have the most amazing team, even if we are hyper and loud. Because of my ESL major, I get a lot of opportunities to work with students either in small groups or one on one.
Have you gone on mission trips?
I’ve been on a number of mission trips. Freshman year for Spring Break I went to Ecuador, and that summer I went to Mexico. Sophomore Spring Break I went to Wisconsin and that following summer I went to Kentucky. For Spring Break of my Junior year I went to Guatemala and than this past summer I went to Wales.
How do you witness to people?
I think that the best, most effective way to witness to a person is to build a relationship with them. I don’t think that people want to be hit over the head with a Bible. They just want you to love them and accept them as they are. I need to be more accepting and loving of other people. St. Francis of Assisi said “Preach the gossip and if necessary, use words.” Jesus shared his message of love and grace by building relationships and loving people and as Christians I feel that we are called to do the same thing.
What is your political standpoint?
Typically, I just don’t care. I am pretty apathetic. I mean I definitely have opinions on different things, and if you listen to me, or for that matter don’t listen to me, I’ll share them. For the most part I really don’t like politics because I feel that politics divide us rather than bring us together. I think we get so caught up in someone’s political belief or standpoint and we can’t see them for who they really are.
What do you think are some major issues in the world? What do you think you can do about them/want to do about them.
I think that the fact that there are people starving is a major issue, and the fact that people don’t have clean water. I think about how I take for granted everyday being able to walk to the fridge or just to the facet and being able to have enough food or water. I, as an individual, don’t really know what to do about it, and as a Christian, I think that people need hope. Something God has been teaching me is to just love people, where he has placed us. You never know what the smallest action of love can mean to someone.
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