ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT
LETTING GOD OPEN THE DOOR Stuckeys Join SEND Relief in Chicago
“I just knew the Lord had called me to ministry. I didn’t know exactly what I was going to do, but I knew God was calling me to be faithful to go to Chicago,” he said. “The story of my life has been: just be faithful with the next thing and let God open the door.”
Jason and Melissa both developed a heart for missions in high school before meeting in Spanish class at North Greenville University.
“My heart for ministry was refined in college,” Melissa said. “I joined a local church that showed me what being a part of the family of God really looks like.”
A Christian Studies major, Jason said NGU laid the foundation for his work to come.
“I ended up joining the Faith, Race, and Culture Committee with Dr. Paul Thompson,” he said. “The Lord really used that to equip me to think about how the Gospel relates to a plethora of cultures at the same time.”
Jason and Melissa Stuckey (both ’14) were sure of their calling, but they were following it during a very unsure time.
“We moved to Chicago without a job, in the middle of a pandemic, and on the first day of all the riots everyone was seeing on the news,” Jason recalled. “What a time.”
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“I started gathering students to meet every other Friday,” Jason said. “The only thing we were going to do was share about our week and how we could pray for one another. The goal was to make sure that group was as diverse as possible. It was very impactful in forming my time at North Greenville. During that time, I learned a lot of the balance of what it really means to implement biblical justice, instead of just giving the social justice that waters down the Gospel.”
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