Voices

Mike & Myra Watkins
June 22, 2021
Mike and Myra Watkins studied at different universities in North Carolina, but they shared a lifelong passion for what was at the time, the Soviet Union. The couple moved to Lviv, Ukraine, in 1993 to […]

Pastor Kevin York
May 26, 2021
According to Lifeway, it takes 80 Christians to reach one person every year, but with church planting, it takes 30 people to reach one non-Christian annually. Church planting transformed Kevin’s life, changing him from one […]

Dr. Danny Román-Gloró
May 4, 2021
Dr. Danny Román-Gloró serves others so that they can become kingdom builders. After graduating from college, Dr. Román-Gloró experienced God’s call to preach. He served as a bi-vocational pastor and church planter for 26 years prior […]

Rev. Dr. Lee Strawhun
March 16, 2021
Dr. Lee Strawhun felt called to ministry a year after graduating with a degree in animal sciences. Although he never planned on being a pastor, he said yes and four weeks after getting married, he […]

M’Kenna Gillespie
March 3, 2021
Prior to coming to Asbury Seminary, M’Kenna Gillespie had no idea what she wanted to do with her life. In fact, she changed her degree once before arriving on campus and again during her first […]

Ashlee Alley Crawford
January 19, 2021
By saying no, Ashlee Alley Crawford actually said yes. As a biology major, Ashlee planned to become a physical therapist. But the summer before her junior year in college, she volunteered with her church’s youth […]

Rev. Dr. Girma Bishaw
January 6, 2021
According to the National Science Foundation, an average person has about 12,000 to 60,000 thoughts per day. Of those, 80 percent are negative thoughts, and 95 percent are repetitive, forming our imaginations and behaviors. Rev. […]

Manik Corea
December 14, 2020
Manik Corea jokes that he loved the church before he knew the Lord of the church. As a pastor’s kid, Manik grew up in the church. Yet he was 13 before he became a committed […]

Andrew Grissom: Loving God and Discipling Others.
November 24, 2020
Andrew Grissom loves God and loves others. Growing up in the church, he always felt comfortable serving, but had a nominal faith until middle school. As his faith became personal, God confirmed his call to […]

Dr. Guenson Charlot
November 6, 2020
God called Dr. Guenson Charlot to train the next generation of Haitian leaders one student at a time. Since its founding in 1967, Emmaus University has always been led by foreign missionaries, but this year […]