Page 46 - Clearwater Christian College 2005
P. 46
orking in the campus post
office two days a week, in the Registrar’s office every
afternoon, and on the custodial staff at night are the jobs
that Mwendi does each week. Those hours add up to about
25 hours a week. She is diligently able to balance the work
from her classes and her jobs.
Mwendi grew up in a preacher’s home and admits
that before she was saved she was very rebellious towards
how she was reared. She did not get saved until her second
year of high school when she realized she was lost because of
her inability to understand and defend the Word of God.
After graduating with a degree in Math, Mwendi plans to
pursue her masters in engineering and eventually work for
an international organization. This would give her an
henever an activity goes on that is on opportunity to travel which she loves to do.
campus, Erin is usually there, helping in some way. She also She admires her best friend Violet from Kenya
works 18-20 hours a week on campus. Erin sets up and tears because “she is one of the greatest girls I know. She is a real
down chapel chairs, works as one of the sound technicians, inspiration to me because she knows how to stick to her
42 participates in America Counts, and finally is the custodial principles. She taught me how to be real and how to stand
nighttime supervisor. Along with the demands of her up for what I believe in.” Liking to retain an air of mystery,
campus jobs, Erin is a mathematics major with a missions when asked what one fact was about her that most people do
minor. She hopes to teach in the states for a few years, and not know, Mwendi replied, “It is kind of cool for people to
then Lord-willing take her talents and abilities and use them find out for themselves what they don't know about me!”
on a foreign mission field.
Erin was born and raised in a Christian home, yet
Student
she was not saved until she was fourteen. One day at school
Life
while she was in chapel, she heard the statistic of unsaved
people and decided that she did not want to be in that
statistic. That day she accepted Christ as her Savior.
The person she most admires is her mom. Erin says
that her mom “virtually raised us by herself because my dad
was in the Navy for the first seventeen years of their
marriage. She always made sure we were in church, and that
we knew what was right and wrong. She is an amazing
person. I love her dearly and admire her for her strength.”
Rebekah Germano
