Coming into college at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Jada had everything she wanted. She got her dream of getting to dance in college by being on the Scarletts dance team, had lots of friends, the image, and the boyfriend. While it would seem as if she would be happy with all of these things she had wanted so much, she actually spent most of her time throughout the week in her dorm room sleeping.
She would wake up, go to practice, grab food, and sleep again. She felt a huge lack of joy and purpose in life and couldn’t find herself even wanting to go to class.
She struggled in school, all the while trying to maintain her image on the dance team and around her friends. She would go out with her friends and aim to be “the life of the party.”
Jada felt like she had everything, yet felt so empty at the same time. Very early on in the fall of her freshmen year, she met a StuMo staff member at the dining center. They talked about faith and Jada had a lot of curiosity about God. Jada started hanging out with the staff girl and began going to a faith discussion that she led. Each time they met up, Jada would learn more about faith and would say that she wanted to keep looking into it, but just could not get herself to commit to a relationship with Christ and struggled to understand how to truly believe in God. They met up almost every week to read the Bible to help Jada understand the gospel message. After an entire semester of Jada investigating her faith and understanding what it meant to follow Jesus, Jada put her faith in Jesus February of her freshman year.
After that, Jada did everything she could to grow in her faith. She read her Bible and took on any growth opportunities that came her way, one of them being Kaleo. At Kaleo, she grew in her heart for the lost and gained tools on how to share that with others. Her heart for her dance friends grew so much and the next school year Jada started up a faith discussion with her the girls on the dance team… and 20 of the 22 girls on the team came. She started sharing the gospel with them and explaining the change in her life. Over time, her dance friends saw her changed life. She went from being depressed to joy-filled, from having a lack of desire to do anything to being full of life and purpose, self-focused to others-focused, prideful to humble, impatient to patient. Her life has been completely changed for Christ. She is becoming more like Jesus and her teammates have greatly taken notice.
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