Anna Jackson:  

Life How does a person possibly update everyone on the past 10+ years?? I'll hit the highlights! I played volleyball at Columbia College and graduated with a Biology degree. (That's one unemployable degree down, one to go!) I then joined YWAM (Youth With A Mission) and moved to Scotland for a few months of missions training. Our team went to Nicaragua for 2 months and helped out with the relief efforts of Hurricane Mitch (Dec 1998-Feb 1999). Afterwards, three friends and I (a girl from Alaska, a guy from Seattle and another guy from England) backpacked Europe for several weeks and managed to do it for less than $25 a day! (Of course, this was before the euro so good luck making it under $25 now!) I returned to Anderson and worked in the research department at a friend's company. After 6 months I left and went to work in the Student Accounts Office of Anderson College. I eventually moved on campus as a Resident Hall Director -- it was fun, but demanding!! Those 2 1/2 years were great because I was able to visit YWAM friends. This greatly helped to break up the mundane work routine. I was able to fly out to Seattle a few times (the first painful hours of snowboarding are so worth it), visit friends in the UK for Christmas/New Years 2000, spend a week in Chicago for a YWAM wedding, and spend a couple of weeks in Alaska. Just two of the benefits of YWAM are the life-long friends you make -- and the distances you get to travel to see them! Between the travels and work weeks, I studied for the LSAT and visited law schools, thinking that my dream would be to work for my cousin's friend who started the International Justice Mission. Through the process I learned, through God's grace to reveal His plans for me, that I was instead supposed to go to seminary. In the fall of 2002, I moved to the North Shore of Massachusetts to attend Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. I finished my Masters in Theology in the May of 2004. (This would be the 2nd unemployable degree!!) I got to see some of you...Expand for more