The Bender's

NC State Campus Director

Bryan Bender

E-mail: bbender@campusoutreach.org

Birthday: November 6, 1984

Hometown: Chambersburg, PA

Degree: Bachelors of Science in Math, Coastal Carolina University

Interests: Ballin, golf, watching NBA, crossfit, travel, reading, eating/food

Favorite Books (other than the Bible): Desiring God, Future Grace, Pleasure of God, Gospel for Real Life

Favorite Movies: Braveheart, Lord of the Rings, Signs, Friday After the Next

Favorite Verse: "For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be glory forever. Amen." Romans 11:36

Testimony: My whole life I grew up believe I was a Christian. I went to college at Coastal Carolina University and God used Campus Outreach to show me Jesus. I became a Christian on May 31, 2006. It was the summer between my junior and senior year and I wanted to go make disciples my senior year and the rest of my life.

Betsy Bender

E-mail: cobetsy@gmail.com

Birthday: March 29, 1985

Hometown: Columbia, SC

Degree: Bachelor of Arts in Studio Art, College of Charleston

Interests: Photography, Tennis, Art

Favorite Books (other than the Bible): Praying Life, Love Walked Among Us, Redeeming Love, Prodigal God, Great Gatsby, Count of Monte Cristo

Favorite Movies: You've Got Mail, Sleepless in Seattle, Never Been Kissed, Gladiator

Favorite Verse: This is what the Lord says: "Cursed is the one who trusts in man, who depends on flesh for his strength and whose heart turns away from the Lord. He will be like a bush in the wastelands; he will not see prosperity when it comes. He will dwell in the parched places of the desert, in a salt land where no one lives. But blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, whose confidence is in him. He will be like a tree planted by the water that sends out its roots by the stream. It does not fear when heat comes; its leaves are always green. It has no worries in a year of drought and never fails to bear fruit." Jeremiah 17:5-8

Testimony: I grew up in the Church knowing that Christ had died for my sings but did not understand fully what it meant to have Him be Lord over my life and a relationship with Him until I was a senior in high school. It was then that I gave my life up to the Lord knowing that His death on the cross is what covered all of my sins for past, present, and future and allowed me to have a right relationship with God!