lindsey garrison

Personal Ministry Duke 

E-Mail: lgarrison@campusoutreach.org

Birthday: November 10, 1988

Hometown: Laurinburg, NC

Degree: Bachelor of Science in Biology, UNC Chapel Hill

Interests: Dancing, making corny jokes (just ask my friends), my dog Potter, classic movies, finding new music, and microwavable food

Favorite Books (Other than the Bible): Catch 22 (Heller), Captivating (Eldrege), Harry Potter (Rowling), The Prodigal God (Keller), Where the Red Fern Grows (Rawls), The Giver (Lowry)

Favorite Movies: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, The Shawshank Redemption, Ferris Bueler’s Day Off, Romeo + Juliet, The Usual Suspects,  Gladiator, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, Donnie Darko, Bringing Up Baby, Vertigo

Favorite Verse: Psalm 73:25-26

“Whom have I in heaven but you?  And there is nothing on earth I desire besides you.  My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.” 

Testimony: I grew up going to church and assumed that simply knowing about Jesus made me a Christian.  In college, I sought my value in whether or not others thought I was successful and fun to be around.  I grew close to a group of friends and my life seemed to be going well.  But my sophomore year, I lived in a dorm that was isolated from my friends, and, spending extended periods of time alone, I questioned who I really was.  About that time, God sent someone into my life who invited me to a retreat with Campus Outreach.  God pursued my heart on the retreat, and revealed to me that he valued me and wanted to have an intimate relationship with me; he even died on a cross to restore our broken relationship.  I surrendered my life to Him on Valentine’s Day, 2009.  Since then, God has been transforming me through his grace, and has given me a burden to lay down my life in order to build up other women in the Gospel.