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Lanya Olmsted has been a part of Christ Community since 1997, when her
parents, Sylvia and Tom, arrived as new Gainesville residents. They were
new Christians with two young children.
In many ways, Lanya seems to me to be one of “our” first kids to grow up
and go off to college. We were privileged to watch her mature, take trips
to Africa and Mexico to serve people, and begin to discover what important
ways God wants to use her to advance His kingdom. When Lanya left—I had
no idea what college would be like for her. How it might change her, etc.
(Especially since she was going off to the Mississippi State of the
north—Harvard!) Visions of all kinds of fearful things were abundant.
But God’s grace is always stronger.
Over the past few months it has been my privilege and joy to listen as
Lanya recounts the powerful work of God in her heart and mind. There is
much joy and transformation of Lanya’s thinking, feeling and desiring that
is so obviously God-wrought.
I am thrilled that she will be telling her story in both services on
Sunday May 20.
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