BCM Testimony--Michael Tew

Left to right: Jared Rapp, Will King, Jason Rapp, Michael Tew

“It is not the high school friends you will remember, but the ones from college that will bless you the rest of your life.”

That sentence was spoken to me shortly after my high school graduation in June of 1997.  I came from a small church where I was happy with the few close friends that I had.  I was never one of the popular people in high school, so my group of friends was the youth group at my church.  After a week or two at Carolina, I was talking with my pastor and he said I needed to check out BSU.  I thought about it, and said to myself why not.  My first weeks of school included class, work, and that was about it.  I had “graduated” out of the youth and to the Young Married Sunday School Class.  Not that, as an 18 year old, sounds horrible, but I was looking some people of my own age to grow with.  So I went.  And never left.

I was lucky enough to be lead by Jane Poster, who has taught me more in four and a half years about life and God than I could have ever gotten from anything else.  I was able to grow with other Christians in similar situations as I.  I was able to learn, lead, serve, minister, and pray with other Christians looking for the same thing I was.  With all the sin and evil that was very alive on campus….700 Pickens Street was the place I knew as home.   

I know that BSU/BCM was the place that helped to show my skills in leadership in the community.  From this, I have served in different churches in Columbia as a deacon and director of Sunday School classes.  If this doesn't show the impact of BSU/BCM in local churches, I am not sure what can.

Lastly, from BSU/BCM, I have a community of friends for life.  I know these people will stop and pray for me whether they be five minutes away or five hours.  They truly care for me as a person and want for me to do well.  I am very lucky to be getting married in April of 2012, and out of the thirteen groomsmen and ushers (yes, I know already), ten of them are guys that I have meet through the ministry of BSU/BCM.  I hate to think what my life would be without these guys.

I know that the economy is tough, but please do not take this ministry away that is a gift to people like myself that are looking for God in different places.

Michael Tew

USC-Columbia

Class of 2001

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