Hi! My name is Kaelan Blowers, I’m 18 years old. I graduated from High School in 2017. I live at home with my dad, Kevin, my 20 year old brother, Chase, and my two dogs, Jazzy and Gracie. I was born in Ohio and moved to New York when I was two and have lived here ever since! A few fun facts about me. My favorite color is blue, my best friends’ name is Morgan, and I love musical theater, being in it and watching it! Oh! Also, my personality type is ESFJ on Myers/Briggs. My biggest personality trait is being very emotional. I like to think that’s my best and worst trait. I love being able to sympathize with people, but also I tend to let my emotions cloud my judgement.
Now on a more serious note, my testimony. I did not grow up in a christian home. When I became a 9th grader in high school, I started to go to the cool “hangout place” on Friday nights, they called it “The Pink Chicken.” The Pink Chicken was a building with a gym, hangout room, and behind it was a skate park, all owned by The Baptist Church from the village. The youth leaders from the church started the Friday night youth hangout and it was a big hit! While there you’d play games, do challenges, and have a lesson about the Bible. So when I started going I met a girl named Emily. I started hanging out with her outside of Pink Chicken. She would invite me over to her house for lunch, game nights, and movie nights. After I got to know her, she invited me to a weekly youth group and girls’ bible study, a few weeks later, I even decided to accept her offer and I went to church with her. She went off to college and I kept going to these weekly activities. The last weekend in February 2015 my youth group went on a weekend retreat to a Bible Institute that was about an hour away. While there we played a lot of games, listened to awesome music, and heard a lot of amazing speakers. On the second night of being at snow camp, it was Saturday February 28, 2015 to be exact. All the campers went to the 9:00 PM rally, after all the fun of the rally, they did an alter call. When they asked who here does not have a relationship with Jesus Christ, I raised my hand. I almost didn’t, because I was really scared, but I had this feeling that if I raised my hand, that my life would change for the better. So they asked anyone who raised their hands to go out into the hallway. I got up went out, and a girl named Kylie came up to me and asked if we could talk. I sat down with her and she asked me about my life. We talked for about 15 minutes and that was the night I fully trusted in Christ Jesus as my Lord and Savior. After talking with Kylie I could not stop crying, because I felt the weight of the world lifted off my shoulders. It has been just about three years since then, and my life is completely different. I am a lot closer to the friends I have now than the friends I used to have, I am a much nicer and more compassionate person, and I have a personal relationship with God. Since I was saved, I have become a member of my church, been baptized, I was a junior leader at youth group, I have joined the praise team, and I have gone on a one week mission trip to the Dominican Republic.
What God is calling me to do now…
When I graduated from high school I was all set to go to college to major in music. I had been praying about college for a long time and I thought that if I just went ahead and did it, then God would get me through it. I think deep down I always knew that college wasn’t where God wanted me to go right out of high school so when I decided not to go, I had no idea what to do with myself. So I kept leading at girls’ bible study and youth group, started student directing for the musical at my old school, and got a job at the local hospital as a secretary. I also decided that since I was getting weekly paychecks, I would move out of my dads house and get an apartment. Yeah, that didn’t last long. Throughout all that, all my friends from high school went to college or left the country and almost all of us lost touch. I still had some friends who are still in high school or friends who are older and have families and lives of their own. It was then, when I lived in my lonely apartment and didn’t have my happy bubble of constant friends that I started to lose myself. It’s not like I went wild or anything, I just felt like everything was changing to fast. I kind of felt like I was being left behind, while everyone else moved on with their lives. So I reached out to one of my mentors and asked if we could get together and talk. While we were talking we figured out that I needed to come up with a plan, a goal, something to look forward to, something to keep swimming towards. So I started praying asking God what he wanted me to do with my life, I started researching christian colleges and majors, that’s when I came across the world race. I had this feeling that I should at least apply because it couldn’t hurt, and I’d keep searching and praying. So I applied and it was from the instant that I had my phone interview that I knew this is what God wanted me to do. I was and am still nervous because this is going to be a huge leap out of my comfort zone, but I know that wherever He wants me to be is where I want to be!
Philippians 4:13
