Adventures WorldRace SethBarnes Sponsorship Giving

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Hello everyone! 

To start this little bio, I suppose you should know I don’t get all that excited about talking about myself. I don’t think of myself as incredibly interesting or exciting. However, I do know it’s important that you know more about me if you’re going to partner with me in this wonderful journey all over the world that the Lord is going to take me on. So I suppose I can share a little bit of who I am and where I’m from!

I am 28 years old and currently work as a residence hall director at John Brown University in Siloam Springs, AR. This position has been a fantastic ministry opportunity for me as I invest in the lives of college students while they develop and mature. While working at JBU, I also completed my master’s degree in ministry with a higher education emphasis. The plan, as of right now, is to come back to higher education in some capacity after The World Race to continue working with college students. Those, however, are very tentative plans. I know the Lord is going to do some amazing things in my heart on this trip, and it will be impossible for me to return unchanged. Therefore, I’m going to leave all that “future stuff” in his hands.

Before coming to Arkansas, I spent the first 26 years of my life in Iowa. I grew up on a farm in central Iowa until I was 8 and then moved to the big city of Delhi. Delhi’s population is 600. After high school, I attended Wartburg College in Waverly, IA and graduated with a bachelor’s in psychology. Following college, I moved to Storm Lake and worked as an admissions counselor at Buena Vista University. I’ve been blessed with a wonderful family (Steve, Glenda, Nick, & Whitney) who have loved and supported me in all of these places.

I have a few interests as well. Here are a few for you! I enjoy fishing, hiking, camping, running, biking, ice fishing, football, baseball, card games, reading (sometimes), cool “guy movies” like all of the Rocky movies & Gladiator, and cool “girl movies” like The Patriot and Men of Honor.   

The Lord has led me well. My relationship with Christ started my senior year of high school and following him has been a joy. I couldn’t have predicted many of the places where he’s led me, but in each of them, I can look back and get a glimpse of why he led me there. My friends at Wartburg taught me what it looked like for a college student to follow Christ. Spiritual leaders in Storm Lake poured into me and taught me how to pour into the students at BVU. Friends, faculty, staff, and students at JBU have taught me a deeper understanding of community and more of what it means to authentically following Christ as his disciple. Thank you, Jesus, for leading me well. I trust that you will continue to do so…