August 21, 2000

Name: Shelley Oakerson (with teammate Amy Stark beside her at left). Assignment: Willamette Valley Baptist Association in Oregon. Home: Belton. Church: First Baptist Church. School: Texas A&M, College Station.

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"Talking with the junior high on youth night, I was challenged by one. She was asking me questions about how many Christians we had at our school. She asked (if I knew) how hard it is to be in the minority. She is the only Christian in her class. She has faced persecution, knives in her face for Christ. She made a comment about how easy we have it in the South. She was forced to be bold and unchanging in her faith. This opened my eyes to how much we take for granted being a Christian in the Bible Belt."

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