Mission Fund Changes Life

Student Receives New Calling At Conference

The Owen Missions Fund has helped many students go on mission trips and attend missions-related events. In Spring 2022, it paid for students to attend CrossCon, a four-day missions conference created to help young adults explore their passion for taking the Gospel to all nations. One of the students who attended was junior Abigail “Gail” Adkins.

Gail isn’t your typical candidate for international missions. She’s a double major in public health and business administration. She isn't on a sports team at Cumberlands, where she would be more likely to meet international students in her everyday routine. She doesn’t speak another language (yet). And, though she has been active in ministry for years, she’s never actually done international missions before.

But after getting involved with the international ministries on campus, and particularly after attending CrossCon, she believes that God is calling her to join the international missions field.

She said, “The main question at the conference was, ‘Are you a sender or a goer?’ I asked myself that, and, by the end of CrossCon, I got the sense that I’m a goer.”

Since the conference, Gail has been praying hard, seeking wise counsel from older Christians, and doing research. In summer 2022, she will be doing mission work in Argentina.

As God opens doors, Gail's path will become more evident. For now, she is simply keeping her heart open to God’s will. This “goer” just needs God to keep giving her the next step in her life, which she is sure He will continually provide.