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As a UNCC staff team, we decided we needed a blog. Andrew, Artie and I (Kristin) want to keep our friends, supporters, family, staff team and students in the loop of what the Lord is doing in our lives and in ministry. Here is a quick bio on how the three of us ended up here in Charlotte and working on staff with Campus Outreach to help reach college students for Christ.

Kristin Kelly Niland

Hey friends... let me give you a glimpse of how the Lord brought me to Charlotte. My four years at Elon University was the most influencial time in my spiritual life. Along with working hard in the classroom, I also was learning how to walk with God. While I was at Elon I had a Campus Outreach Staff person (Ashlee Johnson) investing in my life, helping me learn how to study the scriptures, share my faith, lead bible studies, pushing me to grow as a leader and in character. The things I learned from Ashlee are things that are going to stick with me for the rest of my life. It was a time where deep foundations were built in my relationship with the Lord. During my junior and senior year there, I got the privilege to lead a couple of girls on my hall to the Lord and also lead a few bible studies. It was awesome, and I loved influencing other college students!

Senior year came around and people were looking into jobs, graduate schools, and moving to big cities. Of course I did the same thing, trying to figure out what my next step would be after graduation. As I researched graduate programs and looked at jobs, all I could think about was how much I loved helping other women grow spiritually and that I wanted to do it full time. The opportunity came up for me to come on staff with Campus Outreach and it seemed like the next step the Lord wanted me to take. I have been working here at UNCC for almost two years... I can't believe it’s been that long already!

Andrew Hathaway
Although I am a pure blooded northerner, I have committed the next four years of my life to working in the south with college students. I was hired in November, 2009 as the Campus Outreach director for UNC Charlotte. I believe strongly that college is perhaps the most opportune time for a young man or woman to grow spiritually. I look back to my four years at Davidson College where, thanks to the way God used Campus Outreach in my life, I learned how to pray, how to study the Bible, how to share my faith, and the importance of the local church/the body of Christ.

Through the leadership of the Campus Outreach staff workers at Davidson, I learned how to have a personal ministry in my fraternity and was able to help a number of my peers investigate who Jesus is. I also took a job as an RA my junior year in order to position myself to have a greater impact on the freshman students at Davidson. My senior year, I was privileged to begin discipling two of my fraternity brothers and I also partnered with them in trying to reach the rest of our fraternity.

It was also through CO that I began to catch a vision for world missions. After graduating from Davidson I spent nearly seven months in Puerto Rico participating in a missionary training program. In the last year, I have traveled extensively to places like India, Thailand, Malaysia, and Estonia trying to discern God’s call on my life. After all was said an done, I felt God leading my back here to the Charlotte area to work for Campus Outreach and to glorify God by raising up more laborers on the college campus. My hope and my prayer in working for CO is to see a number of students graduate from our ministry and go into cross-cultural mission work. I am excited to see how God will use Artie, Kristin and I here at Charlotte to impact the nations.