Drew & Jes Epting, Area Director

About Drew:

 E-Mail: depting@campusoutreach.org

Birthday: November 7, 1984

Hometown: Athens, GA

Degree: English Literature (Augusta State University)

Interests:  My wife, sports, almost anything outdoors (hunting, fishing, camping, etc.), reading, good movies, working out

Favorite Books: DAWS, Desiring God, Teaching to Change Lives, Master Plan of Evangelism, Spiritual Leadership, Holiness

Personal Mission Statement: Glorifying God by building laborers on the campus for the lost world.

Favorite Verse: Philippians 3:7-8

 Testimony: I surrendered my life to Christ near the end of my freshman year while I was playing baseball at Augusta State after realizing that nothing apart from God could satisfy eternally and nothing but Jesus could actually give me the forgiveness I needed to know God personally. In college, I got involved with Campus Outreach so I could grow in my spiritual life and learn how to make disciples. When I graduated from ASU I went on staff with Campus Outreach to help reach college students for Christ who are a lot like I was my freshman year, and to build laborers (kingdom leaders) in what I think is the most strategic place for ministry to help reach the world. 

About Jes:

Michael & Corrie Ingham, Campus Director

About Michael:

  E-Mail: mingham@campusoutreach.org

  Birthday: May 25

  Hometown: Augusta, GA

  Degree: B.A. Communications

  Interests: Reading, meeting new people, date night with my wife,

Favorite Books: Hudson Taylor’s Spiritual Secret, Desiring God, almost any biography

Personal Mission Statement: “Christ to us, Us to the world, the world to Christ”

Favorite Verse: John 12:24 – I tell you the truth, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds.

Testimony: I grew up in a family where we went to Mass every Sunday, but there was no spiritual vitality in any of us. It was more of a formality or tradition that we even went. I would have claimed to be a Christian because I wasn’t any other religion. The things I lived my life for (popularity, success and approval) growing up were mostly selfish and unfulfilling. It wasn’t until my freshman year in high school that I was ever confronted with the message of God about Jesus Christ. At a church service geared toward high schoolers, I was exposed to my own sinfulness in a way I never had been before. I learned that my sins were petty and that God wouldn’t just sweep them under the rug. Rather, because he is a holy God, sin, which is rebellion against God, would have to be punished. Very quickly, I came to the realization that I could not meet God’s standard of perfection to earn my way into heaven. I realized I was a sinner with no hope unless God intervened into the situation. To my delight, I learned that is exactly why Jesus came to Earth. He lived the life I could never live (one of perfect obedience to God) and he died (on the cross) the death I deserved to die for my sins against him. By putting my faith in him, receiving his grace, and surrounding control of my life to him, I was united to Christ and everything changed. I got assurance that I would spend eternity with God, I was comforted to know all my sins were forgiven, and I was given new purpose in life knowing that I was called to live for him now. The journey since that night has had many sorrows and growing pains, but I would never go back. I have complete joy and fulfillment in life – and it is found in Christ alone.

About Corrie:

Asher Allen, Women’s Coordinator

E-Mail: aallen@campusoutreach.org

Birthday: May 18th

Hometown: Decatur, Ga

Degree: Bachelor of Fine Arts, in Art @ Valdosta State University

Interests: Reading, Outdoors (exploring), Athletics, Movies, trying new things (food, places)

Favorite Books:   DAWS, The Gospel & Personal Evangelism, A Tree Grows in Brooklynn, The Giver, etc.

Personal Mission Statement:   I desire to follow the Lord’s call to make disciples of All Nations by going myself, while also sending women out into the World as Laborers–with vision, skills, and initiative to carry out His plan of redemption into their homes, churches & communities!

Favorite Verse: Isaiah 49.6-7, Malachi 3.6-10

Testimony:  Growing up, I was surrounded by good family and friends, I attended church on a weekly-basis and I spent most of my time involved in year-round competitive swimming.  Being raised in Georgia, and within the city limits of Atlanta, I fit in really well to our culture of competition and achievement; I was always looking for the next award or grade or race that I could win, most of the time that desire to be the best is what drove me in the decisions that I made.  My approach to God and Christianity was primarily intellectual and religious, I wanted answers for the questions that I had about life and my purpose, but outside of knowledge there was not much interest.  When I went to college at Valdosta State in the Fall of 2004 my social life was uninhibited by swimming for the first time, therefore I decided I was going to live the typical college lifestyle–much of that was as a result of moral frustration, having had such high standards throughout my life, I was tired of being self-controlled, yet still having a lack of peace and security in my purpose.  God had a different plan than me, He connected me right off the bat with three women that were true believers in Christ; they lived out what they said they believed, they had desire to know God personally (unlike anyone I had ever known), and they loved me enough to tell me about this Gospel News and yet they were very clear through explaining the meaning and implications of grace, that their relationships with God weren’t something that they caused.  After a semester of wrestling with questions on salvation (what it meant to believe, why believe, how to believe, authenticity of Christianity–especially as it relates to other religions), I put my faith in Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior; He became my Greatest Treasure.  Then I became controlled by the Spirit and my desire to know God was insatiable.  I decided from that point on that because of the personal grace Jesus had shown me, that I was going go to commit my life to making Him known in whatever capacity He presented.  Currently I am making Christ known at Georgia Southern University and am thankful to the privilege to do that full time.

Andrew Harris

John Farmer

E-Mail: jfarmer@campusoutreach.org

Birthday:10-20-1987

Hometown:Marietta, Ga

Degree: B.S in Office Administration and Technology

Interests:Basketball and Jesus

Favorite Books:The Knowledge of the Holy By: A.W. Tozer

Personal Mission Statement: Glorify God by building young men into Kingdom leaders and visionaries

Favorite Verse: 1 Thessalonians 2:4 But just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God who examines our hearts.
2 Corinthians 5:19 Namely, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and He has committed to us the word of reconciliation.
Testimony: I grew up in a home that Jesus was a semi regular topic of conversation. My mother would force my sisters and me to go to church every Sunday. Because of church, at a very young age I intellectually knew the message of the gospel, that I was a sinner and that only Jesus could save me from my sin; however, as a young guy Jesus didn’t compel my affections. I treated Jesus as a “get out of hell free card” while girls and sports held the majority of my attention. My life was Jeremiah 2:13, “For my people have committed two evils they have forsaken me the fountain of living water and dug for themselves cisterns, broken cisterns that can hold no water.”  I thought girls and sports could satisfy the longings of my soul, all the while marginalizing Jesus.  I went off to college were I met some guys that befriended me and shared Christ with me. I quickly realized the authenticity of their faith and the falsehood of mine. Soon after, I gave into Jesus and clung to Him not only as Savior, but as King of my life (you cant have one without the other). Since October of my sophomore year of College I have been imperfectly following after Christ and helping others do the same.