Meet Ethan,

a second-year Social Sciences student. Trusted people from Ethan’s home church, like his youth pastor, attended Briercrest and encouraged him to do the same.

He says that the community he found on campus brought him back for a second year. “Encouraging and building into people in community are what brought me to the faith, and then it brought me here… and then it brought me back here. I wanted to be building into people, having people build into me, and growing more.”

We asked Ethan what was really important to him. With a laugh, he said, “Actually, I was just talking about this with someone close to me.

“We were talking about the mission of the Church, but also about having a personal mission, whether your personal mission is ministry, or missions, or whatever. And I realized that the same way community brought me to the faith, to school, and back to school, I think being a community and building into a community is important to me.

“I know that it can bring people from tough situations to the light,” he continued. “I think being able to help a community grow is important to me—being open, loving, and encouraging, whether sometimes love is tough and being hard on someone, but just showing the love of Christ to people.”