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Jessica Kelley
  Undergrad
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Jessica Kelley '10
Psychology
St. Petersburg, Fla.

Following God's plan.

"One thing I have learned while being at Southern Wesleyan is that no matter what I have in mind for my life - God’s plan is greater!

I graduated from high school in 2005 and went through a hard time emotionally, so college was not in my thought process. I got a full time job, starting living what I thought was my life and felt discontent. But God had a greater plan for my life. Thankfully, with encouragement from a close friend I decided to apply to college and got accepted into Southern Wesleyan. With much hesitation, I followed God’s call to go.

Moving away from family and the warmth of sunny Florida was a challenge, but after arriving at SWU I could see God working in my life.

After changing my major at least three times, I found Psychology and the idea of helping those in the world who need to be loved. Everyone has a story, something they want to share with the world and all they need is someone to listen. Now that I have been at SWU for three years, I know that I want to go out and show God’s love - the same love I received when I stepped onto the SWU campus.

I will be studying abroad in August at a university in Mukono, Uganda, and can’t wait to see how God stretches me. Southern Wesleyan has taught me to listen closely to my heavenly Father and learn to let others show me His love. Life is full of disappointment and fly-by-the-minute thrills, but the one thing I have truly gained from being at Southern Wesleyan is that I am content in the love of Jesus. 

I am contently His!"