Called to 'GO!'

Crying, Ruth couldn’t wait to tell her parents, but they already knew.

“My parents are the most prayerful and faithful people I know,” Ruth said. “I’ve never seen them not take something to the Lord. So much of who I am is because of who they are, and their faithfulness to the Lord.”

The daughter of Mike and Myriam Lawson, Ruth grew up in the mission field. She spent the first eight years of her life in Haiti, where her parents were do­ing mission work and then moved to Belton where her father works for Feed My Sheep. Because her father’s work has always been “support-based,” meaning his income comes from supporters who have committed to help fund his ministry and missions, Ruth has grown up seeing her parents live sacrificially in everything they do.

“Sometimes that has meant living without a lot of different things,” she said. “But the Lord has always provided for my family. My family has never been wealthy; we’ve always been blessed. And we don’t allow money to be something that has a hold on us.”

Ruth says without the blessing of donors, she would not have been able to attend UMHB.

“I don’t know if they know how much of a blessing they are,” she said. “The Lord is providing through them.”

With the help of scholarships, Ruth says she will graduate next semester with no debt.

“Knowing the lifestyle that I’m going to be going into — carrying loans into a missions world would just be very hard. So having no residual debt accu­mulating is a huge blessing.”