Welcome to our blog! We're the Class of 2020 Covenant College Maclellan Scholars, and we're excited to share our journey with you. (On the homepage, scroll down for most recent posts.) This is us! From left to right: Meredith Lee, Elena Hatch, Bethany Sikkink, Avery Drury, Lucy Green, Ian Banks, Madi McCullough, Suzannah Guthmann, Mary Grace Donaldson, Joey Bell, John Sadler, David Kraus, Josh Russell, and Will Payne Each year in May, rising sophomore Maclellan Scholars are given the opportunity to take a trip abroad in order to pursue self-selected learning objectives. After several months of prayer and discussion, we decided to pursue studies related to Islam, immigration, and racism, especially in the context of the global refugee crisis. To seek deeper understanding of these issues, we will be spending two days in Clarkston, GA, followed by ten days in Athens, Greece. We'll be traveling along with our college President and his family, and two professors. We’d l
Sunday May 21, 2017. The last day in Greece before we all go on our separate ways. Today the group split up to go to two different churches. Half the group went to First Greek Evangelical Church in Athens again, the other half went to First Greek Evangelical Church of Glyfada. I went with the second group to Glyfada. The church was on the second floor in what looked like an office building. A couple rows of folding chairs were set out facing the podium. There were about 60 people there total, including us. The head pastor is currently in Uganda, so we had an English speaking pastor sub in for today. Andrew, today’s preacher, is a professor at the Bible college here in Athens. He talked about how we often expect God to change our situation and not to change us. After attending church in Glyfada, we all made our way back to the church in Athens for lunch. Nopi, Pastor Giotis’ wife, cooked us an amazing meal again. Meal time with her is the favorite part of the day for most of us. Mea