Focus Leadership Institute

Where did you grow up? How has that experience shaped who you are now?
I am a farm kid from southwest Ohio. I loved growing up on the farm. It has shaped me by giving me an appreciation for hard work and a better understanding of my utter dependence on God to provide for me.

Where is your dream vacation destination?
Alaska: I want to backpack in Denali National Park for a week and then take a cruise for a week.

Favorite quotation(s)?
“If I stand, let me stand on the promise that you will pull me through. And if I can’t, let me fall on the grace that first brought me to you. If I sing, let me sing for the joy that has borne in me these songs. And if I weep, let it be as a man who is longing for his home.” –Rich Mullins, “If I Stand”

“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket—safe, dark, motionless, airless—it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable.” – C.S. Lewis in The Four Loves

Lindy Keffer - Alumni Coordinator