Bailey Weghorst
1. What year are you in, where you are from?
Senior, Columbus, Ohio (USA) ☺
2. What course are you taking?
Youth Ministry
3. What brought you to NTC?
I was given the opportunity while on a trip for my school in January 2014 and after realizing that it wouldn’t be too financially demanding, I prayed about it. I had been praying over the past year for ways to come about through which God could stretch me and put me outside of my comfort zone. I realized that this would be a definite way for God to do that and everything just sort of fell into place after that at one point or another.
4. If you had one word to describe NTC, what would it be and why?
Community. Honestly, I don’t want that to sound too cliché, because I feel like in Christian groups it’s overused. However, in this setting the community is so intentional and loving that you can’t help but feel it and let it help to form you. It’s definitely been a highlight of the experience.
5. What is your favorite activity to do in Manchester?
Honestly, I just love walking around in the neighborhoods or to town and walking along all the shops. Going to a charity shop or fish n chips with people from school.
6. What’s the most exciting thing about being a student at NTC?
Being able to be in a different country and be in an area where everything is so accessible. People are so willing to help as well. Through being a part of the community here, it’s absolutely an experience within itself. Plus, I mean the fact that there is a time set aside for the whole campus to come together and have coffee is pretty awesome.
7. What’s the most challenging thing about being a student?
Balancing the work. The academic structure here is so different from home and so getting and maintaining the discipline to complete work and have it done to the standard here. Just takes some time to get used to.
8. Do you have any plans for after you graduate?
Going home and finishing my degree at the beginning of January and then begin working on my Dental Hygiene degree to help work toward my goal to start a missional ministry.
9. Do you have any funny stories you’d like to tell about your time at NTC?
No specific ones that I can think of. They’re not funny, I mean all the travels that I was able to do: Barcelona, Dublin, London, Bristol, Somerset, Oxford, and going to go to York and Cardiff.
10. Anything else you think people should know about student life at NTC?
It’s personalized and wonderful. I would suggest anyone to come here.
A Big thanks to Bailey for taking the time out of her busy semester abroad to answer these questions for me. Please join me in praying for Bailey as she finishes out her Senior year and for her future ministry.
