A Little About Me

My name is Tristan Hobbs, I am a Christ follower and a student at Auburn University. When I was five I began a personal relationship with Christ.Throughout the early years of my life I loved learning about God and what he had done for me. When I was 11ish my family moved from Albany, Georgia, where I had grown up, to Tallahassee, Florida; this transition was very hard for me and I struggled making new friends. At some point while trying to make new friends I lost that love for God that I originally had. After three years in Tallahassee, my family once again moved, this time to Dothan, Alabama. Although my new classmates were very accepting, I still had not regained a love for Christ and I was not living for him. It was not until my senior year of high school that I began a journey to find and regain a passion for Christ; Three knee surgeries and the influence of my youth pastor, Lloyd Blank, had brought me to the realization that I was not being a reflection of Christ and that I had allowed other things to be more important than my relationship with Christ. I came into my first semester of college on fire for God, but it was like I ran into a brick wall. I was doing terrible in almost all of my classes and I  began to wonder if I was in the right major. I like to be in control and to know what the plan is and struggling in my classes and not knowing what I was supposed to do with my life caused me to stress out and become depressed. Although I still had not given control of my life to God, he still gave me a desire to return to Costa Rica, to serve as a missions intern with 6:8 Ministries, for two months. A few weeks into my second semester at Auburn, God began to work on my heart. I soon realized that I could not control my life, and so I finally gave God complete control over my life. Soon things began to start really moving and God continued to reveal Himself and His plan for my life to me. About a week after relinquishing control God gave me a burning passion for international missions. Although I do not know where yet, I do know God has called me to go and that is enough for now. Once I knew what I am supposed to do I still had to figure out what path (college major) I was going to take to get there. After seeking advice from my parents and advisors at Auburn and much prayer I have decided to stay at Auburn and enter the Interdisciplinary Studies Program which will allow me to design my own degree and the classes that I will take, which is perfect for "tent making" missionaries. As Michael Catt would always say, "God is good all the time and all the time God is good!"


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