
Sports have been a highlight for Michelle Lambdin at Jim Elliot Christian High School, where she has been on the softball team each year. Lambdin, 17, valedictorian, said her team was the section champion three out of the four years she was there.
"I enjoyed the team a lot," she said.
Lambdin has participated in a variety of activities in her time at high school, including the Impact club (she was president), girls' Bible study and Truth Productions drama group. Through the Impact club, she did community service, including feeding the homeless, helping at the Pregnancy Resource Center and working on a campaign, "loose change to loosen chains" to help free slaves around the world. She managed to maintain a 4.04 grade point average.
Lambdin plans to attend The King's College, which is a leadership school in New York City.
"I want to make a difference," she said. "To end abortion. That is my greatest dream."
But before she goes to school, she wants to spend a year doing missions work through Youth With a Mission, which will include training in Australia and outreach in Africa.
Her role models are her parents.
"They raised me with strong morals, and they are supportive," she said. "They are who I want to be when I grow up."
She enjoys reading and spending time with her family, especially her sisters (she has six brothers and sisters).
She liked her class and teachers in high school. She said the teachers challenged them and helped them look at what they learned from a biblical perspective.
Her words to live by are: "In everything I do, to glorify and serve God and put others before myself."
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