Sterling College students Fayola Oyatayo of Princeton, Texas, and Tennissa Williams of Wichita, Kansas, were among an elite group of college students that traveled to the 63^rd National Prayer Breakfast earlier this month. Roughly two percent of the 3,600 National Prayer Breakfast attendees were invited to attend the event that took place in Washington, D.C., and Annapolis, Maryland, on Feb. 5-8, 2015.

Through connections Oyatayo and Williams made at the National Student Leadership Forum that they attended the last weekend of October, the two students were invited to attend the Prayer Breakfast and related events.

“I was able to meet people from all over the world and we spoke to each other as if we were long-lost friends. Attending the National Prayer Breakfast really opened up how I view the world and what my place is in the world. I was able to meet and speak with different world leaders and they really made me feel like I had an important role in history,” said Williams.

Oyatayo added, “The very first thing that [the people I met] always mentioned was just how it was God that got them to where they are at. They were all pretty successful people in their own way and they were saying, ‘I couldn’t have been a lawyer, a successful engineer or a politician without God’s help getting me there.’”

After the Prayer Breakfast on Thursday, the college students at the event traveled to Annapolis, Maryland, where the met with small groups to discuss the national event and network with fellow students.

“It was one of the best weekends of my life because I grew so much spiritually and because of the opportunities that I had to make connections with all of the great, amazing people,” said Oyatayo.  

Sterling College is a Christ-centered, four-year college located in Sterling, Kansas, with a mission to develop creative and thoughtful leaders who understand a maturing Christian faith. For more information, visit www.sterling.edu.