 Hi, I'm Amy Starnes, and I live in Grand Junction, Colorado, and I have my bachelor's degree in elementary education from Colorado Christian University. Teaching has just been a lifelong thread, and when I met my husband, I was going to school. Then I moved and married and had kids and everything, and life got in the way. But now that my kids are at school full-time, it was just time for me to work again, and I knew that I was supposed to teach. I drove by Colorado Christian University's campus here in Grand Junction, I feel like a million times. God planted a seed, then it just kind of rolled from there, so I knew it was time to make a change, and they helped me get my credits transferred. They helped me fill out the application and get rolling. It was a lot easier than I thought it would be. The biggest challenge I faced as a student was the time, because you're still a mom 100% of the time, but CCU made it possible. The staff really helped me all the way through to graduation. It wasn't something that I was able to accomplish prior, and with their help and support, it opened up a new world for me. I love the Lord with my whole heart, so it was really important to me that I could talk about my faith and approach things from a perspective of faith, and CCU actually had classes and things that focused on how to be a Christian teacher in a public school setting. Colorado Christian University really empowered me to do things that I wasn't able to do before. It made it possible for me to be a teacher, made it possible for me to be a mom and a wife and do all of the things that I had wanted to accomplish and wasn't able to. I would say that's empowering. It's changed my life. If I can do it, you can do it.