ResLife Welcomes Martz, McLaughlin
Jasmine Martz and Hannah McLaughlin have been selected to serve Toccoa Falls College (TFC) as two of many female resident assistants (RAs) for the upcoming 2023-2024 school year. Martz will be serving on Fant 2, while McLaughlin will be serving in Cora Houston Terrace.
Jasmine Martz
Jasmine Martz is a 22-year-old Sports Management major with a minor in Sports Psychology. She is a rising junior and hopes to become an Athletic Director at a high school. As a stepping stone, she will be working with sports teams keeping statistics during games to gain experience.
Martz says she wanted to become a RA because she felt this was the next step in her journey with God.
“I am very excited to lead my girls into their new endeavors, if that may be growing stronger in their faith or helping them decide what they want to do in their future,” she says.
Martz’s goal as an RA is to promote fellowship among her residents. College comes with a bunch of ups and downs that no person should deal with alone. Getting her girls out of their comfort zones and joining them in their walks with God is Martz’s desire for the 2023-2024 year.
Martz says one of her favorite things about being at TFC is the feeling of community present here. .
“Going away to college was probably one of the best decisions I have ever made. Needing to find myself came easy to me because of TFC and the people here,” Martz says. “TFC gives me a feeling of home and family. I have made the greatest friends that I will have for a lifetime.”
Hannah McLaughlin
Hannah McLaughlin is a 20-year-old double major in English and Bible & Theology. She is a rising senior waiting on God for a post-graduation calling. She enjoys the ideas of editing, writing her own books, or going to France as a missionary to teach English.
“I just want to serve the Lord in wherever I go and whatever I do, for that has always been my deepest desire,” McLaughlin says.
McLaughlin, who has been serving as a RA in Fant Hall this year, says she wanted to become a RA to serve as someone who supports and comforts her residents. Helping the incoming freshmen students “behind-the-scenes” has been a joy for her in the 2022-2023 ResLife term, but now she feels called to build relationships with the upperclassmen women in the Terraces.
McLaughlin wants to be a steady source of encouragement for the Cora Houston women amidst their busy and stressful schedules.
“At the beginning of the year, I want to remind them that the Lord loves them, and I love them, and to never hesitate to reach out to ask for anything,” McLaughlin says.
She plans to post Scripture verses in the common area of the terrace and host events that are easily accessible as the women of Cora Houston go about their day.
McLaughlin says the most significant impact on her life at TFC came in the form of a spiritual crisis two years ago. Given the circumstances at the time, McLaughlin questioned if God was truly loving, good, and trustworthy as she had believed. She came very close to giving up on God, but He didn’t give up on her. She enjoys sharing her story of God’s faithfulness face-to-face with those who ask.
“Now, indeed, I can bear witness that the Lord is always good,” McLaughlin says. “Even when nothing in life seems to testify to that truth, it is true, and the Lord is always with us and never lets us go, even when we doubt Him.”
ResLife is excited to have women like Martz and McLaughlin serving other women of TFC by building community through events and daily conversations that encourage sisterhood in Christ.