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If you met Logan during her first weeks at college, you might assume the transition was easy for her. She adjusted. She made it work. She found her footing. What you wouldn’t guess is that she arrived carrying a grief most people don’t know what to do with.

She has this way of making people feel less alone, without trying to be the center of anything. She’s independent, but not distant. Community-minded, but not needy. And after everything she’s been through, that combination feels almost impossible… until you meet her.

Logan’s moral compass has always been her guiding light, even when the community around her couldn’t reflect it back. After a couple years of attending churches with family, she started noticing what felt off. “Every now and then I would pick up on red flags,” Logan confessed, “and something in me knew that wasn’t from God. Something’s not right.” But instead of walking away for good, Logan kept searching. History class finally gave her a breadcrumb: she remembered learning that Quakers “were social justice warriors in the most peaceful way,” and she thought, “Well, they probably still exist.” So, as a high schooler, she went by herself. There, she found a community that matched what she already knew of God’s character, loving, open, and worth calling home.

As her college acceptance letters rolled in, she imagined what her move-in day would look like. But in December of 2023, her dad died unexpectedly, and all her plans changed. Suddenly her college experience looked very different. And when move-in day rolled around, it was unrecognizable from that dream she had imagined.

“I knew coming to college so soon after Dad’s death, I would have to be intentional about getting involved so the grief didn’t drown me.” Logan says, “and Wingspan gave me something to jump into right away. It wasn’t a distraction, but it was a place where I could show up just as I am.”

Within Wingspan, Logan has been able to make more connections with her beliefs of God within a faith community. She has explored The Bible in ways that she hadn’t had the freedom to do before. She enjoys studying the cultural context of each story and uncovering the real person behind the parables. She has led Wingspan in advocating for others on campus through the social justice values she found in the Quaker church.

“After graduation, I’ll definitely be active in a faith community. The thought of not being in church sounds terrible to me, it’s grown to be so important for my daily life, it’s shaped my values, it’s who I am.”

Logan’s story is not just about finding a campus ministry. It is about a person who kept trusting her gut about God’s character, even when communities caused confusion. That same moral compass that kept her searching as a teenager is the same thing that held her steady when grief showed up and tried to take over. When Logan stepped into Wingspan, she wasn’t looking for a distraction. She was looking for somewhere she could be real.

And that is what she has found. A place where Scripture opens up instead of shutting down, and where her love for justice has room to grow into action. Logan has this quiet way of strengthening a community just by being in it. She makes people feel less alone because she refuses to let anyone pretend they have to carry everything by themselves. She came to college carrying a grief most people do not know what to do with. And somehow, by the grace of God and the gift of a community like this, it has not drowned her. It has deepened her.