BROWNWOOD—Cara Brewer, recent Howard Payne University graduate, was thrilled recently to learn she will receive a full-tuition scholarship to Texas Tech University School of Law this fall. She gratefully acknowledges, however, this is not the first time she has experienced God’s provision for her education.
During her first year at Howard Payne, Brewer applied for a scholarship through the Hatton W. Sumners Foundation. When she learned she had received the $22,000 scholarship, she quickly went home to tell her parents.
She was surprised to learn the scholarship answered a prayer offered by her parents four years before.
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Howard Payne University President Bill Ellis greets Cara Brewer during the university’s recent commencement ceremony.
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Her father, Shawn Brewer, is pastor of First Baptist Church in Eastland and, when his daughter was a freshman in high school, their church entered into a large building program.
Brewer and his wife, Lauri, prayed fervently over the amount God would have them give toward the program. They felt God asking them to give the money they were planning to set aside for Cara’s education. Not knowing how God would provide, but trusting his sovereignty, the couple pledged their money.
When Cara Brewer came home as a college freshman and told her parents about the scholarship she had been awarded, they started crying and told her about the pledge they had made to God’s work.
The scholarship was the exact amount they had pledged to the building program at their church four years earlier.
“I was so in awe of our faithful God,” Brewer said. “We pray to God who is able to do infinitely more than we can ask or imagine. God used my parents’ faithfulness to help build a gym in Eastland. Through this gym and the basketball program that is held there, young men can learn about God and experience a father figure in their lives. All the while, God had a plan to provide for my education.”
Having seen God’s provision throughout her life, Cara looks with anticipation to what her future holds.
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“God is big,” she said. “I can rest assured, knowing he is in control.”
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