Landrith comes to NGU to serve students
Posted by The Skyliner on November 4th, 2009Rachel Ham
Staff Writer
(Photo by Jenny Farnham)
Tonya Landrith is one of the newest faces on campus at North Greenville University. She can be found working hard in her office on the Campus Ministries hall in the Tingle Student Center.
Landrith was born in Anderson, S.C., but her family moved all over the Southeast while her father was in the military. When she was younger, the family lived in Germany for a time. But in the 1980s she moved with them to Columbia, S.C., where they still resides today.
Landrith grew up in a Christian home and she said that she is very grateful to have grown up with supportive, loving parents. She said her grandparents were also important in her life, and they provided direction and Christian guidance to her while she was growing up.
Landrith was saved at the age of 10 at a revival service that was held at Eureka Baptist Church in Anderson.
She later attended Anderson College, now Anderson University. She said she was able to benefit from the Christian faculty, staff and students that she met while there. She and her husband Wayne also met at Anderson in 1986. They will celebrate their 15th wedding anniversary this December.
The Landriths have never been able to have children of their own.
“Wayne and I have adopted all 2,000 plus students at North Greenville University,” Landrith said.
Wayne Landrith took over as the vice president of the Crusader Club and corporate and foundation giving, and Tonya heard about the opening for her current position through him. She is now the administrative assistant for Dr. Steve Crouse, who is the vice president of campus ministries.
Landrith’s duties include assigning chapel seats to students each year and keeping up with students’ chapel attendance and grades.
Currently, Landrith and her husband attend Chapin Presbyterian Church, but once they sell their home in Chapin and move to the Greenville area, they will begin to look for a new church home. Landrith said that once they “officially” move into the area and find a church, they would like to get involved in local ministries.
Landrith said that her favorite Bible verse is Jeremiah 29:11 which says, “I know what I’m doing. I have it all planned out—plans to take care of you, not abandon you, plans to give you the future you hope for” (The Message).
Landrith has already been busy this semester with all the events going on in Campus Ministries such as this past week’s Men’s and Women’s Conference.
Tags: Fall 2009, Vol. 109 - Issue 8