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About Justin

I was saved at the age of four after a conversation with my mom, placing my trust in the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ alone to save me. Growing up around the Word of Life ministry in Schroon Lake, NY, I always had a desire to eventually do full-time overseas missions in some capacity. For a while, the plan was to become a US diplomat and then leverage that occupation for ministry to foreign leaders. After 2 years at the Word of Life Bible Institute in New York and 3 more at Cedarville University in Ohio, I earned a degree in International Studies and another in Biblical Studies. I had been accepted to three different European universities to study for a graduate degree in International Relations. However, the summer after graduating from Cedarville, everything changed. Instead of driving boats for the summer on Schroon Lake, which was my original plan, I became the Coordinator over all of the counselors at the Word of Life Island. It became a summer of teaching, discipleship, leading a core team, and evangelism, not to mention meeting and working with the godly woman who would eventually become my wife, Julia. By the end of the summer, I was sure that I wanted to do full-time ministry and that graduate studies in Europe was not my next step. With no plan, I worked construction for a company building log cabins for half a year before being hired by Word of Life to oversea and manage the Bible Institute's accreditation in January of 2020. While not the sort of ministry I was anticipating getting into, this was a 5-year season of learning and growing, with various opportunities to preach, teach, and disciple, including as the WOLBI men's soccer team head coach. After 5 years managing WOLBI's accreditation and coaching the soccer team, I was recently appointed as the Dean of Ministries at WOLBI in NY, overseeing all of the student ministry that goes on throughout a school year. On top of this, I also serve as an Assistant Director at the Word of Life Island and still serve as the head coach of the men's soccer team.

My passion is to see young people come to know Christ, live for him, and become emboldened to make him known. God has burdened me with the need for unsaved people to hear the Gospel and for those who are already saved to become sold out followers and ambassadors of Christ. My wife, Julia, and I love serving the students at WOLBI in New York with our young and growing family of four: Eloise (3 years) and Kieran (6 months).

Ecclesiastes 12:13 - Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.

Contact Information

jplough@wordoflife.edu

Address:
Justin Lough
Word of Life United States
PO Box 600
Schroon Lake, NY 12870