Meet Our Interns: Lydia

It’s time to meet Lydia Yu - The Hartford Project’s Administration and Life in the City Intern for summer 2017. Lydia is so passionate about The Hartford Project because it played such a big role in her life, especially when she first attended in 2014. She shares on her experience:

The Hartford Project was where I personally met God for the first time. It wasn't until I first attended The Hartford Project that I realized just how immense God's love is for us, and that I could actually have a relationship with Him. The worship had one of the [biggest] impacts on me because for the first time, I felt the presence of God in me and flowing through the entire room. I remember how beforehand, I never understood what people meant when they said they could feel the Holy Spirit moving in them, but it was absolutely incredible to feel it myself at The Hartford Project.

Lydia is looking forward to interning because she wants to be able to pour into others at THP. She is excited to see how God is going to work in the hearts of each student, just like He worked in her heart.

The Hartford Project has played such an important role in my faith and I want to give back to the program that has completely changed my life. Without THP, my relationship with God would be nowhere near where it is today. I hope to see not only my own faith strengthened through this internship but also a hunger for God started within the hearts of each participant. I hope to give my time and own passion for God to make The Hartford Project as successful as possible so that many other people's lives can be changed like mine was, from the lives of the participants to the lives of those who live in Hartford.

Lydia will be amazing as a Life in the City Intern because she has truly grown to love Hartford through her experiences at THP. She shares about working on the worksites:

It was beautiful seeing how God moves through Hartford and fall[ing] in love with the city. Hartford often gets a bad reputation, especially in the surrounding suburban towns, but serving, watching, and working with [people from Hartford] not only showed me how much love there was in the city but also how to selflessly give up my own comforts for the glory of God.

Fun Fact // Lydia’s favorite song to dance to is “Cotton Eyed Joe.”

​Favorite Verse // Philippians 2:15 // “So that you may become blameless and pure, ‘children of God without fault in a warped and crooked generation.’ Then you will shine among them like stars in the sky.”

Lydia Yu // Love Wins 2014

Lydia Yu

Post written by Jenna Adendorff.