Divinity School taps Brinkley as director of Student/Alumni Services

On August 24, 2004, Lynn Brinkley wrote in her journal that God may be preparing her for ministry at Campbell University Divinity School. On May 1, 2007, that vision became a reality as she began her duties as director of Student and Alumni Services.When Mrs. Brinkley enrolled in Campbell Divinity School in the spring of 2004, she says she was unclear about her purpose in coming to the Divinity School. Basically, she was coming to learn. Her home pastor, the Reverend Jesse Timmons of First Missionary Baptist Church, Chadbourn, also a Divinity graduate, saw her gifts and kept talking to her about preparing for ministry. She admits that she had been feeling God’s call but had not acted on it.”God has prepared me along the way,” she says as she thinks about her new position as a minister to the Divinity students. “I know what I needed from a director of Student Services. I also want to be there for the students. I want to give back what I was given and I want to learn and grow in the process.””Campbell Divinity School is pleased to welcome Lynn Brinkley to our staff. She brings to her position a great love for God and for the church,” explains Dr. Michael G. Cogdill, dean of the Campbell University Divinity School. “She will make an excellent minister to students.”Mrs. Brinkley, a native of Fayetteville, received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology from North Carolina State University and a Master of Science in Criminal Justice from the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga and expects to receive her Master of Divinity degree from Campbell Divinity School May 2008. Since September 2000, she has been the lead case manager in juvenile assessment for Cumberland County Communicare, Inc. Prior to working with at-risk youth there, she worked for the South Carolina Department of Social Services as a service coordinator for emotionally disturbed youth and the American Family Institute, Inc., as a clinical home supervisor for foster children.Mrs. Brinkley is married to Dr. Carl E. Brinkley, Jr., pastor of Mount Olive Missionary Baptist Church, Fayetteville, and together they have three children. Carl III and Ashley are grown; Taylor is 10; and granddaughter Carley is 4.