Left to right, ABSC interns Gavin Holland, Blair Yager, Lacey Lewellen, and Tanner Roberts. (Staff photo by Alex Blankenship)
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Six college students are interning this summer at the Arkansas Baptist State Convention with the Evangelism + Church Health Team and the Arkansas Baptist Foundation (ABF).
Interning with the Arkansas Baptist Foundation are Vivian Pryor and Grant Greenway.
Pryor is joining the ABF for a second summer as a legal intern. She is originally from Manila, Arkansas. She graduated from Ouachita Baptist University (OBU) in May 2024 with both a business administration and a political science degree. Pryor has been accepted to the University of Arkansas Law School where she will be attending this fall.
Greenway is joining the ABF as an accounting intern for the first time this summer. He is a junior, accounting and finance double major and will graduate in the Spring of 2026. Greenway is from Conway where he attends Central Baptist Church.
Interning with the Evangelism + Church Health Team are Lacey Lewellen, Blair Yager, Gavin Holland and Tanner Roberts. Lewellen, Yager and Roberts attend OBU. Holland is a student at the University of Arkansas.
Yager and Roberts are both Christian studies majors. Lewellen is majoring in middle school education. Holland is studying electrical engineering.
“I’m looking forward to learning from everybody and getting to know everybody,” Lewellen said of the internship.
Yager said she is excited to gain experience with the various churches of the Convention.
“There are so many churches in the Convention, but they are so very different. I am excited for that. And Super Summer. I am excited to staff there,” she said.
Roberts said he is excited to get to see the “behind the scenes of what is going on and really find a new appreciation for church and how much the Convention does for churches in Arkansas.”
The students will be interning at the Convention through the last week of July.