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Highlighting Outstanding LeTourneau Students

LeTourneau University is proud to highlight outstanding students who are excelling academically and as Christians of service. These students have been recommended by faculty, staff, peers, family, friends, and/or cooworkers as students recognized for their outstanding academic achievement and service to others. We commend these students on a job well done!

Julia Bourcier

My name is Julia Bourcier and I am honored to have this opportunity to represent many of the incredible people who have shared their lives with me. It is my hope that in telling my story, I may also honor theirs.

As Windridge's Program Director, I am one member of an incredible team that makes Windridge Therapeutic Equestrian Center of East Texas, Inc., all it is today. Windridge was founded in 1989 to serve children and adults who have disabilities through therapeutic horsemanship programs. READ MORE »

Abraham Atem Akech

My name is Abraham Atem Akech. I left my home country of South Sudan when I was just six-years-old. My journey away from South Sudan was very similar to that of the children of Israel when they left Egypt.

The Sudanese government bombarded our villages on the ground and in the air when the Sudan civil war broke out in 1983 but I escaped and walked barefoot to a refugee camp in Ethiopia. This was not an easy feat. During my one-month trek from South Sudan to Ethiopia, I saw many of my peers being eaten by wild animals like lions, hyenas, and leopards. READ MORE »