Jay Falk
Name: Jay Falk
Hometown: Rocky Mount, NC
College: UNC-Chapel Hill (Graduated ‘07)
Degree: Management and Society
Man where to begin when describing the Kinston Fellows Program and what it meant to me. I graduated from UNC Chapel Hill in December of 2007, and then spent four months in Ethiopia following that. I then signed on to come to Kinston shortly after returning home. I first believed going to Kinston was only going to be a time filler between college and my next road, be it graduate school or a job. Man I was wrong.
I arrived in Kinston in September of 2008, and began to work for Jimbo Perry, and was truly blessed to live with Glenn and Karla Gannett. Around this time my attitude started to change towards the Fellows Program. I came to Kinston having always wanted to go to law school because it was a dream, but spending each day with Jimbo drastically changed my perception of things. I realized life was much more than my daily job, and found out that what I was going to do with my life must be a mission for the Lord. As the time passed in Kinston, I grew so much in my faith. This was because of the love bestowed upon me from the Gannett’s, Jimbo Perry and his family, and especially Grace Fellowship Church. I grew attached to this small Eastern North Carolina town, and when I left I felt blessed that God had called me to Kinston. My year in the Kinston Fellows program will be something I remember for the rest of my life, and a time where God used many people within the Kinston to drastically impact my faith.