As a trustee I am contributing to something far greater. Knowing that Bethel and its graduates minister in many areas gives Pawlenty great hope. She believes her role as a trustee, serving on the college affairs and membership committees, dovetails with her strengths as a judge. She credits professors G. W. Carlson, Bill Johnson, and John Lawyer with teaching her how to think and grapple with issues. The concept is very simple.
People tend to do well at things they enjoy.
If you are working well in the job or career that you have chosen, then you are going to do a much better job serving Jesus. Words of hope and comfort Pawlenty recommended that everyone visit a criminal courthouse. Listen to the stories there, she said, and you'll get a whole new understanding of life. She told about one of the more difficult cases she has heard, one that demonstrated to her the importance of being the right judge in the right place at the right time. The case involved the charge of malicious punishment of a child, to which the young male defendant had pled guilty.