When God calls, a response is required. You can ignore it, disbelieve it, choose not to consider it, or you can treat it seriously and submit it to prayer. Who would have thought that a choir trip to Dallas and a torn ACL would constitute God’s call for 25 year-old Logan Golightly?
Born, raised, and educated in Spartanburg, Logan grew up in a Christian, church-going household. His father passed away when he was six years old, and his mother and grandparents became Logan’s world. But it was his grandfather, Rudy Huntley, upon whom Logan relied the most and who over the years became his “dad.”
Accepting Christ as his Savior at six years of age, Logan continued to attend church. But, as he grew older, he said that he never really made Jesus a priority in his life, instead pursuing the things of the world and living for himself.
When Logan was 23, his grandfather died of pancreatic cancer, an unimaginable loss for Logan and the family. At the same time, Logan was working a job he found less than satisfying, and to make matters worse, a serious relationship with a girl he hoped to marry, ended. Logan recalled that it was “the most broken and empty I had ever felt…I realized that everything that the world had to offer wouldn’t last forever, and that there would come a time when everyone I depended on would be gone, and I would be left with no one.”
Logan explained, “I tried to run from God and forget He was even there, but He brought me to my knees. Since then He has been with me every day”.
Knowing that some of the areas in which he was involved were not honoring God, Logan prayed that he “would come to know God more.” He asked to be discipled, joined the choir at Church at The Mill, joined a small group, and began serving on the Young Adult ministry team.
Last January, Logan’s life took a turn when he tore the ACL in his right knee while playing basketball. Unable to walk for a few months, he recalls thinking, “I don’t know how, but God’s going to use this for His glory.”
When he was able, and a month away from returning to work, he decided to drive around the country. Along the way, he had conversations with strangers about Jesus, but rarely stayed more than a day in one place. However, when he got to Utah, he felt a pressing need for people to know Jesus, and he couldn’t leave. After three days in Utah, Logan had to go, but couldn’t get Utah off his mind. God was up to something.
In June 2025, Logan drove to Dallas to sing with the choir at the Southern Baptist Convention’s Pastors’ Conference. When rehearsal ended the day before the conference, Worship Pastor Josh Epton asked the choir to go into the large conference room and pray. Logan knelt down and asked God, “What do You want from me?” Immediately he heard, “I want more of you,” and he knew that God wanted him to take the next step.
“I took a posture of defense,” Logan said. “I knew that I was going to have to give up so much—a house I had just bought, my Christian friends, all I was doing at church—and then I heard Him say, ‘When have I ever not provided for you? I already told you to die is to gain. Pick up your cross and follow Me.’ I opened my eyes, and I was the only one left in the conference room.”
Logan had spoken to a friend who had served with Will and Ashley Reynolds, a CATM family in Utah on long-term mission, and discovered that they were working at the Dallas conference. Logan met with Will and told him that he felt God’s call to Utah. Will suggested that Logan come out to Utah to get a feel for the work there and exchanged phone numbers with him. As Logan made the long drive home from Dallas, he said that anxiety began to creep in. He recognized it as a ploy that the enemy was using to make him delay.
“But I knew that, when under the conviction of the Holy Spirit, my actions had to be in obedience to Him; that delayed obedience was disobedience,” he said.
Logan called the one person who might be able to hear his story and help him sort his feelings out—his grandmother, Jan Huntley. She waited up until after midnight when he arrived at her house, and they talked.
After Logan told her what God had told him in Dallas about a call to a mission in Utah, she recalled, “I was so excited that God had called Logan to do this. I’ve seen him grow in his faith this last year. He has really blossomed. I pray that God will use him any way He wants. Rudy would have been tickled. He always called Logan ‘our preacher boy.’”
Logan’s house is now rented, and he is living with his grandmother for the time being. He plans to move to Utah in early February. In addition, he has prepared for future gospel conversations by spending time with Mormon missionaries. He is looking for a job in Utah and has made a contact who will rent him a room. Meanwhile, Logan is finishing his bachelor’s degree and plans on seminary in the future. He is unsure as to how long he will stay in Utah, but he is relying on God to make that part clear.
Vineyard, Utah and adjoining Utah City, have exploded in population and home-building. The projected population for Utah City is 60,000 over the next 3-5 years, added to Vineyard’s 25,000-30,000, with a median age of 24. Currently, Vineyard is 85% Mormon, and the Reynolds have found it difficult to live there. Will Reynolds says that he has been excluded socially because of who he is—an evangelical church planter and “worse,” a Southern Baptist.
He said, “The cultural perception is that my being here will hurt their witness.”
Will and Ashley have done their best to foster community in their neighborhood by hosting game nights, birthday parties, barbecues—anything that will bring neighbors together and dispel the distrust, share the gospel, involve them in Bible study and discipleship. The Reynolds are looking forward to Logan coming. Will said, “Logan will be great here because he’ll have plenty of opportunities to have conversations about Jesus with people his own age.”
As God would have it, Logan just wants to do what Jesus did. “I’m really big on slowing down and having a conversation with someone, and to wash someone’s feet.” That’s just what Utah needs.
