Trinity Magazine (spring '12)

For the Trinity Community Worldwide | Spring 2012

President Craig Williford answers tough questions about the obstacles to Christian higher education Also inside: Crossing the Gap: one church’s example of how to work alongside the seminary

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A WO R D F R O M T H E P R ES I D ENT

Executive Council President G. Craig Williford (PhD ’95) Executive Vice President/Provost Jeanette L. Hsieh, EdD

A TRINITY EDUCATION

ACCESSIBLE, AFFORDABLE, & EFFECTIVE? this age of rapid and dramatic change, the effects of which are compounded in the midst of economic crises, we work diligently to make the Trinity educational experience accessible, affordable, and effective. Now is not the time for business as usual. Nor is it time to drift from our foundational faith statements and core educational values.

It is a time to pray, to seek God’s guidance, and to weave the values of collaboration and innovation throughout our organization.

Now is the time for wisdom, faith, and courage. Now is the time to believe that God moves behind the scenes of all the challenges we face and to identify fresh and effective ways to serve the world for his glory. At Trinity, we work hard designing thoughtful and creative ways to take the best of what we do and tailor it to the rapidly changing dynamics of today and the future.

So, in this issue of Trinity Magazine we include a number of articles that illustrate how we are addressing these challenges. We look back and forward. Some of our retiring professors, who have served here faithfully for decades, reflect on their years at Trinity focusing on what God did in their lives and the lives of our students. Such reflections demonstrate a life well invested in God’s kingdom.

Looking forward, we include articles that embody collaboration and innovation—articles on how we make the Trinity education more accessible and affordable; about a global consultation project that recently occurred here at TIU; highlighting some exciting new programs and initiatives underway at the university; and a description of a pastors fellowship and a young pastors network developed to serve the church alongside the seminary. We’ll also highlight some recent and ongoing global and national contributions of our current faculty. Trinity exists not just to educate students but also to provide thought leadership across various disciplines. Our faculty members serve Trinity well in this capacity.

As always, I ask that you pray for our students, faculty, and staff, encourage students to consider attending Trinity, take a class yourself, and prayerfully consider how you might invest in our mission to educate men and women to engage in God’s redemptive work throughout the world by cultivating academic excellence, Christian faithfulness, and lifelong learning.

With appreciation,

G. Craig Williford (PhD ’95) President

Senior Vice President of Education​ Dean, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School Tite Tiénou, PhD Senior Vice President for Information Technology and Planning Steven Geggie Senior Vice President for Enrollment Roger Kieffer Senior Vice President for University Advancement David A. Hoag, PhD Senior Vice President of Business and Finance, Chief Financial Officer J. Michael Picha Senior Vice President for Student Affairs Dean of Students, Trinity College William O. Washington, PhD (BA ’88, MAR ’98)

TRINITY MAGAZINE Vice President, Communications/Marketing Gary Cantwell Editor and Director of Communication Chris Donato Design Nick Ng Wayne Kijanowski (MDiv ’91) Trinity Magazine exists to tell Trinity’s stories, to serve Trinity alumni and friends, and to connect the Trinity community. Opinions expressed are those of contributors and not necessarily the official position of Trinity. To contact the editor, email trinmag@tiu.edu or call 847.317.8113. To send alumni news items or to change your mailing address, email alumni@tiu.edu or call 877.339.1416.

Trinity International University is a private, Christian university composed of four schools: Trinity College, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Trinity Graduate School, and Trinity Law School. Trinity has more than 2,800 students from more than three dozen countries and throughout the United States. Trinity is committed to biblical authority, Christ centeredness, comprehensive education, community, church connectedness, and cultural engagement.

On the cover: Hurdle Casting Ladder Shadow, © Antoine Savolainen/Corbis

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depa r t ment s 2 A Word from the President

10 centers update

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I N T E@ RT NR IAT IONAL N I T Y UNIVERSIT Y PHOTO: Craig and Carolyn Williford receive a gift Bible in Hong Kong presented by Dora Lau (left) and Allison Chan

TIU Receives Largest Single Gift in Its History Trinity International University has received the largest single gift in its history, estimated at more than $27 million, with an additional pledge of $3 million for an endowed chair to be announced at a later date.

This designated gift is from one family, and, along with the other large gift restricted to funding the two chairs and student scholarships (see next page), it triples the size of TIU's endowment.

Through this gift, Trinity's mission is advanced in various ways—for example, in providing more scholarship funds to students—and thus helps us to contains costs for students and their families.

According to TIU President Craig Williford, the size of this gift shows confidence in the

University and its ability to impact multiple generations of leaders across the globe.

It positions TIU to make progress on its commitment to integrate the gospel of Jesus Christ with an academically excellent education— one that is comprehensive, couched in community, Christ-centered, connected to the church, and engaged with culture.

The donors have restricted the gift to include endowed funding for scholarships, two academic chairs (for leadership in Christian education and for mission and global theology), projects that improve infrastructure, investments in strategic initiatives—including new academic programs, and a one-time employee appreciation gift.

“This generous gift is strategically designed to position Trinity for the future and to honor the personal commitment of those working hard to fulfill the University’s mission—to educate men and women to engage in his redemptive work in the world by cultivating academic excellence, Christian faithfulness, and lifelong learning,” said President Williford.

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President Williford and Carolyn Travel to China The influence of Trinity International University’s faculty and alumni in Hong Kong was apparent everywhere President Williford and Carolyn went. During his time there, President Williford spoke at China Graduate School of Theology and at Evangel Seminary (both schools have TIU alumni currently serving as faculty or in leadership roles.

While in Hong Kong, President Williford was presented with two beautiful copies of The Heritage Edition of a new modern Chinese translation of the Bible. These two Bibles will be in the Rolfing Library and further demonstrate Trinity’s connection to the global church. The Bibles have the Mandarin translation side-by-side with the English translation.

Women’s Soccer Team Brought Home the NISOA Sportsmanship Award In addition to taking 2nd in the NCCAA Women’s Soccer National Championship, the Lady Trojans represented the University with class and dignity as they received numerous awards for their efforts. Three Lady Trojans—Diana Anderson, Ashley Bowman, and Kelly Streekstra—were named to the 2011 NCCAA D1 Women’s Soccer Championship AllTournament Team. Streeksta was also named the NCCAA Most Outstanding Defensive Player. Trinity International University as a team was awarded the National Intercollegiate Soccer Officials Association (NISOA) Sportsmanship Award, an award specifically voted on by the referees of the tournament.

The Paul G. Hiebert Mission Research Initiative With an initial gift, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School’s Department of Mission and Evangelism Studies will launch in April 2012 the Paul G. Hiebert Mission Research Initiative (hiebert.teds.edu).

The purpose of the initiative is to honor Paul G. Hiebert (1937–2007) by: • Funding doctoral fellowships in his name; • Collecting and creating a digital and online archive of Dr. Hiebert’s writings, lecture notes, voice recordings, photographs, etc., to foster and make possible research on his life and work; • Organizing a missiology conference (2014), and subsequent publication, featuring the life and legacy of Dr. Hiebert; • Finish endowing the Paul G. Hiebert Prize, to be awarded annually to a Trinity PhD student or recent PhD graduate for a dissertation or publication that makes a significant contribution to the field of missiology; • Support doctoral dissertation research and further missiological research projects yet to be determined.

Four Fully Endowed Chairs Beyond the two chairs endowed through the earlier contribution (see previous page), TIU was also the recipient of another large gift (over $6 million) restricted to the purpose of funding student scholarships and two more new chairs, bringing the total to four: • The William O. Washington Endowed Chair of Student Leadership: Given in honor of Dr. William Washington’s outstanding leadership in student affairs for more than 25 years. Dr. Washington, senior vice president for student affairs, has been a faithful servant to his alma mater during this time, and he will be the first to occupy the chair.

• The Wesley Anderson Endowed Chair of Business: Given in honor of Mr. Wesley Anderson’s outstanding fiscal leadership and service to the University.

Mr. Anderson served on the Trinity College Board and later as a full-time staff member for 13 years. The chair of the business department at the college, Dr. Wendy L. Martin, will occupy this chair.

• The Dr. Tite Tiénou Chair in Mission and Global Theology: Given in honor of his outstanding leadership in this area, Dr. Tiénou will occupy this chair as dean of TEDS. Once he retires as dean, he will occupy this chair as long as he continues as a full-time TIU faculty member. Successors to this chair will have a proven commitment and ability to continue Dr. Tiénou’s leadership in mission and global theology.

• The Susan Stover Chair for Leadership in Christian Higher Education: The dean of the college and/or graduate school will occupy this chair in perpetuity.

Dr. David Hoag, senior vice president for university advancement, noted that the donors hope these gifts inspire others to give what they can to the University. “While it secures the future of these four chairs, the Trinity Fund [see pp. 8–9], which feeds student scholarships, remains one of our highest priorities,” he said.

HEARD IN CHAPEL Sin has a way of making us hide, making us dodge, making us fear being exposed. The costly love of Jesus makes it safe to come out of hiding.

Matt Tebbe (MDiv ’07) Pastor of Spiritual Formation River Valley Church of Mishawaka, Ind. Apologetics has to be undergirded by love. I love the way our Lord handled the woman at the well, so gently, so graciously, that she runs back and says, “Come and see the one who knew everything I had done. Maybe Messiah has come!” There is the gift of love in the gospel, and one of the main reasons the church suffers today is that often we have not displayed this love to each another, let alone to the world. If we are going to win this, we are going to win this with the conquering, disarming power of the love of Jesus Christ.

Ravi Zacharias (MDiv ’76) Founder, Chairman & CEO Ravi Zacharias International Ministries If we can see the future, if only for a moment, we will see the present differently and we will live the present differently. Jesus is coming and he is bringing with him a whole new heaven and earth. He’s bringing a new city; it’s the city we city-builders have longed to build, and if we can see that city for just a moment, it changes the way we understand our cities.

Darrell Johnson Senior Minister First Baptist Church of Vancouver, BC God chose [to love], God chose rascals and liars and cheaters, and God has empowered us and commanded us to love like God loves. God says cross the boundary line, cross the campus line. Choose to love people who are not like you.

Alise Barrymore Co-Pastor of the Emmaus Community Chicago Heights, Ill. SPRING 2012 | 5

FACULT Y NEWS

Richard E. Averbeck wrote the chapter “Breath, Wind, Spirit, and the Holy Spirit in the Old Testament” in Presence, Power and Promise: The Spirit of God in the Old Testament edited

by David G. Firth and Paul D. Wegner (IVP Academic). In November 2012 at the Evangelical Theological Society and Society of Biblical Literature meetings in San Francisco, Dr. Averbeck read his paper, “Having a Baby the New Fashioned Way: Wisdom from the OT,” as well as chaired a session on Old Testament law in its ancient Near Eastern context.

Gregory C. Carlson and H. Wayne Johnson (ThM ’84, MDiv ’83) co-chaired a university-wide committee to investigate and develop the new pre-seminary honors cooperative effort between TEDS and TC (see p. 15). Dr. Carlson is also working with Awana Clubs International to develop a children’s and family training curriculum for several colleges in India, and is serving on a task force for the Family and Children’s Ministries Council with EFCA ReachNational.

D. A. Carson wrote The Intolerance of Tolerance (Eerdmans), Evangelicalism: What Is It and Is It Worth Keeping? and edited with Timothy Keller The Gospel as Center (both from Crossway).

Chris L. Firestone (MA ’92) and Nathan A. Jacobs (BA ’01, MA ’04) co-edited The Persistence of the Sacred in Modern Thought (Notre Dame University Press). In January, the both of them delivered a video and movie presentation entitled “Bridging the Divide: From Academia to Hollywood, and Beyond” at the 2012 Hawaii University International Conferences on the Arts and Sciences.

Dana M. Harris (MA ’06, PhD ’09) wrote the article “Priest” in the New International Study Bible (Zondervan).

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Nathan A. Jacobs (BA ’01, MA ’04) and Chris L. Firestone (MA ’92) each wrote response essays in a symposium edition of the journal Faith and Philosophy on “In Defense of Kant’s Religion” (April 2012).

John F. Kilner wrote the chapter “Christian and Competing Views of Stem Cell Research” in The Blackwell Companion to Science and Christianity, edited by J.B. Stump and Alan G. Padgett (Wiley-Blackwell).

Craig Ott (PhD ’91) will be traveling in April 2012 to Ahmedabad, India, to engage in the training of national leaders.

In November 2011, David W. Pao traveled to Hong Kong to the Worldwide Bible Society Bible seminar as its main plenary speaker.

Formed in the summer of 2010, the Green Scholars Initiative brings established and young scholars together to pioneer groundbreaking research on items in The Green Collection, the world’s newest and largest private collection of rare biblical texts and artifacts.

The Initiative allows the world’s leading textual scholars to research and produce scholarship around items in The Green Collection while mentoring students in their respective fields of expertise. In September 2011, Sylvie T. Raquel, associate professor of biblical studies, along

Jana L. Sundene’s (MA ’00) book, Shaping the Journey of Emerging Adults: Life Giving Rhythms for Spiritual Transformation, co-written with Richard R. Dunn, was published this January (IVP).

with several TIU undergraduate students, worked on deciphering a recently discovered Egyptian papyrus, dated most likely to the second century AD. It contains one of the earliest references to the Letter to the Hebrews. Senior Biblical Studies major William Seebold presented the work with Dr. Raquel at the regional Society of Biblical Literature meeting in February. Once the research is complete, it will be published with Brill Academic Publishers.

K. Lawson Younger wrote the article “Aram, Arameans” for The Encyclopedia of Ancient History (Wiley-Blackwell).

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I encourage you to join me and Carolyn in investing in Trinity students through the Trinity Fund, and to do so each year in accordance with your capability. It’s a joyful privilege for us to take part in this effort. We have been nothing but delighted with the return on our investment, namely, the many students—like Angela Houk—who go on from Trinity to serve the church and society in countless ways all around the world. Indeed, it is one of the best investments we make. ~ President Craig Williford

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No Mind Is Beyond Renewal “I developed the Bible program for my capstone project through Trinity.”

Angela Houk (MA in Religion ’09) discovered a unique opportunity to grow a new kind of educational ministry.

To do it, she made the most of her education at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. Angela is the dean of Shepherds College, an educational program for adults with intellectual disabilities in Union Grove, Wisconsin.

Founded as a boarding school for children, Shepherds Ministries has been providing Christian care for people with disabilities since 1964. In 2008, the ministry founded Shepherds College, a three-year higher education program for young adults.

As the only such Christian organization in the country, Shepherds College has created an innovative program for its unique students. “I developed the Bible program

for my capstone project through Trinity,” Angela says. But she didn’t stop there. Angela began developing curricula that would include church history, language arts, communications, and Bible classes.

Angela has now seen her first class grow from their first-year into students ready to graduate. She was most touched when she witnessed third-year students approaching those just beginning their education at Shepherds College. They were nervous, but the older students offered comfort. “Ms. Houk tells us about trusting God,” they said, “and casting our cares on him.” That was a defining moment for Angela. “This is success,” she thought. “I’ve poured into them, and now they’re pouring into others.”

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C ENT E R S U P DAT E The Henry Center for Theological Understanding is in its sixth year of ministry, which began back in 2005 when an anonymous donor gave $2,000,000 to the small Center for Theological Understanding (CTU) as a ten-year grant, to continue their work of building bridges between the church and the academy. In honor of the late Carl Henry, the name CTU was changed to the Carl F. H. Henry Center for Theological Understanding. In the fall of 2011, the same anonymous donor recently blessed the center with another gift of $500,000.

Managing Director Hans Madueme (MDiv ’06, MA ’07) says that “our hearts are

humbled and overflowing with gratitude to this donor for such remarkable devotion to Christ’s church. And we pray that the Lord would continue to enable us to steward these gifts wisely and effectively.”

The Center’s first event in 2012 was the Jonathan Edwards and the Church lecture, cosponsored with the Jonathan Edwards Center. Pastor Thabiti Anyabwile spoke on “Jonathan Edwards and American Racism: Can the Theology of a Slave Owner Be Trusted by the Descendants of Slaves?” Pastors Louis Love and Charlie Dates (MDiv ’06) gave separate responses followed by a lively Q & A discussion. For

our spring 2012 Scripture and Ministry lecture series, the Henry Center heard from Jo Anne Lyon, who is a general superintendent of the Wesleyan Church, and Michael Rea, a philosophy professor at the University of Notre Dame. TEDS MDiv students are anticipating the spring installment in the Timothy Series: Pastors William Shields from St. Mark Lutheran Church in Lindenhurst and Colin Smith from the Orchard in Arlington Heights.

During this semester, the Henry Center will also be considering applications for new faculty initiatives as well as awarding new 2012–13 Hansen Fellowships.

The Center for bioethics & HUman dignity continues to focus on increasing impact for the kingdom, beginning on campus and extending worldwide. The latter part of 2011 included a morning consultation on our emerging Global Women’s Health Initiative led by Teri Goudie, an international media consultant and a former ABC News journalist. The Center’s research library, which houses the Edmund D. Pellegrino Special Collection in Medical Ethics and Philosophy, which was inaugurated at our 2011 Summer Conference, has been renovated and expanded.

Impact through scholarship continues to grow as Paige Cunningham (MA ’04) and Dr. Michael Sleasman (MDiv ’02, PhD ’08), CBHD managing director and research scholar, published multiple articles and essays. Salvo magazine featured an edited version of “Making Babies, Not Love,” written by Ms. Cunningham. Dr. Sleasman contributed an essay titled, “Bioethics Past, Present, and Future: Important sign posts in Human Dignity,” to Beyond Suffering: A Christian view on Disability Ministry Curriculum, edited by Joni Eareckson Tada and Steve Bundy.

Ms. Cunningham also presented a lecture at Taylor University’s Science Seminar in October on “Pleading Ignorance: The Foolishness of Avoiding Science in a Biotech World,” and she taught an enrichment class for alumni on “Back to School and Brain Boosters” during TIU’s homecoming weekend. Ms. Cunningham and Dr. Sleasman were interviewed on two separate hour-long radio spots featuring “Why Bioethics Matters to Christians” and “Bioethics at the Intersection of Technology and Humanity.” They also spoke at two TIU chapels.

The Jonathan Edwards Center AT TEDS is a recently launched center directed by Professor of Church History and Christian Thought Dr. Douglas Sweeney (MA ’89). In order to promote awareness and scholarship on Edwards in the church and academy, the Jonathan Edwards Center at Yale founded several satellite Edwards Centers throughout the world. There are now centers in Germany (Tübingen), Poland, South Africa, and Australia (Ridley College). Apart from the Yale Center, the Jonathan Edwards Center (JEC) at TEDS is the only other center located in the United States. The JEC at TEDS offers two main lecture series— the New Directions in Edwards Studies and Jonathan Edwards and the Church.

We have already mentioned the exciting lecture by Thabiti Anyabwile in the Jonathan Edwards and the Church lecture series. He explored the ambiguous relationship between Jonathan Edwards and American racism. Our next New Directions in Edwards Studies lecture was on March 29. Mark Rogers is a PhD candidate at TEDS, and he spoke on “An Edwardsian Second Great Awakening?: The Revival Ministry of Edward Dorr Griffin.” His lecture introduced the audience to the ministry of Edward Dorr Griffin, one of the most prominent and influential leaders of the Second Great Awakening.

lectures at www.jecteds.org (including lectures by George Marsden, Mark Noll (MA ’72), and Richard Muller). There are other helpful resources available through the center. Dr. Sweeney regularly publishes online book notes on the website, which will be of interest to Edwards scholars. The JEC has ten fellows who are also current PhD students working with Dr. Sweeney in the area of Edwards scholarship. The senior fellow is David Barshinger (TEDS PhD candidate); he reviews current dissertations related to Edwards scholarship, which are regularly featured on our site. This Center is making an exciting contribution to the academic life of TEDS and to Edwards scholarship worldwide.

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PHOTO: Al Mohler & Jim Wallis at the HCTU debate on Oct. 27, 2011

ON SOCIAL JUSTICE: Injustice is injustice first and foremost because it violates the very character of the just One. ~ Albert Mohler PHOTO: Justin Egge, CBHD Brown Scholar and MA Bioethics student, and April Ponto, CBHD research assistant and MA Bioethics and Christian Studies student, listen intently as Teri Goudie delivers her presentation.

If it doesn’t mean anything on the streets, then our Christianity isn’t incarnational. ~ Jim Wallis THE CENTER FOR BIOETHICS & HUMAN DIGNITY presents the 19 th Annual Summer Conference

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Q & A with President

College students face many obstacles on the way to earning a degree: a lack of academic preparation, poor study habits, and an overactive social life. Perhaps the most challenging is evaluating the cost of higher education—and its payoff. While more students go on to post-secondary education today, fewer are completing their degrees.

CRAIG WILLIFORD

The questions that arise as a result range from understanding why Christian higher education costs what it does to discerning what makes that education worth the added expense. Trinity Magazine asked TIU President Craig Williford to answer a few common questions posed by prospective and current students, their parents, alumni, and donors about the value of a Trinity education, a few of the hurdles students face along the way, and how TIU’s costs compare to peer institutions.

Jumping the Hurdle

Obstacles to Christian HIGHER Education

QQ. What do students gain from studying at a private, Christian higher education institution that makes it worth the added expense?

To be clear, the cost of Christian higher education is actually in the middle of the road: compared to community colleges Students in Christian higher education get the opportunity or state and public universities, it is more expensive; but it is to be in a learning community with dedicated professors who less than most private colleges. invest not just in students’ education and professional development but in their lives as well. Not to be overlooked is the Why is this the case? fact that students who attend Christian colleges also benefit Because state and public universities receive more federal from the advantage of looking forward toward their futures and state funds in order to subsidize the education of each and the disciplines they study through the lens of a living and student. Many of those funds have stipulations and earmarks active faith. that prohibit Christian educational institutions from partici-

QQ. What makes Christian higher education more expensive than the education available at public universities?

pation in those programs. In addition, there is an economy of scale, that is, cost advantages that state and public universities have due to their size (generally speaking, average enrollment is 20,000–40,000 in public universities, whereas for Christian colleges, the average is 1,000–6,000). In the long run, public universities reduce their costs per student as the size of their classes and the usage levels of their facilities increase. On the other hand, at Christian colleges, student to faculty ratios tend to be much smaller and desirable, yet more costly.

It’s also worth noting that the largest expense of higher education revolves around its personnel—faculty and staff.

If a school like TIU wants to attract the most outstanding faculty and staff—and thus students—it has to add value as a workplace to its salaries and benefits, even as we strive to make those salaries and benefits competitive.

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Students here are driven to explore subject matter from biblical-theological perspectives. In short, students will be challenged—not indoctrinated—but driven to think critically, in a way that builds up their faith. In so doing, they get to engage what it means to follow Christ as it relates to their chosen profession and how that serves the common good of society.

Students of this next generation have a great concern that Christianity isn’t something that they simply wear on the first day of the week at church; rather, it’s a matter of identity—who they already are in Christ. This has profound implications for how Christian professionals view their daily work. The opportunities deliberately provided to students on the campus of a Christian college play a huge role in developing this God-pleasing character quality.

QQ. How does Trinity compare to its competitors in terms of price tag?

Each year we do a thorough analysis of how TIU places in this regard, and each year our price tag compares favorably.

Currently, 9 out of 13 Christian College Consortium schools (ccconsortium.org) have higher tuition rates than TIU.

as they do in the mission of this school, express willingness to serve here rather than at an institution where they could receive increased compensation. Across the board, salaries of faculty and staff at Christian higher education institutions do not match those of their peers at non-faith-based schools.

This speaks to the dedication of Trinity’s faculty and staff toward its mission to prepare students to engage in God’s redemptive work.

Another aspect related to this question has to do with what motivates our keeping tuition low: part of TIU’s mission is to educate those who might not be able to afford higher educa- QQ. How relevant is a Trinity liberal arts education in today’s job market? tion at a private Christian liberal arts institution otherwise.

Being affordable and accessible is part and parcel of what we When students graduate from college, they usually set out believe we’re called to be, for the sake of Christ’s kingdom on a career path or attend graduate school. But that trajecin this world. It’s a calling in which our faculty, alumni, and tory often changes, as does what’s needed in the job market. staff believe and treasure.

Unless students cultivate lifelong learning, which is a major plank in Trinity's mission, they will be unprepared to meet We strive to contain costs because we want to make it as the challenges in today’s rapidly changing world. In the face affordable and as accessible as possible to as many people as of dramatic economic crises, those who are able to learn new possible. skills are those who have the most stable employment.

QQ. How does Trinity help make its education affordable?

Another important facet of a liberal arts education is the One major way is through the Trinity Fund (see pp. 8–9). cultivating of critical thinking skills. This age of flux and Every penny invested through the Fund helps reduce the chaos requires us to be adaptable and flexible to thrive—not cost of a Trinity education for students who are the most just survive. At Trinity, students are taught how to think, capable, the most deserving, and have the greatest financial not what to think. This principle will serve them well for the need. Yearly contributions from individuals and churches remainder of their lives. New opportunities are arising and from the Trinity community—which range from $25 to $250 will continue to arise that will enable people to embody the to $2,500 to $25,000 and beyond—make this education a gospel in fresh ways and to serve the common good of society possibility for many students and families who would not more deeply; if our students cultivate careful and critical otherwise be in a position to afford it. thinking skills, they will be able to meet and lead in these rising challenges as they come.

In the 2010–11 academic year, Trinity distributed over $10 million in scholarships to its students. This is in addition QQ. What do you see as important factors affecting to many scholarships from external sources (i.e., donors, the future of higher education? churches, foundations, etc.).

Over the past twenty years, various researchers have argued By engaging alumni, parents, friends, and churches—and that a combination of residential and online learning opporearning their financial support—Trinity is able to offer a bettunities enhance the education process. Many of them also ter education to its students at the lowest cost we can provide. note that a large majority of students are increasingly choosIn the last few years, Trinity has built entire buildings and ing non-traditional avenues of education. Add to this the upgraded information technology infrastructure—among statistical fact that the college’s “most important trend” is other things—solely through outside, charitable investment. the rise of the adult (older than 25) student. A recent Atlantic These improvements did not burden our Trinity students and article cited that only 15 percent of the 17.6 million college their families. undergraduates fit the category of traditional residential students (Frederick Hess, “Old School: College’s Most Important It’s also worth mentioning that as of spring 2012 we have five Trend,” The Atlantic, Sept. 2011). fully endowed chairs (positions supported by an endowment fund established for that specific purpose), which underThere’s still a need for a vibrant, residential traditional learnwrites expenses related to those key positions. This enables ing community, and TIU diligently provides this choice. We us to keep tuition increases lower. must continue, however, to reach this growing population of non-traditional undergraduates by providing more ways For years, TIU has sought to embody wise stewardship of the resources we have. No doubt there are extravagancies associfor them to access our education in a variety of options, such ated with higher education, but such criticisms simply do not as online classes, a combination of residential and online apply to Trinity International University. Equally important programs, and schedules tailored to the needs of full-time in this matter is the fact that our faculty and staff, believing working students.

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This remains one of our most significant challenges. We will face limited growth if these accessible options are not provided.

Related to this question is the fact that those students who want to pursue graduate studies are finding acceptance in some of our region’s top schools, such as Loyola University, Michigan State University, Mayo Clinic Medical School, and the University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana.

Another important issue affecting the future of higher education is the fact that funding for traditional residential education is down significantly, and the projections suggest QQ. Based on these factors, how is Trinity prepared it will continue its decline. Other revenue sources to keep to lead in the future? both traditional and non-traditional programs vibrant are Uniting our dedication to enduring principles—academic necessary, and revenue from non-traditional education has excellence, stewardship, community, and theological comshown itself to be a practical way to close the gap in funding mitment—with a university culture of collaboration, innovatraditional education, thereby allowing us to accomplish our tion, and influence will allow Trinity to provide a distinctive stated educational mission. Embracing this reality helps us to Christian education that propels TIU’s vision forward—interemain viable and affordable. grating the gospel of Jesus Christ with an education for life.

QQ. What about the increasing reality of exorbitant student debt?

On the average, our students do not suffer under the same burden of debt that we hear from other institutions, as the typical student loan is not nearly as high as it is in other schools. Importantly, the default rates on loans Trinity students have procured during their studies here are lower than the national average.

Part of this is because we strive to cultivate a culture where going into extreme debt for the sake of higher education is not the best way to fund college. TIU helps accomplish this through student scholarships, containing costs, and encouraging students to support their education through work, if necessary.

U-Prep 101 (uprep101.com) is a seminar designed by TIU’s Director of Undergraduate Admissions Aaron Mahl. Its purpose is to give parents and students an opportunity to hear from an admissions professional on how best to prepare academically, financially, and spiritually for college.

To this end, TIU is deliberately working toward and positioning itself to better: • Expand our educational effectiveness; • Enhance the student experience; • Improve our financial health and contain costs; • Strengthen our institutional image.

Trinity International University remains committed to its historical roots, the inerrant word of God, and our faith beliefs while working hard to find new strategies to serve Christ, our students, the church, and our alumni in this rapidly changing world. It is our hope that the answers provided above help to clarify the challenges and the strategies we are implementing to meet them. In the midst of such change, we trust in God and pray that we will be courageous and faithful in all we do.

See uprep101.com/category/pay-for-college for helpful tips on decreasing the amount of debt accrued while paying for college.

QQ. Employability is of increasing concern in today’s market. How does Trinity face this challenge?

We work hard to ensure that degrees earned at Trinity will help our graduates find meaningful employment. In so doing, we provide career services and employment counseling, which will only increase as we open our new Student Success Center this year (see p. 15).

We hear repeatedly that our students are highly desired in the workplace. As a case in point, a recent study revolving around our graduates with education degrees found that a majority of them, within six months of teaching certification, are moving into employment that is aligned with their chosen field and education.

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Innovation through Collaboration Driving Our Mission Forward

New Programs UPDATE Integrating the Gospel with Training Leaders for Life Against the backdrop of a world desperate for leaders with integrity, Trinity International University launches its new Master of Arts in Leadership program.

The skills emphasized in Leadership studies—critical thinking, problem-solving, and communication—prepare TIU students to make a redemptive difference in today’s world. Thus the goals of a Leadership program and of Christian higher education align, making the study of leadership an ideal fit for TIU. Trinity Graduate School and Trinity College will also offer a dual BA/MA degree that pairs an MA in Leadership with an undergraduate degree in any major. In this program, undergraduate students may earn a graduate degree within a year of completing their BA. “This is an authentically interdisciplinary program,” says Trinity’s Assistant Professor of Business Antony Beckham, precisely because each class will follow “what’s needed today—a better model” of facilitation rather than constant lecturing, and will consist of students from all walks of life. With an emphasis on practical application, students seek out mentors that engage them as they work through putting theory into practice, providing insight and guidance on their class projects. “Leadership, not management,” Dr. Beckham quips. “That’s what we’re aiming to teach.”

Graphic Design's Successful Launch

High School to MDiv in Just Five Years Trinity Evangelical Divinity School has entered into a new partnership agreement with the Kern Family Foundation that will help to fund the next generation of pastoral leaders in the U.S. through a new and innovative pastoral ministry degree program that reduces student time and costs while still providing a Master of Divinity (MDiv) degree upon the foundation of a liberal arts education. And Trinity is the only university currently offering a program like this in the United States.

Beginning in the fall of 2012, high school graduates can enter Trinity College and spend their first two years preparing for seminary by taking liberal arts general education classes for honors students. At the beginning of their third year, they will gain admittance to Trinity Evangelical Divinity School’s MDiv program, which can be completed by their fifth year. In short, this is a one-of-a-kind opportunity for select young individuals who will be intentionally mentored throughout this new pathway to ministry.

Philosophy RE:Designed Starting in the fall of 2012, the Department of Philosophy will offer students a distinctive opportunity in the field of philosophy with the addition of three specializations: philosophy of religion, ethics, and apologetics.

By using a distinctly critical, historical, and Christian approach, the philosophy department’s goal is to help produce the next generation of excellent thinkers. TIU graduates in philosophy will know how to understand perspectives different from their own, and they will be prepared to stake claims and provide reasons with a design plan aimed at truth, goodness, and beauty.

The Healing Touch

This past fall 2011 saw the successful launch of the new graphic design major with enrollment exceeding expectations. TIU believes that the world needs Christians who can communicate effectively through visual media. “Whether the student’s desire is to serve in the church or at a non-profit agency with new design chops, or maybe to work in a corporate or studio setting, the design industry is hungry for great people with fantastic design skills,” says Jessie McGrath, assistant professor of graphic design.

The Department of Health Sciences adds to its repertoire the BA/Pre-Physician Assistant degree program designed to combine a solid theoretical science foundation with clinical education experiences to give students a competitive advantage for acceptance to post-graduate professional physician assistant programs. The addition of this program aligns perfectly with what is seen in health care career trends across the United States.

Student Success Center

New Faculty APPOINTMENTS

During the summer of 2012, TIU will be opening a new Student Success Center. Its purpose will be to equip students with tools to complete their studies well and in a timely manner; connect them with mentors who can personally guide them through their studies, internships, and careers; and launch them into the field to which God has called them.

Along with this opening comes the hiring of a dedicated director of student success who will oversee and coordinate academic support and academic advising for all university students. The director will also lead the efforts to bring various academic support and advising services together into a new centralized location. By focusing on the educational and vocational success of each student, TIU will be better equipping more Christ-followers to succeed in their studies and their future work.

While TIU bids farewell to eight of its outstanding faculty retiring this year (see pp. 22–23), the University is poised to make nine new faculty appointments for fall 2012: • One exercise science professor in the Department of Human Performance and Wellness; • One accountancy professor in the Department of Business; • Two assistant or associate professors in the Department of Education—one in reading, methodology and assessment, and one generalist; • Two more yet to be determined in the college; • One joint appointment (Pastoral Theology at TEDS and Christian Ministries at Trinity College), who will also serve as a faculty mentor for the MDiv with Pre-Seminary Honors (see above) and Kern Scholars Program; • And two additional appointments at TEDS—one in educational ministries and one in evangelism.

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Christ Community pastors Jonathan Rich, Kevin Harlan, and Tom Nelson (foreground), and pastoral fellows Andrew Jones, Gabe Coyle, and Dan Spino (MDiv ,11) (background).

he twelve disciples never went to seminary. Peter never earned his Master of Divinity degree from an institution of higher learning. Neither did Paul or Timothy. Yet education was vital to their preparation as ministers. The disciples were trained by Jesus in more informal contexts; Paul trained Timothy as they traveled together and later through letters containing substantial in-ministry mentoring.

Much of the on-the-job training received by these first Christian ministers has been formalized in today’s seminaries. Before these institutional training grounds were established, higher theological education took place among the priestly orders and monastic communities of the Middle Ages—eventually leading to the formation of universities. A vacuum was created, however, as these institutions separated themselves from the specific purpose of training ministers,

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and thus seminaries started picking up where the old universities left off. But in a few short generations, seminaries became increasingly disconnected from local churches, creating an unnatural and unhealthy gap between theological scholarship and the pew. So what happens to seminary graduates who have to cross this gap when moving from the academy to the local church?

Seminaries are vital for the training of pastors, just as medical schools are essential to the training of physicians. But even medical school is not the end of a physician’s training.

Young doctors engage in several years of residency training where they continue developing their medical skills in reallife contexts. Yet seminaries often release their graduates directly into full-time, full-responsibility positions with only a few hundred hours of internship work. Among the consequences of this abrupt end in training is an alarmingly high burnout rate among young pastors who struggle to make the transition from seminary to church ministry.

From that point on, Christ Community committed to bringing on two or three fellows every year as associate pastors.

Candidates apply and interview for the Fellowship during the penultimate year of their MDiv program. Once selected, fellows receive a full-tuition scholarship for their final year at TEDS. In 2007, Christ Community accepted their first three fellows who had not been sent to TEDS by the church. To date, there have been sixteen fellows, and twelve have completed the program. According to former fellow Jeff Knitt (MDiv ’08), “The Fellowship has been the perfect transition from seminary into full-time pastoral service.”

One church in the Kansas City area has responded to the disconnect between the seminary and the local church as well as to the need for more “in-residence” training of young pastors. Through its Pastoral Fellowship program, Christ Community Evangelical Free Church models the informal, in-ministry training that took place in the early church and demonstrates a profound commitment to work with the seminary to raise up the next generation of faithful pastors.

Christ Community Senior Pastor and Trinity Board Member Tom Nelson (DMin ’98) describes the heart of the Pastoral Fellowship: “For too long, the local church and the seminary have not seen themselves as equal and vital partners in preparing leaders for the local church. The Pastoral Fellowship seeks to intentionally bring together the best of both the seminary and the local church for the purpose of fostering integral and skillful leadership for the bride of Christ.”

The Christ Community Pastoral Fellowship Program

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2001, TEDS professor Dr. D. A. Carson met with members of Christ Community Church’s missions team after a church-sponsored conference. One team member asked how Christ Community could support Dr. Carson’s ministry at TEDS, and Dr. Carson replied, “Send students.” That is exactly what Christ Community did.

Seminaries are vital for the training of pastors, just as medical schools are essential to the training of physicians. But even medical school is not the end of a physician’s training.

One year later, Christ Community provided scholarships for Nathan Miller (MDiv ’05) and Jeanette Thomas (MDiv ’05) to attend TEDS with the expectation that they would return for a one-year internship upon graduation in 2005. Within the first few months of their internship, out of necessity Nathan and Jeanette began focusing on their next job placement. In response, and feeling “energized by this infusion of youth and leadership” in the church, the senior staff decided to extend this internship to a two-year fellowship and invite other TEDS graduates to participate. Conversations between Christ Community pastors Jon Rich and Kevin Harlan, former Trinity President Greg Waybright (MDiv ’80) and a handful of TEDS faculty were instrumental in this decision. Christ Community became a “teaching hospital” for pastors.

Fellows enter Christ Community as staff members, and they have various responsibilities in their first year, including sermon preparation and service planning, preaching, and authoring weekly small group discussion guides based on the sermon.

Over the course of their two years, fellows grow as they begin to specialize in specific ministry areas. Christ Community has welcomed the involvement of fellows in every area of the church’s life. For example, Neal Herr (MDiv ’06) worked closely with Executive Pastor Jon Rich and the elder team to explore the possibility of launching a third campus in downtown Kansas City. When Bill Gorman (MDiv ’08) became a fellow, he joined in that work and oversaw the development of the downtown campus. Incoming fellow Claire Nicholson (MDiv expected ’12) is eager to transition into a pastoral position that allows for mentoring, training, and dialogue, positions where she can “wear many hats” as opposed to focusing on one specific aspect of ministry. Claire has never worked on staff in a local church. Even though she worked with a parachurch organization for nearly five years, Claire knows that parachurch ministries are structured differently than local churches. She also looks forward to being supported in her call to pastoral ministry, something she has not always felt during seminary.

She is eager to serve in a church that “believes in the giftedness and call of women into ministry.”

At Christ Community, fellows have unrestricted access to senior leadership. All first-year fellows attend and observe bi-monthly elder meetings. Senior Pastor Tom Nelson often invites fellows into his office to tell them about a particular ministry issue he is facing or to instruct them in a particular practice that he undertakes as a pastor. In one such meeting, he explained to them his yearly practice of sending handwritten thank you notes to major givers and volunteers within the church.

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The Pastoral Fellowship program focuses on young pastors “as whole people.” According to Jon Rich, fellows receive “physical and nutritional training with a licensed trainer in our church, financial counseling with a professional planner in our church, marital and individual counseling, and career placement counseling.” Aside from ministry and life skills, fellows also gain lifelong friendships with members of the congregation and other fellows. Fellows join and participate in church small groups, but they also are a small group of sorts unto themselves, often turning to one another for support and fellowship. Nathan Miller (MDiv ’05) even instituted a monthly “fellows movie night” for dinner, a film, and discussion. From his time as a fellow, Dave Huber (MDiv ’07) recalls, At any given time, we had anywhere in the range of three to six fellows on staff. These were much more than coworkers; they were partners in a unique life experience. We attended meetings together, worked on projects together, officed together, processed our experiences together, and even spent much of our free time together! Throughout our Fellowship experience, we journeyed through some of life’s darkest valleys together. My experience with the fellows reframed my understanding of gospel-shaped community.

Jon Rich adds, “The best way I can think to measure [the success of the Fellowship] is to see how the fellows who are now in other churches (and in our own) are flourishing and to hear their own testimonies about how the Fellowship helped them.” Four of the fellows have taken positions at Christ Community, four are serving at other EFCA churches, two serve at churches in other denominations, and two are enrolled in doctoral programs.

For too long, the local church and the seminary have not seen themselves as equal and vital partners in preparing leaders for the local church.

– Pastor Tom Nelson (DMin ’98)

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ot every church will have the capacity to offer a program as extensive as Christ Community’s. Still, every local church can play some role in developing young pastors. “Every local church, regardless of its size or budget, must see intentional pastoral leadership development as integral and not incidental to the gospel mission,” says Tom Nelson. According to Nelson, churches can be more intentional in creating a pastoral development program by “first, sending students to seminary, supporting them financially if able, and then inviting them back for an internship.

Second, they can develop a partnership with a seminary such as TEDS.” But churches need more than a resource engine and seminary partnership to create a successful pastoral development program. Jon Rich suggests that churches “have a culture that can support this kind of service to young men and women.” Integral to this, argues Rich, is a senior leadership of the church that is willing and able to mentor the young pastors with a high level of accessibility.

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a conversation about team ministry with

Scott Chapman & Jeff Griffin co-senior pastors of The Chapel

Remember the carefree days on the playground? We learned a lot as children there: how to swing and jump rope, how to make friends, the pleasure of independence.

But at the same time, the playground is where many of us got in our first fight, first felt left out, first experienced real conflict with others. The playground is where we first learned that life is so much better, but so much harder, with other people.

Pastors live in this tension every day, whether they do so in a professional staff, with a team of elders, or a group of volunteers: ministry is so much better, but so much harder, when you do it with other people. So, how can young pastors lead teams of people well?

The Young Pastors Network invites you to join us in Chicago, July 10-12, 2012, for a conversation with Scott Chapman and Jeff Griffin, co-senior pastors of The Chapel, as we explore together the joys and frustrations of doing ministry together.

For more information & to register, visit us at youngpastors.net.

2010 Gathering of the Young Pastors Network

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ne reason Christ Community Church has maintained its commitment to the Fellowship program is the sobering statistics regarding the burnout among young pastors.

Even with two years of in-residence pastoral training, Christ Community’s fellows are not inoculated against the pressures affecting young pastors. Recognizing the need for young pastors to develop strong friendships, receive continual training and connection to the seminary, and grow in their leadership skills, Christ Community started the Young Pastors Network (YPN) in 2010. YPN exists to increase pastoral effectiveness and longevity by developing a network of recent seminary graduates who are friends, scholars, and leaders for the local church. With the help of the Office of Alumni & Community Relations at Trinity, YPN invites recent TEDS graduates to participate in its network and attend its gatherings with the hope that participants will find encouragement and knowledge to help them avoid burnout, dismissal, and a desire to leave the ministry.

At its gatherings, YPN brings TEDS faculty and seasoned pastors together with recent seminary graduates to encourage friendship, scholarship, and leadership among those who attend. The topics addressed are theologically anchored and culturally relevant. The inaugural gathering was held in July 2010 at Christ Community, and Dr. Peter Cha (MDiv ’86, ThM ’93) from TEDS and Rev. Lee Eclov (BA ’73, MDiv ’83) from Village Church of Lincolnshire (EFCA) spoke on the topic of “Ministry as Improv.” Approximately fifteen TEDS graduates attended this gathering.

Rev. Eclov, who also serves as an adjunct faculty member at TEDS, says of YPN, “As a pastor for over thirty years serving within a mile of a major seminary, I have a particular appreciation for the challenges young pastors face. I love the work of the Young Pastors Network because it focuses on a vulnerable stage of ministry life with thoughtful, encouraging support. Having participated as a presenter in an early gathering, my wife and I saw firsthand the energy, the vulnerability, and the hunger for fellowship and mentors that these young church leaders have.”

Joy Craun (MDiv ’08) served as the kindergarten through second grade coordinator at Appleton Alliance Church in Appleton, Wisconsin. Reflecting upon the need for YPN, Joy thinks there is almost always a disconnect between the way

one imagines ministry and the reality of the ministry one engages in during the first few years. “This is where YPN is invaluable,” she says. “It provides an opportunity to remember and rejoice in the theological vision of ministry and people [fellow students and former professors] to process current struggles and questions about how to cross the gap.”

After the 2010 gathering, Joy had an immediate opportunity to put what she had learned into practice: “My first Sunday back after the conference was an exceptionally difficult Sunday with several things going on at once that did not go particularly well, and I remember going back to my desk the next day and using several of the points we went over to evaluate how I did as a pastor and leader that day. It gave me a great way to process how I could improve, and I think I have continued to improve in those categories as the year has progressed.”

When asked about the obstacles facing the development of YPN, former Director Kristen Brown (MDiv, ’09) cited finances and leadership. She would like to see other churches partnering with Christ Community to sponsor YPN: “It is great that Christ Community has taken the initiative to start [YPN], but there needs to be other churches that get on board. Pastors farther along on the journey need to commit to helping young pastors just starting out. Finding ways for more churches to be involved and supporting YPN needs to be high on the agenda for growing the network.”

Speaking to the need for more publicity, current Director Andrew Jones (MDiv ’10) says that “our partnership with Trinity and exposure in this article are big steps in the right direction, but there is still room to grow in getting our name and vision out there.”

This summer YPN will host its second gathering on the Trinity campus. All TEDS MDiv graduates of the last five years are invited to participate in this three-day event entitled “Life on the Playground.” Scott Chapman (MAR ’2001) and Jeff Griffin (MDiv ’95)—co-senior pastors of The Chapel, a multi-site church in the Chicago suburbs—will lead the young pastors in a conversation about team ministry.

Meryl Herr (MDiv ’07) is a second-year doctoral student in the Educational Studies program at TEDS and was a Pastoral Fellow from 2007–2009. She hopes to serve both in the church and in higher theological education.

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In one of his mad farmer poems, Wendell Berry writes, “So, friends, every day do something that won’t compute. Love the Lord. Love the world.” Some lines later he says, “Be joyful though you have considered all the facts.” And he ends the poem with these two words: “Practice resurrection.”1 I am not sure how to describe the madness of Berry’s farmer. It is not angry-mad or crazy-mad, though it borders on the latter. Nevertheless, it is something I like. It captures my imagination. It revels in contradiction.

And it recommends resurrection.

Loving the World Last year, Ann, who graduated from the college in 2004, texted me a quote from Mary Oliver’s poem, “The Sweetness of Dogs (Fifteen),” one of my favorite poets: “Oh! How rich it is to love the world!” I texted back, “Yes!!!” (I have three exclamation marks in my Insert Auto Text for such occasions.)

I put the quote on the board a couple of days later in my Love and Friendship class. The subject for the day was Plato’s conception of eros—love. Plato thought that the best love was of pure beauty, which one gradually ascends to after first loving the beauty of individual persons. This ascent was designed by Plato to remove one from the changing realm of particular things, where there is messiness and decay, mortality and corruption. An old gospel song exhibits a similar sentiment: “This world is not my home, I’m just a passin’ through.”

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the smiles on my coworkers’ faces, I would not treasure what I find when I open the door to my home beyond the grave.

The God whom I expect to meet when I am hiking in the mountains is one whom I expect relishes mountains. So why cannot I relish them, too? I am far richer when I do.

The class was divided. Some wanted to gaze on the great sea of beauty and some wanted individual bodies to love. That night I texted Ann to tell her I used the quote in class. She texted back with a smile face.

Extracurricular Teaching A year ago I was lying on a physical therapist’s table getting my injured feet worked on.

“You are 67 and still teaching?” the therapist asked.

“Yes,” I replied. “Last Sunday evening, several students and I got together and read Anne of Green Gables to each other.

You can’t do that very many places.”

It was just Sara, Jaime, and me. We met in the new lower level of the student center on campus, then found a quiet 1.

“Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front,” in Wendell Berry, Collected Poems: 1957–1982, New York: North Point Press, 1984, pp. 151–52.

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place at the end of a narrow hallway. I sat on the floor on one side, Jaime sat on the other side, and Sara in between.

“Why do you do that?” the therapist wondered.

“Just because,” I answered. Then, because she had a puzzled look on her face, I added, “It’s extracurricular teaching.”

“Oh,” she said with a knowing nod.

But it wasn’t “teaching” at all. It was simply reading together and giggling at Anne’s adventures. I did not have any motive beyond experiencing these. Nor did I conceive the event to be a teaching moment. It was just there, in the hallway, on the floor.

Of course, Sara and Jaime will remember my voice and twinkling eyes as I read my page. I will remember their voices and childlike glee as they read their pages. And remembering vivid and delightful events, I have discovered, lights up an otherwise ordinary afternoon.

Finding Answers When I first started teaching, I did what I saw my teachers do—I argued for what I thought were good philosophical viewpoints. And when I gave tests, I got those viewpoints back, along with what I thought were good reasons for them, which I had also given them. It took me three or four years before I realized what was happening. The students wanted good grades, so they gave me what they thought would get them.

I quit, cold turkey. And then what I got on tests was chaos.

The answers, however, belonged to the students.

Every semester I face a dilemma: If I give answers, students are more likely to accept them, or say they accept them, because I, the professor, have made a case for them. And that is likely to rub off onto their faith—which means it is no

Similarly to Professor Williams, seven other faculty members are retiring from TIU at the end of this academic year. We’ve asked a few of them to respond in brief to the same question we asked Dr. Williams: What kind of legacy do you want to leave behind?

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faith at all. If I do not give answers, whatever philosophical answers students adopt will belong to them. That, too, rubs off onto faith.

The risk, of course, is that some students will change their minds about long-held beliefs. But the reward is that other students will find the faith they thought they had. College students want to figure things out on their own, and they would rather run the risk of being wrong than give up that desire.

Besides, it is better for them to experience what real life is like, where the answers are not given—actually, where numerous competing answers are given and one must determine which are right. Students cannot be prepared for that if they develop a mindset of simply ingesting what their professors give them.

A Secret I was bubbling at Clark Street and Belmont Avenue in Chicago with a carload of students when a couple of former Trinity students walked by on the other side of the street. I waved them over. After exchanging hellos, one of them who had taken my Introduction to Philosophy class some years earlier said, “I remember that class. That was where I lost my faith.”

“Oh,” I said.

“I lost my childhood faith and got one of my own.”

“Ah!” I replied, with a big smile on my face.

Timothy J. Voss, MS (BA ´73) Chair, Department of Human Performance & Wellness Associate Professor of Human Performance & Wellness Started at Trinity: 1990

Beyond his oversight of the Human Performance & Wellness Department, Professor Voss is a certified lifestyle counselor in weight control and stress management. Before coming to Trinity, he taught at Moody Bible Institute and Trinity Western University, TIU’s sister school in British Columbia, Canada.

“I have so enjoyed investing in lives at Trinity these past twenty-two years. The Lord is good. The legacy I would want to be remembered by is as one who taught carpe diem—seize the day! To live well, to breathe life deeply, to climb high, to heal, to bless, to wonder. To study the Bible as a topographical map, being set to an awesome journey. To search and embrace the peace of God’s kingdom through his Spirit. To love the Lord God with all one’s heart, mind, soul, and strength—and to love one’s neighbor as oneself. Yes, and to be great in one’s family. This is what I hope to have done.”

Phyllis Smith, MA Assistant Professor of Education Started at Trinity: 2005 Prior to coming to Trinity, Professor Smith spent more than thirty years at elementary and middle schools as a teacher, mentor, and designated administrator. In addition to her teaching, she has served as a middle school and high school youth director and as a vocalist in a touring gospel group.

Carmen T. Mendoza, Phd Associate Professor of English/Communication Started at Trinity: 1985 Born and raised in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, Dr. Mendoza draws on her experience of cultural-linguistic transition and broad interests in language, culture and communication; learning; social cognition; narrative identity and complex cultural identity for her teaching and supervision of the university’s learning center.

And now I reveal a long-kept secret, one that I have divulged to only one or two others during the last thirty years. I am an evangelist. I do not come in the front door openly proclaiming the truth of Christianity, but unobtrusively slip in the back door asking questions. Some students, I am sure, leave Trinity wondering whether they can keep their childhood faith, but others own it for the first time.

• Good: Live as if it is your last day.

Better: Live as if it is your first day.

• Don’t try to change the world—that is too big and abstract. Don’t even try to change individuals—they won’t like it and will resist you. Rather, change yourself, and others will change as a result.

• Text a friend, “Good morning,” some random day.

• Do you want to love God? Then keep your heart open to your neighbors’ tears and smiles.

• When you are with someone, be with them.

• Practice resurrection.

Teaching Forever Five years ago the alumni director at Trinity asked me to say a few words at an evening homecoming dinner for college alumni. I composed a poem for the occasion, “Remembering 25 Years of Extracurricular Teaching.” Here are the last two verses of that forgotten poem: I decided a couple of weeks ago, again, That I like the teaching life— Interaction with students in class and out, Reading, writing, staring out the window.

I may just get so caught up with it that, Like the history professor in the fifth Harry Potter book who was so busy teaching He didn’t notice he had died, I, too, will keep right on teaching And not notice when I have died.

Dr. Clifford E. Williams has been teaching philosophy at Trinity College since 1982, and is the author or editor of eleven books, including Existential Reasons for Belief in God: A Defense of Desires and Emotions for Faith. While he is retiring from full-time teaching this year, he will begin teaching half-time at Trinity in fall 2012.

TIU has provided a place for you to share words of appreciation and encouragement at www.TrinityTown.com/faithful.

If you have been impacted by any of these faithful servants, please share your thoughts with them online.

Suzanne DeLaCruz, EdD Assistant Professor of Education Started at Trinity: 2006 Dr. DeLaCruz joined Trinity after thirty years serving as an educator in urban, suburban, and rural public schools: fifteen years as a middle and high school reading and language arts teacher and fifteen years as an elementary and middle school principal.

“Creating within my students an enlarged vision of what good teaching looks like and how they can begin achieving it would be part of any legacy I value. I hope to have armed my students with enough skills and understandings that they are prepared to launch forward on their own with confidence. I pray that they lovingly embrace every child of God and focus their energies on serving each child well. If our education graduates truly appreciate their own power and responsibilities, if they fully comprehend the meaning of servant leadership, if they have a deep desire to fully serve, I will have done well.”

Steven C. Churchill, MBA Associate Professor of Business Started at Trinity: 1988

Steven R. Pointer, PhD (MA ´76) Professor of History Started at Trinity: 1985

Professor Churchill owned and managed a number of businesses before joining Trinity. He has also been a consultant to many Fortune 500 companies. His expertise ranges from initial public offering financing to executive compensation programs and reengineering to strategic franchise development.

Dr. Pointer was the interim academic dean of the college at TIU for three years. Prior to Trinity, he taught at Western Kentucky University, Trinity Christian College, and Wheaton College. He is passionate about Duke basketball, brass and choral music, and touring through Europe.

Carol L. Kennett, PhD Professor of Education Started at Trinity: 1996

“I hope one ongoing part of my legacy at Trinity will be the May-term in Europe: a study of the Western Cultural Heritage that combines formal course work with a three-week experiential encounter with that heritage of the arts, history, and religious faith in various locations ranging from London to Rome. This spring, Trinity students will embark for the fourth time since 2005 in this learning adventure through Western Europe with two Trinity professors.”SPRING 2012 | 23

Dr. Kennett joined Trinity after teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in multicultural education, research design, and historical foundations of education at Eastern and Acadia (formerly Beaver) Colleges in suburban Philadelphia. She also served on the school board for World Impact’s Frederick Douglass Christian School.

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August 2011, “Alison” Tian enrolled in the Master of Divinity program at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. She grew up in southwest China and became a Christian through campus ministries during her undergraduate years. After completing her university program, she served seven years with this same campus ministry in evangelism and discipleship. During those seven years, she took courses in mainland China and then Hong Kong, taught by a number of Trinity International University faculty members. Through these courses, she discovered a desire to pursue further biblical studies to prepare her to serve among Chinese house churches.

When Alison began classes at Trinity in Deerfield, however, she encountered teaching and learning methods that differed significantly from her university education in China.

She realized that in many classes, students were expected to participate and interact more in the classroom, with a stronger emphasis on critical thinking rather than data acquisition and recall—the system she was most accustomed to in China. She also found it more acceptable here to converse with professors and students inside and outside the classroom about the topics discussed.

She feels as well the challenge of learning in her second language, English. While she follows along with the professor’s lecture or class discussion, she confesses that her mental translating and processing pace seems too slow to help her contribute to classroom discussion.

“The professor may ask a question, but then a student answers, so we move on,” she says. “While I can do okay with daily conversation, I am not as familiar with the academic language, so it is hard to keep up and then speak in public. I get anxious. In my mind, I think that I cannot contribute to the group because I am not understanding as much as they are.”

Alison’s experience in the classroom is not unique to her.

Rather, it represents broader needs at Trinity and in theological education worldwide. With over twenty-seven countries represented in Trinity’s student body, the university confirms the statistics that point toward ever-increasing ethnic diversity in theological education and the increasing prevalence of multinational classrooms—classrooms comprised of students with a combination of different national, ethnic, and cultural origins and backgrounds.

A Microcosm of a Multiethnic Church

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hat is of increasing importance for those in seminaries, Bible colleges, and institutes around the world is that multinational classrooms “are a microcosm of a multiethnic church in a more formal context,” says Pastor Kevin Gushiken (MDiv ’98), pastor of

Multinational classrooms are a microcosm of a multiethnic church in a more formal context.

– Pastor Kevin Gushiken Harvard Avenue Evangelical Free Church in Villa Park, Ill. Gushiken is no stranger to multiethnic churches, leading a congregation that was only six years ago 98 percent Caucasian.

Today the church is comprised of 70 percent Caucasian and 30 percent African-American, Latino, Indian, and first-generation Italians.

“The heart of God is really to see the gospel bear fruit and become alive in individuals,” Gushiken says, “and my job as a pastor is to develop tools, skills, and ideas asking, ‘How can I bring that to bear in a particular person—with their cultural history, ethnicity, values, wrong views, things that need to be redeemed?’ so that the gospel can and will bear fruit in their lives.”

Yet, finding the pedagogical tools and gaining the skills to shepherd his multiethnic flock proves a challenge, as there has been limited thinking and even less literature published that explores theological education and multinational classrooms, and their influence on the life and leadership of the church.

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hrough her position as associate professor of educational ministries and director of the PhD in Educational Studies, Dr. Miriam Charter (PhD ’97) knows all too well about this lack of literature in the field of theological education and multinational classrooms.

“What does exist in educational literature,” she says, “does not and will not address the concerns particular to theological education.” While Charter notes there is “much to be learned from secular literature on the topic, the importance of our discussion is heightened because of our commitment to the church of Jesus Christ.”

To address both the lack of literature and to equip Trinity faculty with tools to better facilitate learning among future pastors and teachers in a multinational classroom, Charter along with a team of three current EdS students and colleagues— Cheryl Guth (MA ’81), Cesar Lopes, and Felix Theonugraha (MDiv ’06), TIU’s interim dean of graduate students—pursued funding to research multinational classrooms and theological education. They received a Faculty Initiative Grant from the Henry Center that permits them to conduct research SPRING 2012 | 25

specifically in Trinity classrooms among participating faculty and students.

particular leadership role, context, and experience to bear on all aspects of the consultation conversation.

Over the course of a series of workshops they designed, the research team hopes to add to the body of literature regarding theological education and pedagogical practices; to engage TEDS faculty in gathering data, assessing, and addressing needs in multinational classrooms; and to serve as a catalyst for a larger movement of theological educators growing both with insight and pedagogically astute responses to multinational classroom needs.

Participant Dr. Abel Ndjerareou (ThM ’84) flew from N’Dsjamena, Chad, to participate as a leader from the field of francophone African theological education. Ndjerareou serves as coordinator of the Conseil des Institutions Theologiques d’Afrique francophone, conducting conferences on curriculum development and distance education for thirty-three theological schools in fifteen francophone African countries. Dr. John Jusu (PhD ’09), a Sierra Leone citizen who now resides in Nairobi, Kenya, also participated in the consultation. He is dean of the school of professional studies at the African International University Nairobi and teaches in the department of educational studies. Jusu “ designs and administers programs for students with diverse academic, and socio-cultural backgrounds from all the five continents.”

The church is richly blessed with a kaleidoscope of ethnic, cultural, and linguistic diversity and, together, we represent the body of Christ. We hope that institutional settings like TEDS will embrace and cultivate this reality as the primary context of theological education in the world today.

~ Dr. Hans Madueme, Managing Director of the Henry Center The World Café

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he research team culminated their initial year-long on-site research at TEDS by extending the conversation globally to gain further knowledge and wisdom from among other practitioners. From July 6–8, 2011, they facilitated a consultation on “Pedagogy and Multinational Classrooms in Theological Education.” The consultation gathered thirty-nine educators, theologians, and pastors who represented fifteen different nations. Fifteen of the participants were TEDS graduates serving in significant theological education administration and leadership around the world.

Designed as a “World Café”—a model of consultation that depends less on the experts in the room and much more on the questions their being together generates—participants were grouped at tables to learn about and discuss four general topics: Pedagogical Challenges, Contextualization, Curricular Interventions, and Administration in multinational classrooms. Following the consultation, a further report capturing the data, ideas, and contexts explored around tables and over the course of the three days will be generated for wider use by educators. The team hopes that the consultation will continue to encourage contribution to the body of literature on pedagogy, theological education, and multinational contexts, as well as help form a network of educators and practitioners “who care about the creation of hospitable learning environments for learners from all nations who study in multinational contexts.”

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Ndjerareou and Jusu’s paths cross often at consultations and conferences, as they both serve to focus and revise theological education curriculum to meet the needs of burgeoning churches across the borders of the African continent.

“The traditional residential seminary provides a more artificial setting to train people for ministry,” Ndjerareou says.

“While this is reality and acceptable, our churches are growing fast and have few leaders. We cannot produce enough pastors for the need. We must broaden education so that we can broaden the basis of church leadership through elders, deacons, deaconesses, and others.”

Jusu concurs with the analysis and has led the process of curricular revision between seven different countries through the Association of Evangelicals in Africa in 2001 to broaden the basis of leadership by extending it into the laity. He also facilitated research for program restructuring by asking, what does an African pastor do? in order to write a profile of an African pastor. Pastors and professors busied themselves with reworking a curriculum to begin meeting the needs not only of a growing church but also to educate pastors who can be relevant and connected to the ongoing daily needs of his or her congregation.

“Instead of asking what does someone with an MDiv need to know, we asked, what does a church want and need,” Jusu said. “We determined four areas of focus—leadership, teaching, counseling, and discipleship—critical in the training of pastors for church work.”

Yet the problem of educating enough pastors to shepherd quickly multiplying congregations continues to plague Jusu, Ndjerareou, and other theological educators and pastors in Africa. They continue to press forward in the work of developing innovative pedagogical methods to train pastors from all corners of their countries and continent to best serve their churches.

No Mere Option

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“Ideas and pedagogy developed to make a safe, sacred place to learn can be transferred to any church context,” Gushiken says, “so that different ethnic groups and cultures can actually learn from each other and grow together in the body of Christ.”

“The church is richly blessed with a kaleidoscope of ethnic, cultural, and linguistic diversity and, together, we represent the body of Christ,” Managing Director of the Henry Center Dr. Hans Madueme (MDiv ’06, MA ’07) says. “We hope that institutional settings like TEDS will embrace and cultivate this reality as the primary context of theological education in the world today.”

For Alison, who hopes to shepherd house churches in mainland China but needs to learn Greek, through the language medium of English first; for Kevin, who continues to pastor faithfully week-in and week-out a dynamic and diverse North American congregation; for Abel and John, who long to see the movement of African church growth supported by pastors to lead it; developing pedagogical methods that meet the needs of multinational classrooms is not merely an option. It is of utmost necessity in order to increase the witness of Jesus Christ and sustain the life of churches in the diverse, multinational, and multiethnic corners into which they are called.

ue to the research and the consultation’s ability to gather voices such as Ndjerareou and Jusu, North American pastors, Brazilian educators, and others in one room for collaborative and innovative conversation, the Henry Center eagerly supported “Pedagogy and Multinational Classrooms in Theological Education.” The Henry Center hopes outcomes and ongoing research can help to clarify how educators can respond in ways that are both Christian and effective to emerging challenges in multinational pedagogical settings.

Pastor Kevin Gushiken sees daily the way that such an embrace and cultivation of pedagogical principles and tools can be adapted for the life and growth of church.

Jennifer L. Aycock (MDiv ’11) serves as graduate student assistant resident director at TIU and is campus ministries pastoral intern at First Presbyterian Church Lake Forest.

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Dr. Richard K. Smith (BS ‘60, MA ‘75, DMis ‘83) currently serves as adjunct faculty for Ohio Christian University in the adult program teaching Bible, theology, and missiology.

Dr. Milton Reimer (BA ‘61) retired from Liberty University as professor emeritus of education and social science after 30 years of college teaching. Since retiring, he has served in various capacities with the Conservative Congregational Christian Conference, pastoring churches and serving on their conference board. He has published dozens of articles in professional journals and contributed chapters to several books. He currently resides in Lynchburg, Va., with his wife, Clarice.

Dr. Ray Bakke (MDiv ’69) recently retired from serving as chancellor and professor of global urban ministry at Bakke University in Seattle, Wash. Previously he served as a pastor of churches in Seattle and Chicago, author and professor of ministry and global mission in seminaries, and as the global associate for large cities with the Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization for several decades.

Both Drs. Ray and Corean Bakke remain active in local and global ministries and currently reside in Acme, Wash.

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Rev. Philip M. Rohler (Attended TEDS ‘70-’71) began early retirement in April 2011 after 28 years of pastoral service in the Evangelical Covenant Church. He lost his beloved wife, Pamela Rohler (BA ’72), in 2010, and he now lives in Cleveland, Ohio, serving as the primary care-giver for his 94-yearold mother.

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Richard Shakespeare (BA ‘71) is currently living in the UK, where he serves as a Sunday school supervisor. He recently took on a part-time teaching post as head of history at a school specializing in educating dyslexic students.

Rev. Lee Eclov (BA ‘73, MDiv ‘83) has written his first book, Pastoral Graces (Moody Publishers, 2012), to be published in May 2012. In the book, he seeks to reinvigorate pastors’ instincts for doing grace in the churches they shepherd. He intends to equip the reader to understand their calling, their equipping, ministering in difficult circumstances and relationships, the mutual benefits for the congregation and the pastor, and how to finish well. Lee is the senior pastor at the Village Church of Lincolnshire in Lincolnshire, Ill., and is an adjunct professor of counseling and pastoral theology at TEDS. Rev. Charlie Tarrell (BA ‘74, MDiv ‘78) has served as a fulltime hospice chaplain for the past six years.

Previously, he was a pastor in the Pacific NW district of the Evangelical Free Church for 25 years. He and his wife Leta currently reside in Everett, Wash.

Rev. Dr. Frank Billman (BA ‘75, MDiv ‘78, ThM ‘79) recently published Shepherding Renewal through Aldersgate Renewal Ministries. Frank continues to serve as director of church relations at Aldersgate in Goodlettsville, Tenn., where he also directs the new Methodist School for Supernatural Ministry.

Rev. Warren Coe (MDiv ‘78) was recently named as the new executive directorprincipal of The Village Schools of the Bible based in the Twin Cities. Pastor Coe’s responsibilities include Bible teaching and visionary leadership. He and his wife, Marlys, are the proud parents of seven children.

Mark C. Poston (BA ‘78 & MDiv ‘81) retired from the U.S. Navy Reserve in 2007. He is currently working as a software test analyst.

He and his wife, Janet, have been married for almost 20 years.

Rev. Victor Brodt (BA ‘79, MDiv ‘86) and his wife, Caren, have published their book Jack the Dog: And His Boy, which reviewers have compared to Old Yeller but with a happy ending.

Filled with deep spiritual insights, it is a good icebreaker as a witnessing tool. Victor and Caren have two adult children and currently live in Nevada.

Rev. Kent Carlson (BA ‘79, MA ‘82, MAR ‘84) and Mike Lueken (MDiv ‘93) recently wrote a book entitled Renovation in the Church: What Happens When a Seeker Church Discovers Spiritual Formation (IVP, 2011). In the book, the authors call for a reformation of the church by telling the story of their own church’s transformation from a thriving, consumer-based church into a modest congregation more faithful to the teachings and mission of Jesus with a focus on spiritual formation.

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Dr. Eric Bolger (BA ’82, MDiv ‘89, PhD ‘93) was recently named Dean of College of the Ozarks in Point Lookout, Mo. He has been a member of their faculty since 1992 and has held a number of positions, most recently as assistant dean of the college.

Rev. Ross Anderson (MDiv ‘83) has recently released his new book, Understanding Your Mormon Neighbor: A Quick Christian Guide for Relating to LatterDay Saints (Zondervan, 2011). In the book, Ross seeks to help Christians relate to Latter-day Saints by giving insights into Mormon life and culture, explaining the core stories that form the Mormon worldview, sharing the experiences that shape the community identity of Mormonism, and showing how Mormons understand truth.

Dr. Paul Clark (MA ‘83, MDiv ‘83, DMiss ‘85) and his wife Hazel “Rickie” Clark recently celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary.

William E. Cripe, Sr. (MDiv ‘86) has written his first book, The Proper Pursuit of Prosperity: Balancing the Promises of Heaven with the Experiences of Earth (Tate Publishing, 2011), confronting the views of the “purveyors of prosperity” in the church today. Cripe looks at what is wrong and what is right with the prosperity gospel and answers the question of whether there is any legitimacy to the expectation of prosperity this side of heaven.

Randy Newman (MDiv ‘89) has written his third book, Bringing the Gospel Home: Witnessing to Family Members, Close Friends, and Others Who Know You Well (Crossway, 2011). He was recently interviewed on the topic of that book on Desiring God Ministries’ webcast, "DG Live."

David P. Renovitch (BA ‘89 & ‘94) has joined the law firm of Danna McKitrick in Missouri.

Renovitch brings his extensive litigation experience to the firm, especially in the areas of title litigation, recoupment, and mechanic’s lien litigation. He is also an author and frequent speaker on title and other real estate and construction-related matters.

co Rev. Mark VanderMeer (MRE ‘96) recently earned his Doctor of Ministry from Bethel Seminary.

He currently serves as associate pastor at New Community Church in Grand Rapids, Mich., professor and area chair of the humanities at the University of Phoenix, and founder and executive director of Community Recovery International, a ministry that reaches out to persons needing recovery from a wide variety of afflictions. He and his wife, Mary, have two children, Andrew and Nathan.

Eric D. Molina (BA ‘97) has been admitted to practice as a member and an officer of the U.S. Supreme Court. Molina joined Pavese Law Firm as an associate in 2001, and his primary areas of practice include general civil and commercial litigation, real estate litigation, family law, creditors’ rights and collections, and immigration. He and his wife, Jesenia, reside in LaBelle, Fla., where Molina is actively involved in his community and church.

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Chip Sweney (MDiv ‘96) recently released A New Kind of Big: How Churches of Any Size Can Partner to Transform Communities (Baker, 2011), a practical guide for pastors and church staff to lead their churches to serve those in need in their community and to partner with other churches to address some of the most pressing challenges in their cities.

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Matt Given (BA ’89, MA ‘95) recently published his book, 25 Facts of God. In the book, he explores God’s attributes and how they apply to our lives, ending each chapter with a series of reflection questions to use in devotional or small group settings. Matt plans to donate a portion of the books sales to TIU whenever the code “Trinity Alumni” is entered in the Ministry Partner box in the online order form. Matt is currently on staff at Liberty Bible Church in Chesterton, Ind.

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Rev. Dennis Garrou (MDiv ‘86) recently became the first married man to be ordained as a Catholic priest in the Archdiocese of Denver. He has been appointed as parochial vicar at Christ the King Catholic Church, and continues to serve full-time as the detention chaplain at the Jefferson County Detention Center in Golden, Colo. Dennis and his wife, Jill, live in Evergreen, Colo., and have three adult children and five grandchildren.

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From the Office of Alumni and Community Relations Trinity has seen a lot of change over its one hundred and fifteen-year history. Although we are a robust school, with approximately three thousand students and nearly twenty-three thousand alumni, the journey to present-day Trinity International University has come on the heels of a lot of growth and change.

As you may know, Trinity began in 1897 as a series of Bible courses. Within a few short years, it became the Swedish Bible Institute.

Around the same time, the Norwegian/Danish Association established The Bible Institute and Academy. In 1945, the two schools merged under the name Trinity Seminary & Bible Institute.

In the early 1960s, Trinity Seminary & Bible Institute gave birth to Trinity College and Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. In 1989, we acquired Miami Christian College and began the process of developing it into our Florida Regional Center. In 1996, our schools re-merged to become Trinity International University. The following year, we acquired Simon Greenleaf School of Law in California, incorporating it as Trinity Law School, and we began Trinity Graduate School. We also saw the evolution of what has become known as the South Chicago Regional Center take place during this time.

In addition to the name changes, growth spurts, and mergers, our physical location has moved throughout the years in order to accommodate our changing needs. In our early days, Rushford, Minn., was home to Trinity. The main campus then moved to the corner of Hermitage & Berteau in Chicago, before relocating to the present-day property in Bannockburn, Ill., in the 1960s.

Over the course of time, your alma mater has changed from a Bible course to a full-fledged university with four distinct schools, one main campus, and two regional centers. We have added programs and we have eliminated programs. While we have never strayed from offering Bible courses and corresponding degrees, we now offer students the opportunity to study counseling, bioethics, business, education, and more, all within a Christ-centered community (a full list is available at tiu.edu/tiu-academics).

Trinity continues to change. In 2011, we retired a familiar symbol—the Trinity logo with the silhouette of the chapel—and introduced a new dynamic logo featuring a shield (as seen in this publication). We revamped and re-launched the TIU websites to reflect our new emblem and branding. Last year we also made some academic changes: first, making the strategic decision to stop accepting students into two programs, and, second, completing the initiative to introduce several new programs, such as a Graphic Design major, a Master of Arts in Leadership, and an early entry Master of Divinity that will enable students to graduate TIU in five years while also completing honors undergraduate work.

Although your alma mater continues to change, Trinity also remains faithful to its heritage. Do you recall what is written in Greek on the school seal, one of our most long-standing symbols? It is a portion of 1 Thessalonians 2:4, “entrusted with the gospel.” We are stewards of God’s Word. The leadership of Trinity takes this seriously and strives to educate men and women to engage in God’s redemptive work in the world. Sometimes, though never at the expense of our foundation, change must occur if we want to remain relevant and positioned to prepare people for God’s redemptive work, whether that is in the mission field, the church, the office building, the classroom, the studio, or on the counselor’s couch.

I am excited about what lies ahead for Trinity, and as we grow and change I want to invite you to stay informed. Offer your feedback (alumni@tiu.edu). The Alumni & Community Relations Office is not only a voice from the University to you, but the Alumni & Community Relations Office is a voice from you, the alumni, to the University. Remain engaged with your alma mater. Visit TrinityTown.com or check out our alumni Facebook pages. Be ambassadors for us to prospective students. Join us at alumni gatherings. Stay connected.

You tie us back to our heritage and impact our steps forward.

Sincerely,

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Joe Wyse (MA ‘97) has been named Superintendent/ President of Shasta College.

He previously served as their vice president of administrative services and is completing his EdD in Organizational Leadership at Pepperdine University.

Dr. Tom Nelson (DMin ‘98) released his newest book, Work Matters: Connecting Sunday Worship to Monday Work (Crossway, 2011). Striking a balance between theological depth and practical counsel, Work Matters engages the theological basis of God’s plan for everyday work. As Nelson connects Sunday worship to Monday morning, he gives readers practical tools for understanding their own gifts so that they may better live in accord with God’s design for work.

Dr. Jerry Zandstra (DMin ‘98) recently executive produced and starred in a film entitled The Genesis Code, also starring Academy Award winners Ernest Borgnine and Louise Fletcher.

The film has been recommended

by Focus on the Family, the Dove Foundations, and MovieGuide.

Since graduation, Dr. Zandstra has continued as a pastor in the Christian Reformed Church.

Deborah Guske (BA ‘99) recently published her book, Misfits: Tales of a Dog Rescuer, in an effort to help educate rescuers and the public on the various details of dog rescue. After working in the rescue field for seven years, Deborah hopes this book will help others learn and understand what dog rescue is all about.

Stephen J. Inrig (MA ‘99) has written a book entitled North Carolina and the Problem of AIDS: Advocacy, Politics, and Race in the South (University of North Carolina Press, 2011), in which he examines the rise of AIDS in the South in the period from the early spread and discovery of the disease through the late nineties.

He currently serves as assistant professor of clinical science at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas.

Brandon Withrow (MA ‘99) recently released his book Becoming Divine: Jonathan Edwards’s Incarnational Spirituality within the Christian Tradition (Wipf & Stock, 2011), in which he investigates the early theological career of Jonathan Edwards, finding him deep in a crisis of faith that drove him into a lifelong search for answers and brought him to a theology of divine participation rooted in the incarnation of Christ.

Withrow also currently holds the positions of assistant professor of history of Christianity and religious studies and director of the Master of Arts in Theological Studies program at Winebrenner Theological Seminary in Findlay, Ohio.

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Dr. Kenneth C. Way (MA ‘00) recently wrote Donkeys in the Biblical World (Eisenbrauns, 2011), a comprehensive look at the ceremonial and symbolic significance of donkeys in ancient Near Eastern literature, archaeology, and the Bible. Ken is currently an associate professor in the Bible Exposition department at Talbot School of Theology. He resides in southern California with his wife, Lori (LeClerc, MA ‘00), and their three children.

Dr. Les Christie (DMin ‘02) cowrote a book with David Nystrom (provost and senior vice president at Biola University) entitled A Youth Worker’s Commentary on John, Vol. 1 (Zondervan, 2011).

Dr. Christie travels the world training and encouraging parents and adult youth leaders who work with teenagers. For the past 18 years and counting he has been the chair of the youth ministry department at William Jessup University in Rocklin, Calif.

Dr. Elie Hasbani (MAR ‘02, DMin ‘09) wrote his first book, The Good Soldier (WestBow Press, 2011), an autobiographical account that deals with the chaos of war in the Middle East and Dr. Hasbani’s own story with Jesus and finding true hope.

Sam Kee (MDiv ‘03) recently released his new book Hope Stands: Ten Reasons Why You Must Not Give Up (Ellechor Publishing House, 2011). The book looks at the resurrection appearances of Jesus and finds in them hope that we can apply to our lives today.

Dr. Hann-Tzuu (Joey) Tan (MAR ‘03) has written a book entitled The Chinese Way: Contextualizing the Gospel for the Chinese (Footprint Publishing, 2011). In this book, he identifies aspects of Chinese culture that can be used to contextualize the sharing of the gospel. He is currently researcher–cum– director of the Centre for Christianity & Malaysian Studies (CCMS) at the Malaysia Bible Seminary and was honored as one of the Ten Outstanding Young Malaysians in 2010.

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Dr. Darren Sarisky (MDiv ‘04) is now a Junior Research Fellow at Homerton College, Cambridge. He previously served as a teaching associate in the faculty of divinity at the University of Cambridge and completed his PhD at the University of Aberdeen in 2009.

He and his wife, Colleen, have a 3-year-old son, Jamie.

Peter Hilden (BA ‘06) married Annie Lohrenz in Rockford, Ill., in August 2008. They are the proud parents of Joanna Grace, born May 4, 2010, in Dallas, Tex. Peter and Annie are in the Masters program of Dallas Theological Seminary and have recently moved back to Rockford where Peter has joined the team at Stronebridge Fellowship as worship leader.

Dr. David P. Smith (PhD ‘08) currently pastors Covenant Fellowship Church, an Associate Reformed Presbyterian congregation in Greensboro, N.C., where he lives with his wife and three children. He recently had his doctoral dissertation (mentored by TEDS professor Dr. John Woodbridge), entitled B. B. Warfield’s Scientifically Constructive Theological Scholarship, published in the Evangelical Theological Society Monograph Series (Wipf & Stock, 2011). Smith has also recently co-authored a book with Ronald E. Hoch entitled Old School, New Clothes: The Cultural Blindness of Christian Education (Wipf & Stock, 2011).

Joshua N. Kalb (BA ‘11) and Lindsay Bo were married September 17, 2011, in Muskegon, Mich.

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James Ungureanu (MA ‘11) and his wife, Rebecca, currently live in South Korea where James teaches high school English and Rebecca teaches English in elementary school.

In Memoriam

Rev. Earl Thomas Gunsolley (MDiv ‘49) passed away January 22, 2011, at Stanton Health Center in Stanton, Neb. For more than 39 years, Earl pastored several different Free Churches in Nebraska and Iowa, and continued to offer himself in interim ministry after his retirement. He had a passion to teach and preach the Word of God. Earl is survived by his wife of 67 years, Marian Gunsolley, four children, 13 grandchildren, and 23 great grandchildren.

Rev. Paul Nelson (DIPL ‘49) went to be with the Lord on March 25, 2011. “Pastor Paul” served Evangelical Free Churches throughout the country and was a chaplain for Evangelical Hospital Chaplain, Inc., from 1967 until his retirement in 2009. He is survived by his wife, Violet (Ditmar) Nelson, a Trinity alumna (DIPL ‘47).

Nellie Adams (BA ‘57) passed away October 18, 2011, at the age of 89. In her early twenties, Nellie was a true “Rosie the Riveter,” working a defense job during World War II, and eventually went on to become the first member of her family to graduate college. She spent many years serving as the associate dean of women at Trinity College, retiring from her position in 1981. Although Nellie never had any children of her own, she was a mother to hundreds of students during her years at Trinity. She found joy in her retirement in ceramics, gardening, and painting.

She is survived by her sister and brother-in-law, Leona and Zabo Pace, along with many nieces and nephews.

Dr. Norman Ericson (BD ’57), former Trinity professor, passed away on December 22, 2011, at Johnson Health Care Center in Carol Stream, Ill. A passionate teacher for 43 years, Norm loved being in the classroom and working with students. Outside of the classroom, he served in a number of interim preaching positions and also found joy in his favorite pastimes of traveling with his family and gardening. In the late 1980s, he became involved with Tyndale House Publishers as a general reviewer of the Letters and Revelation sections of the New Testament for the New Living Translation of the Bible, which he considered to be a highlight of his career. Norm is survived by his wife of 57 years, Ruth (BA ‘51), his four children Brian, Beth Sanders, Stuart, and Ken, and his eight grandchildren.

Paul Westlund (Attended ‘74–‘75) passed away on September 22, 2011, as the result of a plane crash.

He had been a pilot for 25 years in Papua, Indonesia, serving with Wycliffe Bible Translators delivering Bibles and medical supplies to the island natives. Paul will be remembered for many things, especially his great gift of encouragement.

He is survived by his wife, LaVonne, and his children Mark and Joy.

Merle Nelson (BA ‘61) died peacefully on May 28, 2011, at his home after a five-year journey with cancer. Merle was a science and shop class teacher at Cary Junior High School in Cary, Ill., for 33 years, and for 40 years he served as the summer seasonal caretaker at Lake Lundgren Bible Camp.

In retirement, Merle served as a substitute teacher and member of the local rescue squad. He enjoyed leading short term mission trips and Canadian fishing trips with family and friends. Merle is survived by his beloved wife, Pauline (Carlson) Nelson (BA ’59), his children Bradley, Kay Mork, Janine Starcevich, Lynda Kay, and nine grandchildren.

Debra E. Perry (BA ‘76) unexpectedly passed away August 21, 2011, in Fresno, Calif. Debra was an animal lover, owning a grooming shop and being involved with animal rescue groups. She also worked as an ice skating instructor in Stamford, Conn., teaching the children of several notable celebrities, including Paul Simon, Cyndi Lauper, and the grandchildren of Shirley MacLaine.

Pamela Rohler (BA ‘72) passed away suddenly on April 9, 2010. She is survived by her husband, Philip, and her children, Adam Rohler and Elizabeth Johnson.

Donna Banes (BA ‘75) passed away June 28, 2011, at her home. Donna is survived by her husband, Daryl Hilsendager, sons Jerason (Ksenia) Banes and Joshua (Laura) Hilsendager, daughters Jensa Banes, Jessica (Andy) Polubisnky and Jihnger Hilsendager, and her grandchildren Isaac and Jonas. She was preceded in death by her husband, Jerry Banes.

Rev. Mark W. Steele (MRE ‘83) passed away June 4, 2011, at his home in Sheboygan, Wis. Mark served as pastor of adult ministries and executive pastor at the Evangelical Free Church of Sheboygan for the past nine years, and as a YMCA board member, and former board member of Timberlee Christian Center in East Troy, Mich. He is survived by his wife, Jeanie, his children Charissa (David) Toeller and Nicholas (Mary) Steele, and his grandson, Luke Toeller.

Joel Perry (MDiv ‘89) died of a heart attack on September 29, 2011, while serving as an ESL instructor at the American University of Iraq in Sulaimani. He had also previously taught for many years in Uzbekistan, and taught last year in Duhok, Iraq. Joel founded the charitable organization of Central Asian Partners, which provides micro-loans and assistance to individuals in Central Asia. He is survived by his mother, Joan Perry; his siblings, Deane (Suzie), Margo (Bill Hall), Bethany (Pat Ryan), and Samuel (Sandee); 17 nieces and nephews; and nine grand-nieces and nephews.

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Yong-jo Ha, president of Torch Trinity Graduate School of Theology in Seoul, Korea, passed away on August 2, 2011. Pastor Ha was one of Korea’s most influential Christians leaders, having founded a church that has grown to become one of the largest in Korea. He also served as vice president of the Korean Association of Independent Churches and Missions. Pastor Ha is an honorary alum of TEDS.

Alumnus/a of the Year Nominations Welcomed Know someone that should be considered for the Alumnus/a of the Year Award?

Log on to www.TrinityTown.com or email alumni@tiu.edu for information about the award criteria and nomination process.

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Pacific Northwest Alumni & Friends Gathering

Tim Lay (BA ’99) enjoying an afternoon on Whitefish Lake, outside of Glacier National Park in Montana. For the last 11 years, Tim has taken an annual trip each summer with a group of 14 Trinity alumni and their respective families.

Send us photos* of you with your Trinity gear and we’ll send you a free t-shirt! Make sure to include a description of the location where the photograph was taken, your t-shirt size, the school (TIU, TEDS, TGS, TLS) with which you most identify, and your contact information to the Trinity Alumni & Community Relations Office, 2065 Half Day Rd., Deerfield, IL, 60015, or submit online at www.TrinityTown.com/TrinityTravels.

A group of Trinity alumni gathered over lunch at Black Lake Camp in Olympia, Washington, in February 2012.

*Please send high resolution images or prints only.

Visit www.trinitybookstore.com to learn how to order Trinity gear from the bookstore.

HOMECOMING & FAMILY WEEKEND 2012 September 21 & 22, 2012

Join us for food, friends, family, and fun!

Visit www.TrinityTown.com for additional information regarding the weekend.

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LO O K I NG B AC K

Out with the Old . . .

Gone are the old, brown signs and in their places are beautifully designed signage to better serve the TIU community and any visitors hosted on campus.

The first of these signs was installed in early August in front of the Rodine Global Ministry Building. The remainder of the signs were installed over the next couple of weeks. Additionally, in order to better help folks find their way across campus, thirty new directional signs were erected. The university’s main entrance sign will be the last to be installed.

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“As the seminary goes,” 94-year-old Dr. Stan Lindquist remarks, “so goes the church.” Living for close to a century means that Lindquist, a former professor at Trinity International University in the late 1940s and early 50s, has seen his fair share of churches that have left their moorings.

But he also looks to the future with hope, precisely because of institutions like TIU that share values with him rooted in the inspired and infallible Scriptures. “At Trinity, pastors-in-training are prepared to minister on the global front,” Lindquist says. “If you miss this vital perspective, you miss the whole point.”

This is among the many reasons Lindquist has chosen to provide endowed scholarships for, in his words, “future leaders for the churches”—whatever their day jobs may be. After leaving the Chicago area, Lindquist launched the Link Care Center in 1965 in order to offer pre-field orientation for missionary candidates and restorative care for burned out missionaries and ministers, after having witnessed the struggles of many Christian workers from around the world. Link Care is known for providing care for the health and growth of the entire person, including psychological, emotional, intellectual, familial, cultural, and spiritual dimensions.

Today, Lindquist has decided to invest financially in Trinity, which helps Trinity meet its mission to raise up godly leaders around the world. That

decision has given forward a generation too, now that his son and daughter-in-law, Brent (BA ’75) and Colleen (BA ’75), have joined their father in his commitment.

“Trinity gave my wife, Colleen, and I, a strong biblically based and well-

rounded education. We have used that well in our multiple careers of raising a family, psychology, missions, and public education. Giving to Trinity has been a bit of a family pastime. I am honored to join the ranks of grandparents, parents, aunts and uncles, and cousins who have supported Trinity throughout the years, whether it be through general contributions or scholarship programs. As the Lord prospers us, we are continuing this tradition,” Brent Lindquist says.

For more information about gift planning with Trinity and creating a lasting legacy, please contact Ron Tollerud, director of planned giving, at 1.800.445.8337 or visit our website at trinitygiving.org.