Recent Alumni Visits

See who’s been stopping by the alumni office or reuniting around the world!

Alumni Spotlight on Hope Griffin (MA[BS] 2005)

My husband John enlisted in the Army four years ago as a Combat Engineer, and we moved to Ft. Bliss in El Paso, TX where I embarked on my new journey as an Army wife (and let me just say, no, it's nothing like the show). While here we found

Multicultural Counseling

In one Amsterdam church, representatives from sixty countries gather together. Suddenly I felt a bit intimidated by my role as counseling and care director to this multicultural congregation. Granted, I represented my country and some represented the Netherlands, where I lived at the time, leaving only fifty-eight foreign countries about

Shepherd, Don’t Just Ship Out!

Marital distress, depression, anger, anxiety, sexual abuse, trauma, grief, alcoholism, substance abuse, conflict, parenting, and relationship problems … life is messy. But all these and the many other expressions of sin and a fallen world never affect Christians and the church. Right? Okay, that’s ridiculous. Brokenness is normal. Jesus’ ability

Confessions of the Counseling Convert

“Oh, did you hear _____ went to a counselor?” Growing up, I overheard these words spoken at church in a hushed quietness. “Counseling” always had an association with extreme situations—a “crazy aunt” or one of those people locked in the asylum thirty miles from where I lived. Job’s friends have