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Aurora Volume 100
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STUDENT LIFE
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SPIRITUAL LIFE
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the mechanical female voice
intones. If you miss the exit
she’s referring to, the worst
you might get is a dry,
“Recalculating...”
The way to God isn’t that
simple. There’s no GPS to
tell you what career to pick,or
if you should go on a mis
sions trip. You can’t highlight
a bright yellow route through
life like roads on a map.
There aren’t any street signs
or flashing red lights.
The way doesn’t refer to
two divergent paths in a
yellow wood. In fact, the
phrase “the way” usually re
fers to how we do something.
As Rihanna sang, “I love the
way you lie.”
God’s doesn’t give turn by
turn directions. He doesn’t tell
you what to do at all.
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Rather, God tells you
how to live. He doesn’t adopt
a bored voice and say, “Go
to graduate school, 2 years.”
There are no turn by turn
directions, only relationship.
By knowing him, you know
where to go. He is the way.
In the same way that it would
make no sense to talk to your
GPS, it makes no sense to
only ask God for directions.
GREINER
Aunt C onnie w as the one who started it all. W hen W il liam G reiner w as just a little boy, his aunt invited him over to her house, and began to introduce him to draw ing and painting. As his love of art grew, he began taking S aturday trips to the Art Institute in Chicago, spending the w h ole day alone, w alking through adm iring the work. "
“It’s just in him ,” his w ife Kathy explained. “ It’s a part of him .”
Though he enjoyed m usic, even to the point of touring locally in a rock band-big bushy hair and all- painting had his heart. Art, how ever, w as a dubious profession during the years that Bill w as grow ing up. His fath er encouraged him to w o rk in a C aterpillar factory in his hom etow n of Peoria, and for a few years he did.
“ It w as like trying to fit a round peg in a square hole,” Kathy said. “ He said, ‘I thought I w as going to go cra zy!” ’ Bill confronted his father, explaining that he had to pursue a career in art, entering a M FA program soon after. The opposition fo rti fied his decision.
Having escaped the factory, he opened R iv e r v p lery, w here he specialized in custom fram ing fo r^ ie tT ts s u c h as Am y G rant and Peter Max. He began w o jJdacratO live t ne£ tw enty five years ago.
G ina O lson, w h o jia s 'b e e n h e re a jm e s fa s long, ex> plained, “ H e’s a n j x e e t t m person.to w d fk for. If s o jjie th ffiJ s
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is s h o w n through. “H e’s s u c h a good man. H e’s the best C hristian person I’ve met in my w hole life. H e’s so g e n u
ine,” Kathy said. “I d o n ’t know a single w om an in this world who w ould think any m ore about their husband than I do. I w o u ld n ’t trade him for anything; he’s the best.”
His life seem s to have com e in a full circle since those early days of w andering through the Art Institute. Now, he ’s the one featured on the walls. “W hen w e first started dating, he saic T m going to take you to the Art Institute and introduce you to allj my frie n d s,” Kathy said, beam ing at the m em ory. “And he did! I got my own personal tour with him .”
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w o u ld n ’t have gotten a w h o ld ie rd f encouragem ent body else, because it ju st w a sn ’t the thing to d o ,” she said.
Bill G reiner’s dedication to his students, his stunning landscape paintings, and his w ife ’s testim ony are a m a n ife sta tion of a fore cast his grandfather once m ade. “T hat kid’s gonna m ake som ething of him self one of these days,” he said. “ He’s
The
engaging
of the Aurora.
spends in
with
nd
one
Way,” is £ particularly
theme for this edition
The years one
university life are filled
signposts mile markers,
andmark$ designed to help
ind the
career, a
personal
an indivio
life, I
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ther^ are
)e frListr
way forward to a
life (-significance, and
'ulfillment. And yet, as
ual n-ioves forward in
she soon discovers that
no roadmaps. That can
ting. If one follows a
he pr shp can clearly see
and turns, the hills
map
the tyvists
and valleys, the crowded places,
and the lonely stretches which
extend out beiore him or her.
But yvithopt a rViap, the future
can peenl uncertain and perhaps
even overwhe ming.
Nhep the explorer Magellan
made his voyege around the
earth he did not have a map
only ja compass and
e him. He was
- h e had
he stars
searching fo r . i new sea-route to
the Spice Islahds. He thought
he spice
he secre
o gujd
to the journey was to
find a passageway around the
southern tip of South America,
the straits that would later bear
his name. He assumed that just
beyond the straits lay the islands.
What he encountered instead
was the vast expanse of the
Pacific Ocean.
Magellan’s journey illustrates
that there are no maps for
the uncharted territory we call
the future, for no one knows
exactly what the future holds.
It probably was a good thing
Magellan didn’t have a map -
that he didn’t know in advance
all he was going to encounter on
his journey. He might never have
started!
As we search for “the way”
forward, we too must journey
without a map. Yet, that need
not discourage us for, even
though we do not have a map,
we are given a compass and a
companion for the journey. The
compass is the Word of God,
which points consistently to
the one true north, the Bright
JOHN C.BOWLING,
PRESIDENT
Morning Star. The needle seeks
the Savior at every point of the
journey; even if one does not
know what comes next, he or she
can still have a clear direction
and a sense of confidence that
if one stays true he or she will
triumph.
In addition to the compass,
we also have a companion for
the journey - one who walks with
us and talks with us; one who
carries our burdens when we
cannot carry them alone. This
companion knows the way and
encourages us even in the dark
places or the steep parts of the
journey. God has provided his
Holy Spirit to be with us each
step of “the way.”
Let me encourage you to be
bold as you look to the future.
There is a way and His name is
Jesus. Let your footsteps follow
his and your tomorrows will be
filled with significance. Live
with confidence and enjoy your
journey!
John C. Bowling
University President
Gregg Chenoweth
Vice President for Academic Affairs
Walter “Woody” Webb
Vice President for Student Development
Doug Perry
Vice President for Finance
Brian Allen
Vice President for Institutional Advancement
Ryan Spittal
BOARDOFTRUSTEES
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PRESIDENT EASTERN MICHIGAN DISTRICT NORTHEASTERN INDIANA NORTHWEST INDIANA
Dr. John C. Bowling Dr. Stephen Anthony, D.S. DISTRICT DISTRICT
Dr. J. Quen Dickey Dr. David G. Roland, D.S. Rev. David Bartley, D.S.
ALUMNI ASSOCIATION Dr. W. Glen Gardner Rev. Jim Ballenger Mr. Ralph Bright
Mr. Dennis Williamson, Rev. Fred Hall Mr. Mark Bennett Dr. Mark Hostetler President Mr. Mark Pennington Rev. Gary Cable Mrs. Cyndi McDonald Mrs. Karen Bontrager Mrs. Cristy VanSteenburg Mrs. Darcy Dill Rev. Gene Tanner Dr. Gary Henecke Rev. Daniel Wine Dr. Philip C. Rogers
Dr. Gene Snowden SOUTHWEST INDIANA
CHICAGO CENTRAL DISTRICT INDIANAPOLIS DISTRICT DISTRICT
Dr. Brian Wilson, D.S. Dr. Ron Blake, D.S. NORTHERN MICHIGAN Dr. Garry Pate, D.S.
Mr. John Alexander Mr. Dan Agan DISTRICT Dr. Mark Fleschner
Mr. Fred Hardy Rev. Phil Edwards Dr. Wayne Brown, D.S. Mr. Doug Jones Dr. Ed Heck Rev. Jay Height Rev. David M. Brantley Mr. Mark Shuff Rev. Kendall Franklin Mr. Michael Lingle Dr. Jill Rice Rev. Trevor Stanley
ILLINOIS DISTRICT MICHIGAN DISTRICT NORTHWESTERN ILLINOIS WISCONSIN DISTRICT
Dr. Jim Spruce, D.S. Dr. John Seaman, D.S. DISTRICT Rev. Deri Keefer, D.S Rev. Jim Frye Mr. Lance Delbridge Rev. Scott Sherwood, D.S. Rev. Charles Hayes Dr. Larry Lacher Rev. Randy Owens Rev. Bill Clark Mr. Stu Meissner Mr. Galen Scammahorn Mr. Jerry Polmounter Rev. Ron Scarlett
Mr. William E. Shotts Rev. Timothy Smith Mrs. Cheryl Sherwood Mr. John P. Sherwood
DR
His usual wrinkle-free button-up shirt is cerulean blue today, accented by a silver and black matching tie. His black pants have also been meticulously ironed, showing a crease that runs all the way down to his feet, where they fall perfectly in a little fold on top of his shoes.
Dr. Kristian Veit’s clothes are like a professional baptism of sorts: outward evidence of an inward change. He has become the professor of psychology students expect to see when they walk into a classroom. His delineation has not always been so clear, though.
Most youngsters don’t say they want to be Industrial Organizational Psychologists when they grow up, and Kristian Veit is no exception. Now, however, when he discusses the research he is conducting, he uses his hands and a pack of blue sticky notes to diagram abstract concepts in 3D space. You half expect him to start making explosion sounds with his mouth while he clobbers the sticky notes to represent the explanatory power of variables. “It’s like a big statistical wrestling match,’’ he explained, glancing up briefly from the battle he’s enacting on his desk.
The thrill of research comes from the dogged sniffing out of an answer, the intimate pursuit of truth. “I've fallen in love with the process,” he explained. “This whole process of finding a good question to test- ultimately you tell a story. Research is all about telling a story.”
“Part of me wants to close the door and just do research. I’m a little jealous of my state school colleagues, who have maybe one class to teach. I'd like to have all kinds of research going on. I wish I had more time for research, to get more people involved, to share the discovery and excitement with them,” he said, smiling like a little kid caught with a cookie halfway into his mouth.
Veit recently submitted a paper to the American Psychological Association in Orlando in conjunction with Dr. Bethany Mills which examined the relationship between how much students at Olivet text on their phones and how connected they are to the university.
(They discovered a negative correlation. If that’s Greek to you, make an appointment with Dr. Veit. You might even get to witness a sticky note attack.)
While he was at the conference, he seized an opportunity to talk to the President for the Society of Industrial & Organizational Psychology about an idea that he had found not in a journal, but at home. “I was so tired, so worn out, anxious, and frustrated coming home from work that I couldn’t contribute meaningfully to family life. I couldn’t be the ideal dad,” he said. “I was like, ‘Should I try harder? Diet better? Pray more?” Only after he started talking to other dads did the scope of the problem reveal itself to him.
The president told him, “I'd never thought of that, that’s brilliant!” She might as well have thrown an entire tanker of oil onto Dr. Veit's flame. He pulled two all-nighters in a row this September to finish a paper about what came to be called ‘Sunset Fatigue' in time for a deadline. He bounced around in his rolling chair in excitement as he talked, rapping his fingers on the desk, while the sticky notes cowered in fear.
Veit’s attention, however, had shifted to a small rock, which he seemed to have pulled from his briefcase. It looked like it was plucked from a gravel driveway. “Somebody put a rock in my bag," he noted. He smiled into the air at the thought of which of his daughters- Kylie or Bailey- was the culprit. “They’re teaching me a lot about life and God that I either don't know, or forgot. They're two of the best teachers I’ve ever had.”
Coming from a man who has invested a lot of time in higher education, that's quite the statement. It was during summers at Northern Illinois University while in pursuit of his Ph.D. that Veit was asked to lead a Bible study. What started as two people meeting in his apartment gradually grew to forty meeting in the church sanctuary for a lecture-format study. “One day I saw this red head in the pew, and noticed she was pretty. I met her later that night while we were having snacks,” he said.
When he challenged the group to run a half-marathon to improve their care of
PSYC
KRISTIAN VEIT
HOLOGYPROFESSOR
their bodies, he set a time and place for them to meet to start running. “Only one person showed up, and it was Beth,” he said with a grin. “I think we ran eight miles. It was dark outside, and there was nothing to do but talk and enjoy the other's company.” After they ran the half marathon in downtown Chicago, he asked her out on a date and a few weeks later they were official.
They attended pre-engagement counseling before he asked her to marry him on May 8th, 2006. He smirked and cracked a psychology joke- “It’s like informed consent!”
They re-ran the Chicago half marathon on September 9th of this year to celebrate their anniversary. “It was the race that started everything,” he explained. “We ran together the whole way.”
They're still running together, through every day at Olivet and every bout of Sunset Fatigue. Beth is an Assistant Resident Director in the Grand Apartments. The Veit family can be seen frequently eating in Ludwig or in some cases -thanks to Bailey- heard.
Occasionally, Veit will break out his trumpet for his girls. “I play a mean Twinkle Twinkle Little Star,” he said, cocking an eyebrow and suppressing a smile. What started in elementary school with an oxidized, twisted trumpet that “made the old ones nailed to the wall at Ruby Tuesday look good” slowly developed into a passion.Throughout high school and college, trumpet defined him. Once he hit graduate school, he realized he would have to choose between pursuing his Ph.D. or pursuing trumpet. “The Lord changed my heart; I He laid it on my heart to put my trumpet down,” he said. Three weeks later, he had taken up guitar and was leading worship at a church.
“He made me into a researcher; he turned me from a trumpet player into a lead guitar player,” he said wonderingly. If the clothes are any evidence, Dr. Veit has willingly submitted himself to the Lord’s guidance. The trumpet is gone, replaced with Kylie, Bailey, Beth, and of course statistics. “You hear about water into wine stories,” he said, “but it's weird to think that He might have done that with you.”
She’s the first face
seen upon entrance to the
registrar’s office and this may
Very well be purposeful. Kelly
W elldnreiter is the secretary of
the registrar and does so with
all of her signature personality
nd a clear passion for her
jpb. Ijelly said that her job is
of nothing and a little
everything. I have the
lob. I sit at the desk and
out candy,” she said
gesturing to a bowl of
in tso n her desk. But she
ownplays her vital role to
t ie registrar’s. She is a multi-
urpose employee, taking
hon^ calls, directing students
tp wl' o they need to see, and
helping students add and drop
dlasSf “She’s a hard worker,”
Said Darlene Swanson of the
registrar’s office. “Most diligent
Worker I’ve ever seen.” Her
rpany duties and her work ethic
make her indispensable to
the workings of the registrar.
“She’s our pointguard,” said
Carol Reams, “when she’s not
here, we fall apart.”
Before beginning
her work at the registrar on
October 7th, 1992, she worked
for the State in Public Aid.
Kelly remarks that the change
in occupations was a good one
because as the receptionist for
the registrar, she gets plenty
of interaction, which she loves.
And not just interaction with
colleagues and faculty, but she
says her favorite part of the
job is the interaction she gets
to have with students. And it’s
not just talk. She was offered
a position handling transcripts,
but this would mean much
less interaction with students.
She declined the position. “ I
would go nuts not being able
to w ork with students,” she
said, shaking her head at the
thought of com prom ising her
KELLY WELLENREITER
REGISTRAR'S OFFICE
favorite part of the job.
With the recent ability
for students to conduct much
of their registration and class
scheduling online, the traffic
in the registrar office has
lessened. However, there is
no equivalent to interacting
and getting help from Kelly.
Her exuberant personality
shines through as she makes
conversation with students,
full of good-natured laughter
and a quick wit. She is
passionate about students
and is always more than
willing to answer questions
and help students through
the process of registering
for classes. After having the
privilege of interacting with
Kelly W ellenreiter, the candy
and an enthusiastic greeting is
only a perk when visiting the
registrar’s office.
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“ I had a baby nam ed a fter m e,” Kelsey M cN ulty said with a w ide grin. She gained her nam esake during her second sum m er in Ecuador, w hile w orking as a nurse at m issions hospital. “ It w a s really fu n n y,” she continued, “because half the fam ily co u ld n ’t say the g irl’s nam e, because it’s an English nam e.”
Though she d id n ’t know the m other- one of her patients- before that, they invited her into their hom e and adopted her as part of the fam ily. “T ha t w o u ld n ’t happen in the S tates,” Kelsey said. As their relationship grew, she realized that she had an opportunity to show God. She still prays for them and video calls, even in the m idst of her senior year w hile finishing up Nursing and Spanish majors.
Yet sh e ’d have it no other way. Preparing her fourth m issions trip- this tim e as the leader- to an orphanage in Honduras this spring break, Kelsey understands how consistent relationships can change lives. “ I’ve seen the toll it takes w hen people com e in every fe w m onths and then they leave,” she explained. “ I’m thankful for the opportunity God has given me to be som e kind of
stable relatio nship.”
She felt the call to be a long term m edical m issionary during her freshm an year when she first w e nt to H onduras. Having grow n especially close to a little girl nam ed Alicia, K e lsey’s heart broke for the circum stances she w a s living in. “W e had this huge m ound of rice on the table, and we w ere sorting out little pebbles and bugs from the rice, because they d id n ’t have any m oney so they bought chicken feed for the kids to feed them . The thing that got me the m ost is that usually they d o n ’t have people or tim e to sort it o u t,” she said.
Having been back every year since then, Kelsey is particularly excited about this ye a r’s trip, w hich will consist entirely of nursing students w ho will get credit for the G lobal Health class. “W e really are a little nursing fa m ily,” she said with a laugh. “W e share prayer requests with each other, have devotionals all the tim e, and know w hat each other is going th ro ugh.”
R elationships have served as the drum beat that Kelsey w a lks to in pursuit of the way. She w as a Resident A ssistant her sophom ore year,
serves as a D -group leader, and particularly enjoys the friendships she m akes through nursing. “ I liked the idea that I could help people and use my brain at the sam e tim e,” she said.
To that end, she’s hoping to spend a few years stateside bolstering her nursing and Spanish skills in order to be prepared for w here G od calls her next. “ I ju st w a nt to be obe dien t,” she said. “ I’m so thankful for the experiences that G od has led me to and allow ed me to have, and w h at he’s leading me tow ards.” Looking back on the last few years, K elsey sees G o d ’s direction in each decision sh e ’s m ade. S h e’s particularly grateful that she cam e to O livet rather than a state school. “For me, it’s ju st building you up spiritually and helping you develop habits to prepare you for m inistry for the rest of your life,” she explained.
Seeking G od on a daily basis has radically changed K elsey’s life. “He will ju st shape your life,” she explains. “Y o u ’ll see how He did it all, and it’s like, ‘W ow, Y o u ’re so g oo d!” ’
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He com pares volleyball to chess. He saw the ocean for the first tim e last year. He once dressed up for H aljow een as that “clim bin in yo w in d p w s” Y outube guy. He enjoys using math to creatively solve prob em s. He is the second of five kids. He is M att Sm ith.
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“ I’ve lived in the sam e house m y entire life," M att said. “Three bedroom s, one bath- som etim es it can get kinda crazy, but som ehow w e ’ve w o rked it out, and I love it.” He picked O livet partly because it is fairly close to his East Hills C rest hom e. “W e ’ll go places together as a fa m ily,” he said. He paused, then joked, “W hen I w as a kid we w ould all go to the grocery store tog e th e r!”
Npt only does his fa m ily do stuff together, but they have a blast. “W e ’re real close. W e ’re real goofy. W e have dinner as a fa m ily all the tim e and ju st laugh our heads off,” he said. “W e re probably w eird to people but we love it.”
Ever since surviving the frantic ro o rim a te search during orientation— a process tie likens to speed
dating— M att found that sam e fam ily atm osphere here at O livet, w here there's “alw ays som eone to play with, to hang out w ith .” He explained, “ I’m a perfectionist with m y schoolw ork, but this year, it th e re ’s people hanging out,
I’m like-1 gotta g o !”
As an Engineering major, he certainly has a full schedule, but enjoys the challenge. “ I w as alw ays interested in math, but w anted to incorporate som ething m ore hands-on and
c reative,” he said. “ E ngineering is m ore applied. It’s like the w ord problem s. You design som ething to m eet the requirem ents of the p roblem .”
Busy as he is, hom ew ork is hardly w h at M att will rem em ber the m ost about college. From laughing at his room m ate getting shot by a blow dart gun to playing intram urals (everything except baseball), M att has squeezed as m uch ju ice out of his four years as possible. “ I w as ju st w atching the blow -dart video the other d a y,” he said, starting to laugh. “W e w ere ju st cracking up and he w as like scream ing in pain, yelling for us to take it out!”
H e’s m ade friends with all sorts of different groups of people on cam pus, partly because of volleyball. Since his freshm an year he’s played volleyball with the W o m e n ’s Varsity team , sum m e r cam ps, Hidden Cove leagues, and the M en’s Club team . “ It’s stressful som etim es, but en joyab le,” he said. “ I put in a lot of hours, but it’s for volleyball so it’s fu n !”
During his freshm an year, the M en’s C lub team w ent to nationals in Kentucky. “There w ere forty-tw o courts
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set up in this huge convention center, and I ju st loved it- w h erever you looked there w as volleyball happening,” he said. W orking with the w o m e n ’s team has allow ed him to fulfill his dream of traveling. O ne particularly m em orable trip w as to a tournam ent in Daytona, Florida.
Having alw ays w anted to learn to surf, M att spotted a surfboard rental shop. “ I w as like- this is m y shot! I have to do this! I had the surfboard for about an hour, and probably w as above the w a ter for about three seconds to ta l,” he said, chuckling. H e’s determ ined, though, to learn the skill eventually. His love of w a ter com es from sum m ers spent at his g randp are nt’s cottage on a sm all lake in M ichigan.
Though he w ould love to live near the water, perhaps in California, the adventure could only tem pt him aw ay from his fa m ily for so long. “ I really love m y fam ily, and d o n ’t w ant to be far aw ay from them ,” he said. T hough he’ll be graduating in May, Matt hopes his little sisters m ay som eday com e to O livet. “ I love the com m u nity,” he said with a sm ile. “ I know they w ould have a great experience here.”
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word for passion is a atin word that comes from the word ‘to suf-
e explained, with a fierce 'o be passionate about means to suffer.” Of verything that sh£ could ask God for, suf- ering is wh^t Racpel has chosen to request.
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has released them to. her resolve to spread new. A year ago, she would! have said that the saving the world really needs is education, health care, clean
ater; and Sterna to tangible r eeds.
ive income— solutions “I struggled last year with atingjthe cjhurch gnd hating missionaries, nd I was v^ry anti-gospel,” she explained, he rrlore Rachel realized how much can e dofie without God, the more she doubted the ngcessity
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mindset, Rachel went to Kenyr
humanitarian organization called Free the Childr en. “The mirjute I got there I was just
completely slapped in the face, basically,” she said. “I was just like— I’m alone. There were no other Christians for two and a half months.” She worked in a rural area, taking visiting groups from America to camp with the Maasai people, teaching them about global issues. Out of all the groups she led, she never encountered any Christians.
“Spiritually it just ate-me alive. There would be days when I would go to sleep crying and wake up crying,” she said. She dug into the Bible and prayer, seek ing God. As He showed her that she could learn from the experience, Rachel began to realize why she was in Kenya. An encoun ter with a girl named Alyssa fired her up to reconcile with and revolutionize the church. “A group of five girls my age asked me, ‘What do you believe?’ I told them what I want to do, and where God is leading me, and they were just baffled,” Rachel said. The girls told her they had never met a twenty-year-old who liked church. Alyssa said that every Christian she had ever met had ridiculed and judged her. “She said, ‘I have no desire to be in the church. I’m an atheist. But you changed my perspec tive about Christianity,”’ Rachel related. “It stirred up an anger in me— an anger with
passion. I want to be part of a movement of love in the church.”
Driven by that passion, Rachel dreams of working with broken communities, meeting both physical and spiritual needs. As she explained it, “Free the Children is doing such great but temporary things. If my life is dependent on Christ, why not share that?”
The burden of a hurting world sometimes overwhelms her. “There are these days when I just feel heavy, and it hits me,” she said. “If you’re passionate about something, you’d better be ready for a hard life— but a beautifully hard life.”
A smile lit up her face as she con sidered the communities she will touch with God’s healing. “If I’m ever going to have a true passion in my life I’m going to have to suffer. I want to be so thankful for my suffer ing,” she said.
Confronting her own spiritual need has opened Rachel’s eyes to the spiritual need of the world. “The more you under stand God’s role in your own life, the more you understand God’s role in the world," she said. “As my perception of the Lord ex pands, my understanding of the world does too.”
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conversion, discipleship, and baptism. The work left him spiritually exhausted. “The whole time I was down there I didn’t see results, but you just have to remember you’re planting the seed. I might never see the results of that,” he said.
For four months, he struggled to accept the task God laid out for him, dis gusted at his work. “My carnal nature was just being stripped from me, and it was so pain ful; I considered it suffering. But just because I didn’t want to be doing the work or didn’t like it doesn’t mean that it w asn’t G od’s w ill,” he said. Though for a while he wanted to come home, the return to Am erica for a three week vacation was even more difficult than the original transition into Peru vian culture. “I became poor, and that was normal for m e,” Garren said. “I came back to the states and I w asn’t used to the abundant wealth here.” Coming off of a rough spot spiritually already, the com bination was volatile. “I went home and went to my
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bathroom, and I closed the door, and the door shut with a click. Like, it glided shut, and then clicked. And that j u s t - set me off. Every door in Peru you had to wrestle with to get it to shut.”
The second year in Peru, however, helped to change his heart, as he realized the materialistic and poor alike need love. “I pray the prayer for other people as much as I w ouldn’t want it prayed for me; that they’ll hit rock bottom, because the only way to go is up,” Garren said.
Up for him was a special one year service of the church they planted. “I can tell you the name of every single person there, how we met them, and how they came to Christ, which is something that only church planters can really experi ence,” he said. “Just seeing them, and laughing and smiling and joking with them is a blessing. You can go and meet people, but to have inside jokes is different.”
In particular, he remembers a man named
Miguel. “His wife said, T h e only person who really under stands Miguel is you, Garren, and the only person who un derstands you is M iguel!’ That was so touching, that I had connected on another level with a man forty-five years old and stuck in his ways but who surrendered his life to Christ,” he said, smiling warm ly at the thought. Closing his eyes, he siqhed. “ I miss Miquel to death.”
Though he is back at Olivet now, finishing up a degree in Actuarial Science which was supposed to be his ticket into the high life, Garren hasn’t forgotten the reality he knew in Peru. “ I’ve realized that wealth and power and money aren’t important to me. That’s not how you measure a man,” he said. “Those things don’t bring real joy or peace within us. The love of Christ transcends all cultures, all class statuses, and all races. It is not a temporal joy or peace; it’s everlasting.”
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