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New Nurse-Midwifery Program p. 12

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Seminary Profs in Real World Ministry p. 18

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Finding Fulfillment in Singleness p. 23

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What’s in your bag? Backpacks­—and their contents—are as unique as the Bethel students who carry them. p. 26

College of Arts & Sciences

| College of Adult & Professional Studies | Graduate School | Bethel Seminary

FROM THE PRESIDENT Fall 2014 Volume 6 Number 1

Effective Teaching— Today and Tomorrow I remember when Sara Wyse came to Bethel as a student in the fall of 2001.

In her first semester, she was in the Freshman Seminar section I taught. At that point I had no idea how she, or any of the other students in that section, would experience Bethel or how her view of God and God’s call in her life would shape her. I saw Sara grow and change dramatically during her undergraduate years. It was like time-lapse photography as I watched her engage in research as an Edgren Scholar, achieve academic success in her major, and grow in her commitment to Jesus. She graduated and went off to Michigan State for a Ph.D. program, where she had wonderful opportunities for research, but she found herself increasingly drawn toward teaching and practices that increase student learning.

I always hoped that Sara might come back to Bethel someday—and she did in 2010, bringing her commitment to effective teaching to her position as assistant professor of biological sciences. She was recently awarded a National Science Foundation grant—Bethel’s fourth—to study how students learn (see p. 3), and she was also part of a team that helped design Bethel’s new flexible learning classroom to be a learning space where such practices could be implemented (see p. 16).

Dr. Wyse and several of her colleagues are helping us consider the future of teaching and learning. In many ways, what worked before won’t be adequate then. We’re exploring some of these same themes in an important initiative led

by Jim Green, chair of our Board of Trustees, called the Strategic Coalition. The coalition is a trustee-administration-faculty group committed to developing ideas that will make Bethel strong for the decades ahead. We want Bethel to be forward-looking, engaged with culture, and dedicated without compromise

Senior Vice

President for Communications

and Marketing Sherie J. Lindvall ’70 Editor Michelle Westlund ’83 Design Darin Jones ’97 Contributors

Barbara Wright Carlson Timothy Hammer ’08, S’12 Jared Johnson Monique Kleinhuizen ’08 Nathan Klok ’17 Suzanne McInroy Emma Nichols ’15 Lauren Pareigat ’08 Cindy Pfingsten Scott Streble Tricia Theurer Suzanne Yonker GS’09

President James (Jay) H. Barnes III

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to expressing our commitment to Christ in the challenging and complex environment of the 21st century. We want each of our schools within Bethel to

John Roberts adds

help students discover their gifts and activate their potential to levels beyond

FCS label here.

what they previously thought possible. We want to do the things that will make Bethel University the Christ-centered university of choice for the next Sara Wyse!

Jay Barnes

Students really dug into the October 8 groundbreaking ceremony for Bethel’s new Wellness Center. Construction on the 22,500-square-foot facility begins in November and is scheduled for completion in fall 2015. Read more on p. 7.

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18 Real World Ministry, Worldwide

Welcome Week; men’s golf team wins conference and women’s golf finishes second; Homecoming 2014 highlights

Sports News

Standout fall athletes; volleyball coach Gretchen Hunt; football player Erik Peterson

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PlaceMeant

Bethel University Flexible Learning Classroom

President’s Scholar, student leader, and Miss North Dakota Jacky Arness ’15

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Here’s the Scoop!

Bethel’s new nurse-midwifery program delivers timely preparation to meet the demands of changing maternity care.

Teaching—and learning—don’t happen only in classrooms. Meet Bethel Seminary faculty who bring ministry applications to the farthest reaches of the globe, and bring the world back to their students.

23 A Single Thing

What are the unique needs and concerns of singles from Bethel? Here’s what they’d like others— including our churches—to know.

26 It’s What’s Inside That Counts

What kinds of bags do Bethel students carry? See the results of our unscientific survey, and learn about an alum who’s changing the world one backpack at a time.

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Welcome Week 2014

Top 10 Majors

Bethel welcomed approximately 800 new freshman, transfer, and postsecondary enrollment options (PSEO) students as 1. undecided well as about 50 new Bethel Seminary students to campus 2. nursing during Welcome Week activities in late August.

3. business/economics

Class of 2018 by the Numbers

663 freshmen

11%

students

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states represented, as well as Canada, Ghana, Philippines, South Korea, Guatemala, Vietnam, and Burundi

4. elementary education 5. biology 6. engineering/physics 7. psychology 8. biokinetics 9. communication studies 10. athletic training Visit bethel.edu/news/ articles/2014/september/ welcome-week to see more Welcome Week photos.

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Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences Sara Wyse ’05 has been awarded a threeyear, $67,309 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for research on the collaborative project, “From the learner’s perspective: unpacking the why and how of model-based

learning about biological systems.”

Wyse is Bethel’s fourth current NSF grant recipient in the College of Arts & Sciences. The research and its team span several institutions, including North Dakota State University, Michigan State University, Saint Louis University, and Bethel University, and will focus on the use of visual models or diagrams and their construction by students during the process of learning topics in biology. By understanding the

Golf Teams Score Unprecedented Success The Bethel University men’s and women’s golf teams posted their highest finishes in program history in October at the Bunker Hills Golf Course in Coon Rapids, Minnesota, with the men’s team claiming their first conference title and the women’s team finishing second in conference play.

The men shot a 297 in the final round of the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (MIAC) Championships, tying for the lowest round all weekend. Their 906 throughout the three days set a record for lowest total for any Bethel golf team. Three men received AllConference honors: Dillon John ’16 and Bennett Smed ’16 tied for fourth place, and Alex Case ’17 tied for eighth. With the MIAC Championship, the team receives an automatic qualification to the 2015 NCAA Championships in May in Greensboro, North Carolina.

The women’s team shot 956 for the tournament, beating last year’s mark—

steps students take to build the visual models, researchers hope to discover more effective ways of teaching introductory biology and assessing student learning. Previous research by Wyse and her colleagues demonstrated the effectiveness of the modeling process for student learning. “Now we want to go a step further,” Wyse explains. “We want to know why.”

New Ed.D. Residency Location: San Diego photo by Caleb Williams

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Biology Professor Awarded NSF Grant

which was a program record—by 52 strokes. Their score of +25 helped Bethel finish second overall, falling just shy of Carleton College, ranked No. 2 in the nation. Bethel shot a 313 on the final day of play, which not only marks the best individual team round, but also the best three-day total recorded in program history. Two women finished with All-Conference honors: Christine Piwnica ’18 tied for second, just one stroke behind the first-place winner, and recorded the lowest total and best individual score ever by a Royal; and Leah Swanson ’17 tied for fifth.

Beginning in January, Bethel’s Doctor of Education (Ed.D.) adds San Diego to its locations for the program’s annual weeklong residencies in the higher education major. Classes and other activities will be held at Bethel Seminary San Diego, with courses to be taken online the rest of the year. Summer residencies in St. Paul, Minnesota, will continue to be offered, where the program has been in existence for 10 years. Ed.D. program faculty will serve both residential sites. Program Director Craig Paulson says that one of the distinctives of Bethel’s Ed.D. program is its essential focus on “faith-informed relational leadership.” Students from 32 countries and 37 U.S. states have been enrolled in the program.

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Professor of Sociology Samuel Zalanga spoke at his alma mater, the University of Jos in Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria, as part of its Distinguished Alumni Lecture Series. Nigeria has been in the international spotlight because of the Islamist terrorist group Boko Haram, which abducted more than 200 schoolgirls in northeastern Nigeria in April. In light of these events, Zalanga’s presentation was titled, “The Fragile Dignity of Humanity and the Disappearance of the Human: Neoliberalism and the Suspension of the Ethical in the Struggle for National Development.”

Zalanga’s lecture challenged the decline of morals and ethics within the government of Nigeria, where, he says, “people feel neglected and irrelevant. Changes must begin with governing justly and fairly.” The University of Jos president attended Zalanga’s talk and presented him with a souvenir, and several local and national media outlets covered the event. The primary reason for Zalanga’s trip was to attend the funeral of one of his brothers, who was murdered as part of a religious ritual killing, just one of the indicators of the social tensions in Nigeria today.

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internship opportunities for junior and senior psychology majors with financial need. Using the psychology department as a pilot, Bethel’s Office of Career Development and Calling hopes to expand the number of paid internship opportunities available to other majors in the future. “We are optimistic that this will encourage a growing number of collaborations as employers recognize the value of educating and energizing men and women for leadership, scholarship, and service while effectively meeting

2014-2015 academic year. “Our Career Ready Internship grants provide college students real-world experience in their fields of study, and a better chance at competing for jobs after graduation,” says Richard D. George, Great Lakes’ president and CEO. “This program has the added benefit of developing relationships of lasting value between colleges and employers.

We look forward to seeing the impact Bethel University can have on helping more students graduate ready for success in the workforce.”

Bethel Student Chosen Miss Congeniality Senior Jacky Arness made headlines in September when she was crowned Miss Congeniality at the Miss America pageant in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Through a vote by her peers, Arness won the award and a $2,000 scholarship on live television backstage before the pageant. A Fargo native, Arness competed in the pageant as Miss North Dakota.

During the competition, she was voted the first-ever Judges’ Choice Award winner, making her one of 16 semifinalists. Arness will take a year off from Bethel to fulfill her duties as Miss North Dakota, but plans to return to complete her senior year.

The former Bethel student body vice president is also in the Honors Program and is a President’s Scholar. She plans to attend law school after graduation.

Read more about Jacky Arness on p. 30.

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Sociology Bethel Receives Career Professor Ready Internship Grant their organizations’ missions,” says Bethel University was awarded a Speaks as Dave Broza, Bethel’s director of career $50,946 Career Ready Internship development and calling. Great Lakes from Great Lakes Higher Distinguished grant Career Ready Internship grants Education Guaranty Corporation for totaling $5.2 million were awarded the 2014-2015 academic year. The Alumnus to 40 colleges and universities for the grant will be used to create new, paid

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In Memory:

Ronald F. Youngblood Ronald F. Youngblood, Bethel Seminary professor of Old Testament and Hebrew emeritus, died on July 5 at the age of 83. A renowned biblical scholar, he served on the translation team for the New International Version (NIV) of the Bible beginning in 1970, joined the Committee on Bible Translation in 1976, and was a member of the translation team for a major revision of the NIV released in 1984.

He was executive editor of the New International Reader’s Version of the Bible, part of the team that translated Today’s New International Version of the Bible, and associate editor of the NIV Study Bible. “Ron Youngblood was a giant in the world of Bible translation,” says President Jay Barnes. “His work reflected well on Bethel Seminary and Bethel University—many people knew us because they knew him…

His promotion to heaven is a loss for the world of biblical scholarship.” In addition to his extensive translation

work, Youngblood wrote more than 20 books, was the longtime editor of the Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society, and was the general editor of the Gold Medallion-winning Nelson’s New Illustrated Bible Dictionary. He taught full time for 40 years, much of that time at Bethel Seminary—first at the St. Paul campus (1961-1978), and later at Bethel Seminary San Diego (1982-2001). He also served on the faculty at Wheaton Graduate School, Wheaton, Illinois, (1978-1981), and at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Deerfield, Illinois (1981-1982). He held a B.A. from Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, Indiana; a B.D. from Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, California; and a Ph.D. from Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning, Philadelphia. “Ron’s life was a long, remarkably useful, and welllived obedience in the same direction,” says Glen Scorgie, Bethel Seminary San Diego professor of theology and ethics. “What a legacy.”

Scholars Research “Bethel at War” In spring 2014, Professor of History Chris Gehrz and student researcher Fletcher Warren ’15 received an Edgren Scholars Award to complete a digital history project called “Bethel at War, 1914-2014: A Digital History of a Christian College in the Modern Era of Warfare.” They’re now building a website that explores how the Bethel community responded to times of warfare during the last 100 years.

Gehrz and Warren are documenting their findings and creating a platform for discussion through the blog “Bethel at War 1914-2014.” A meaningful layer to this exploration includes stories of personal experiences from members of the Bethel community who were on campus during a period of war. The researchers invite stories and recollections from alumni, current students, and others. They are especially interested in contributions related to the Vietnam War and the War on Terror.

Visit bethelatwar.org for more information or to submit your story.

Heard on Campus I want people to meet me and you and feel like they’ve just experienced heaven.

—Bob Goff

Goff, an attorney and author of the New York Times bestseller Love Does, spoke in chapel in October. He is founder of Restore International, a nonprofit human rights organization operating in Uganda, India, and Somalia.

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ROAR Day Results October 14 was Bethel’s first-ever ROAR Day, a one-day campaign that aimed to “Raise Our Alumni Rate” of giving to Bethel. The results are worth roaring about!

487 gifts given to Bethel $50,000 in matching gifts $104,916 total given 8,116 views (and counting) of the “Happy” video

Visit bethel.edu/happy to watch the video.

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Professor of Art Ken Steinbach ’83 received the 2014 Arlin G. Meyer Prize in Visual Arts at the Lilly Fellows Program National Conference at Xavier University-Louisiana in New Orleans. The prize is given by the National Network Board of the Lilly Fellows Program in Humanities and the Arts, and is awarded biennially in the visual arts category to a network full-time faculty member.

The award is based solely on one body of work within the previous three years that demonstrates Christian artistic vocation. Steinbach’s colleagues from the Department of Art and Design nominated him for his work Under the Rose, which features imagery drawn from Medieval Islamic Fall 2014

and Western architectural sources, contemporary desert camouflage patterns, and the head scarves of local Somali children in more than 10,000 individually laser-cut patterns on muslin fabric that outline the silhouette of a full-scale General Atomics MQ-1 Predator drone. The work debuted at Circa Gallery in Minneapolis last year. “The choice of Under the Rose is an especially appropriate one,” says Barrett Fisher, associate dean of arts and humanities, “because it epitomizes the quality of Steinbach’s craft, the depth of his thought, and the intentionality of his commitment to a profound integration of art and faith, as well as his collaborative spirit; significantly, in creating Under the Rose he included his undergraduates.” Three students—Ben Jasmer ’15, Heidi Kao ’16, and Ashley Zapata ’15—helped locate patterns and render laser cutting for the project.

New CFO Patrick Brooke began in August as the university’s new chief financial officer. He holds an MBA from DePaul University and has skills in accounting, budget management, complex bond issues, risk management, and financial policy development.

He’s also trained in comprehensive financial analysis, which includes trend line projections and peer group comparisons.

Previously, he served at Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois, as controller and as the senior director of financial operations. “The collaborative spirit Pat has displayed over many years in an academic setting makes him a great fit for Bethel,” says President Jay Barnes. “He brings outstanding financial skills.”

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Art Professor Wins National Prize

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Bethel Breaks Ground on New Wellness Center Bethel University broke ground on a new 22,500-square-foot Wellness Center on October 8 as hundreds of students, student-athletes, staff, faculty, donors, alumni, Board of Trustee members, friends, and vendors associated with the project gathered to celebrate the occasion. With state-of-the-art fitness equipment available for all students, plus expanded resources for student athletes, the Wellness Center will serve the entire community with one convenient, easily accessible location. The Wellness Center will also include approximately 5,500 square feet of assessment spaces, labs, and creative learning spaces for biokinetics, one of Bethel’s fastest-growing undergraduate programs, which has rapidly outgrown its space. Seth Paradis, associate professor of biokinetics, told the crowd how excited students are to work in a facility with many opportunities to learn. He emphasized that the facility will benefit not only the internal Bethel community, but will increase opportunities to bring others to campus through partnerships with community organizations.

“We’ve been dreaming of this for years,” said President Jay Barnes. “We look forward to how God uses this to build us holistically.” For helping to make the dream a reality, he praised “those who have come alongside us, are committed to the Wellness Center, and had a big vision for it.” One such partner is Brian Provost ’91, who along with his wife Lisa (Miller) ’13, is passionate about the Wellness Center and has contributed to the project.

“Bethel is all about the mind, body, and spirit,” he Interested in says. “Now we can focus more on the body.” Nearly contributing? all of the estimated $11 million project cost has Contact the Office of been raised. Construction is expected to start in Development at November and be completed in fall 2015.

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HOMECOMING 2014 Hundreds of students, alumni, employees, and friends participated in a week of events celebrating Homecoming, centering on the theme “We are Bethel.” For undergrad students, festivities began early in the week when each residence hall, plus a group of off-campus students, began a four-day competition for the “Royal Cup.” Alumni events began Friday, October 3, with the presentation of the College of Arts & Sciences Alumnus of the Year award and a free family movie night. On Saturday, fans packed the stands as the football team remained undefeated in conference play with a

27-17 win over Concordia College, and the excitement continued that evening with the Royal Celebration, which featured the creativity of Joy Peterson Donley ’89 and a cast of Bethel alums in a parody of National Public Radio’s quiz show, “Wait, Wait... Don’t Tell Me!” Class reunion parties followed for the classes of ’64, ’74, ’84, ’94, ’04, and ’09. Bethel Seminary also held events this year, including a breakfast for the Class of ’64 and an alumni gathering, which featured the presentation of the Bethel Seminary Alumnus of the Year award.

HOMECOMING STATS

542 attendees at

class reunions

69 attendees at the Class of 1964 50-year reunion

30 number of years

celebrated by the nursing department since its first graduates in 1984

115 alumni at the

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665 people attending the Royal Celebration

53˚ high temperature for Saturday’s festivities

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Visit www.bethel.edu/news/ articles/2014/october/ homecoming to view a Homecoming photo gallery.

Heard at Homecoming My former Bethel roommate and I have been friends since 1942.

College of Arts & Sciences Alumnus of the Year David Asprey ’84

Bethel Seminary Alumnus of the Year John Morris S’86

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David Asprey graduated cum laude from Bethel with a degree in biology and minors in chemistry and psychology. His time at Bethel helped him connect his faith with his academic goals; then God directed him to the University of Iowa, where he received a Bachelor of Science degree in MedicinePhysician Assistant, as well as a master’s degree and a doctorate in higher education. Asprey moved up the university’s ranks and now serves as assistant dean for student affairs and curriculum, chair of the physician assistant studies and services department, and professor of physician assistant. Under his leadership, the University of Iowa’s physician assistant program was ranked #1 in the country in 2007. Asprey has been honored with numerous teaching awards and recognition in the physician assistant field.

John Morris is a 1986 Master of Divinity graduate of Bethel Seminary.

He has pastored several congregations and served three tours of duty in the Middle East, bringing the gospel to hundreds of soldiers. Morris now serves as staff chaplain of the Army National Guard, where he’s in charge of recruiting and training the bestqualified chaplains. Passionate about supporting members of the military and their families, he created Minnesota’s “Beyond the Yellow Ribbon” program, which helps re-integrate soldiers into civilian life.

In 2008, Congress mandated that the program be the national standard for all returning Guard and Reserve soldiers and their family members. photo by Rich Ryan

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–Carol Rexion Anderson ’44

Visit vimeo.com/108149593 to see a video honoring Morris.

Visit vimeo.com/108149594 to see a video honoring Asprey.

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From the Locker Room

Meet standout Bethel fall athletes

Men’s Cross Country Tom Ritter • Jr., Sioux Falls, S.D.

One of four Bethel men’s cross country runners to receive MIAC Academic All-Conference honors last fall, Ritter has proven that he’s more than just a good student. In his 2014 season, he’s led the Royals in every race, including a pair of Top 15 finishes in the first three meets.

Women’s Cross Country Annika Halverson • Fr., Wayzata, Minn.

Halverson has made a splash in her first year with the Royals, taking first place at this season’s opening meet and recording fourth place results at both Grinnell’s Les Duke Invitational and Minnesota’s Roy Griak Meet.

Football Brandon Marquardt • Sr., Champlin, Minn.

A 2013 MIAC All-Conference recipient, Marquardt, a tailback, has averaged 5.6 yards per carry in 2014 and has also taken two kick returns back for touchdowns of at least 96 yards.

Men’s Golf AJ Oster • So., Andover, Minn.

Winning the 2014 MIAC Men’s Golf Championship capped Bethel’s strongest season in program history. Leading the way was sophomore Oster, who averaged 74.9 strokes per round this fall.

Women’s Golf Abby Perrenoud • So., Sioux Falls, S.D.

Perrenoud became Bethel’s first female golfer to receive AllMIAC honors, finishing among the Top 10 at the 2013 conference meet. She also helped the Royals finish second at the 2014 MIAC Championships—Bethel’s best-ever finish.

Men’s Soccer Matthew Pisarski • Sr., West Des Moines, Iowa A starting forward for the Royals throughout his entire career, Pisarski recorded 16 points during his senior season. He is on track to receive his third consecutive Academic All-Conference award.

Women’s Soccer Olivia Haggerty • Sr., Buffalo, Minn.

A four-year starter, Haggerty has been touted as one of the strongest defenders for the Royals back line. She’s also a star in the classroom, receiving MIAC Academic All-Conference honors back-to-back years.

Volleyball Nicole Deberry • Jr., Libertyville, Ill. A two-year starter, Deberry has helped Bethel begin their season 13-5 overall, including a 3-1 record at the Puget Sound Premier in Tacoma, Wash., to open the 2014 campaign.

Extra Points Good Works. For the second consecutive year, Bethel’s football team produced an Allstate AFCA Good Works Team recipient.

Senior offensive lineman Joshua Perkins was one of 22 players nationwide selected for this award that pays tribute to student-athletes who have sought to positively impact the lives of others. All recipients will be featured at the 2015 Allstate Sugar Bowl.

Robertson Redo. Over the summer, Bethel’s Robertson Center Gymnasium received a significant facelift that features new paint on three of the four walls and a branded display with the words “Bethel Royals” embedded in 13 pictures.

MLS Distinction. Bethel alum

Greg Barkey ’85 recently became the first person in Major League Soccer to record 300 games as an assistant referee. Barkey, a fouryear soccer player for the Royals, has covered the MLS Cup Final four times and was a FIFA AR for 13 years, where he was assigned to the 2006 World Cup.

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“Bethel volleyball challenges athletes to be uncomfortable in their pursuit of excellence.

That means we go beyond just focusing on ourselves, but strive to love teammates like family, because what is required to love like that is uncomfortable. It also means we go beyond just competing honorably, but strive to win, because what is required to win is uncomfortable. A willingness to be uncomfortable in pursuit of excellence prepares our student-athletes for the important callings they have in this world.”

Gretchen Hunt volleyball coach 14th season Read the full interview with Coach Hunt at www.bethelroyals.com

ROYAL PROFILE Name: Erik Peterson Year: Senior Sport: Football

Hometown: Orono, Minn.

Major: Sociology

What has been your greatest experience as a Bethel football player?

The 2013 season was an unforgettable experience because of winning the MIAC and making a run in the playoffs. But the memories and little things that happened with that team are what I will cherish and remember for a long time.

What has been the most valuable lesson you’ll take away from playing football?

One of our mottos: “Stay in the fight.” It applies both to football and life, because at some point we will be faced with some sort of adversity. I have been fortunate enough to be surrounded by guys who are examples of “staying in” when they have been faced with tough times.

How has being at Bethel helped you succeed on and off the field?

At Bethel, I’ve been surrounded by people who will make me better and push me.

From a football perspective, I have teammates and coaches who will push me to improve on the field, and they will hold me accountable in school work. Bethel has given me an opportunity to learn from and be influenced by some incredible people.

What was your reaction after being named 2013 MIAC MVP? I was surprised and extremely humbled. It was an honor to be named the MVP, but I was more excited because I saw it as an award for our offense. We put in a lot of hard work to get where we were last year and I think the award was a reflection of that.

As you leave Bethel, what is the legacy you hope people will remember you by?

I hope to be remembered as a guy who led by example and played/worked hard for his teammates. I hope for myself and for all the seniors, our legacy will be that of toughness and a group that was willing to “hold the rope” for one another.

Who has had the biggest impact on your life and why?

I would say that my parents have had the biggest impact on my life because of the values they have instilled in me. I see those values as putting others first, working hard, and being humble.

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What are your goals after graduating from Bethel?

My goal after Bethel is to go to school to prepare for work as either a firefighter or a police officer.

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In 2009, while serving at a hospital in an Old Profession, New Methods Midwives have been helping women give birth since Indonesian jungle, Katrina Anderson ’10 time began. In the book of Genesis, we’re told that Jacob’s wife Rachel used a midwife. And in Exodus, it was Hebrew discovered a practice that would impact midwives who saved Moses when the king of Egypt the trajectory of her career and ministry. ordered all male babies slain. Though its roots are ancient, midwifery as a profession couldn’t be more modern, “A midwife attended all the births, while providing women and their families with a uniquely hands-on approach doctors only assisted if needed,” she to healthcare. And today’s certified explains. “They trusted in the women to nurse-midwives (CNMs) do more than deliver babies: they’re advanced do what they were designed to do without practice nurses who also provide intervention, and this felt empowering. I primary care to women and girls from decided that going into a field that supports adolescence through menopause, although women usually connect with women and babies would be an amazing them for the first time through the prenatal and birth process. “We help way to impact community health.” provide the birth experience a woman Katrina Anderson ’10 wants,” Anderson says. Whether a Now Anderson is a professor in Bethel’s woman chooses natural methods for pain management or new online M.S. in Nurse-Midwifery medication, to deliver at home or in a hospital, a midwife will support her decision. “There’s no wrong way to give program—one of the only faith-based birth as long as there’s a healthy mom and a healthy baby programs in the U.S. and just the second in the end,” says Nurse-Midwifery Program Director Jane Wrede. certification program in Minnesota— where she and her colleagues help families High Tech, High Touch Ninety-five percent of women who use a CNM give by teaching the art and science of nursebirth in a hospital, combining a therapeutic human touch and presence alongside technology. “We provide medical midwifery. Though midwives attend the services like electronic fetal monitoring, IVs, and oxygen, majority of births in Europe and other and then we empower women to be partners in their care,” Anderson explains. Midwives believe that women’s bodies parts of the world, it’s a newly growing were designed to give birth. Wrede says that she and her field in the U.S., as families seek less colleagues assume childbirth will go smoothly unless they see signs to indicate otherwise, emphasizing that the vast expensive and more personalized care majority of births don’t require intervention. for childbirth and throughout their lives.

And because nurse-midwives only intervene when a specific need arises, births they attend experience lower Read on to learn about the increasing role complication rates, she says. But doctors are still relevant. of nurse-midwives, what their role means “There’s a concern that midwives could potentially compete with physicians, but in reality there’s a way for midwives for women’s healthcare today, and why and physicians to work side by side and both reach their Bethel’s program launch comes at a crucial professional goals,” Wrede explains. “Midwives do lowintervention, low-risk deliveries, but there’s a certain time in the evolution of this specialty. population that will always need specialty care.”

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“There’s no wrong way to give birth as long as there’s a healthy mom and a healthy baby in the end.”

Mallory Allinder ’10 is typical of those who used a midwife in a hospital for both her children’s births. “When I went into labor with my first child, my midwife offered lots of natural options for pain management,” Allinder says. “I ended up having an epidural because of the length and intensity of the labor, but I felt empowered after that birth and felt it was the best choice for me. My second child was born naturally with a midwife.”

involvement, but also to cut costs: fees at birth centers are typically one-third less than at hospitals. The centers enjoy excellent birth outcomes, with just 6% of birth center clients having cesarean births on average, compared with 25% of low-risk women in hospitals.

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A Timely Program in Demand

Besides using CNMs in hospitals, a small but growing number of families choose natural childbirth in their homes or at birth centers. Five percent of families select one of these options, a number that continues to grow at a rate of half a percent a year. And the number of birth centers is growing too; according to the American Association of Birth Centers, there are 255 centers in 37 states and Washington, D.C., up 30% since 2010. Birth centers provide the comforts of home, natural pain management methods, and the safety net of additional care such as electronic fetal monitoring.

One such site is the Minnesota Birth Center (MBC) in Minneapolis, the brainchild of neonatologist Steve Calvin ’76 (see p. 15). The center might best be described as a B&B&B—bed, breakfast, and baby.

Housed in a 1911 Victorian mansion, it features spacious remodeled rooms Jane Wrede with gleaming cherry wood accents and historic stained glass windows. Laboring women and their families can enjoy soothing music, aromatherapy, and birthing tubs to enhance their experience, making the center an inviting and comfortable place to hear their baby’s first cry. The staff consists entirely of nursemidwives and registered nurses who have admitting privileges at Abbott Northwestern Hospital, located across the street from the center, if intervention becomes necessary.

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—Jane Wrede, nurse-midwifery program director

With the growth in out-of-hospital births comes the need for more trained midwives. Bethel’s advanced nurse-midwifery program integrates evidence-based practices that change rapidly, producing highly skilled, compassionate nurse-midwives who support families like the Allinders, whether in a hospital, birth center, or home.

“Bethel’s program is timely,” Wrede says. “There are nurses who would love to go back to school to be a midwife, but many of them don’t want a longer program. They can come to Bethel and qualify to sit for the certification exam in less time and with more flexibility because it’s online, with short on-campus residencies and practica that we try to set up near each student’s hometown.”

Bethel started the program with the help of Allina Health System, which provided a substantial grant to partially fund program development. And Allina staff members will be among the first served: three Allina employees have enrolled in the first cohort that began in August to serve the increasing demand for these specialists. “The American Midwifery Certification Board has established a professional education goal of certifying 1,000 new midwives per year in the U.S. alone by 2015,” says Dick Crombie, vice president and dean of the College of Adult & Professional Studies and Graduate School. “Our transformational nurse-midwifery program will help meet that demand and produce ‘world changers’ in this critical area of community health.”

Today’s Midwifery Student

Rebecca Smith ’16 typifies the learners in the first nursemidwifery cohort. An intensive care nurse, Smith decided to become a midwife to come alongside women. “I am amazed at how the female body works and how little women know about their body’s capabilities,” she says. “And I am

getting the best of both worlds. I have the ability to access this learning without traveling and from a faith-based institution with a reputation for excellent education.”

Bethel’s faith-based program attracts students like Smith by providing a unique perspective to midwifery education that honors how God designed the childbirth process. “The

Christian midwife says that God is the creator of life, and the birthing process is a reflection of His glory,” Wrede says.

“To include faith in the process is an amazing opportunity for nurses and nurse-midwives.”

Visit gs.bethel.edu/academics/masters/nurse-midwifery to learn more about Bethel’s new online M.S. in Nurse-Midwifery program.

photos courtesy of Minnesota Birth Center

Minnesota Birth Center Neonatologist Steve Calvin ’76 talks about why he started the Minnesota Birth Center in 2011 and what it means for women’s healthcare.

experience of my daughters and daughter-in-law as they had their own children. I knew that care could be much better.

Why did you open the Minnesota Birth Center (MBC)?

After 30+ years of high-risk pregnancy practice, it became clear that the current system was not providing high-quality, coordinated care to mothers and babies for a reasonable price. I also experienced this indirectly as I observed the

What is your role now, since the MBC is fully staffed by certified nurse-midwives (CNMs) and nurses?

I serve as the medical director and high-risk pregnancy consultant. In that role I arrange for committed obstetricians to serve as colleagues who provide a medical safety net for our CNM team as they care for mothers and babies—whether the births happen at the birth center or the hospital. We’ve developed a unique, comprehensive, single-price maternity and newborn care option called the BirthBundle™. We are piloting it with major insurers in Minnesota.

How has the birth center grown since it opened?

We have cared for more than 300 mothers since opening

in 2011, and by February 2015 we will open a site in St. Paul to accommodate more mothers who want this kind of team-based comprehensive care.

Steve Calvin ’76

What is the MBC’s relationship to Bethel’s nurse-midwifery program?

The MBC will serve as a residency location for Bethel’s nurse-midwifery students next year. We look forward to providing clinical teaching and research opportunities.

In what ways can OB/GYNs and CNMs work together to provide care?

Physicians and CNMs have separate but complementary roles in the care of mothers and babies. A relationship of mutual respect is key. Currently 10% of births are attended by midwives. I won’t be surprised if that increases to more than 30% within a decade.

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PlaceMeant– BETHEL UNIVERSITY FLEXIBLE It used to be the place where students gathered to watch afternoon soap operas on TV, play some billiards, or serve their community through student government. But this former student lounge has been transformed into Bethel University’s first Flexible Learning Classroom, a space where innovative teaching and learning can take place. “Excellent teaching is central to Bethel’s educational mission, and classrooms like this enable our faculty to challenge and support students to fulfill their intellectual potential,” says Barrett Fisher, associate dean of arts and humanities and chair of the University Classroom Oversight Committee, which helped create the classroom.

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E LEARNING CLASSROOM by Lauren Pareigat ’08 1. Technological interaction. Large-screen monitors are strategically placed around the circumference of the room. Students in any seat can easily follow along with the instructor’s presentation, watch a video, or take an interactive quiz.

2. Real-time and anonymous polling. Each student receives a remote to submit their answer to a proposed question or poll. The software provides instant, anonymous results. Instructors use the results to further discussion of the opinions.

Often, instructors have students submit answers a second time, revealing how the discussion influenced student perspectives.

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3. Pod-style arrangement. Seating in the classroom is made up entirely of round tables, or “pods.”

This formation provides seamless transitions between group discussions and the instructor’s presentation of material provided on the screens.

Pods throughout the space also allow instructors to walk through the room and interact with students more easily than a traditional classroom.

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4. Writeable walls. The classroom features floorto-ceiling dry erase surfaces on the three primary walls. Multiple students at a time can be at the walls, expressing their ideas.

Immediate visibility of students’ work means instructors can monitor how students are processing the material and provide feedback or correction.

photo by Scott Streble

5. Tables with power sources. Every pod is equipped with outlets to plug in laptops, tablets, or other devices today’s students commonly use in class. Each table also has connection to the screens. Students can actively and quickly share information from a device, or present in a discussion-based manner to the entire room.

Visit vimeo.com/91706028 to watch a video about the Flexible Learning Classroom.

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REAL WORLD MINISTRY WORLDWIDE

Bethel Seminary professors travel the globe to bring ministry applications from their classrooms to the real world, and bring the world back to their classrooms.

by Tricia Theurer

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Teaching—and learning— don’t happen only in classrooms. As travel and technology

enable increasing global connection, the world continues to grow smaller, creating opportunities for cross-cultural ministry like never before. “The world in which we’re called to serve and lead is getting more interconnected every day,” says David Clark, vice president and dean of

Ben Lim

photo by Greg Schneider

Professor of Marital and Family Therapy Bethel Seminary San Diego Lim recently returned from the Far East, where he taught two intensives to Christian counselors and led a team of Bethel Seminary San Diego students and therapists to Taichung to work with the Taiwan Missionary Fellowship annual conference.

Bethel Seminary. This is especially true at Bethel Seminary San Diego, where its very location on the Pacific Rim brings rich opportunities for intercultural ministry.

Says Arnell Motz, dean and executive officer of Bethel Seminary San Diego, “The ‘new normal’ for church ministry today is being able to serve across cultures.” Read on to meet some seminary faculty who are doing just that.

Tell us more about your trip.

The Bethel team ministered to missionaries and their families at the conference. The team conducted 10 workshops related to member care, and I led five workshops on “Parenting Third Culture Kids.” We had many informal therapeutic conversations with the missionaries and their families. I also taught two intensives, “Contextually Respectful Counselor” and “Family Violence in the Far East,” to a group of Christian counselors.

I was impressed by the students’ desire to equip themselves to serve God. They love the integration of faith and therapy.

Compare/contrast your teaching experiences at Bethel and abroad.

At Bethel Seminary San Diego, I teach MFT and pastoral care classes. It’s a great joy to equip ministers and train marital and family therapists for licensure in an integrative manner. I do the same abroad, except that they don’t have a national MFT license. In spite of that, I’m very impressed with the commitment of the students to pursue their studies both for their own personal and spiritual development and their ministry with the house churches. Participants have served the Lord in the harvest field for many years, whereas at Bethel we’re preparing students for ministry either in pastoral/parachurch ministries or to be marital and family therapists.

What new applications were you able to bring from Bethel to the Far East? What did you learn that can be translated back into ministry applications for your seminary students in San Diego?

What struck me is the wealth of resources available in the U.S., which is not the case in the Far East. There’s a dearth of mental health resources, so Christians there are hungry for the courses that we’re able to provide. We definitely learned from our brothers and sisters in their zeal and hunger for the Word that is often taken for granted here. We enjoyed the hospitality of the Asians and their collectivistic lifestyle, which is sometimes lacking in the U.S. We brought home invaluable memories from this cross-cultural experience that we have shared with the Bethel community, and we learned to be grateful for what we have.

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Denise Kjesbo

Professor of Children’s and Family Ministry; Lead Faculty, Children’s and Family Ministry Bethel Seminary St. Paul Kjesbo participated in the Global Children’s Forum in London this summer, where 60 people from more than 25 countries gathered to ask, “What can we do together that we can’t do alone?” She serves on a task force that seeks to bring nonformal leadership development to majority world leaders through a five-week program, the Global Certificate in Children’s Ministry, which is set to launch in 2016 in South Africa. Kjesbo is working on curriculum for the program.

What new applications were you able to bring from Bethel to this global forum? What did you learn at the forum that can be translated back into ministry applications for your seminary students in St. Paul?

I am so thankful that Bethel Seminary has had a vision to equip children’s, youth, and family ministry leaders over the last 15 years. I am teaching a course in Global and Missional Perspectives in Children’s and Family Ministry this fall for the first time, and I’ve been able to incorporate my experiences and learning directly into that course. I actually shared a draft of the syllabus with several of my global colleagues and got their input and perspectives as the course was being formed. What a rich opportunity!

What was a unique experience you had while in London?

Bethel Seminary has been invited to be the “endorsing” western seminary of the program, in partnership with Malaysia Baptist Theological Seminary (the endorsing eastern seminary). It is a rare privilege to be able to partner with and be shaped by the service of others as we collaborate. I loved being in a group of approximately 60 people representing 25+ nations. We were able to really get to know one another and dig deep into our shared passions.

How have your students benefited from your ministry/teaching experiences across the globe?

My students have gained a bigger vision for how God is at work in the world in the realm of children’s and family ministry. They’ve been exposed to the “4/14 Window” (the richest soil for missions/evangelism/discipleship is with children between the ages of 4 and 14) and the “1 for 50 Movement” (seeking to train one children’s ministry leader for every 50 children in the world). They’ve been invited to ask how they can reach out to children in their community with the love of Jesus and to children around the world in partnership with our global sisters and brothers!

In my first class in this program, I learned about the state of children’s ministry around the world. I soon knew that I wanted to train children’s workers globally, and I got to do just that in northern India this summer. About 60 women came to a women’s conference where I was teaching children’s ministry workshops. The women were hungry to learn all they could so they could go back to their villages and minister to other women and children. This experience deepened my resolve to focus on children’s ministry globally.

–Barb Filiatrault S’15, Master of Arts in Children’s and Family Ministry student

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Glen Scorgie

photo by Greg Schneider

Professor of Theology Bethel Seminary San Diego In May 2014, Scorgie taught a course on Christian spirituality at China Graduate School of Theology in Hong Kong. In June 2014, he taught a course to doctor of ministry students in British Columbia, Canada; in July 2014, he taught a seminar on worship to Baptist pastors in the Urkaine in association with Realis, a graduatedegree offering evangelical study center in Kiev, and lectured at a Ukrainian Catholic university in the eastern city of Lviv.

Compare/contrast your teaching experiences at Bethel and abroad.

Often overseas students are able to devote their full attention to the (intensive) courses I teach, rather than being distracted by full-time jobs and commuting. Many of them come from non-Christian backgrounds, and are constantly comparing and contrasting the Christian faith to their earlier religious socialization. One thing students have in common, regardless of their location, is the ability to intuit whether the professor genuinely cares for them. When they perceive this to be so, virtually all other barriers come down rather quickly.

What new applications were you able to bring from Bethel to your recent travels? What did you learn that can be translated back into ministry applications for your seminary students in San Diego?

One of the things I can sometimes bring to overseas teaching settings is a broad synthesis of my reading and study in a disciplinary area. I can offer students a larger and more integrated picture than perhaps they have had access to in their particular region or church tradition. As an outsider, I sometimes function as a relatively safe confidante for faculty, pastors, and institutional leaders who need to share their personal and vocational challenges. Traveling and teaching internationally certainly widen my perspective as a professor, and help me to stay more focused on the big picture when I return to Bethel.

What was a unique experience you had while teaching and traveling?

While I was in Hong Kong, I had the privilege of attending the funeral of the father of one of our Chinese American students from Bethel, who had flown back to Hong Kong to be with his mother and family. The funeral, significantly, was a Christian one, as my student had just led his father and mother to Christ shortly before his father’s death. The next evening we visited “the peak” overlooking the Hong Kong skyline at Glen Scorgie’s passion and love for Chinese sunset, to reflect on God’s faithfulness and the mystery of people is seen through his wholehearted a network of Christian fellowship that encompasses the involvements in teaching seminary in Hong globe.

Kong and as a frequent preacher in my Overall, how have your students benefited from church. While in Hong Kong this summer, he your ministry/teaching experiences across the was the sole westerner at my dad’s memorial globe? service. Through these experiences, he I think it means a lot to our students from various parts of the world to know that their professors have visited has become more effective in providing their countries of origin and have some sense of their theological education with contextual roots and the unique challenges they have faced in life. insights into today’s diverse community of It helps them feel that they are understood and really do seminarians in San Diego. belong at Bethel. This is an important element of building –Eric Lam S’15, Master of Divinity student a cohesive multicultural community.

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Justin Irving

photo by Scott Streble

Professor of Ministry Leadership; Director, Doctor of Ministry program Bethel Seminary St. Paul

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In April 2013, Irving traveled to Fond-des-Blancs, Haiti, with the Haiti Christian Development Fund, which has focused on church planting and social justice engagement for 30 years.

He serves on the board of the ministry, which he calls “a model of sustainable Christian work.�

This trip centered on teaching and training for their Caleb Leadership Center. A second trip, in March 2014, focused on program evaluation and an on-site board meeting.

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Compare/contrast your teaching experiences at Bethel and abroad.

Ministry leadership is the focus of my teaching, so I provide an overview of similar leadership theory and biblical leadership principles in both contexts.

In addition, I facilitate contextual conversations with participants. I emphasize that each student/leader must consider how leadership principles are uniquely translated into their particular ministry and cultural context. Context matters, and leadership practitioners need to guide their organizations in light of diverse cultural contexts.

What new applications were you able to bring from Bethel to Haiti? What did you learn in Haiti that can be translated back into ministry applications for your seminary students in St. Paul?

I have a passion for the study and practice of servant leadership. This was the focus of my teaching in Haiti. Haiti Christian Development Fund is the best model I know for effective Christian community development. This model of ministry focused on biblical justice provides a powerful case for me to share with seminary students.

What was a unique experience you had while traveling in Haiti?

During my recent ministry trip I visited the village of Lexi. One of the students initiated a road building project at the request of community members in that mountain village. When I visited there, we drove one of the first vehicles to traverse these mountain roads. Community members are especially grateful that their village is now accessible beyond walking paths.

How have your students benefited from your ministry/teaching experiences across the globe?

Ministries focused on biblical justice and Christian community development are vital to the church in our day. Models such as Haiti Christian Development Fund are powerful and worth reproducing throughout the world. I’m thankful that students are able to learn about this unique and sustainable model of community ministry.

A SINGLE THING

Finding identity, purpose, and fulfillment apart from a relationship status

by Michelle Westlund ’83

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During their college years, students are faced with major life decisions like selecting a career path, deciding whether to continue on to graduate school or professional training…and possibly choosing a mate. But many students will graduate and join more than 102 million unmarried U.S. adults age 18 and older—that’s over 44% of the U.S. population.* What are their unique needs and concerns? Here’s what singles from Bethel say they’d like others—including our churches—to know about who they are and what’s important to them.

“I can’t count the number of conversations I’ve had around relationships and the question of singleness,” says Courtney Coulter ’14, a social work major now pursuing graduate studies in clinical social work. While at Bethel, Coulter served as a resident assistant. She notes that singleness was a topic of significant interest and concern to the women in her residence hall.

Campus events and conversations tend to address relationships and marriage, says Coulter, which is “fantastic and needed, but at times leaves some students feeling that their singleness is a negative thing.” The topic is an important one, agrees Marie Wisner, interim vice president of student life. “Our students have many opportunities on campus to hear about developing romantic relationships and marriage, but very few opportunities to explore the possibility of having a thriving experience of being single, whether for a season or as a long-term lifestyle.”

Starting the conversation

Coulter decided to open a conversation about singleness, and organized a panel discussion at Bethel last year that drew more than 100 students, alumni, and staff. “The speakers reminded us that God designed singleness and marriage equally, and that both are important in His eyes,” she says. “The overarching takeaway from the event, which all the panelists spoke to in various ways, was that our identity needs to come from Christ, and Christ alone.”

Coulter says singleness—both as a label and as a lifestyle—has played a large role in who she is today.

“I have experienced and witnessed the self-doubt and questions of worthiness that rise to the surface in my own singleness,” she says, “especially as others frequently mention my relationship status.

Those comments made me wrestle with how I can live into this part of who I am, and respond in a positive and Godglorifying way.”

Working through these experiences, though, she has found the capacity for gratefulness. “I have found that believing God has a beautiful plan for my life allows me to trust that He will use me in unexpected ways,” she explains.

“I’m grateful for this gift, and I want others to know this truth and believe it for themselves. I hope my story can be a testament to God’s faithfulness.”

Single again

While never-married singles like Coulter may wonder about their future relationship status, other singles—those who have been divorced or widowed—may be mourning a past relationship. “Adjusting to single life after years of marriage was very difficult,” says Dan ’97 (name has been changed), who was divorced after being married eight years. “I faced the work of healing from relationship damage, the pain of being alone, and the confusion of trying to figure out how to move ahead in my new single status.”

Dan’s journey led him to the conclusion that both singleness and marriage require maturity and grace, as well as healthy and realistic expectations. “Both singles and married couples can see the grass as greener in situations other than their own, and they can romanticize the notion of being married or being single,” he says. “In my experience, living in a difficult marriage was more

“In a Church that was founded by a single guy, singles are terribly marginalized.”

*Source: United States Census Bureau

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– Christena Cleveland, associate professor of reconciliation studies

“Our identity needs to come from Christ, and Christ alone.”

– Courtney Coulter ’14

challenging than being single.” He offers some perspective for singles who are tempted to make a dating or marriage relationship their goal. “People imagine that marriage will make them more fulfilled,” he says. “But if you’re not fulfilled in your own life before marriage, a relationship isn’t suddenly going to change that.”

Singles and the church

“In a Church that was founded by a single guy, singles are terribly marginalized,” says Christena Cleveland, associate professor of reconciliation studies and author of Disunity in Christ: Uncovering the Hidden Forces That Keep Us Apart. A 30-something single herself, Cleveland has both studied and personally experienced what she calls the “married people monopoly” in our churches. “How can pastors/leaders who got married in their early to mid-20s possibly understand the complexities of singleness or how to honor the image of God in single people?” she asks.

Cleveland maintains that many of the same deeply felt questions singles struggle with rise up anew as they attempt to find support and connection within the church. “After interacting with the church,” she says, “many singles start to wonder: Is there something wrong with me? Is God working in my life? Am I as valuable—to God, to the church—as married people? Does God love me as much as married people? Does God have good things in store for me as a single person?”

Questions like these, faced honestly and authentically within the context of the church, can spark the same kinds of conversations that Coulter’s panel discussion prompted at Bethel. The important thing is to begin the conversations. Northwood Church of Maple Grove, Minnesota, started this kind of discussion about five years ago. In expressing their desire to minister to singles, leaders found that the singles attending Northwood wanted to be viewed by their adult life stage rather than their marital status. They desired to be welcomed into the church because of who they were, and didn’t want to be segmented off because they were single.

“These men and women were very comfortable being single and participating in the life of the church as they were,” says Northwood’s Senior Pastor Brian Doten ’81, S’87, who also chairs Bethel Seminary’s Alumni Council. “They wanted to be in small groups with married couples, younger and older people…As a result, we didn’t launch a singles ministry but have attempted to have an adults ministry that reaches everyone regardless of marital status.”

The single thing

The single thing mentioned most frequently by those who have carefully and prayerfully considered this issue seems to center on defining one’s identity in relationship with Christ, not another person. And the lessons learned in this pursuit— whether a person is single or married—have much to do with contentment, growth, and trust. “The time of singleness in your life, or possibly your whole life, is a time that is unique and growth-producing when your focus is in the right place,” says Coulter. “I would challenge people to remove their worth and identity from their relationship status and put their personal worth where it belongs—in the hands of God.” Read more about this topic on Christena Cleveland’s blog christenacleveland.com/2013/12/singled-out or the book God’s Call to the Single Adult by Michael Cavanaugh.

44% Percentage of U.S. adult population that is single

102 million

Number of single U.S. adults

53% 47% Percentage of single U.S. women to men

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Number of people who live alone, which is 28% of all households.

That’s up from 17% in 1970.

Source: United States Census Bureau. All statistics reflect data collected on U.S. residents age 18 and older.

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IT’S WHAT’S THAT COUNTS From laptops and lip balm to Bibles and baby wipes—Bethel students carry all these and more in the ubiquitous bags they tote. What kinds of bags do they choose? What’s unique about their choices? What are the most common—and the most unusual—items they carry inside? We scoured campus to find the latest trends in bags and backpacks, and discovered that what’s inside those bags is as unique as the Bethel students who carry them.

by Cindy Pfingsten with contributions from Emma Nichols ’15

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Changing a Child’s World…

ONE BACKPACK AT A TIME

One hundred thousand kids in the Twin Cities—or about 15% of the student population—live in food insecurity, not knowing when they will receive their next meal. While schools provide low-income students with free or reducedprice breakfasts and lunches during the day, many of these students head home for the weekend not knowing whether they will eat again before Monday morning.

In 2010, the principal of Sheridan Elementary School in Minneapolis connected with Michael Binder S’08 (former director of preaching at Bethel Seminary) and Stephanie Williams ’05, S’12, pastors at Minneapolis-based Mill City Church, which uses the school’s facilities for weekend services. The principal had observed repeated incidents of students hoarding food in their backpacks on Fridays to mitigate hunger issues over the weekend. “How else can you respond but to help?” recalls Rob Williams ’07, executive director of The Sheridan Story.

That fall, the church and school partnered to provide four to five pounds of weekend food for 27 kindergarteners.

That number grew to 100 kids in the spring. By the 2012-13 school year, the partnership was able to provide for all 300 Sheridan Elementary students who were food insecure. All the food was—and continues to be—discreetly distributed into students’ backpacks during the school day.

Williams’ business experience with an international relief organization and international logistics company convinced him that this kind of ministry could be done on a much larger scale. His vision was to connect schools with community partners who would each sponsor a school with funding and support. This model became a reality in November 2013, when the nonprofit The Sheridan Story was fully launched. “The community sponsors—from businesses to churches to synagogues—really own the relationship with the school,” explains Williams. “And The Sheridan Story provides the logistics of purchasing the food, packing it, storing it, and delivering it.” The partnership is set up in a way that can lead to mentoring, tutoring, or after-school programs run by community sponsors, based on the needs of the school.

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Executive Director Rob Williams ’07 stands among bins of bagged food that will be delivered to the backpacks of students in need.

Williams. “Most churches don’t think they can do anything in the public school, but we’ve shown you can!”

This fall, The Sheridan Story will distribute food to 25 Twin Cities schools, reaching 1,600-1,700 students.

Volunteers sign up for packing events at the warehouse, where shelf-stable foods like canned protein, vegetables/ potatoes, soup, fruit, and a base of rice or pasta are packed in bags to be stuffed in students’ backpacks. The schools report a significant increase in grades, behavior, attendance, self-esteem, and interaction with the families, thanks to the food The Sheridan Story provides. “If kids are hungry, it’s harder for them to learn,” says Williams.

“Education is one foundation for helping break the cycle of poverty. Looking to the future, our hope is that these kids’ kids won’t need this same support.”

The food in kids’ backpacks makes a real difference.

“Bethel’s value of world-changers really resonates with me,” reflects Williams. “It’s lofty, but wherever we find ourselves, we can make an impact. You maybe can’t change the whole world, but you can change a child’s world.”

Visit www.thesheridanstory.com to learn more about The Sheridan Story or to sign up for a packing event.

Think you know what’s in those backpacks?

THINK AGAIN! bills broken camera can koozie cedar wood chips dance shoes deck of cards deodorant dice dog waste bags eating utensils first aid kit flash drive with wedding pics floss goggles harmonica hot sauce liquid bandage peppermint oil pocket U.S. Constitution pop tabs probiotics socks sweater coffee coaster

“You never know when you’ll find a piano.”

HOW MUCH?

—Bethel Seminary student on why she keeps piano books in her backpack

“I keep a sticky note in here with the following words: critical thinking, intentional action, and delegation.”

—M.A. strategic leadership student

$100 average amount for CAPS/ GS students

CAS CAPS/GS SEM

$45 average amount for seminary students

HOW OLD?

What is the average age of a student’s backpack?

2.8 years CAPS/GS 5.3 years SEM

—CAS transfer student, finance and economics major

Top 5 ESSENTIALS CAPS/GS Students books snacks/gum computer charger phone

$50 average amount for CAS students

1.7 years­ CAS

“I’m a football player, and I keep art supplies for class in here.”

CAS Students textbooks computer notebooks water bottle pens/pencils

What are students willing to pay for a bag?

WHAT KIND?

Do students prefer a backpack or a messenger bag?

Backpack

Seminary Students computer Bible books journal notecards/flashcards

Messenger Bag

99% CAS

53%

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71% SEM

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ProFile–JACKY ARNESS

by Monique Kleinhuizen ’08

Senior Jacky Arness is a double major, a regular on the Dean’s List, a President’s Scholar, an Honors Program student, and last year’s student body vice president. After graduation she plans to brush up on her Arabic before attending law school and pursuing a career in international relations. In her spare time, she competes in pageants, and last summer the competition became much more than a hobby. In June, she was crowned Miss North Dakota, and in September, she joined 52 other contestants in Atlantic City to compete in the Miss America pageant, where she was selected one of 16 semifinalists and voted Miss Congeniality by her peers.

A native of Fargo, Arness visited Bethel at the suggestion of her mom, an alum. On that visit, Bethel Alumna of the Year Mary Pawlenty ’83, a former district court judge and thenFirst Lady of Minnesota, spoke in chapel. Arness calls that day “a dual revelation” that inspired both her college and career choices. “I couldn’t imagine myself going anywhere else,” she says. Once at Bethel, she channeled her interests into majors in biblical and theological studies and political science, and got involved in student government. She recalls losing her freshman senate race and having to run in a special election to fill vacant seats, saying challenges like that have helped her see failure as a learning experience. “If you want to do something,” she says, “don’t think that if it doesn’t happen the first time, it’s not going to.”

Arness will take a year off from her studies at Bethel to fulfill her duties as Miss North Dakota, returning to complete her degrees in fall 2015. In the meantime, she’ll spend much of the year traveling to schools and other venues to promote her platform “VIA: Values, Image, Actions.” Her passion is to “engage youth and encourage them to take advantage of leadership opportunities early in life.” She certainly knows a thing or two about that!

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Interested in earning scholarship funds, Arness competed in her first pageant as a college sophomore. She found that she enjoyed the “intangibles” of competing: developing interviewing skills, public speaking, and networking. So how does she integrate her faith with the glittering world of pageants? Arness has initiated prayer circles backstage before the spotlight of competition, but believes that her faith may shine brightest in the one-to-one interactions she shares out of the spotlight’s glare. “Sometimes we can shout the name of Jesus without using our mouths,” she says. “How we treat people matters. It makes people wonder, ‘What’s different about her?’ It was not me winning Miss Congeniality. It was Christ in me.”

ALUM News “Measure our performance by what God accomplishes through our graduates after they have been prepared at Bethel to go out into the world to serve.”

—John Alexis Edgren, founder

70s Gerard Sundberg ’73 is professor of voice and pedagogy at Wheaton College, Wheaton, Ill., where he was awarded the senior faculty achievement scholarship for excellence in his field. He was also recognized for his mentoring of students and his continued stewardship of time and talent at his church.

He has had baritone solo performances with local, national, and international orchestras, and in these performances his biography proudly reads “graduate of Bethel University.”

Stephen V. Anderson ’78 is a fellow and research associate at the Center for Policy Research, Rockefeller College of Public Affairs & Policy, University at Albany, State University of New York. His most recent research interest is “What would happen if disenfranchised felons had the right to vote?” Among the considerations are democracy, civic-mindedness, collective efficacy, punishment and deterrence, and the legitimacy of government.

David Koyzis ’78 is professor of political science at Redeemer University College, Ancaster, Ontario, Canada. He is the author of the award-winning Political Visions and Illusions:

a Survey and Christian Critique of Contemporary Ideologies, and more recently, We Answer to Another: Authority, Office, and the Image of God. His text, “Christ Who Is the Form of God,” a metrical versification of Philippians 2:6-11, was recently republished in Sing to the Lord, the psalter and hymnal of the Reformed Churches of New Zealand. In 2012 he was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal in recognition of his contributions to Canada. He maintains a website at genevanpsalter.redeemer.ca that is devoted to the 16th century Genevan Psalter.

Julie Smestad ’79 graduated in January from Dallas Theological Seminary with an M.A. in biblical studies with highest honors. She was awarded the Charles H. Troutman scholarship award, given to the graduating student who maintains the highest scholastic record in the Master of Arts programs.

90s David Horsager ’95, GS’07 was the keynote speaker at the Minnesota Prayer Breakfast in May. Oleg Voskresensky S’96 received his Ph.D. from Moscow Pedagogical University, Russia, in April 2013. His thesis was

Bethel Magazine includes Alum News from all schools of Bethel University. “S” indicates news from Bethel Seminary alumni, “CAPS” indicates news from the College of Adult & Professional Studies, and “GS” indicates news from Graduate School alumni. All other news is from College of Arts & Sciences alumni.

entitled “Religious Education in American Public Schools.”

Timothy White S’97 is the owner of Wildwood Agency, Barrington, Ill., an innovative consulting firm that focuses on working with all types of organizations that want to experience healthy growth internally and externally.

00s Jeff Pelletier S’00 launched a radio program, God’s Work in Progress, in October 2013. It focuses on helping Christians to do “great work with great faith.”

In June the program joined The Faith Radio Network and is now on eight stations in six states.

KTIS AM 900 in St. Paul is the flagship station. The program airs at 4:30 p.m. Sundays.

Randolph Frank S’03 is a chaplain at Froedtert Health, Wis. He published Great is God’s Faithfulness on the Amazon blog www.greatisgodsfaithfulness.com Kia Yang ’04 traveled to and from Thailand for the past few years and hopes to be a missionary there, providing social services, love, and passion for God. Krista Sundberg ’05 serves as a staff member with Youth with a Mission in Wollongong, Australia, introducing students to God’s plan of redemption and taking the gospel to leastreached people groups. Her i nte re s t i n m i s si o n s c a m e with multiple opportunities for cross-cultural experiences while a student at Bethel.

Lindsey (Johnson) Davison ’06 is a home mortgage consultant at Lendsmart Mortgage, Blaine, Minn.

Ben Rasanen ’07, Minnetrista, Minn., has been with Northwestern Mutual for seven years and recently achieved his certified financial planner designation.

Craig Anderson ’08 graduated with an M.D. from the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee in May. He then moved to Greenville, S.C., to begin a combined internal medicine/ pediatrics program with Greenville Health System.

Taylor Deetjen ’13 is the head women’s lacrosse coach at the University of Northwestern, St. Paul, Minn.

Marriages ’94 John Meyer happily remarried Amy Meyer in a private ceremony in Galena, Ill. They are the proud parents and stepparents of four. ’11 Carolyn Packard married Austin Massee ’11 in July.

Bethel Associate Professor of Business Steve Whiting officiated. Included in the wedding were Jeremy Fischer ’08, Matt Wenell ’10, Jenn Anagg ’10, and Eli Elstad ’11. Carolyn is a project manager for U.S. Bank in corporate payment systems. Austin is president of Department Q LLC, a technology consulting company that helps private companies of 2-20 employees with computers,

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ALUM News ’12 Erin Junkans married Carson King ’13 in September 2013. Wedding party members included Alex King ’09, Andy Birdsong ’09, Marcus Eckert ’ 13, Jake Irey ’13, Jon Crouse ’13, Jon Maurer ’13, Levi Hibma ’13, Luke Johnson ’13, Kristen (Bjork) Penz ’12, Makinzie Loeffler ’12, Sarah Klint ’12, and Randi (Jacobsen) King ’11. St. Louis Park, Minn. ’13 Lauren West married Josh Abbott ’13 in May. Rochester, Minn.

Births ’08 Mischa Jane was born in June to Kelly (Swanson) and Mike Karpe ’08. Shoreview, Minn. ’10 Leanora Becky was born in May 2013 to Mary Ellen (Bray) Olmstead and Nathan. Upper Marlboro, Md.

Deaths ’68 Garvin McGettrick (S), age 80, of Shoreview, Minn., died on June 11. He taught music at Bethel College in the 1960s and served as a regent of Bethel College & Seminary. Besides an M.Div. from Bethel Seminary, McGettrick held a

New Alumni Recognition Wall. Bethel has installed a

new alumni recognition display in the Alumni Lounge in Brushaber Commons. The display honors awardees from the College of Arts & Sciences and Bethel Seminary, starting in 1965, and was funded by gifts from current and past members of the N ational Alumni Board. Local artist Drew Sternal of LAink created the beautiful custom glass display that is sustainable and can continue to expand for many years.

master of music degree from the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, N.Y., and a doc tor of ministr y degree in theology from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Fort Worth, Texas. He served in the U.S. Navy as a navigator on anti-submarine aircraft and later became a Naval Reserve Chaplain, retiring with the rank of Commander. He then pastored several Baptist General Conference churches for nearly 20 years. He is survived by Lynne, his wife of 51 years; a son and daughter; seven grandchildren; and three brothers. ’80 Patrick Thomas Draper, S’84 died in May in Green Bay, Wis. He earned his

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Eden Prairie, Minn.

MSW from Michigan State University in 1994 and was a clinical social worker, ser ving in a number of agencies to give aid and counsel to people struggling with homelessness, mental illness, marriage issues, and addictions. He is

survived by his wife Jeanne (Carlson) ’82; two children and their spouses Janell ’05 (Kevin Bullock) and Jason ’05 (Katherine Kohorst); grandson; father; two brothers; and sister-inlaw. He was predeceased by his mother and nephew.

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A field-full of Bethel coaches and alums provides a hometown connection at the 2014 Major League Baseball All-Star Game

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by Jared Johnson

In July, Target Field in Minneapolis hosted the 85th Major League Baseball All-Star Game, and while the Minnesota Twins were the welcoming major league team, the Bethel Royals baseball staff also had their mitts all over this national spectacle. Five members of the coaching staff participated throughout the three days of activities, including head coach Brian Raabe and four assistant coaches. Raabe and assistants Tim Beasley and Erik Lovdahl each threw batting practice, while assistants Jay Slick ’12 and Bryan Ludwig handled catching duties throughout the Home Run Derby and All-Star Game.

Raabe, a former professional baseball player for the Twins and three other teams, threw batting practice to Derek Jeter, who was participating in the final MLB AllStar Game of his 20-year career.

Jeter and Raabe played together in the mid-1990s when both were with the New York Yankees. Raabe also participated in defensive workouts around the infield for Jay Slick ’12 multiple American League All Stars. “Continuing to partner with the Twins organization is invaluable,” says Raabe. “I enjoyed reconnecting with Derek and helping the players prepare for both events.”

Top assistant Beasley also threw batting practice and collected balls from the outfield throughout the training. His batting practice session not only included former Twins first baseman Justin Morneau, but also Brewers’ catcher Jonathan Lucroy, Beasley’s teammate at the University of Louisiana-Lafayette. “It was a sports experience that can never be topped,” Beasley says.

Slick, a three-time ABCA/Rawlings AllRegion player, was asked to be a catcher for the National League throughout the Home Run Derby and was in their bullpen during the All-Star Game. “I knew when I was asked that it was a once-ina-lifetime experience,” he says. “It was important for me to be locked into what I was doing, yet I stepped Jeff Nelson ’87 back from time to time to realize, wow, I’m catching Aroldis Chapman’s 100-mileper-hour fastball or Clayton Kershaw’s curveball.”

The five coaches weren’t Bethel’s only connection to the All-Star game. Jeff Nelson ’87, who is in his 17th year as a Major League umpire, was a member of the game’s umpiring crew. His return to the Twin Cities for the AllStar Game is one of many career highlights, including the 2005 and 2009 World Series; the 2002, 2004, 2010, 2011, and 2012 League Championship Series; and the 2000, 2001, 2005, 2008, and 2009 Division Series; as well as the 2006 All-Star game. Nelson says he told his boss that if the AllStar Game was ever held at Target Field, it would be very special for him to umpire it. And sure enough, when the time came, the call went his way. “I was excited because the All-Star Game is one of those events that everyone looks forward to in their umpiring career,” Nelson says. “Being in Minneapolis makes it that much more special.” He notes that the last time Minneapolis held an All-Star Game, he was umpiring high school games to pay for tuition as a Bethel history major.

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“While in Kenya, we spent one afternoon weaving through the streets of Kibera, Africa’s largest urban slum. The moment captured in this photo lasted only a few seconds, but I happened to catch it in a backward glance, and it’s become one of my favorite photos from the trip. While Kibera can be seen as a place of great darkness, pain, and poverty, there is also light to be found, especially in the joyful smiles of children like these. Our world met theirs in a beautiful way, awakening me to the reality of the vastness of God’s kingdom.”

CHERIE SUONVIERI ’15, A DOUBLE MAJOR IN JOURNALISM AND RECONCILIATION STUDIES, TOOK THIS PHOTO IN THE KIBERA SLUM, NAIROBI, KENYA, DURING THE INTERIM COURSE MEDIA AND COMMUNICATION IN DEVELOPING AFRICA: KENYA. THE BETHEL STUDENT IN THE PHOTO IS MATT JOHNSON ’15.