From Nate Huffstutler: The semester I began teaching at Maranatha, my daughter Anna was born the Monday before the first day of classes. As you can imagine, it was an extremely stressful first week. About two weeks into the semester, two-week-old Anna had to be taken to the emergency room and admitted into the hospital with an extremely high fever with no clear cause. For the next week or so, doctors were trying to figure out what was wrong with Anna, and my wife and I basically lived at the hospital. Somehow, while all this was going on, I was able to continue teaching Comp 1 and Comp 2.
A few days later, while Anna was still in the hospital, I got back to my office after finishing my last class, and I had a voice mail from my wife, in tears, telling me that she and Anna were about to be taken by ambulance to University of Wisconsin Childrens Hospital in Madison. Anna was going to have surgery. Realizing that I was not going to be able to be on campus the next day, I let Dr. Brock's office know and drove to the hospital in Madison.
The next morning, there in Madison, while my wife and I waited anxiously in a tiny hospital room for the surgeons to come take Anna into surgery, the door opened, and in walked Dr. John Brock, who had driven all the way to downtown Madison from Watertown on a busy midweek morning. Dr. Brock stayed with us for a while, told us that he was praying for us, and was a great encouragement. As a result, we went through the events of that day knowing that the Lord was with us and people were praying for us. We're thankful to this day for Dr. Brock's servant-hearted leadership.