Click here to download photos from Ministry Recruitment Day 2012 Pastors with a desire to “energize” their churches gathered September 6 at Maranatha—a great place to find energy sources. Many new pastors, and at least one new church, came to campus for Ministry Recruitment Day. The annual event helps pair students looking for local church [Continue Reading...]
Ryan Nowatka says he has the perfect job for a Maranatha student. “Being a funeral director is not unlike being a pastor in the way you minister to families,” said Nowatka, Funeral Director at Watertown’s Pederson Funeral Homes. “A person with a strong faith can really be helpful. That’s why we like to hire Maranatha [Continue Reading...]
Click here to see more photos of the Global Encounters team’s trip to Ukraine Some of the Bible’s most powerful messages can leap any language barrier. “The love of Christ needed no translator,” Amber Campbell (’12) said after Maranatha’s Global Encounters team returned from its three-week trip to Ukraine. “God taught me a huge lesson [Continue Reading...]
Maranatha students may find they have a hard time keeping up with Peter Huber, the College’s new Director of Student Activities. Huber is an expert swimmer and swim coach and has taught lifeguarding classes at the college level. He is a scuba diver as well as an avid biker who is a member of the [Continue Reading...]
Mom and dad look at the computer screen and simultaneously exhale a low, long whistle. The last time they had considered the cost of college was 1991, when they were about to graduate. Now their oldest child is about to begin his senior year in high school and, it’s fair to say, the cost of [Continue Reading...]
Hitting someone with enough momentum to knock them into next week may not sound like a traditional method for spreading the gospel, but it has worked for Nate Spate and dozens of other Maranatha football players. Spate (’98) was among a group of student-athletes who went to France in 1995 to assist missionaries while also [Continue Reading...]
It is the Maranatha way. The young man you see playing trombone in the orchestra is also a starting linebacker for the football team, leads those who share his dormitory floor in devotions every week, and helps in his church’s rest home ministry. The young woman who becomes an audience favorite for her solid supporting [Continue Reading...]
Most students who take part in Maranatha’s Global Encounters missions trip program return with unique stories to tell. Timothy McKinney’s was just a little more unique than others. “I helped deliver a baby,” said McKinney, a senior Nursing major and part of a seven-person medical missions team that traveled to central Africa in March to [Continue Reading...]
Junior Nursing major Rachel Blanton says she has always had a special place in her heart for missions. Her experiences during a Global Encounters missions trip to Albania, however, gave Blanton “a broader perspective on the needs of people.” An Operation Renewed Hope team sought to meet some of those needs May 17-28 in the [Continue Reading...]
The atmosphere in Melford Hall seemed dramatically different from June 9-16. It may have been the sound of tool belts jangling. Perhaps it was the smell of aftershave or the echoes of animated discussions about NASCAR and golf. The women’s dormitory was certainly a different place—and, thanks to a crew of nine volunteers from Independent [Continue Reading...]