2001-2002 Annual Report

Service for eternity Focusing on Missions Each year more than 50 missionary organizations send representatives and materials to Cedarville for a week of presenting their burden for the world’s lost. During this Missions Conference, missionaries share their stirring testimonies and encourage students to seek God’s will for their lives. Dr. Paul Nyquist (top) , president of Gospel Missionary Union, was the keynote speaker for last year’s conference, which included testimonies by Jim Bowers (middle) of ABWE and Tania Rich (bottom) of New Tribes Mission. Reaching the Community Eighty-five ministry teams, made up of approximately 900 students, donated thousands of hours to the local Miami Valley area last year. Their acts of community service took the form of counseling, visitation, tutoring, church ministries, or street evangelism, among many other options. New ministries added last year included Hannah House (help for teen mothers and their babies), The Extra Mile (yardwork, housework, and childcare for the needy), Reality Check (teen abstinence promotion through drama), Adopt-A-Grandparent, Adopt-A-Block, The Mueller Center (ministry to developmentally disabled adults), and Sonshine Clubs (after-school program for inner-city kids). The Abundant Life Singers are just one of the traveling teams which took the gospel around the nation. Last December, University Photographer Scott Huck led a team of six Cedarville students to the Bethesda International orphanage in South Africa. Inspired by the HIV/AIDS orphans and victims there, the team handled orphanage construction projects like tiling floors, patching and painting walls, and landscaping. They also interacted with the children and encouraged the orphanage staff.