Inspire, Spring 1993

Fowler Brinls New Dimension To MIS I n 1991,Gary Fowler'68 became the first full- time director of Missionary Internship Service (MIS)at Cedarville College. Gary's overseas experience and his genuine interest in students equip him well for directing MIS full-time. Besides overseeing the activities ofthe teams and individuals involved in MIS ministries, he has enhanced other aspects of the program. The Spring Missionary Conference now hosts almost three times the number of missionaries than before he came.He initiated MIS Recruitment Week,now an annual event in October. During that time visiting missionaries present opportunities for service the following summer.Gary also assists in arranging to have at least two missionaries speak in chapel each month. Born into a missionary family,Gary grew up in Guatemala and Honduras. He completed high school in Dallas,Texas and enrolled at Cedarville College. Service with the U.S. Army as a medic interrupted his college education,and during those years Gary met Johanna McLeod'68N whom he later married. The Fowlers were missionaries for 16 years in Irian Jaya,Indonesia and for one year in Venezuela.They lived five years in Everett, Washington where Gary served with the police department as a crisis intervention officer. Gary and Johanna have two children—Beth Anne, 22,and Michael, 17. Cedarville College Cultural Christmas Tree AlumniServing as Missionitit• ur alumni involved in missions efforts all over the world are listed alphabetically. We have included those on furlough, alumni teaching English ministries, and others at home and abroad. We have also listed individuals preparing for the field. If our information needs updating, please contact the Alumni Office at 1-800-837-2566. Our records are especially lacking for alumni missionaries before 1952. William'81 & Lillie Aiken—Canada Larry'72& Nancy Leapline Allen'70—Bangladesh Norm'67&Louise Stutesman Barnard'67—U.S.A. Evandro'74&Elina Batista—Portugal Jeffrey'79& Rachael Shedden Bean'80—Hagerstown,Maryland Kirby'76&Chris Lancaster—Australia Laura Lehto'83—Brazil Diane Lichtensteiger'86—China Lori Lindner'92—Philippines Jeannie Lockerhic'61—Bangladesh Reuben & Susan Felty Mains'79—Grenada,West Indies Lisa McClure'79—Colombia Terry'79&Jan McClellan—Reading,Pennsylvania Bruce'69& Beverly Hare McDonald'72N—Mt.Laurel, New Jersey Phil'74&Becky McDonald—Bangladesh Jon &Lois Rumage McLain'70—Brazil Samuel'71 & Carol Bo McMillen'73N—France Michael Measley'92—Kentucky Dave'81 &Carol Cox Merkh '82—Brazil Vic'75&Cyndi Millard—Haiti Jeff& Gerri Jue Miller'84—Indonesia Jonathan'76&Leona Perry Mitchell'76—Brazil Charles'78& Darlene Monroe—Springfield,Ohio John'79&Michele Meeker Morgan'79—Africa Mathew Moore'92—China David '72& Rebecca Hull Nelson '72—Philippines Norman'64& Evelyn Thorns Nicklas'61 Harrisburg, Pennsylvania Norma Nulph'60—Cleveland,Ohio Jim'64& Mary Parker—Washington,D.C. Chris Parsons'82—Atlanta.Georgia DeElda'60& Nancy Cope Payton'57—Shelbyville,Indiana Tony'85& Kathy Pepe—France Edith Phillips'70—Bangladesh Rick &Delana Phillips Powers'82—Florida Julie Prentice '82—China David Reid Jr.'90—Wilmington,Delaware Ray'59&Jan Van Horn Reiner'66—Brazil Clinton Rice'92—China William'78& Karen Christmas Roloff'83—Millersburg,Ohio Joyce Rudduck'66—Bangladesh John'60&Faye Rueck—Hungary Carl& Lois Gelatt Sexton'83—Argentina Karen Seymour'79—Togo Mark'79&Debbie Hall Seymour'83N—Africa Martin'78&Denise Gawethorp Shaw'78—Japan Larry'60& Beverly Smith—Canada Rhonda L.Smith'88—Brazil Dave'70& Evelyn Hare Southwell'70—Portugal Dave'84& Kathy Young Spradling'85N—Cincinnati,Ohio David'80&Bethanne Payne Standridge'81—Italy Dan'80&Donna Standridge- Italy Gary'77& Nancy Stonn—Wheelersburg,Ohio Loretta Strock'84—France David'65& Barbara Blackburn Taylor'64—Brazil William '73& Deborah Davis Tobias'73—New Guinea Mark'67& Beth Zeigler Trimble'67—Atnazonia,Brazil Chuck'67&Bev Truxton—Nigeria Joel'80&Tonya Veldt—Xenia,Ohio Jeffrey'80& Deborah Mullet Warix'79N—Brazil Vernon '51 &Edith Spieth Weber'51—Sebring.Florida Kirk '84&Joyce Pycraft Wesselink'85—New Mexico Ray Wigdal'85—China Mike'83& Joan Weber Wilcox '82—Indonesia Helen Wing'65—Brazil Ruth Yocum'80N—Bangladesh Dave& Patty Neely Zemmer'76N—Brazil George Zinn'67—Greenwood,Indiana Alex '74&Pamela Stallard Konya'75N—Hungary Gary'83H & Rebecca Selden Kuhn '78—Philippines Nancy LaBonte'86—Appointee Dan'68& Betty Lacey—France Dennis'65& Frances Bellew—St.Thomas,Virgin Islands Torn '78& Karin Angel Benefiel'79—Brazil Irene Benson '63—Brazil Steve'85 & Myrna Bicknell—New York City John '64& Judy Marcellus Bigelow '67—Juneau,Alaska Patty Birkenholtz'78N—Czechoslovakia Dan'83& Susan Bisbee—Senegal,West Africa Larry'75&Cindi Schlener Bollback'75N—Portugal Aaron '85& Anne Grosse Bowes'85N—Gennany Penni Bresson'90—Brazil Gary'84&Kathy Brewer—Orlando,Florida Paul'82&Geri Black Briggs'83—Italy Daniel'68& Nancy Norton Brower'69—Brazil Jeff Burr'93—China Curtis Carr'91—Glennalien,Alaska Tom '86&Paula Can.—Japan Jim '75& Rachel Mayo Chambers'78N—Zambia,Africa Cal'81 &Carol Clark—Brazil Giuseppe&Pennie Gilbert Collesano'77—Italy Ken '70& Alice Cole—Philippines David '82&Cindy Ulmer Cox'83N—Africa Steve'87& Miriam Cox—Brazil Lori Crabb'83—West Africa Kent'80& Kelly Craig—Philippines Beverly Curtis'70 China James'68&Linda Davis—Philippines Francisco'80& Eliane DeSouza—Brazil John&Nancy Hall DeValve'81—West Africa Kendra Doctor'87—Brazil Debbie Dower'84 Germany Kenneth &Linda Betts Duffield'72—Mexico James'61 &Esther Weiss Entner'61—Philippines Sue Farley'71—Hong Kong Tom '86& Meg Irving Fite'89N—England Frank& Ruth Teed Finch '76—Philippines Larry & Sallie Pickard Fogle'77N—Zambia,Africa John '83& Kathy Ormsbee Foreman'83—Arizona Dave'56&Joan Austin Gardner'56N—Copperas Cove,Texas Boyd'65& Kathy Johnson Griffith '68—Orlando,Florida Bobby'90&Sara Sweetland Hile'92—South Africa Ron'82&Linda Hobar—Orlando,Florida Greg Hobaugh'90—China Tim '81 &Joann Bradshaw Hoganson'81—Brazil Joe'68&Sharon Tallman Hollaway '68—Australia Steve'77& Kris Anderson Holman '79—Philippines Gary'67& Betty Holtz—Fairborn,Ohio Sam '56& Ellen Smith Hornbrook'56—Mexico Robert'59& Esther Stutestnan Howder'62N—Japan Marvin'83&Ruth Reid Humphreys'85—Hong Kong Paul&Joanne Filippelli Ingis'82N—Bangladesh Clifton '72& Hannah Stowell Jensen'71—Colombia Rebekah Jewell'82—Upper Darby,Pennsylvania Dean'83& Crystal Stan Johnson'86N—Peoria,Illinois Roy &Nancy Towle Jones'69—Spain Sarni& Roxanne Butler Kanani'69—Tallmadge,Ohio David'75& Sherie Kelso—Portugal David '87&Sonya Ketchatn—Bangladesh Robert'70N &Jane Austin Kilko'70—Brazil Marcia Kingsbury'84—Portugal Dave&Grace Trimble Kintner'67N—Brazil Verne'55& Helen Collins Kirby'69—Alaska Philip & Barbara Cooper Klumpp'74—Philippines Temple'86&Beth McKibben Knowles'86—Nairobi,Kenya M erry Christmas!? Why is your Alumni Association thinking about Christmas in the middle of March? To prepare for the lighting ofthe Cedarville College Cultural Christmas Tree in December 1993! Our desire is to decorate a Christmas tree in the chapel which will remind the college family to pray for our alumni living in other cultures. The first ornament we received(pictured)is compliments of Kent'80 and Kelly Craig, missionaries in the Philippines. We are looking forward to receiving many ornaments from a wide variety of cultures in which you currently serve or have visited. Would you consider sending us a Christmas ornament traditional to your culture? We want to include any background about the ornament,the culture,or yourself in an information booklet.Please include a brief note to the Alumni Association and mail your ornament to the Cedarville College Alumni Office, P.O.Box 601,Cedarville,Ohio 45314. Thank you in advance for your ornament. We look forward to hearing from you! Alumna CompletesShortTerm MissionsProject n August 1992,Lisa Sommerfeld'91 returned from a one-year term in Oegstgeest, Netherlands with the Intermenno program.The Intermenno program gave 30 American young people the opportunity to work and live with European ennonites.This exchange program gave Lisa the opportunity to learn firsthand about the Netherlands. She also had several occasions for ministry during her stay. Returning to her family and church(Rocky Ford Mennonite)in Apple Creek,Ohio wasjoyous,but Lisa would not trade her year in the Netherlands for anything in the world. New Horizonsfor MIS II hese last two years have seen MIS expanding its ministries into Eastern Europe as well as venturing into new areas of service. These activities have coincided with the appointment of Gary Fowler'68 as the first full-time director of MIS. Dr. Harold Green,Dr.Don Callan'84H,and Dr. Dwayne Frank'60 visited Hungary and Romania during the summer of 1991 to make contacts with pastors and local churches. Because ofthat visit, Cedarville College was invited to send three MIS teams to the two countries last summer for various ministries,from Bible instruction to teaching English as a second language. In March 1993,Dr.Green,Dr.Floyd Elmore'77, and Dr.Joseph Halsey will travel to Russia,again contacting pastors and churches to determine what opportunities are available for MIS in the summer of 1994. This summer MIS will send out four nursing teams(one to Brazil,two to Bangladesh,and one to Thailand)for ministry and medical assistance. MIS will also send a women's volleyball team to the Dominican Republic,a sign language team to a camp for the hearing impaired in Jamaica,a puppet team to Zambia,and eight other teams and numerous individuals for a variety of ministries around the world. As a Cedarville College alumnus,you can be part ofthis ministry by praying for students as they prepare,raise support,and serve.