Inspire, Winter 1999

College Family Member Graduates To Glory 111111elen Drullinger, Cedarville staff member and wife of Bible Professor David Drullinger, went home to be with the Lord September 22 after a lengthy battle with cancer. Throughout Helen's illness, both Dave and Helen lied out the idea behind "What Would Jesus Do?"Helen's gentle, godly attitude and Dave's love and faithfulness were so beautifully evident in the e-mail updates Dave shared with the College family. In his August 21, 1999 e-mail, Dave wrote,"My sweetheart's faith is resilient and her attitude precious. She radiates that gentle and quiet spirit for which she is known.The nurses all comment about what a model patient she is. ... Even in her difficulty, she radiates the Lord!"As Helen rested in the hospital after surgery,Dave shared,"Helen had a good night and is resting comfortably this morning. ... I was able to stay in her room with her last night. She said she slept better because I was there with her. What a privilege to serve her in this way." A Fisher OfMen Helen Drullinger esus loved to fish—none of his disciples were golfers,"jokes Dr. Charles Reed '67. Fishing is what Chuck loves to do during his spare time, but he is also a fisher of men.Chuck enjoys witnessing for the Lord in many different life situations. Once a Cedarville College baseball player,Chuck now coaches local youth sports. He has always enjoyed playing sports and now finds that he can use the opportunity as a coach to share Christ through public interaction with both players and parents. Chuck not only shares the gospel in the sporting arena, but also in his everyday interaction with folks around him. He was able to witness and bring a manager of a local State Farm Insurance Agency to the Lord.An office Bible study grew out of this new Christian coming to the Lord and gave Chuck the opportunity to lead seminars on leadership and communication.These seminars in turn gave him more opportunities to share the gospel. Helen, who served the College as a postal sorting assistant for 10 years, was remembered with celebration of life services in Salem, Oregon on October 2and at Cedarville College on October 12. In video and personal tributes, Helen was remembered as a sweet-spirited servant of God—a model ofthe Proverbs 31 woman. Helen will be deeply missed by Dave,their children, Randall and Carla, and grandson,Danny. In another August 1999 e-mail to the College family,the Drullingers shared: "We have learned this: 1)His grace IS sufficient. 2)His peace DOESsurpass all understanding. 3)Hispromises are true. 4)Our lovefor Him andfor each other is the REAL THING!" Chuck graduated from Cedarville with majors in Bible and speech. He began college as a Bible major and was influenced by former professor Dr. John Reed to pursue a second degree in speech. After Cedarville, he furthered his education at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School and The Ohio State University. His desire to study under Lloyd Perry was what led him to earn his master of divinity degree from Trinity. At Ohio State he earned both his master of arts degree and his doctoral degree in communications. Chuck has been the pastor of Berean Baptist Church in Marion,Ohio for the past 27 years. He finds working with people and seeing how the Lord has worked in their lives to be the most rewarding part of pastoring. While at Cedarville,Chuck met his future wife, Beryl(Smith)'67. Oftheir four children, two sons are engineers,one son is in management,and their daughter is attending Marion Technical College and planning to go into management. Using Resources for The Kingdom I arry '60 and Beverly Smith are among the many missionaries who believe they have benefitted greatly because others have uniquely followed the pattern of"What Would Jesus Do?" . 41 "Most missionaries have some special people or even a church that takes an unusual interest in them to assist them in a specific way. Sometimes it's housing,a car, or construction," the Smiths said."One of the special ways we have been helped is by a family assisting us with our computers. In fact, one family member,a Cedarville alumnus,flew down at his own expense and spent five days and nights working to get our computers networked,up to speed,and Y2K compliant.There is no way we could have done that ourselves." Larry,ABWE regional coordinator for the Caribbean and Central America,said,"We are willing and able to go to places like Cuba and Nicaragua and do the teaching, ride the truck up into the mountains under very adverse conditions,conduct seminars for the pastors, and teach in the Cuban seminaries. Bev can do a great amount of secretarial work to help the church groups in those countries. What we can't do is manage our computers in the way this family has done for us." The Cedarville alumnus, who has asked to remain anonymous,graduated with a degree in business administration with an emphasis in computer information systems. Through his parents, this alum met the Smiths and learned of their need for computer assistance."I became very interested," he said,"when I realized this was an area in which I could help." He continued,"God laid an interest in their work on my heart and a love for them as fellow Christians. Since that time I have had many opportunities to get to know them as people and not just as missionaries. I see the sacrifices they make and the love they have for the people they minister to, and by comparison my service to them seems so small." The Smiths tell ofone couple who helped remodel their house and create an office, people who have loaned them furniture and helped them set up housekeeping in various places, and a family that took care of their banking while they were on the field and took care of cars while they were home on furlough.They also mentioned those who bought them new clothes so they would be "up-to-date" when they came home."Still others printed our prayer cards and letterhead stationary at no cost to us," they said. The anonymous Cedarville alumnus said that he has learned a great deal through this experience and others like it. "Missionaries are in need of our financial support, and we can learn a lot from them about sacrificial giving, but I would like to encourage others to look beyond the offering plate and find a way to support and serve missionaries using the skills that God has given them," he said."Become a friend to missionaries," he suggests,"and through this friendship learn their specific needs.The needs are there and they are great." Giving OfHerself W hen Megan McMacken Rock '97 visited the Cedarville College alumni web site in August,she was disappointed to find that it had not been updated in quite some time. It was at that point that Megan decided to volunteer both her time and her talent to provide a much- needed service to the alumni of Cedarville College,as well as to the alumni office. Megan studied professional writing with a multimedia emphasis while at Cedarville. As a student, she developed the CDR web site, the department oflanguage and literature web site, and was the webmaster for the Society for Technical Communication(STC)student chapter web site. She currently works as a technical writer for FANUC Robotics North American,Inc. and is busy with online help, online documentation, hardcopy software manuals,and her department web site. Larry '60 and Beverly Smith In September 1997, Megan met her husband,John,in a lunchtime Bible study at work. John is a systems engineer at FANUC,and together they head up the multimedia ministry team at Memphis Free Methodist Church in Memphis,Michigan. John is also responsible for the church's outreach and evangelism ministry, so Megan helps with that as she is able. In the future, Megan hopes to be a stay-at-home mom and home-school her children. She dreams of writing a book or two and starting a home business doing things like technical writing and web design for small businesses and organizations. In the meanwhile, Megan is devoting her free weeknights and Saturdays to the Cedarville College alumni web site. In doing so,she truly is seeing a need and working to meet it. "I guess it's just part of my mindset," Megan states."By nature, I'm really conscientious about doing 'the right thing.'As a Christian, that means doing what Jesus would do as best I can."Thank you, Megan! Valerie Huber Responds To God's Call IF he national debate over sex education has reached new levels of intensity during the past few years. Most Christians are concerned with the safe sex messages communicated to our young people, but what can one person do to make a difference? After 16 years as a stay-at-home mom, Valerie Dell Huber'80, wife of William "Fritz" Huber'81 and mother offour in Arcanum,Ohio,decided to re-enter the educational system she once occupied as a teacher to communicate the message of character-based sexual abstinence. Valerie is communicating the premarital abstinence message to the nearly 10,000 school-age children and their parents in Darke County,Ohio(near Dayton)."I couldn'tjust sit idly at home while our children are bombarded with messages contrary to what we've taught our children," said Valerie. She found out about a federal program(The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996)that provides funds for abstinence to be taught in local schools, and she applied for the grant in her county. After submitting a mountain of paperwork,the REACHing Our Youth Abstinence Education Proposal was accepted and is scheduled to be implemented throughout the next three years. "Abstinence is a positive, practical, achievable lifestyle that our kids need to know about," comments Valerie. In addition to organizing a group of volunteers to teach character qualities to elementary students, Valerie will train educators to teach the abstinence curriculum in Darke County schools and will launch a media campaign to create awareness of the importance of pre- marital abstinence. She will also bring in nationally-renowned speaker Milton Creagh to all schools in Darke County. For information about REACH of southwestern Ohio,contact Valerie at 937-692-5953.