The Torch, Spring/Summer 2010

PHOTO CREDIT Spring–Summer 2010 | TORCH 29 An Unexpected Gift by Nicole Russell Cancer brings clarity to a Cedarville graduate — and gives him a new story to tell. David Wenzel has had a good life. He and his sisters grew up in small-town Nebraska before making their way to Cedarville University. David’s big personality earned him a reputation as a class clown, and his leadership earned him student body president. After graduating in 2003 with a marketing degree, he soon found professional success when he co-founded Dot&Cross, a creative media company in Grand Rapids, Michigan. His wife, Amy, is a talented photographer and owns her own business. At 28, David is blond and lean and flashes a dimpled smile: he is the picture of health. “Things were going pretty well,” David said. “I didn’t have a specific need for God in my life.” But that changed in June 2009 when doctors found a spidery tumor enveloping 25 percent of David’s brain. They called it grade two oligoastrocytoma. Cancer.