2005 Miracle Yearbook

11111 11' 11111111 From church basements to detention centers, from hospitals to classrooms, Cedarville ministries were every- where Yet when ministry involved bringing together people from two very different cultural backgrounds, that ministry took on a whole new meaning. This year, several ministries stepped up to help cross the cultural divides that normally keep people from sharing Christ's love with others However, as Junior Joshua Blackburn of the Wilmington Hispanic Outreach said, ".. when we do not have the constraint of a language barrier, we do not take the time to share [the Gospel] with people that we meet during our day This realization char- acterized the fervor of other cross-cultural ministries Yet this zeal was not present without the common everyday hilarity that typified the average college min- istry or organization,as senior Christine Newhard,long- time member of Zion's Light, remembered. Zion's Light, Just like the Wilmington Hispanic Outreach and Dayton Chinese Church ministry groups, was an ESL or Eng- lish as a Second Language tutoring ministry. Through teaching English to the Russian Jewish population in the small community of Bexley, Zion's Light shared Christ in a way many other ministries were unable. They also grew together more than most. Christine commented,"One of the funny things from this year has been the tendency for our team to make up new words The first one was 'smerve,' a combination of swerve and merge as applied to the on ramp our team takes going back to CU. It's a short ramp, so every week the team cheers the driver on to pick up speed and when we get to the point of getting into traffic they yell 'smervel- Jason Merkle, Kathryn Fowler, Becky Stowers,and Kristen Pelon pull nails out of wood from a building damaged0, hurricane Ivan in the Carribean; they hope to possibly reulthe wood,which isn't readily available in Jamaica The Jamaica MIS team poses with the deaf staff with which they worked at the Carribean Christian Centre for the Deaf,They worked seven to eight hours a day.A team member noted,"It was amazing to see how much you can communicate without speaking, especially when working construction." Adam Laskos hugs a little Jamaican boy. He wen with a team tot Carribean Christian Centre for the Deaf and worked construct' He explained,"They had recieved a good amount of damage hurricane Ivan, so we helped to clean up and take down one of the roof structures of one of their main buildings. There were also other odd jobs such as painting." Nathaniel Herber entertains the MKs with a story during the Mexico Spring Break trip. 200 Ministries