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New Employees Listen theMemo Nancy K. Cole for the employees and retirees of Moody Bible Institute 6.13 Technical Project Specialist, Donor Resource Management Previously served as a teacher at Harbor Light Christian School in Harbor Springs, Mich. Moody’s Global Impact, Part 1 Part-Time Get to Know Moody Alumni, Staff and Ministries the New Vice Erik Hultquist Faith on Record Touching Lives Around the World President Engineering Manager, of Donor Facilities New Radio Show Revives Christian Music’s Classics This two-part article shows snapshots of Moody’s global impact through Previously served as the sprinkler crew foreman at alumni, staff and ministries. Development Moody Bible Institute in Chicago, Ill. Faith on Record is a new radio program hosted by Bill Davis and Channel Full-Time on Sundays from 8–10 p.m. (CT). Davis, who has been with Moody Alumni Strategy Moody Radio for over 31 years, digs into the album archives In April 2013, when the Irish government sought to change the nation’s pro-life Frank Slomkowski III for each show to bring back some of the Christian music laws, and in May 2013, when Iranian Christians were seeking asylum in Sweden, Commons Assistant Supervisor, classics from the 70s, 80s and early 90s. Many of the songs Food Service CBN News senior reporter and Moody alumnus Dale Hurd told these stories to he plays are transferred directly from vinyl albums. Featured Previously served as an office assistant for Food the world. Service at Moody Bible Institute in Chicago, Ill. artists include Keith Green, Rich Mullins, Honeytree, Bruce Everhart has served with Moody Full-Time 2nd Chapter of Acts, Truth and Andrae Crouch. Last year, towns and villages in the northeastern region of the Democratic Radio since 1988, including 14 years Republic of Congo experienced sporadic violence and terror brought about by The addition of Faith on Record on Sunday evenings, along as the station manager of Moody rebel armies. Throughout this region, Mission Aviation Fellowship pilots transport Kevin Utecht with Law Talk Live and Up for Debate on Saturdays, has Radio Chicago and most recently Executive Administrative Assistant to the medicine and health personnel along with the sick and wounded. Two of these as the manager of Marketing and Vice President of Student Services strengthened Moody Radio’s weekend programming. pilots are Moody alums Lary Strietzel and Joey Martin. Development. “I’m really a radio Previously served as a barista at Starbucks The program is heard on select Moody Radio owned in Chicago, Ill. and operated radio stations, along with affiliate stations Moody alumni are also leading organizations that have helped more than guy at heart and always will be,” Full-Time around the country. 1.2 million children in 26 countries and trained more than 75,000 youth leaders says Everhart who was recently in 70 countries. appointed vice president of Donor Dianne Vrancila For more information about Faith on Record, please visit Development and Channel Strategy Office Assistant, www.moodyradio.org/faithonrecord. Moody Staff at Moody Bible Institute. Moody Radio Moody’s global impact is not limited to the roles alumni are playing. In Previously served as a freelance editor As he leads Moody’s efforts to in Chicago, Ill. November 2012, in Sophia, Bulgaria, Moody Radio staff trained 115 broadcasters engage donors through mass market Part-Time Bruce Everhart >>>>>>Continued from page 1 from eight countries as part of their Global Partners Training initiative. channels including direct mail, email, In February 2013, Moody Theological Seminary–Michigan professor Brian Tucker Share and other radio strategies, he Catrina D. Weinum the potential to once again be a pioneer in innovative ministry became the first American to receive a fellowship from a school that is part of will work collaboratively with vice Student Accounts Administrator, one of the largest and most distinguished universities in the United Kingdom. president of Stewardship, Jim Elliott, Treasury Operations and content creation.” In March 2013, after an angry mob burned down the homes of up to 170 and vice president of Marketing and Previously served as an internal accountant at Born and raised on a farm in Kansas, Bruce started his radio Communications, Christine Gorz. Professional Systems Inc., in Riverdale, Ill. career at a Moody Radio affiliate in his home town, while Christian families living in Lahore, Pakistan, Moody Bible Institute professor Full-Time earning a bachelor’s degree in broadcast journalism from the Samuel Naaman responded by raising $10,000 to help the victims. In May 2013, “Having been at Moody for 25 years, University of Kansas. He made Chicago his home when he over a dozen Moody staff members volunteered to serve on missions trips my sense is that we are on the verge Rebecca Williamson pursued a graduate certificate from Moody Bible Institute. throughout the U.S. and in six foreign countries. of something great with this vision Kitchen Crew Leader, >>>>>> Continued on page 2 Food Service to go across the globe, cultures and He has also helped spearhead Moody Radio’s Global Partners generations with the truth of God’s Previously served as a receptionist Initiative, and this month, he will be joining others from Moody at Grand Medical Clinic in Chicago. Ill. Word,” stressed Everhart. “Moody has Full-Time Radio and Education in the second Global Partners Training in Accra, Ghana, West Africa, with ministry partners HCJB Global, >>>>>> Continued on page 4 Yahir Vergara Theovision International and Africa by Radio. Air Talent/Producer, He and his wife, Cindy, have four daughters and their oldest, Radio Moody June Lauren, will be a senior at Moody this coming year. Bruce also Previously served as an assistant audio engineer at BAM Studios in Chicago, Ill. serves as an elder at his home church in Lombard, lll. mts modular classes 3–7 Full-Time mts modular classes 10–14 Moody Bible Institute’s theMemo is published by Integrated Marketing Communications. Christian Broadcasting Network News senior reporter, Dale Hurd (1981 Moody graduate), on assignment in Paris, France. Please send your questions, comments and story ideas to [email protected]. 4 Global Impact <<<<< Continued from Page 1 Stories Accounts of God at work through Moody Moody Ministries stations for a total of 8.5 million hours. In November 2013, Moody Radio Indiana listeners donated money to build a radio Moody’s ministries are having a global impact as well. In the Tragedy Opens Door to Ministry station in Mali, West Africa, which has the potential to reach Faroe Islands, situated in the North Atlantic between Scotland over one million people with the gospel. and Iceland, Moody Publishers’ The Five Love Languages by Undergraduate School Student Prepares for Ministry in Home Country of Haiti Dr. Gary Chapman can be read in the native language, Faroese. In February 2013, Roland Sandberg and Jarmo Havukunna Kesmy St. Louis wanted to become a village witch doctor in Kesmy integrates classroom Around the world, Moody Publishers’ books can be found in listened to their radio in the small village of Lemmenjoki, Haiti who used magic to try to bring about good and bad teachings with Practical 73 different languages. Finland, above the Arctic Circle, at one of the northernmost outcomes. “I wanted to do healings for people and get paid Christian Ministry experiences parts of the country. What they heard was a broadcast from Today in the Word, Moody’s daily devotional, is read by more for it and have psychic power to control,” recalls St. Louis. including tutoring school- Radio Moody, Moody Radio’s Spanish language station. than 200,000 readers in 68 countries. children and helping out with But at age 12, Kesmy fell into a blazing cooking fire and burned During Share 2013, Moody Radio partnered with Compassion a local church youth group. Moody Bible Institute also attracts students around the world. his arms so severely that they had to be amputated. Because International to raise funds to supply clean drinking water Last summer, he went back From Argentina to Zimbabwe and from Barbados to Vietnam, of that accident, however, Kesmy began a spiritual journey for more than 104,000 people around the world. to his church in Montrouis, 468 international students were enrolled at Moody during that led him to salvation in Christ and eventually to Moody Haiti, and taught 62 young the spring 2013 semester, representing 50 countries. Moody Much of the impact Moody has around the world goes Bible Institute in Chicago, Ill., where he is a junior this fall in people about Christ using Distance Learning students alone represented 38 of these unmeasured. But from what is measured, its impact for the Pastoral Studies program. his Moody course material countries. the Kingdom is vast. Mentored by Christian missionaries, he grew spiritually as and the Gospel of Luke. Last year, listeners from as far away as Afghanistan, Aruba, Moody’s Global Impact, Part 2: July 2013 issue a teenager, so when two American pastors told him that His goal is to become a pastor Malaysia and French Guiana listened to Moody Radio Internet Moody Bible Institute trains students to do ministry, he was and educator, and start a eager to apply. At Moody, Kesmy has become part of the Christian orphanage and academy in Haiti, as well as a Bible community and found assistance to manage his disability. school to train pastors. “None of the pastors I know in Haiti His roommates and friends help him with everyday tasks like have had much training, and they don’t have tools or resources buttoning his shirt and carrying his food. He uses a pen in Human Resources Connection on how to study the Bible,” he explains.

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