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Brown Bulletin Alumni Serious about Offering Freedom from Sexual Addiction Vowing To Save Marriages in Northwest Arkansas Summer 2008 a publication for alumni & friends of JOHN BROWN UNIVERSITY Brown Bulletin letter from the Summer 2008 Editor Andrea Phillips president Assistant Editor Linda Wyman The Latest Campus News 5 Saving Marriages 16 “I do” at JBU 35 JBU Staff Writers Rachel Fiet Lauren Pemberton Lead Designer Andrea Phillips And we rejoice in the hope of the glory of God. Not only so, but we also rejoice in our suffering, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and Design Assistance Allen Dempsey character, hope. And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out his love into Laura Ravenscroft features our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom he has given us. Romans 5:2b-5 Linda Wyman 10 Freedom (From Sexual Addiction) Begins Here Alumni play a crucial role in the development of a new program aimed at helping men, women, Production Assistance Christine Mescher and churches find freedom from sexual addictions and Internet pornography. Dear Friends of JBU, by Linda Wyman We have reinstituted a baccalaureate worship service for the May graduating 16 Vowing to Save Marriages class, and I enjoy the chance to worship with students and their families one final The Brown Bulletin is the official publication of John Fulfilling a $2.5 million grant, JBU’s Center for Relationship Enrichment is reaching out to help time before they leave JBU. This year, I spoke to them about the “hope that does Brown University. It is published at 2000 West curb one of the worst divorce rates in the nation by helping couples stick together. not disappoint us” and suggested how that series of linked terms – suffering, by Rachel Castlen University Street, Siloam Springs, Arkansas 72761. perseverance, character, and hope – should describe the life of the follower of Christ and an alumnus of JBU. JBU students know of suffering, in their own lives and in the lives of those whom they served both locally and abroad. They have seen broken relationships To submit story ideas, photos, feedback: in Northern Ireland and in the residence hall; the hunger of a child in Ethiopia and in Watts, Oklahoma; the hatred between people of different races in Chicago Andrea Phillips and in Siloam Springs. Many of them have experienced firsthand the death of Director of University Communications departments loved ones, the hurt of depression, and the uncertainty of finances. We all live in [email protected] a fallen world hurt by suffering. 5 JBU in Focus I encouraged the students to continue to persevere in that suffering, to Alumni information: continue to develop resilience, steadfastness, and resolve to confront the difficulties 9 Chaplain’s Corner by Tracy Balzer of life. When conflict emerges in your marriage, you hang in there and seek help. Jerry Rollene When you see poverty in your home town, you seek to fix it, not just ignore it. Director of Alumni and Parent Relations 15 Perspectives On ... Such choices of perseverance develop habits of character. [email protected] “Becoming Teammates with Your Spouse” Character in this passage means tested authenticity. Many students today long by Greg Smalley, Psy.D. for authenticity, but they look for it in the wrong place. Biblical authenticity comes more through suffering than through skepticism of marketing; more through Admissions information: 20 JBU Athletics “Fore! Golf Returns to JBU” perseverance than through informality; more through choosing habits of character (877) 528-4636 than through what coffee you drink or what clothes you wear. by Simeon Hinsey In becoming a person of character, you become a person of hope. Not hope in [email protected] our own perseverance, but in the God who has “poured out his love in our hearts www.jbu.edu/admissions 21 World View by the Holy Spirit, whom he has given us.” And, as the passage suggests, “hope “Justice for All: Alumna Defends the Least of These” does not disappoint us” because God does not disappoint us. To submit alumni news and photos: by Linda Wyman As you read through the Brown Bulletin, I trust that you will see how JBU [email protected] students and alumni are living out the promise of a hope that does not disappoint 22 Relationships Bring an Occupational Hazard us. Thank you for the many ways in which you too carry out that promise. May it www.jbualumni.com by Paul Eldridge always be true of us at JBU. For information about giving to JBU: 25 Alumni Updates on AlumNET www.jbu.edu/giving Godspeed, (800) 446-2450 31 Alumni News 35 Flashback: 50 Years of Cathedral Weddings Dr. Charles W. Pollard John Brown University provides Christ-centered education that prepares people to honor God O N THE CO VER : and serve others by developing their intellectual, The Freedom Begins Here team from Gray Communications: (l. to r.) Bob Schermacher ’88, Bryson Moore ’03, Steve spiritual, and professional lives. Snediker ’86, Jamie Gray, Gary Gray ’86, Tyler Kidd ’06, Jonathan Griesse ’93, Todd Robertson, and Kelly Craghead. Photo by Melissa McKenney ’08; (in front) Michael Denison ’04 jbu in focus KLRC Wins Top National Radio Award Again Tuition Freedom Day posters, flyers, balloons, web pages, a banner on campus, flying discs, and a video shown in JBU radio station 101.1 KLRC was named Radio Station the student center revealed the meaning of the publicized Letters of the Year by the Gospel Music Association. KLRC was “Freedom” and educated students about the subsidy, about selected for the most prestigious honor in Christian radio which few were aware. from a pool of small- “Celebrating TFD in this manner was a fun way for us to The Winter Issue Was a Hit! was completed. It was never held in the old gym in the valley. market radio stations, communicate the message that the benefits of being part of Graduations were held in the gym (including my class – the including many for-profit the JBU community go far beyond what they realize,” said first to have 100 graduates), but not the Candlelight service. [The last Brown Bulletin was] a stations. Jerry Rollene, director of alumni and parent relations. powerful issue, and beautifully put I get back to Siloam Springs once or twice a year but my together. My responses are: schedule has not allowed me to be there for the Candlelight This is the fourth time 1) The “Letter from the service. Maybe one of these years I can make it. KLRC has won the award President” is so solid about the in the past seven years. It Franklin Graham Speaks to Packed Cathedral continued emphasis on “Christ Ruth Smith Bircher Ronan ’52 was also named Station Albuquerque, NM Franklin Graham, president and CEO of Samaritan’s Over All.” Perhaps I hear it now of the Year in 2001, 2002, and 2006. KLRC is the only more than ever. He says it all so Purse and the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, university radio station ever to have won this award. well. spoke in chapel on February 12 to a capacity crowd in the “Being recognized by your peers in the industry is a very 2) The “Making of a Tradition” Cathedral of the Ozarks. was deeply stirring. My wife and I humbling experience, and while none of us go to work each “Thanks!” from the Editor Graham spoke about the importance of students sang four years in the choir and in day to earn an award, it’s a wonderful affirmation of a lot of answering God’s call for their lives. He urged listeners to four Candlelight services. Later Thanks to Ruth Ronan for her firsthand accounts of our earliest hard work,” said Sean Sawatzky, KLRC general manager. we pastored three congregations. pursue their calling because of a great need for ministry all choir services. I shared Ruth’s notes with Jen Heller ’06, our KLRC was presented the GMA award on April 23 during In each [church] we began a archivist at the time, and she said, “Sometimes I feel like it’s over the world. the broadcast of the 39th annual GMA Awards, known as Candlelight Christmas Eve worth making mistakes to get firsthand corrections like these. “Are you called? Are you willing to go and take steps and service. In Salem Alliance, where Ruth’s information will prove really helpful as we prep for the the Dove Awards. we served for 23 years, they just Cathedral Choir reunion and displays this Homecoming!” go to places you’ve never been, that you don’t understand, celebrated their 44th Candlelight Christmas Eve celebration. Following up on Ruth’s insights, Jen was able to find “The Making of a Tradition” lives on! Dr. Mabel Oiesen had additional information about JBU in the early years of the a huge impact on us. Christmas program: JBU Students Celebrate Tuition Freedom Day 3) The “Flashback: Remembering the Founder” was • In 1942 JBU had about 11 men on campus (students Students on campus were all a-buzz this spring, won- excellent. I was Dr. Brown’s assistant at the Brown Military and faculty). A full-scale choir would have been virtually Academy in San Diego when he died. He has influenced the impossible to assemble. dering about the meaning of the posters, buttons, flyers, way I speak publicly for more than 50 years. • JBU has almost no yearbooks, no programs, and no and banners all over campus that proclaimed “Freedom Is 4) The “Perspectives On...Lifestyle Worship” is a much extracurricular information dating from the WWII era, Coming.” Anticipation climbed steadily for a week before needed emphasis on today’s very narrow view of “worship.” thanks to campus shutting down all “frills” in an attempt the answer came in an announcement on March 27 that [Worship] is so much more than singing a few choruses, no to aid the war effort.