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Students and Alumni Caring for Patient Needs THE MAGAZINE OF MID-AMERICA CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY Students and Alumni Caring for Patient Needs Dream Bigger. Do Greater. Spring 2021 President's Letter Spring 2021 One of the most negative consequences of this pandemic 2 President's Letter may well be the separations brought about by quarantines, lockdowns, school closures and hospitalized patients unable 3 Table of Contents to have family with them. We are now more sensitive to an 4 overall pandemic of loneliness! This is why followers of Jesus Butterfield Foundation Partnership must be committed to care-giving and seize the opportunities President 5 Practicum in Pastoral Care to exercise the gifts of the Spirit in loving one another! Dr. John Fozard This issue of the Mid-American highlights ways that 6 Alumni Spotlight our students and alumni are ministering to the needs of Editors 7 COVID-19 Counseling people around them. Our hospital practicums find students Jody Allen ministering to COVID-19 patients who otherwise would Whitney K. Knight 8 Learning Partnerships have no one to visit or pray with them outside of hospital Anna-Kate Weichel 10 staff. There are new opportunities emerging for students to Men's Basketball Speaks Against Social Injustice Photos/Images participate in internships at free community clinics where 11 Hannah Moeller Milestone the marginalized and the underserved receive medical and Anna-Kate Weichel spiritual attention. MACU is experiencing unprecedented 12 Soccer Under the Lights concluded that this statue of Jesus without hands would be enrollment growth in our counseling programs, with students Graphic Design a great reminder that God's work must be done through his Spark Creative 13 O'Brien Center Dedication serving in congregational care ministries or mental health people. clinics. Our men’s basketball team has been recognized for 14 Indeed, there must be a balance between the preaching of MACU/OSU-CHS 3+1 Program the unique way they have used their pregame messages to the Gospel and practicing it in our behavior and ministries Do You Have an Alumni 15 speak out against social injustice, leading indoor and online Cybersecurity Degree to the community. James 2:14-17 says, “What good is it, my Update or Story Idea? audiences in contemplation to be committed to removing brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have 16 2021 Commencement Speaker injustice and in praying for our nation’s healing and unity. Please send it to: works? Can that faith save him? If a brother or sister is poorly [email protected] Caring for one another is founded on having a life-altering, 17 Master's Programs clothed and lacking in daily food, and one of you says to them, loving relationship with Christ. John 13:34-35 says, “A new ‘Go in peace, be warmed and filled,’ without giving them the 18 Esports commandment I give to you, that you love one another, even things needed for the body, what good is that? So also faith by as I have loved you, that you also love one another. By this all Watch MACU Chapel Live every 19 itself, if it does not have works, is dead.” Staff Spotlight men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for Wednesday and Friday at 10:15 a.m. At MACU, we impress and shape our students to become 20 one another." MACU Golf Classic “the hands of Christ.” We want them to love one another with macu.edu/watch During World War II, a church building in Strasbourg, their heads and hearts and their hands! Jesus said, “As the 21 Campus Store Germany, was destroyed. After the bombing, church members Father has sent me, even so I am sending you.” (John 20:21) surveyed the area to see what damage was done. They were 22 Eternal Investment pleased that a statue of Christ with outstretched hands was @MAChristianUniv still standing. It had been sculpted centuries before by a great artist. However, as debris was cleared, parishioners Mid-America Christian University discovered both hands of Christ had been sheared off by a Dream Bigger. falling beam. Later, a sculptor in the town offered to replace Dr. John Fozard, President Do Greater. the broken hands as a gift to the church. Church leaders met to @MACU consider the offer and decided not to accept it. Those leaders Text EVANGELS to 41444 to give today! 3500 SW 119TH STREET, OKC, OKLAHOMA 73170 • 405-691-3800 2 | MID-AMERICAN SPRING 2021 Butterfield Eighteen Years MACU student Savannah Balute is the first student to take Foundation part in the internship. She said that when Key brought her the opportunity to serve at Crossings Clinic through the of Practicum in Butterfield Foundation, she knew she had to take it. Partnership "Practicum has taught me that you do not need all the answers and fixes to people's problems. Instead, it's about Pastoral Care A new partnership between MACU, Butterfield Memorial trusting the Holy Spirit and His guidance,” Balute said. “I’m Foundation and Crossings Community Church is helping excited and honored to take this opportunity to reach even give Pastoral Care students an unparalleled opportunity to more people with God’s love.” Since MACU’s Practicum in Pastoral Care course launched minister to patients at charitable clinics. She said as a ministry major at a Christian university, it’s almost two decades ago, MACU students have touched the very easy to be in what she describes as a “Jesus bubble,” hearts of more than 30,000 patients, families and hospital staff The partnership helps fund two to four paid internships a members with God’s loving kindness. year at Crossings Community Clinic in Oklahoma City. The surrounded by other believers. Her time serving as a chaplain clinic helps treat uninsured and otherwise underserved has challenged her and helped connect her with those who This spring marks the eighteenth year of Practicum in Pastoral PHOTO: Ministry Professor Justin Key with Practicum in Pastoral Care Care, an honors-level, clinical training experience available to patients by offering medical, dental and vision healthcare. are from very different places, backgrounds and beliefs. students Makayla Lein and Logan Deaton. MACU students who have completed a significant amount of “It has pushed me to be able to connect with different people, “Butterfield Foundation is thrilled to be partnering with coursework in Bible, theology and ministry. MACU and Crossings Community Clinic to pilot an internship believers and unbelievers, and show all of them the love of The Practicum course is designed to offer instruction that is immediately translated into ministry in a clinical setting. Students attend program to equip students with the necessary skills to provide Christ in different ways,” Balute said. classroom instruction every Tuesday, where they process various aspects of pastoral caregiving. On Thursdays, they travel to partner hospital If you would like more information on how you can support spiritual care to patients in a Christian-based, charitable clinic Alliance Health Midwest to offer spiritual care to patients, giving them the opportunity to put into practice the principles learned from class. setting,” said Dierdre McCool, Vice President of Butterfield this new effort, please contact University Advancement at 405- Foundation. 692-3134. All checks directed to the Pastoral Care Scholarship Ministry Professor Justin Key, who oversees Practicum, says the course is a perfect blend of faithful learning and faithful practice. will be added to this fund. You can also visit give.macu.edu to During the course of their internships, MACU students “Our students get to visit with people from all walks of life who are experiencing many challenges in the area of cardiac recovery, intensive will have the opportunity to visit with patients and family give online. Every dollar helps train a student to care! care and oncology,” Key said. “In the first week of caregiving alone this semester, a student visited someone who turned their caregiving visit members as they come to receive care in the clinic. This down, a patient who was in a non-responsive condition and a patient who was terminally ill.” includes listening to them, offering spiritual resources and These are experiences that can’t be replicated in the classroom, Key said, adding that MACU is blessed with the opportunity to prepare providing encouragement and prayer. Students will also serve students for the reality they will face in life and in ministry. at the Crossings Community Center, which is located in the Practicum in Pastoral Care began in 2004, after MACU President Dr. John Fozard and the late Brian Clemens, who was then the CEO of the same facility. hospital, collaborated together to create the course. Since then, Practicum has expanded to include a second level that takes place at The “By the time our students have completed their Practicum University of Oklahoma Medical Center, where students expand their caregiving to Levels 1 and 2 trauma and pediatric care, including the courses, they’ve had the opportunity to care for people neonatal intensive care unit. from all walks of life and learn how to navigate the hospital Beginning this month, Practicum students will have the unique opportunity to visit with COVID-19 patients. environment. Working in the clinics will give them the wonderful privilege of expanding their care in a similar “These are unprecedented times for all of us, and especially for these particular patients in the hospital who are having to remain isolated on environment, but one that is medical ministry focused,” said a daily basis,” Key said. “We believe that presently and in upcoming semesters, our students will have the incredible opportunity to offer care in a way that we’ve never been challenged with before.
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