Homecoming 2012 Registration INSIDE: see page 7 Tear-Out Prayer Card www.ciu.edu/alumni FALL 2012 CIU: More Than Education, It’s Preparation for Life By Adam Erickson | Adam C. Erickson Productions I had hoped to move into a position within the Church immediately after graduation, but sometimes our schedules and God’s plans are entirely different. He still had things to teach me. Instead, God led me into the marketplace producing commercials – the ideal position for refining my professional skills. I am immensely Adam ('07) and Hannah thankful for the ways that God taught me during that time. Rumberger ('08) Erickson Just last year, God brought me to Seacoast Church in Charleston, t’s amazing how God can use four years of your life to S.C. where I use my talents and gifts in video production to tell prepare you for what He has planned for you. I’m talking His story as He works within the local church. God was I about my four years at Columbia International University preparing me all along for the perfect position for the unique where the friendships I made and the desires God gave me to person that He has made me to be. serve Him laid the groundwork for my future. Five years after graduation, CIU still plays a direct role in what While studying at CIU, God used the missions mindset of the God is doing in my life. I’ve had the privilege of humbly serving faculty and staff to instill in me a desire to use my communication CIU alumni as a member of the Alumni Association Leadership skills to create video presentations of what He is doing in the Council (AALC). I continue to be inspired as I hear about the world. This calling was driven home by friendships and those ways God is using CIU alumni worldwide. I am also encouraged who mentored me. It led me to join with fellow CIU alumnus, every year as I return to campus for Homecoming. It’s an Ken Summerall, to co-direct Wellwater Productions, an organization opportunity to meet both alumni as well as current students. that uses video to report on where and how God is moving in God has woven an amazing body of believers through the CIU the world. family. He continues to encourage me through CIU and use many of you to build me into the man He wants me to be. Meanwhile, God has also called me to use my gifting in video to work directly with the local church, which also provides for And I’m thankful that He’s just getting started. my full-time employment. THE POWER OF A GRATEFUL HEART By Shirley Moreland, President, Alumni Association Leadership Council ratitude is at the root of all selfless Alumni Association, philanthropy. Cicero wrote, “Gratitude Columbia International G University, is not only the greatest of virtues but the Volume VIII, No. 1, Fall 2012 parent of all the others.” We teach our Upward is published as a service children gratitude to shape who they to CIU alumni by the Alumni become. While growing up many of us Ministries Office of Columbia International University. were taught to write a “thank you” note Editor: Peggy Lee Manoogian but that seems to have gone by the Editing Consultant: Bob Holmes wayside with simply an email these days. Designer: Tonya Daugherty While we believe gratitude is a fundamental Direct all inquiries to: The Upward magazine virtue there has not been a lot of hard scientific Alumni Ministries research on the nature of gratitude and its essential P.O. Box 3122 Columbia, S.C. 29230-3122 benefits. But research from Harvard Business School, (803) 807-5500 • [email protected] the University of Miami and others show that gratitude Visit our website www.ciu.edu/alumni Columbia International University admits students 1) has tremendous positive benefits, 2) that it must be of any race, color, and national or ethnic origin. cultivated and 3) must be directed toward someone. The claims made by D. Norville in the book “Thank You Power: Making the Science of Gratitude Work for You” seem like a too-good-to-be-true infomercial. In one study, waitresses who simply wrote “thank you” on the check before handing it to their customers received on average 11 percent more in tips. We owe a debt of gratitude to CBC/CIU for the education, wise counsel, affirmation and lifetime direction we received while students – building in us the infrastructure for life. We can say “thank you” through prayer and financial support. But another way is to serve on the Alumni Association Leadership Council for the years 2013-2015, which coincides with CIU’s 90th anniversary celebration. We are trying to grow our Alumni Council and ask that you consider this unique way of “giving back” with a thankful heart. With a grateful heart, Shirley 2 FALL 2012 Introducing Diane Mull Please welcome Diane Mull as interim director of CIU Alumni Ministries A Special Diane arrived at CIU 20 years ago when her husband, Andy enrolled as a seminary student. Diane took advantage of the opportunity to also Message from complete mission courses in the seminary, and serve as the president of the Wives Fellowship at CIU. Most recently, she served as CIU’s 90th Roy King anniversary coordinator. For 18 years, Diane and Andy have served internationals in South Carolina as well as Texas, I write to you as your former director of Columbia where they joined with International Students International University Alumni Ministries. My eight Incorporated (ISI) to launch a new outreach to years as director was a very enjoyable and rewarding international students at Southern Methodist experience! University. I am delighted to have returned to my previous role as Diane is a recipient of the Council for Advancement a full-time CIU professor. This semester I am teaching and Support of Education (CASE) award in Alumni Ethics and Sanctification to a room full of seniors and Relations. Her experience includes serving as the developing a similar online course for CIU Seminary assistant director of alumni relations and director & School of Ministry. In January, I’ll be teaching at of the Annual Fund at Messiah College in Pennsylvania where she received her degree in CIU’s Atlanta campus, and in spring, I’ll teach online Communications and a minor in Business and on-campus seminary courses. Administration. Passionate about Romans 1:16, Stay tuned to my website, www.rking.org, and receive she has led Bible studies with internationals and the women’s ministries at Cornerstone Church in notification when new resources are added including Columbia, S.C. Meanwhile, Andy is still connected Vibrant and Effective Biblical Leadership, Ethics and to CIU as an adjunct faculty member. He also Sanctification and Life Coaching. I enjoy hearing serves as a campus pastor at the University of from my former students so please contact me at South Carolina. [email protected]. Diane and Andy have two daughters who are both Blessings, graduates of Ben Lippen School. Laura is a fourth grade teacher in Rock Hill, S.C. and is married to Mark Bebber. Elizabeth is a junior majoring in Biology at Clemson University. FALL 2012 3 Hannah Tumey Lampman From the Leadership Council to all Alumni: ‘03/’05, a native of Lexington As a member of CIU’s Alumni Association, we want to hear from YOU S.C., is the assistant director regarding the nominees listed below. for the children’s ministry at Please read the introduction of those who have been nominated to serve a First Presbyterian Church in two-year term on the Leadership Council. For any you know personally, Columbia, S.C. please respond one of two ways: “GOOD REPORT” - Write one to two sentences affirming the nominees Glen Wigfall ‘02 serves as and the strengths and experiences they can contribute. pastor of Haskell Heights First “CONCERN” – Write a short explanation on why you think a nominee Baptist Church in Columbia, should not serve on the Leadership Team. S.C. He received his Master of Divinity in Pastoral Leadership For all communication, please provide your name and contact information. from CIU. Know that the Leadership Council will review all GOOD REPORTS and share these with the nominees. All CONCERNS will be personally followed up by Louis Lemmon ’06 is school an alumni staff member or the president or vice president of the Leadership pastor and principal of Lake du OR Pointe Academy, a Christian Council to determine the most appropriate actionalu tom nbeid [email protected] 203. school in York County, S.C., All communication should be sent by email too ad, Columbia, SC 29 IU, 7435 Monticello R he helped co-found. ALUMNI DIRECTOR C Margo Wright Williams ’10 Paula Berkey ’74 is a marriage and family serves as associate minister at Ken Frederick ’98 serves as therapist with Columbia Word of God Church and the pastor of Blackville First Counseling Center. She also Ministries, as a chaplain in Baptist Church in Blackville, served for five years with the marketplace and as office S.C. He and his wife, Suzanne, OMF as a missionary nurse manager at Primerica. She volunteers with served with the IMB in the in Indonesia and 12 years as an HIV/AIDS ministry, a prison ministry, Amazon city of Manaus, Brazil from ’99- assistant dean of women at CBC/CIU. and offers counseling to women. ’09 before returning to the United States. Shawn Powers ’02 joined Sarah Nixon ‘09/’10 is a high Bob Vetter ’58 is the on-call CIU as associate director of school Bible teacher at First chaplain at FirstHealth Hospital recruiting relations after Presbyterian Day School in in Pinehurst, N.C.