MOODY Winter 2013 Alumni News Class Notes from Alumni of Moody Bible Institute Challenged to Serve STUDENTS COMMIT TO CROSS-CULTURAL MINISTRY (Page 4) MoodyHighlights Dear friends, The Gary D. Chapman Chair for Marriage and Family Established I am amazed and thankful for what God has done as I Well-known Moody In addition, he serves as senior associate reflect on the past few months since the beginning of the alumnus and author pastor at Calvary Baptist Church in school year. I hope you’ll be encouraged about the news of the New York Times Winston-Salem, North Carolina. bestseller The 5 Love of a new endowed chair, growing enrollments, and student Dr. Chapman holds B.A. and M.A. Languages, Dr. Gary commitments to service at Missions Conference. I think degrees in anthropology from Wheaton Chapman ’58, and you will also be inspired, as I was, when you read about College and Wake Forest University, his wife, Karolyn, Moody alumni who are serving in inner city ministries and about five Moody respectively. He received M.R.E. and gave an endowment alumni who are working together in Haiti. Ph.D. degrees from Southwestern that established The Gary D. Chapman Baptist Theological Seminary and Chair for Marriage and Family, the first As we look forward to what God will do in the new year, I ask for your help completed postgraduate work at the in Moody’s 126-year history. The Moody in influencing the future of the Alumni Association with your vote for the University of North Carolina and Duke Theological Seminary (MTS) chair will Alumni Board of Directors (see insert card). Founder’s Week is also one of University. Dr. Chapman was named teach and serve as Moody’s voice on my favorite times to connect with as many of you as possible, so I hope to Moody’s Alumnus of the Year in 2006, the biblical perspective of marriage see you there. If you can’t join us in person, please share what God has been and he received an Honorary Doctorate and family. doing in your life so we can publish it in future issues. You can submit your from Moody in May 2010. “Dr. Chapman is one of the most information at www.moody.edu/alumnimag, or e-mail [email protected]. Based on his counseling and academic influential and passionate advocates Or, feel free to call us at 312-329-3312. experience, Dr. Chapman’s purpose for marriage and family, and Moody and desire for the endowed chair is Serving Christ together, is deeply grateful for his and Karolyn’s “to further equip students to have making this chair possible,” says God-honoring marriages and learn Dr. Paul Nyquist, president of Moody. how to help others do the same.” “Churches continue to be under more Nancy (Andersen ’80) Hastings and more stress to help marriages and Recruitment has begun for the position, Executive Director, Moody Alumni Association families, so by having a recognized which incorporates responsibilities not expert on our faculty, Moody will be only in education but also with Moody’s equipping our seminary students at a media ministries. The chair will teach higher level to help meet this growing courses at MTS in counseling and need, something near to the heart marriage and family; serve as a guest and legacy of Dr. Chapman.” lecturer for Moody’s undergraduate school; be a regular voice on Moody Married more than 45 years, Dr. Radio; and write marriage and family Chapman has served more than resources for Moody Publishers. 40 years as a pastor and marriage counselor. Besides The 5 Love Languages, “Because this professor will have media he has written more than 20 books, responsibilities, our prayer is that he or such as The Family You’ve Always she will reach many more people with Wanted and Parenting Your Adult this important message through radio Contents Child. Dr. Chapman holds nationwide and publishing,” says Greg Thornton, weekend marriage conferences and Moody’s senior vice president of Media. Moody Highlights .............................. 3 hosts the Moody Radio programs Dr. Chapman will have a strong voice Alumni Profiles .................................. 12 A Love Language Minute and Building in the appointment of this endowed Relationships with Dr. Gary Chapman. chair, which is expected to be filled Class Notes ...................................... 16 by July 1, 2013. Present with the Lord ..................... 26 www.moody.edu/alumnimag 3 MoodyHighlights Increased 2012–2013 Enrollments Founder’s Week, February 4–8, 2013: Knowing Christ Because of limited capacity, Moody Bible • Moody Distance Learning enrollment Connect with your former classmates The conference will be filled with Institute in Chicago retains a steady is up by almost 200 students since and join us for Founder’s Week. Alumni biblical teaching by Christian leaders enrollment at about 1,600 undergraduate fall 2010, with 797 students taking events will include reunion dinners for such as Moody President Paul Nyquist, students. With 412 students, Moody courses online. the classes of 1963, 1973, 1988, and James MacDonald, Al Mohler, Tony Theological Seminary in Chicago has • The Master of Arts in Applied Biblical 2003, and an Alumni Banquet. On Evans, and John MacArthur. Additional similar enrollment to previous years. Studies, offered completely online, Alumni Day, February 5, the Faculty scheduled speakers include Erwin We thank God that other Moody started in October, reaching the goal Citation Award will be presented and Lutzer, James Ford, Mark Jobe, Janet enrollments have grown, enabling us of 20 students in the first cohort. Pastor James Ford ’84 from Christ Parshall, Eric Mason, David Platt, Philip to train more students for ministry. Church of Chicago will speak, as well Ryken, and D. A. Carson. Worship will • Moody Theological Seminary– as Mark Jobe ’84 be led by Meredith Andrews, Shane & • Moody Bible Institute–Spokane has Michigan also gained more students, , lead pastor of New Life Community Church. You will also Shane, and Charles and Donna Butler. increased by nearly 200 students with a total of 163 students. over the last two years, with a total find out who will be named Alumnus If you can’t join us in person, we of 613 students. of the Year and will hear about Moody’s encourage you to tune in to Founder’s exciting plans for reaching across Week online at www.foundersweek.org. the globe, cultures, and generations To order tickets for the banquet or for Students Commit to Missions at Annual Moody Conference for Christ. more information, see the insert card in this issue. Hundreds of Moody Bible Institute to get to know representatives of students committed their lives to 50-plus missionary agencies visiting cross-cultural ministry on the final day campus. Another highlight was of Moody’s annual Missions Conference, Ethnefest, during which students held October 9–12. “I’ve never seen watched tribal dance performances anything like it,” said Moody president and sang and prayed in several Dr. Paul Nyquist. “Friday, when we gave languages, including Haitian Creole, the call for commitment, nearly half Spanish, American Sign, and four of our students went forward to say, Native American tribal languages. ‘I’m in’.” Global prayer groups were also held to intercede for the nations. Throughout the conference, students heard inspiring messages from speakers Clive Craigen, assistant professor including Tom Lin, the vice president of world missions and evangelism at of Missions for InterVarsity and the Moody, summed up the message of director of the Urbana Student Missions the conference: “May we be willing to Conference; Pastor Daron Butler of the give up privilege, position, and power Navajo people; Yolanda Fields, chief in the spirit of the Incarnate One.” program officer at Breakthrough Urban Moody Bible Institute–Spokane held Music Ensembles’ Winter Tours Ministries; and Rev. Jamie Taylor, the its annual Missions Conference for great-great grandson of Hudson Taylor. students November 5–6. Dr. Timothy Moody Chorale, Moody Men’s Collegiate Choir, Moody Symphonic Band, The conference theme, “Incarnate,” Sisk, chair and professor of World and Women’s Concert Choir will tour January 18–20, 2013, in Wisconsin, challenged students to live, learn, labor, Missions and Evangelism at Moody Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, and Iowa. Students will also go on Spring and love with the same attitude as in Chicago, served as keynote speaker. tours during Spring break in late March. For information, please visit Christ Jesus, who humbled Himself The free conference featured 34 mission www.moody.edu/concerts. and came to live among us. organizations in the exhibit hall. Students chose from more than 100 seminar sessions and had opportunities 4 MoodyAlumniNews www.moody.edu/alumnimag 5 MoodyClassHighlightsNotes Spotlight on Moody Bible Institute—Spokane The community at Spokane is also strengthened because students, staff, and faculty can get together frequently outside the classroom. Because Spokane is easy to get around, students, staff, and faculty can easily gather on campus, downtown, or in a student, staff, or faculty home. A Long-Term Leader. Jack Lewis, Campus Dean, was honored for his 15 years of service at Moody Bible Institute–Spokane this fall. He started in 1997 as the only full-time Bible/ ministry professor at Moody Northwest, after having served as an adjunct Moody’s new hangar provides first-class training. professor at Inland Empire School of Investor-owned homes provide Moody the Bible, the precursor to MBI-Spokane, series, a student-run theological Spokane Turbine Center. As part of the students with well-maintained housing. since 1983. The school became MBI– journal, theater, a chorale, and maintenance program, students learn Spokane in 2006. Jack then moved into numerous student groups. about the structure of the aircraft, with With an increase by more than a the role of Associate Dean, which was training on everything from welding, The number of Chicago-based third of its student body in just more of an administrative role.