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Beacon of Hope in Heart-Wrenching War
- February 24, 2023
February 24 marked a bleak milestone in Ukraine. One year ago, Russian troops entered the country’s Donbas region, and news agencies began reporting the sound of gunfire, explosions, and armored vehicles pouring across the borders.
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Flying on Mission in Haiti
- February 2, 2023
In September 2022, armed gangs gained control of a main fuel terminal and blocked the major road connecting Haiti’s capital of Port-au-Prince to the whole southern peninsula. As hijackings, kidnappings, and fuel shortages increased, David Carwell ’92, country director of Mission Aviation Fellowship, kept flying, using fuel reserves to transport missionaries, relief workers, and cargo by plane.
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Chosen for The Chosen
- February 2, 2023
Tyler Thompson ’10 has always loved two things: a good story and a good story told on film. In 2005, after graduating from high school in Fremont, Illinois, he had planned to study film at Columbia School of the Arts. But his sister, Ashley (Thompson) Anderson ’07, then a Moody Bible Institute student, suggested a different plan.
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With God All Things Are Possible
- February 2, 2023
As Martin Simiyu studied at Moody Theological Seminary, he was restless. “My heart was beating for Africa and for my village and for the people I left back at home,” he says. When he learned about Moody’s history of organizing short-term mission trips for graduate students and professors, Martin and two other students suggested a visit to Kenya and Cameroon.
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A Century of Jewish Studies at Moody Bible Institute
- February 2, 2023
The day after Labor Day in 1993 I sat in the provost’s office interviewing for the professor of Jewish Studies position at Moody Bible Institute. Dr. Howard Whaley greeted me warmly, then cut to the chase: “With the Jewish Studies program being so small and Lou Goldberg retiring, this would be a good time to end the Jewish Studies major.”
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