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It was 3 a.m. The rain was falling sideways as Craig Masselink (MBI-Spokane '13) pulled himself once again to a standing position on his paddleboard in the middle of Lake Michigan. As he began paddling across the dark, choppy waves, another wave knocked him into the chilly water and flipped his board over. Shivering, he grabbed onto the board...

Kyle ’11 and Stephanie (Frusher ’03) Tennant, being raised and educated in a conservative Evangelical environment shaped by reformed thinking, never imagined leaving that background to serve in ministry. However, now the Tennants are planting churches with the United Methodist Church, the very denomination founded by the great evangelist...

Typical Day in the Office Jason Sanford ‘99 had been through this many times before. Even though it got easier with time, there is always some nervousness involved when sharing test results with a patient. As a city of Chicago public clinic worker, he has to share bad news with people quite often. Eventually, the young man whom Jason was...

Why wouldn’t a group of recent Moody grads want to rescue a dying church? When a Unitarian church invited Harvest Bible Chapel Spring Lake in Michigan to share a building and help cover rent, the Harvest pastors and elders, including several Moody alumni, toured the church and promptly denied the offer. The pastors— Chris Moeller ’09...

Have you heard of Kin City? Kin City is a new podcast about listening & learning across the borders of race, class and gender. Its mission is to see and treat each other more like family. Kin City is hosted by Nate & Jaime (Robinson '08) Tubbs '07 and Quantas Ginn, a current seminary student. Please subscribe and join Kin City...

Moody alumna, Mary (Meroney) Frey '10, began her studies at Moody in 2007 with grand visions for her future life of ministry. Mary was a Evangelism and Discipleship major and wanted to be a children's ministry director or work with young women. But God had another plan for her. Mary and her husband, Peter (also a Moody alumni), got...

Dwayne Reed, a 4th grade teacher from Chicago, made a rap video to welcome his class to the school year and it quickly went viral. Mr. Reed has appeared on Good Morning America to discuss the video and his rap has even been acknowledged by TIME. The video was filmed and directed by Moody alumnus, Ty Gotham '16, a filmmaker who graduated...

Earlier this month, Tim Rogers ’96 and his wife, Tiersa, traveled to Swaziland, Africa. There they worked with New Life Homes, a ministry of African Leadership Partners. New Life Primary School is an English medium school located in rural Swaziland. The school was founded to serve 40 children exclusively—to provide a unique educational...

Missionary Serina Klotz opens her home and heart in Columbia. When Serina Klotz ’14 moved to Colombia as a single missionary with Camino Global, her worst fear wasn’t encountering FARC guerrilla rebels or learning to speak Spanish fluently. It was the thought of being alone. “I’m a super social person,” says Serina, the oldest of six...

On September 1, 2010, Moody alumnus Christian Konow ’84 strapped himself into his Robinson R44 Raven II helicopter and started the engine for a routine maintenance check. As the blades began to spin, a strong gust struck the helicopter and the nearby hangar wall, causing a vortex that made the helicopter buck. The helicopter overturned,...