A considerable and promising percentage of the staff, faculty,
students, and alumni of Northland International University eagerly pursue the responsibility
of the Great Commission on many fronts.
On campus, this passion permeates all of the departments,
whether from the heartbeat of faculty in the classroom, from Extension ministry
opportunities to serve in local churches, from Athletics and Fine Arts ministry
teams that travel the United States, to the vision cast by Northland
Center for Global Opportunities to organize mission prayer initiatives, study
abroad programs, summer trips, and a myriad of other creative opportunities. The
possibilities abound for God to work through His servants in numerous
capacities, near and far. Northland’s unchanging mission
is to “prepare the next generation of servant-leaders for Great Commission
living.”
Northland is blessed to have approximately 2,300 alumni—many
of whom are serving the Lord faithfully in various places. In whatever
occupations or fields of service God burdens and places our students and alumni,
we are thankful for the privilege that has been ours to invest in their lives
for God’s glory.
Recently, one of our alumni, Sarah Morrison, was featured in
The Daily & Jeffersonian
newspaper in Cambridge, Ohio. Sarah graduated from Northland with a degree in
Cross-Cultural Studies and is now teaching English in China with ELIC. “Our
teachers have been impacting students, not only by teaching English with
excellence, but also by building intentional relationships that go beyond
classroom instruction,” according to ELIC’s Web site, www.elic.org. The Daily article shares examples of how this is accomplished in
the everyday events of life, such as baking cookies, sharing holiday
traditions, and drawing interest by simply “being foreign.” “When I got there, I wondered ‘what am I
doing here,’” said Morrison. “Then I met my students and fell in love. In some
ways I could say to my students ‘I loved you before I met you; and when I
really met you, I really loved you.’” Please visit the The Daily & Jeffersonian online to read the entire article
written by Holly Bilyeu of the Caldwell Bureau.