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MNU Student Missions- Service 2010


January


Patanatic, Guatemala – 10 participants: nursing students gave health assess- ments and medication


Spring Break Beattyville, Kentucky – 35 freshmen,


staff: construction/repair Beattyville Church of the Nazarene, nursing home ministry


Patanatic, Guatemala – 11 participants: water filtration, community health education, clinic construction


Rio Bravo and Matamoros, Mexico – 10


participants: children’s and youth ministry, food distribution


San Jose, Costa Rica – eight


participants: work on missionary and language student housing project; showed Jesus film – 20 children made decisions for Christ


South Padre, Texas, Beach Reach Ministry – from 9 p.m. – 3 a.m. provided safe transportation to spring breakers, along with conversation that often turned to spiritual matters


Urban Plunge – 19 participants: New


York City, New York, Lamb’s Center, homeless ministry, construction projects


Summer Brisbane, Australia – seven partici-


pants: children’s and youth ministry with a focus on encouraging teen girls’ modesty and purity


Olathe College Church J-Train Internship – five students: assist Bus Ministry in providing weekly VBS-like program- ming in economically-challenged neighborhoods


Patanatic, Guatemala – 22 participants


in two trips: water filtration, health and vision assessments, hygiene education


Sun Valley, Arizona – four students:


teaching and basketball camps at Sun Valley Indian School


Swaziland, Africa – 12 participants: education majors deliver home health- care kits to HIV/AIDS patients, assist in food distribution and teach school


Special partnership across the globe MNU reached into a corner of


the world with a little help from its Creative Academic Partnership (CAP) with Melanesia Nazarene Bible College and School (MBNC) in Papua New Guinea.


The CAP program was created in


direct response to a goal set by Pap- ua New Guinea’s National Board to make quality graduate education more accessible to leaders across the nation. MBNC faculty member Joyce Kapak is earning a Master of Education in Teaching and Learn- ing through MNU’s online M.Ed. program.


“I am so excited,” says Kapak, who provides oversight to the Bible


MNU


College elementary school. “I actu- ally spoke online to my professor, Martin Dunlap, this morning. He is a brilliant teacher and has taught me new ideas about making ethical decisions in education.”


The CAP partnership calls for two-way agreements among institu- tions that benefit from their com- bined resources. So far, MNBC has accepted scholarships, textbooks, consultants and visiting teachers. It is the goal of MNBC principal Geneva Silvernail, that academically qualified Papua New Guinea na- tionals will participate in a teacher exchange program to ensure a true partnership is formed with other Nazarene institutions.


MNU Annual Report goes online In another move to use resources


wisely, University Advancement published its annual report entirely online. The report is accessible at www.mnu.edu/annualreport.


Tim Keeton, interim vice president


for University Advancement noted the online format allows for video sto- ries from alumni, corporate partners, and students.


The report also contains the same information segments as in years past, including all donor lists and charts showing the financial status of both MNU and the MNU Foundation.


The MNU annual report is at www.mnu.edu/annualreport The online format allows the annual


report to be available throughout the year, and can be updated in future years with new information.


MNU mourns passing of Rev. Lee McCleery McCleery retired from ministry


Reverend Lee R. McCleery, 74, passed away May 13, 2010, at Golden Plains Health Care Center, Hutchinson, Kan.


Rev. McCleery was a founding mem-


ber of the MNU Foundation Board of Directors and served for 22 years until 2006. During many of those years he served as board secretary.


in the Church of the Nazarene, after pastoring in seven states, including Kansas. He was also assistant to the president of Eastern Nazarene College in Boston. He is survived by his wife of 50


years, Joan (Riddle), four children and six grandchildren.


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