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walking the road of infertility. In her book, Ribble tells real stories of ways the church has hurt these people and then offers simple solutions to love them better. After its release in November 2019, the book rose to the #1 spot in the Christian Church History category and the top five in Church Growth and Church Leadership categories on Amazon.


2008 David Richards serves as director of bands at Pick- ens High School in Pickens, SC.


2009 Elizabeth Killen Childers was recently promoted to director of public outreach on the Communica- tions and Public Affairs team at the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Con- trol (DHEC) in Columbia, SC. She’s been with DHEC since 2017, working on public outreach and communications strategies for the agency. Childers also recently graduated from DHEC’s Leadership Excellence and Achievement Program.


2010 Lauren Dorrity was named to the “2019 Best & Brightest 35 and Under” list published by “Greenville Business Magazine,” an annual list that celebrates the women and men who are rising stars in the business community. Tis year, more than 100 nominations were received, which the selection committee then narrowed down to 37 individuals. Dorrity is a senior project manager with Auro Hotels in Greenville, SC.


Barry Mullinax has accepted the position of assistant principal at Newberry Middle School in Newberry, SC.


2012 Suyash Raiborde received the 2019 Young Alumnus of the Year Award from the NGU Alumni Associa- tion. (See the full story on Page 26.)


Clayton Tornton has accepted a new job as a producer for RFD-TV in Nashville, TN. His new role includes producing the newscast “Market Day


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Report” and the “Rural Evening News.” RFD-TV’s “Market Day Report” covers commodity markets and agricultural news as it relates to rural America. Tornton studied broadcast media at NGU.


Alex Zimmerman graduated from the University of South Carolina School of Law on May 10, 2019. He graduated fourth in a class of 205 graduates, also being named to the Order of the Coif and the Order of the Wig and Robe. Zimmerman also received the Distinguished Student Award from the “South Car- olina Law Review.” Following graduation, he began working as a law clerk for Judge H. Bruce Williams at the South Carolina Court of Appeals.


2014 Jordan Ferrell was named the producer and co-host of the longest running locally produced sports talk radio show, “Open Mic Daily,” on Fox Sports 1400 AM/98.3 FM in Spartanburg County. He will also be a co-host for “Just a Bit Outside” and “Victory Formation,” the station's high school baseball, foot- ball, and softball recap show.


Freddie Martino is a wide receiver with the Dallas Renegades, a professional football team based in Arlington, TX. Te team is an owned-and-operated member of the new XFL American football league. Martino has previously played for the Arizona Hot- shots, Atlanta Falcons, Philadelphia Eagles, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and Tampa Bay Vipers.


Allie “Rachel” Outhouse has been a youth services coordinator for one year. In this role, she also serves unchurched families as a children’s librarian.


Bekah Quirin serves as the owner, director, and instructor of the Valley Forest School in Catawba, VA. Her passion for seeing children thrive outdoors grew stronger when she and her husband, Derek Quirin (’14), immersed their daughter, Ellie, in the outdoors shortly after her first birthday — thru- hiking the Appalachian Trail. Additionally, Bekah is currently working towards becoming a Certified Virginia Master Naturalist. She has eight years of outdoor guiding experience across the country, with


more than 500 logged days and nights of backcoun- try travel.


Sarah Deane Shugars passed the South Carolina Bar Examination to become an attorney at the age of 22. She was sworn in on Nov. 19, 2019. Shugars graduated from NGU with a degree in psychology.


2015 Joey Elledge has been promoted to facility manager for Irmo Chapin Recreation Commission in Co- lumbia, SC. Elledge earned his sport management degree at NGU.


Stephen Howard has accepted the position of assis- tant counsel with the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation’s Office of Chief Counsel.


Tucker MacDonald has been named the new men’s golf coach at Columbia International University (CIU) in Columbia, SC. A South Carolina native, MacDonald brings a wealth of experience as a player and golf instructor to the CIU program. He toured for two years as a professional golfer after college before becoming the golf camp director for TGA Premier Golf in Orlando, FL. Tere, he managed a children’s after-school program, which included leading on-course instruction and supervision of coaches. MacDonald also served as the tournament director of the Swing Tought Tour, a developmen- tal professional golf tour.


2016 Zach McLean graduated with his master’s degree from Winthrop University in Spring 2019.


Ronald Keith Phillips (DMin) serves as the direc- tor of counseling ministries at First Baptist Spartan- burg. He is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) and a licensed professional counselor supervisor with a biblical worldview.


Christal Potter is fulfilling her lifelong dream of working with the Walt Disney Company. She works in the Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique at Walt Disney World in Orlando, FL.


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