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PROFILES: BRAD CURTIS, GRADUATE STUDENT

Mar 9, 2025

Each issue of the Messenger, we provide a profile for one N�鶹ԭ�� faculty member, one staff member, one undergraduate student and one graduate student. Meet Brad Curtis, our graduate student profile for Winter 2025. NAME: Brad Curtis MAJOR: Music Education FUTURE...

PROFILES: MICHELLE KUYKENDALL, STAFF

Mar 9, 2025

Each issue of the Messenger, we provide a profile for one N�鶹ԭ�� faculty member, one staff member, one undergraduate student and one graduate student. Meet Michelle Kuykendall, our staff profile for Winter 2025. NAME: Michelle Kuykendall PROFESSION: Executive...

PROFILES: DENNIS WALLER, FACULTY

Mar 9, 2025

Each issue of the Messenger, we provide a profile for one N�鶹ԭ�� faculty member, one staff member, one undergraduate student and one graduate student. Meet Dennis Waller, our faculty profile for Winter 2025. NAME: Dennis R. Waller PROFESSION: Educator/Professor ...

THE NIGHTHAWKS’ BIGGEST FANS

Mar 8, 2025

By Kelli Lindley Vice President for External Relations In the spring of 2015, shortly after I accepted the position of N�鶹ԭ��’s Director of Athletics, the local newspaper reached out to me. Mother’s Day was coming up and they wanted to write a story on a working mom who...

IN THE WORD: JOEL’S LIFE VERSES

Mar 7, 2025

“As I was with Moses, so shall I be with thee: I will not leave thee, nor forsake thee.” — Joshua 1:5b (KJV) Joel’s notes: As a junior high student (now it would be referenced as middle school I suppose), I memorized Joshua 1:5b. I have clung to this promise from that...

NORTHWEST NAZARENE DIVINITY SCHOOL INTRODUCTION

Mar 6, 2025

To serve our mission across our educational field and around the world for more than a quarter century, N�鶹ԭ�� has become a global leader in offering educational opportunities for those in ministry, including women and men who have just begun their ministerial...

THOMPSON, WESLEY CENTER ONLINE FEATURED ON HOLINESS TODAY PODCAST

Mar 6, 2025

N�鶹ԭ�� Emeritus Professor of New Testament Dr. Richard Thompson was recently featured on the Holiness Today podcast. Thompson spoke with HT podcast host Nate Gilmore about the Wesley Center Online, N�鶹ԭ��’s digital repository that has been offering theological...

THE HOLE-IN-THE-WALL GANG

Mar 6, 2025

by Dr. Jay Richard Akkerman, Assistant to the President for Congregational Engagement Nearly every church I’ve ever visited has an empty cross in the sanctuary. I suspect your church is like mine. How did we Christians get here? Because crucifixion was viewed...

A LEADERSHIP & MINISTRY OF PRESENCE

Mar 6, 2025

By Karen Pearson Vice President for Student Life Joel is his preferred name. Not President Pearsall or President Joel or Dr. Pearsall, just Joel. And it represents well who he is to our campus community. I have had the privilege of participating in the...

THE PEARSALL HOSPITALITY

Mar 5, 2025

By Mike -77- and Carol (Wardlaw) -78- Poe Former N�鶹ԭ�� Faculty and Staff The first time I remember seeing Joel was in the fall of 1973. I was a freshman at NNC living in Chapman Hall, and from my room, I could see the tennis courts. One of the “students” playing was a...

FROM PRESIDENT TO PRESIDENT

Mar 4, 2025

The legacy of a leader is best told through the lives they’ve touched, and at Northwest Nazarene University, President Joel Pearsall’s impact is evident in the heartfelt words of those who have worked alongside him. In this collection of letters, current and former...

OPENING THOUGHTS: COOKIES AND PANCAKES

Mar 3, 2025

By Mike Zahare, N�鶹ԭ�� Board of Trustees Chair Had I known that one of my NNC intramural basketball opponents would one day be the 13th President of N�鶹ԭ��, I may have gone easier on him on the hardwood, with an emphasis on the word “may.” That opponent, Joel Pearsall, not...

Giving Days is Here!