Bryan College Triangle

Seventeen Bryan students are spending their summer abroad as a part of their semester-long class: the Acts Project.

According to the Bryan College website, the Acts Project “couples a semester-long class conversation on missions with a summer internship.”

The following students explain where they will be going and what they expect from their journeys:

Photo courtesy of Carlin Nasiatka.

Carlin Nasiatka: Nairobi, Kenya

Jambo rafiki! This summer I will be going to Kenya, Africa, to serve at Gethsemane International Children’s Home just outside of Nairobi. Gethsemane’s mission is to create a family-like environment for approx. 60 children, caring for their needs and bringing them up to follow the Lord Jesus Christ and impact Kenya for Him! Most of the children that come to live at the home are some of Kenya’s more than 800,000 AIDS orphans. While I am over there with Elizabeth Benscoter, my teammate, we will be tutoring the children (Kenya has a very overcrowded school system), helping with ESL language learning, teaching bible studies on the book of Ephesians, and just engaging in life with the children and staff at the home. Read full story »

by John Moore
Staff Writer

On Thursday night, April 22, Bryan students met in Mac’s Café with Pastor Manuel Castro and his wife Carolina to hear the story of their calling to Dayton as missionaries to the local Hispanic community. Read full story »

Dubbed the 'Survivor Tree,' still standing ten years later across from where the bombing took place.

by Michael Palmer
Guest Writer

It has now been 15 years since the bombing in Oklahoma City; the earth has made 15 full revolutions around the sun. Time does march on, but this kind of anniversary naturally creates a flood of recollections.

As an adopted son of the heartland and as a member of a family that lost two of its members, Dr. Charles and Jean Hurlburt, what happened that day was insulting. But what happened in its wake in the handling of the dead, the injured and the mourners, by Oklahomans and others, was admirable.

In one of the worst acts of terrorism ever on U.S. soil, 168 people wrongly and prematurely lost their lives. The 4,800-pound explosive rocked both Oklahoma City and the nation on April 19, 1995, causing monumental damage—which was miniscule in comparison to the human destruction. Read full story »

By Jonathan Goff
Design Editor

“An oath, an oath, I have an oath in heaven:
Shall I lay perjury upon my soul?
No, not for Venice.”

So says the character Shylock in Act IV of Shakespeare’s “The Merchant of Venice.” This particular play is one of several literary works Bryan’s English department is highlighting in its “Springtime in Italy” study abroad program May 9-26.

According to Dr. Ray Legg, head of the English department, this unique opportunity stems from an effort to provide “signature programs” in order to set Bryan’s English department apart from other majors, schools, etc. Read full story »

'READ' posters featured People Book authors. Triangle photo by Allison McLean.

by Allison McLean
Editor-in-chief

One of the events that the Bryan College Library held last week in honor of National Library Week was their People Books daily event. People Books is a program to help students get to know the faculty and staff at Bryan College. Bryan College Library patrons may ask the People Book authors about the books that these authors created, which feature something significant about themselves. This video features Jody Cheon, one of the People Book authors, who presents her book entitled, ‘Daughter of a Traveling Yo-yo Man.’