Posted on March 1, 2019
Alumnus Tackles Crisis in the Immigrant Church
The youth pastor of Arabic Evangelical Baptist Church in West Roxbury, MA, Karim (Kika) Ghobrial '16 feels compelled by his Egyptian roots to address an important phenomenon that he has witnessed in the immigrant church.
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Posted on March 1, 2019
Messiness and Moxie
While many don’t want to relive the awkward, messy years of middle school, Middle School Assistant Principal Karl Simon ’01 sees the sweetness in them.
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Posted on February 28, 2019
Engineering Change While Staying Put
For engineering manager and church elder Tim Ells ’78, psychology training and faith foundation offer a rare lens to see the humanity in a world of rapidly advancing technology. “Computers are the tools, but I need to be able to understand my customers . . . my team.”
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Posted on February 28, 2019
Loving and Serving from the Meta to the Mundane
An operative legal system has the power to effect change for good. And that's why “I just became convinced that the legal system is something I wanted to be a part of in some way,” says contract immigration attorney Alice (Anderson) Bohn ’12, J.D.
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Posted on February 27, 2019
When People are the Bottom Line
Beyond the typical aspects of financial planning, like retirement and life insurance, Caleb Harty ’10, CFP, is one of few financial planners in the Boston area specializing in special needs planning
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Posted on February 27, 2019
Spiritual Transformation Through Physical Disability
Hilary (Sherratt) Yancey’s longstanding interest in the philosophy of disability took on a new light when she gave birth to Jackson, a spunky boy with a number of disabilities. Suddenly, her life looked different from the journey she had once envisioned.
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Posted on February 26, 2019
Making a Difference on—and in—the Court
Wally King ’71B was a basketball star at Barrington College, but he didn’t anticipate that a strange overlap of “courts”—that of basketball and that of law—would play major, intertwining roles in his long, varied and often dangerous career.
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Posted on February 26, 2019
When Patience Guides a Working Mother’s Ambition
Wife, mother, vice president: the three leading roles that Florecita (Carías) Mejía ’08 plays daily. The ambitious businesswoman has her hands full between her growing family and a leadership role at Bank of New York Mellon.
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Posted on February 25, 2019
Making Space for Serendipity
Sometimes it’s that chance encounter—with the Uber driver, airplane passenger or person who appears out of nowhere with a set of jumper cables when a car battery dies—that, like a railway switch, sends us off in a newfangled direction.
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Posted on February 25, 2019
Becoming Mom and Dad
Jake ’04 and Lauren x’08 Kreyling had originally made plans for a family of four and became a family of eight. "First you exercise your faith and then see why," says Jake.
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