Alumni Attend Big Win

Several alumni cheered the men's basketball team to victory over Northland on January 29.

1. Stephanie Cooper ('07) with fiance and current senior business student, Josh Burch.

2. Ben Lodwick ('04) and Allison.

3. Delaney Johns, daughter of Tim ('04) and Heidi.

4. Corey and Laurie Pfaffe

Pray for Student Leah Ingram and Mom

Leah Ingram attended Maranatha as a business student in the FL07 semester. She's home in Pennslyvania now trying to keep up with her schooling at a local community college and missing her "family" at Maranatha. But Leahs' family, especially her mom, need your prayers right now. Mrs. Ingram is battling cancer and making progress. Pray that she continues to do so. Pray for Leah. Here's a picture of Leah with her mom and dad and family.

Trevor Waltho II ('07)

As an accountant at heart, I am warmed to hear Trevor tell of his internship at Kolb and Company, CPAs ... Trevor says, "I have finished the third week of my internship at Kolb+Co. So far everything has been a little overwhelming." :^)

"Everyone at Kolb has been unbelievably helpful. ... I was told to expect a few 80 hour weeks in March or April!"

I'm confident that Trevor's going to do a great job! Mr. Ron Miller (who taught many of Trevor's accounting classes) and I (his Auditing professor) will be excited to hear.

Zach Mortimer ('04)

Zach passed his tests this week for his series 6 and 63!

Jessica (Aucoin) Asire (December '07)

Jessica and Matt with family at their January 2008 wedding...

Jessica's looking for employment in Greenville, SC. I'm sure that she'll make ample use of her "What Color is Your Parachute?" book from Business Strategy Senior Capstone!

Brian Schoonover ('96)

Please pray for Brian Schoonover's wife, Jody. She is 25 weeks pregnant with their third child and was put on bedrest last week. Both of their boys were born premature, so they knew this pregnancy would be high risk as well. Pray that Jody will make it to at least March 17, which is 33 weeks. The Schoonovers live in Coon Rapids, Minnesota.

Operations Management tour-Berres Brother's Coffee Roasters

My Operations Management students enjoyed a tour at Berres Brother's Coffee Roasters here in Watertown. Here's a few pictures and commentary from your's truly...

Pictures 1 and 2: Corey Schneidewent-Berres Brother’s Coffee Ambassador-"schools" my students

Picture 3: In awe...

Picture 4: ...make a note of it...

Picture 5: Finally, the light's coming on!

Picture 6: Thanks for the tour "Ambass-ador." And I'll take a bowl of Chili please.

Zach Mortimer ('04) and Ben Kieckhafer ('04)

If you think of it, can you pray for Zach and Ben? Zach's living in PA and taking his Series 6 and Series 63 exams on January 25. Ben's living in AZ and getting ready for his Series 7 test. Both say that their Business Law class studies are coming back to them (and that makes me happy!).

:^) See?

Ben Kieckhafer ('04)

Ben says: "It has been very exciting to see how the Lord is leading in my life the past few months. I feel very fortunate to have found a job so quickly here in Phoenix. I have greatly enjoyed working for Charles Schwab. It is a great company to work for. It is very fast paced and dynamic environment. ... Shortly I will begin studying for the series 7 to become a broker."

"I also feel very fortunate to have met such a wonderful woman. The week before Christmas I asked Jolynn to marry me! We are in the process of planning our wedding, which is on Friday, March 28, 2008."

Ben Lodwick ('04)

Mrs. Laurie Pfaffe holds Allison Joy Lodwick, newborn daughter of Ben and Andrea (Howe--'04 MBBC grad) Lodwick, at the January 12, 2008, Crusader men's basketball game. Ben and Andrea live in Oconomowoc and serve at Faith Baptist Church there.

Matt Davis ('96)

Matt says:

"2007 was an eventful year for the Davis family. I accepted a position working with Dr. Mike Duffy in Watertown as Corporate Counsel and Vice President of Eternal Vision, a ministry dedicated to helping Christian schools and other ministries teach Biblical stewardship and build ministry endowments.

"I am greatly enjoying teaching Business Law as an adjunct professor at Maranatha -- although it makes me feel old to realize how many years it has been since I sat where the students are now!

"In December, it was exciting to incorporate the Davis Law Firm, LLC to handle the various legal matters that inevitably come my way. While I've helped dozens of others form corporations in the past, it was a really fun experience to see the process through first-hand.

"This year we are looking forward to rolling out Eternal Vision's mass-marketing plan---making our endowment building services available to schools across the country. It will be wonderful to see the Lord work through our new ministry."

Corey Pfaffe steps in with his commentary: "It's been my privilege to join the Board of Eternal Vision. I encourage you check out Matt's great work on the website at http://www.eternalvision.org/. If you like what you see, please encourage the administrator of your local Christian school to check it out!

"On another note: Matt, Dana and the boys have been a blessing at Calvary Baptist here in Watertown."

Tim Johns ('04)

Tim, Heidi (Hendrickson, 2003) and baby Delaney at the Saturday, January 12, 2008, Crusader basketball game (won by the men over Rockford College!). Tim serves on staff at Maranatha.

Josh Beutler ('05)

Josh Beutler and wife Anna (Paulson--also 2005 MBBC grad) now live in South Dakota. Nice picture with son, Gideon! Josh reports: "we have another one that will be here at the end of March."

Mark Hoots ('02)

Mark and his wife Lindsay (Morris--also a MBBC graduate in 2001) have 2 children. Mark says, "Gabbie is 4, Carson is 2, and another girl is on the way in mid-February. They make life so much fun.

"Our church had an opportunity to buy 30 acres in a developing area about 3 years ago, and last March, we left my home church to start the new church plant about 15 miles away...the Green Garden Baptist Church in Green Garden (Frankfort), Illinois. We are leading and teaching the teen group with another couple, and Lindsay is playing the piano and choosing and arranging all the music for the services. We averaged 95 in Sunday Morning Attendance last year...and have already seen a lot of new families join and 3 salvations in our services. It has been great to see God work so far."

Heather Mroczkowski ('06)

Heather starts her last semester of grad school in mid-January. She writes: "I’ll be graduating from Lakeland College with an MBA on May 4. Thankfully, my last two classes are the capstone course and a project management elective—neither of which should stress me out too badly. Last semester I took two finance classes simultaneously and just about died.

"I plan to move to the Washington, D.C. area in the late summer or early fall."

Tammy (Frits) Anglund ('00)

Tammy (and husband Erik) writes: "Things are flying along out here in Colorado.

"We have two daughters now: Elizabeth is 2 ½ and Abigail is 10 months. God has blessed and I am able to stay home with them full-time. I miss the working world a little but I love being home with them.

"We started attending a church plant about a year and a half ago called Northern Ridge Baptist Church. We are really enjoying the people and getting involved there. I am in charge of organizing the nursery ministry...

"It has grown rapidly. I believe there were only about 6-7 families last summer (2006) when we first started attending there, so God has really blessed. We are still praying that God will provide a permanent facility soon as we are quickly outgrowing our current facility."

Jonathan McCarrell ('07)

Jonathan McCarrell scored well on the GMAT test and was accepted into the MBA program at Grand Valley State University, beginning classes on January 7th, 2008. He says, "I will be taking Auditing, Advanced Accounting, and Financial Policy for the Manager. I have worked with an advisor to ensure that upon graduation, I will have satisfied the academic requirements to sit for the CPA exam in the State of Michigan."

Kent Singletary ('93)

Kent says that he takes pride in being part of my first accounting class in fall of 1989. I'd be very interested to hear what others in that class would say! It was certainly a learning experience for me.

Kent sent me the accompanying picture of the kids (Rebecca 9, Andrew 2, & Peter 1), Merilee and himself.

Kent hopes to hear soon that he has finished my master's degree in church business administration from California Baptist University.

He works at Fox River Christian Church in Waukesa, WI.

Micheal O'Neal ('07)

Mike writes:

"My wife and I just returned from a two month stay out in San Diego. I was put on a special project transitioning workload from our San Diego Accounting Field Site to the Cleveland Center...

"While out in San Diego, we found a great Philippino church which we were able to minister in. It is so great to be able to travel and meet other believers from all walks of life and immediately share the common bond of Christ with them. Now that we are back to our home in Cleveland, we have begun to get involved in our local church - Cleveland Baptist Church."

Sandi Beam ('07)

On January 2, 2007, Sandi started her first regular job working in the Missionary Finance Department of Baptist Mid-Missions as a financial assistant in Cleveland, OH.

Sandi says, "I really enjoyed being able to have daily interaction with missionaries from around the world."

Sandi was a maid of honor for Michele Wass, married to James ('07 graduate) on July 21, 2007.

Steve Jones ('07)

Steve becomes a Sheriff Deputy in Dane County (Madison, Wisconsin) effective January 7th.

Steve says, "along with about three hundred others I took a three hour written test. Based on the scores I was chosen along with 65 others for oral interviews. These were done in late March 2007. The next month I received a letter saying that I placed 18th overall. Unfortunately, they were only hiring 8 people at that time. I heard nothing until October when they said they were putting my name through the background process. I passed that and in November I was scheduled for physical, psychological,and stress tests.

"I will start the police academy in January then I have jail training. It takes three to six years of jail duty before I can start on patrol."

Congratulations, Steve!