A cup – a container, a vessel. It can be used for many different purposes. And it can be filled with many different things for accomplishing those purposes, whether it be to cleanse, to nourish, to refresh, to beautify, to serve, to hold, or even to dig. In the same way, we are vessels – used for different purposes. And while the shell of who we are does not change, what we choose to fill our lives with helps determine our output, our purpose – whether it be ministry, teaching, art, mil

Soldiers and Students “At Camp Cook in Iraq, we were bombed three times a day. They do have a couple of bomb shelters, but I didn’t always use them. There were times where I slept through the bombing. By the time you could get dressed and get your gear back on, it was over, so I just didn’t even try to get to the shelters. You either got hit or you didn’t.” Monica Carrillo’s job during her five years in the U.S. Army changed from vehicle mechanic while in South Korea and at Ft.

Melanie Sarra Hanson ’77 grew up on a farm in Kansas and followed her mother and older sisters’ footsteps to Ottawa University. While at OU, former OU President Dr. Hal Germer was her advisor. He recalls faculty discussing characteristics of ideal students—capable, motivated, bright and smart. “A few students were all that and more. They continued to ask thoughtful questions, were immersed in additional reading and reflection and did not stop just because the course ended. That’s h

Orphaned, uneducated, and hungry; dodging minefields and bombs; living in refugee camps; dependent on the intermittent kindness of strangers - for a 10-year old Cambodian boy whose name means “lucky,” Samnang Yun’s young life seemed anything but. In the mid 1970s, Yun lost or was separated from his entire family when up to two million people, more than a quarter of the Cambodian population, died in the “killing fields” at the hand of the Khmer Rouge regime. Seeking asylum, he fi