Malone University celebratesthe inauguration of Dr. DavidKing with service to thecommunity. Recently President King went “Into the Streets” with Malone students to help give the HartvilleMigrant Ministry a fresh coat of paint.

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students, and alumni.

Each year dur-ing Orientationweek, as manyas 450 MaloneUniversity first-year students,along with

faculty and staff, scatter “Into the Streets” toperform service projects for parks, charitycenters, and non-profit organizations throughStark County and the surrounding area duringtwo days, providing the community withthousands of volunteer hours.

At the heart of Malone’s mission is preparingmen and women for a life of service to thechurch, community, and world following theexample of Jesus Christ, who “did not come tobe served, but to serve, and to give his life as aransom for many” (Mark 10:45, NIV).

“College students are in a unique stage oflife,” said Celia King, director of Service-Learn-ing at Malone.“While other people have more

life experience and expertise,college students typically offer highlevels of energy, honest feedback,and creativity.”

For example, in late August, teamsof students spent time at thePregnancy Support Center’s mainoffice, where they cleaned, helpedprepare materials for high schoolpresentations, and gave constructivefeedback about presentations aboutrelationships.

David Lewis, an admissionscounselor at Malone and a 2010alumnus, took a team to theSalvation Army.

“I enjoyed watching how excitedstudents were to help,” Lewis said.“The whole time, they were askingif there was anything else thatcould be done and they jumpedheadfirst into any opportunity they

were offered.We painted designs onchairs for a youth room, and mostof us left with more paint on ourlegs than on the chairs! But volun-teering seemed to mean a lot to thestudents – and to the SalvationArmy.”

Malone encourages students toget involved in the Cantoncommunity throughout their timeas a student – Into the Streets issimply an introduction to the typesof opportunities available.

The director of the CollegeExperience program – of whichInto the Streets is a part – is MarciaEverett, Ph.D., professor of Commu-nication Arts.The College Experi-ence is a semester-long programgeared toward creating a smoothtransition for incoming first yearstudents.The course addresses awide range of topics relevant to aChristian higher educationexperience, such as consideringwhy higher education matters, andhow college plays a role in answer-ing the questions of “who am I?,”“what do I believe?,”“with whomwill I surround myself?,” and of “ofwhat larger story am I a part?”

“Into the Streets is an effort tointroduce service as part of thecollege learning experience whileinstilling in students a sense of thelarger community beyond thecampus,” said Everett.“Students areintroduced to a wide variety ofcommunity agencies and ministrieswith the hopes that in addition tothe work they do these two days,the students will have someconcrete ideas of how they can

continue to serve the community asa Malone student and beyond.”

In January, Everett was named tothe Honor Roll of First-Year StudentAdvocates by the National ResourceCenter for The First-Year Experi-ence and Students in Transition, anannual award presented to individu-als on the nation’s campusesinvolved in high-impact practicesfor first-year student success.Recipients are nominated by theirpresidents and selected by a nationalpanel of distinguished educators.

Everett also was recognized withthe Leading Age Award by St. LukeLutheran Community for Excellencein Service – Best Practice for Inter-generational Volunteer Service.Theaward reads, "Since 2004, MaloneUniversity students have served atSt. Luke.Through the "Into theStreets" program that encouragesvolunteerism, Malone University students have painted, helped transport residents, with campuscleaning and maintenance, orsimply had one-on-one visits asvalued company for residents." Leading Age Ohio is affiliated withthe Washington D.C.-based LeadingAge (www.leadingage.org)dedicated to ensuring the successof not-for-profit providers servingfrail and older adults.

Everett earned the B.S. degreefrom Virginia Polytechnic Instituteat State University, the M.S. degreefrom The Pennsylvania StateUniversity, and the Ph.D. from KentState University. She has taught atMalone University since 1990.

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Follow me as I follow Jesus.That is, inessence, themessage ofJason Lantz ’02is trying to liveas he intention-ally disciplesMalone stu-

dents, who then serve the city of Canton.He’s able to do that, he says, because others

did the same for him.“Around Christmas time of my first semester

in college was where I really committed my lifeto Jesus,” Lantz said. “God put friends, profes-sors (particularly John Geib ’77), and staff intomy life who were running after God - and I’vebeen running after God ever since. My fouryears at Malone were like drinking water froma fire hose - I received somuch Jesus.”

While at Malone, Lantzsays he tried to take advan-tage of every opportunityfor growth: he took service–learning trips to MexicoCity, Nicaragua, and Kenya.He was involved in Fellow-ship of Christian Athletes(FCA). He was on the lead-ership team of Celebration,Malone’s student-ledworship service.

Following graduation, hewas hired as the junior-highpastor at RiverTree Christianchurch, where he workedfor seven years in what hesays was a “really healthy,diverse staff who were allvery authentic in their faithand leading the way in this

community in reaching out andrunning after Jesus.”

Toward the end of his time onfull-time staff at RiverTree, Lantzsays he felt that God was speakingto his heart about the city ofCanton.

“I shared this with Pastor Greg(Nettle ’97) and he told me to go toCanton!” Lantz said.“I was allowedto spend a year and a half here withcomplete freedom to just do asGod directed, and now my fam-ily and I are living as missionar-ies from RiverTree to Canton.”

Through the year and a halfin the city,“LoveCanton”(www.love canton.com) wasborn. LoveCanton is a church,whose goal is to build a

culture based on discipleship andservice to others.The movementis made up of “villages”-or smallchurches of 20-50 people cen-tered around a common missionto a network or neighborhood inCanton.There are eight villagesmeeting in various locationsaround Canton.

LoveCanton hosts a church serv-ice twice a month calledCelebration in which the villagesgather together to sing, teach, castvision, pray for each other, and tellstories of what God is doing.

The ministry, Lantz says, is allabout relationships. LoveCantonalso has small groups called“huddles,” which he describes as“safe places for leaders to receive

both encouragement and accounta-bility - the backbone of forming intoothers as both supported andchallenged in their personal lives andministry lives by openly and honestlyfocusing on two basic questions:

‘What is Jesus saying to you rightnow?’ and ‘What are you doingabout it?’”

Through their time of serving the

city together, Lantz is convincedthat both he and the Malonestudents learn valuable lessons.

“We’ve learned so much aboutrelationship,” he said. “Unless weare consistently in relationship withothers - until the ‘them’ becomes‘us’ - something will always seem tobe missing.We’ve learned to letJesus tell us who our community is,and just do our best to let His HolySpirit work in and through us.”

SERVING THE CITY“Serving Partnerships” are like-

minded nonprofits focused on children, development of people,or church planting. LoveCantonhopes to connect people who want to serve with people who are already doing it. Serving takeson many different forms: cleaningup trash in the streets, plantingflowers to beautify the city, hangingout with kids at the park, volunteer-ing at a homeless shelter. Visit lovecanton.com/serving-partner-ships for more information.

LoveCantonUntil the “them”becomes “us”

“Where do you go to church?”Members of LoveCanton are active in “Villages”-or-small churches of 20-50

people centered around a common missionto a network or neighborhood in Cantongather regularly. Villages are guided by

leaders who are held accountable to otherestablished leaders.

Worshipping Together“Celebration” services are when all Love-

Canton Villages come together to celebratewhat God is doing through singing,

teaching, telling stories, and praying foreach other. Celebrations happen everyother Sunday morning at Trinity Chapel(415 Tuscarawas St. N.) in downtown

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CANTON —Bailey, a gruff-look-ing man with around face and fullbeard, stuffed hand-fuls of clothes intothe front-loadwasher until theclothes touched thetop. He added afew more towels tothe full washernext to it andstepped back.

“How much doyou put in this?” heasked.“I don’t wantto overload it.”

Corey Easterday, a recent Malone Universitygraduate who’s easily 15 years younger thanBailey, sized up the loads.

“I usually stuff it in there pretty good when Ido mine,” he said.

Bailey nodded and pushed a few moretowels into the washer.

Easterday, 22, grew up using the coin-operat-ed laundry facilities. His parents lived in anapartment in Wadsworth that didn’t have suchamenities until he was 10.Then, at age 12, hisfather left, leaving him and his mother withoutmuch money of their own.

On Saturday, Easterday was back among thewashers and dryers again. But his visit to Pro-fessional Coin Laundry wasn’t to wash his ownclothes. He was there to help people, such asBailey, with their laundry.

It’s part of the Laundry Love Project of Can-ton that Easterday began just over a year ago.Aspart of the project, Easterday and a group ofeight to 10 other volunteers descend on Profes-sional Coin on a Saturday each month to helpwash laundry for the homeless and poor.Theysupply quarters, laundry soap and dryer sheetsfor their laundry — along with words of hopeand friendship.

“Laundry is a tangible need that peoplehave,” Easterday said.“People need cleanclothes.”

But with the cost of each load at $5, he saidthat basic need often becomes a financial bur-den to people who struggle to pay their bills.

Easterday, who studied youth ministry atMalone, said the Laundry Love Project, whichhe adopted from a model in Florida, spendsmore than $300 on laundry each month. Mostof the funding comes from the LoveCantonministry and its outreach group based insouthwest Canton.

MORE THAN LAUNDRYSaturday marked the 13th gathering for the

Laundry Love Project and the last wash of2012.

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Women and men, some withchildren and some with their neigh-bors’ laundry, hauled in garbagebags filled with clothes that hadn’tbeen washed in weeks.Volunteersroamed from washer to washer andfrom dryer to dryer. BrandonParsons recorded each family’sname as they arrived, so that thosewho arrived first would get thenext available washer. Anothervolunteer tagged and retagged thewashers and dryers with a piece ofmasking tape labeled with theowner’s name. Hannah Segers, whowants to start a similar laundryproject in Canal Fulton, helpedplunk quarters in the machines.

Some volunteers also helped tofold; others introduced themselvesto the new faces and caught upwith some of the regular visitors.

As Easterday dodged the laundrycarts, volunteers and bags of laun-dry, he recalled the project’s inaugu-ral wash on Nov. 20, 2010.“Wedidn’t know a ton of what we weredoing,” he said.“...The washingmachines were filled too much andthey flooded.”

Seven volunteers had helpedroughly 15 families over the three-hour period.

Within the first hour Saturday,Parsons counted 16 families on hislist.

One of those families was DennisHenderson of Shorb Avenue and hisdaughter, Jalynn Shoenfelt, who will

turn 7 on Wednesday. They arrivedat 9 a.m., an hour before the officialstart of the event so he could gethis laundry in the washer beforethe rush. It was his third time at theLaundry Love Project.

“If it wasn’t for them, I would behome (washing clothes) in the bath-tub,” Henderson said.“I’ve had to dothat before. ...You only get so muchfrom Social Security, and they takeout a bunch for child support.”

The 51-year-old McKinley SeniorHigh School graduate made his liv-ing as a painter until he injured hisback three years ago when thewasher-dryer he was carrying downa flight of stairs fell on him. Hebrought enough laundry to fill fourdryers Saturday.

“Look at these,” Henderson said, agrin spreading under his thick graymustache. He held up a pair ofwhite long johns with a gaping holewhere the right knee used to be.“They’ve just gotten old I guess. It’swhat I’ve got to survive on to keepwarm.”

UPCOMINGEasterday estimates that more

than 150 volunteers — mostlyMalone University students — havehelped 200-plus families with 650to 700 loads of laundry since lastyear.

He hopes to expand it next yearto other laundry facilities in thecity.

“The advantage of doing it at thesame Laundromat is that we arebuilding relationships with thepeople who come back ... but weonly can reach so many people thisway,” he said.

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COREY EASTERDAY (THIRD FROM RIGHT) AND FRIENDS ON RECENT LAUNDRY DAY.

Nearly a decade ago in acomposition class, educationalumna Heather Conley ’08was asked to write severalpapers, including “what is com-passion?” and “what is pity?”

The ideas prompted her tochoose for her semester paperthe subject,“The differencebetween pity and compassion.”She concluded that pity was tofeel sorry for someone, whilecompassion was to feel sorrywith someone, compelling oneto take action.

Shortly after she had turnedin the paper, there was a classdiscussion about a toy drive,and someone complained thatthe organizers accepted onlybrand new toys.

The complaint promptedHeather to consider the factthat there might be childrenwho actually never get newtoys for Christmas. She hadspent many years workingwith children in the city ofCanton, and was a communityyouth liaison involved withtutoring and after-schoolactivities.

“I knew there was a need,”Conley said,“and I wanted todo something.”

Before she knew it, she hadboth a list of needy families –and a list of those willing todonate (new!) toys. In the firstyear – while still a collegestudent - Conley’s goal was toserve 50 children; the organiza-tion, dubbed “Love the Chil-dren Ministries” served 90! Thesecond year, the organizationserved 140 children; and hascontinued to grow exponen-tially each year.

LTCM works with localsocial justice agencies toreceive the names of familiesin need who live in the Can-ton area, and then provide two

new gifts for each child in the family.Thegifts are personally purchased by LTCMvolunteers during shopping sprees and thengift-wrapped and tagged at wrappingparties. Every child who participates inLTCM’s Christmas celebration dinnerreceives a traditional Christmas dinner, liveentertainment, and a personal time withSanta to receive their gifts.

And five years ago, LTCM expanded itsministry to include a back-to-school give-away and ice cream social that providesCanton City school students with supplies.Each year, a different school is ‘adopted’ –this year, it was Deuber Elementary, and 200kids were given 3,500 school supplies.

Conley teaches third grade for MarlingtonLocal Schools at Lexington Elementary, andhas continued to lead the ministrypassionately.

The organization, which is a non-profitincorporation, has received grants and hasgained national recognition over the years,is currently working through the process ofbecoming a 501c3.

While Conley desires for LTCM to alwaysbe rooted in her hometown of Canton, shehopes for it to be a model for other cities andperhaps become a national organization.

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When Cantonnative Jill(Mason) Miller’75 was a youngsocial worker inSummit Countyin the early1980s, sheremembers feel-ing excitementwhen a national

movement came into being to deinstitutional-ize children’s homes and instead place childrenin families via foster care.

“My younger colleagues and I were all aboutthe change, thinking that every child needs afamily, but my veteran colleagues were furious,”recalled Miller.“They said that we were takingaway these children’s families.”

After the children’s home closed, many ofthe teenagers were placed downtown in cheaphotels. But Miller remembers the teens stillhanging out at the children’s home where thesocial workers’ offices were, almost daily. Shesaid she’ll never forget a passionate conversa-tion with a co-worker soon after, when tellinghim that they were always there.

“ ‘What in the he** did you expect wouldhappen? They were pushed out without anypreparation,’ he said.And he was right - thesystem had done a very poor job of equippingkids for life skills,” Miller said.“That conversa-tion stuck with me for years, and God laid thatburden on my heart to do something about it.”

Miller continued with her work in the fieldof juvenile justice with the Ohio Youth Com-mission in Summit County – concurrentlyserving as the girl’s director at a local YMCAdeveloping and supervising girls programmingand directing a teenage job program. She washonored as Social Worker of the Year in 1994 andreceived a National Merit Award from the ChildWelfare League of America. But in 1999, she leftthe agency with a vision to create P.A.L. Mission– believing that was God’s purpose for her life.

PAL, which stands for “Preparation for AdultLiving,” began as a house for young womenwho had aged out of the foster care system.In its 12th year, P.A.L. Mission, has evolved intoa faith-based, not-for-profit umbrella agency thatoperates five different programs, all of whichprovide housing and life skills training to teensand homeless young adults.

“It is a great joy to share in the successes ofour young people,” Miller said.“There are somany great stories – and opportunities toimpact lives forever.”

Close to Miller’s heart remains Elaine Wolak,a successful young woman who witnessed thedeath of her sister at the hands of their parentsand was one of the first residents of the P.A.L.House in Canton.

Wolak - who spent time infoster homes where she was notserved the same food as thefamily’s children and was forbid-den to share meals with them -will soon finish college and ispursuing a degree in early child-hood development, so that shecan impact future generations.Miller and another P.A.L. co-worker beamed with pride atWolak’s honor society induction.

While Miller was at Malone,she remembers a class withHarold Walker, Ph.D., who wasalways telling students that it isnot enough just to have a career.He encouraged them,“Make yourcareer your ministry.”

Miller has taken those wordsto heart.

“I want to impact youngpeoples’ forevers,” she said.

Jill Miller has received theMalone University Alumni MeritAward, the Canton ExcellenceAward for Community Service,Multi-Development Services ofStark County Golden DoveAward, and was a 2010 inducteeinto the Stark County Women’sHall of Fame.

Being aP.A.L.to HomelessYouth

P.A.L. Mission, a private, non-profit, faith-based organization, offers these services:

The Canton PAL House is the original site of the program and is located onthe grounds of St. Mary Catholic Church at 1602 Market Ave. S.

The program is licensed to provide housing for boys and girls ages 16 to18; it consists of a graduated three-phase process that results in the eventu-

al transition to a semi-independent living apartment.

The Tuscarawas County PAL House, which began in 2004, offers a groupliving environment that provides life skills training, education, and career

development to teen girls in foster care. The teenagers in this program par-ticipate in a job-training program through PAL’s “Bearly Worn,” a children’sconsignment shop operated by PAL that serves as a job skills training site.

The GIFT (Going into Final Transition) Apartment Program provides bothfoster youth an opportunity to experience apartment living on their own

while still remaining in the custody of the child welfare agency, allowing theteenagers some type of safety net.

The “Genesis” and “Exodus” Programs are scattered apartment programs for young adults between the ages of 18 and 25 in Stark County,

partially funded by the Department of Housing and Urban Development(HUD). Participants are required to engage in life skills curriculum, main-

tain employment, and meet established guidelines.

P.L.U.S. (People Learning Useful Skills) is a 46-week curriculum that offersweekly courses and includes pre- and post-testing.

All program participants must be employed and attending an educational program if they have not graduated high school. The PAL

House programs are licensed by the Ohio Department of Job and FamilyServices as an “independent living arrangement.”

problems. Beyond foster care, Path-way partnered with the Stark Com-munity Foundation and the Sistersof Charity Foundation, creating postadoptive family support services toprovide help to adoptive familiescaring for children with specialneeds. Later, this effort wasreorganized, becoming FamilyServices and meeting the growingneeds of birth as well as adoptivefamilies for assistance in caring forchildren with special emotional andbehavioral problems. Since 2002,Pathway has been approved to par-ticipate in the placement of chil-dren for adoption.

Pathway itself has been recog-nized by such notables as BillCosby, who visited Canton in honorof the organization’s 30th anniver-sary, for providing quality care forcountless children. It has been saidnumerous times that Pathway takessociety’s “throw-away” children:those who everyone else has givenup on, and offers them new hopeand a promising future.

Pathway is a private, not-for-profitcommunity service organizationdedicated to providing quality treat-ment oriented care for children andfamilies. Today, Pathway is approvedby the State of Ohio Department of

Job and FamilyServices to act as arepresentative of thedepartment in recom-mending family fosterhomes for certifica-tion, and to partici-pate in the placementof children in familyfoster homes.Pathway is also a fullmember agency ofthe Ohio Council ofBehavioral Health &Family ServicesProviders, the OhioAssociation of ChildCaring Agencies andaccredited by theOhio Department ofMental Health and theCouncil on Accredita-tion of Services forFamilies andChildren.

Founded by true“Pioneers” – Jim andVelma Bridges –Pathway currentlyemploys ten Malone

University alumni who continue thetradition of providing a wide rangeof services and care – offering hopeto our community’s next generation.

Pathway has a partnership withQuest to provide an integratedapproach regarding drug and alco-hol and Mental Health issues. Path-way has just recently opened twonew offices in Carrollton and Min-erva which provide mental healthservices as well as providingschool based therapy to the areaschools.

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port of at-risk children, teens, and families.But in the latter part of the 1960s, the late

Jim Bridges and his wife,Velma, were simplyrecent graduates of Malone University with aburden for troubled children.Together, theyfounded an organization that would providenecessary services to meet the needs ofneglected, abused, abandoned, and troubledchildren in the foster care system.

Incorporated in 1973, Pathway has grownfrom its humble beginnings. The organizationhas spent nearly four decades forever changingthe lives of our community’s youngest victims.

Since its inception, Pathway has led the wayin providing quality foster care for the childrenin need of its services. Pathway’s newestinnovation is that of “family homes,” housingtwo parents and four foster children together,offering structure and consistency within afamily atmosphere to troubled children.

Three such homes have been built to date –in Canton, Canton Township, and Alliance.Even more recently, Pathway was approved toprovide Medicaid services—behavioral healthassessment, behavioral health counseling, andcommunity psychiatric supportive treatment.

Perhaps one of Pathway’s greatest successstories—and a fine example of the organiza-tion’s effectiveness—is board member RobertSwisher. Now a successful businessman andthe donor of one of the new family homes,Robert was one of the first five boys served byPathway.

Pathway has since been upgraded to a Treat-ment Foster Care program. Its services havegrown as well, adding care for pregnant andmothering teenage girls and their babies, andproviding extra assistance to foster parents car-ing for children with emotional and behavioral

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When ayoung singlewoman withthree chil-dren bythree differ-ent fathersbravesattendingchurch, saysThe Rev. R.B.Holmes, Jr.’72, theChurch hasthreeoptions.

“We cancondemnher.We cancondone herbehavior,” hesaid.“Or, wecan help herbecome

whole and show her that, through the resurrec-tion of Jesus Christ, her life is not over.”

Holmes should know. He’s ministered tomany families who have found themselves insimilar situations through the years.When hetook over his second pastorate in a dyingdowntown neighborhood in Tallahassee, Fla., atthe historical Bethel Missionary Baptist Churchin 1986, the parishioners were mostly affluent,successful, suburban, and had what Holmescalls a ‘stained glass mentality’ – folks whoshow up on Sunday but don’t care about thecommunity the rest of the week.

“God gave me a vision to transform the com-munity, to meet the needs of the community, tobring people hope, life, and light in the name ofJesus Christ,” Holmes said.

The church is now one of Florida’s largest,with 6,500 members and ministries for peoplein all stages of life, including two schools (apre-K through sixth grade academy, and a char-ter middle school), youth ministries, a first-time

homebuyers pro-gram, senior hous-ing, family counsel-ing, a radio stationbroadcast, and anewspaper.

“Some call us amega church, but Iprefer to think of usas simply a largecommunity where‘mega praise’ hap-pens,” Holmes said.“Today’s churchmust be a placewhere the Gospel ispreached, where it ismade real, relevant,and holistic… offer-ing the promise ofHeaven for peoplewho catch hell downhere.“

Hope, faith, and an incrediblework ethic were instilled in R.B. atan early age, when he woke upeach morning to a father who leftfor work two hours early.

“That way, son,” explained R.B.Holmes, Sr. – the man with a fifth-grade education, a will of iron, andeight children who each went on toearn graduate degrees – “if my carbreaks down or if somethingunforeseen were to happen, I willstill get to work on time.”

Holmes applied the same workethic to his studies at Malone Uni-versity in the 1970s – scheduling allof his classes in the early morningso that he could manage his studiesas well as baseball. He earned adegree in sociology - then went onto earn a master of arts degree fromMethodist Theological Seminary anda Ph.D. from Virginia Union Univer-

sity. He’s been married for nearly30 years to Gloria Price Holmes,Ph.D., a librarian and highlyrespected educator.

Holmes’ time at Malone began hisservice to the city of Canton. Hewas a youth minister at the formerAntioch Baptist Church on SeventhStreet NE in Canton. He continuesto work to make a difference here –he is a trustee of Malone Universityand he and his wife bought theformer Antioch Baptist Church tobegin a private Christian academy.The all-boys’ W.C. HendersonChristian Academy, opened August23 and is named in honor ofHolmes’ mentor and the longtimepastor of Antioch.

“A Christian school will improvethe community, instill moral values,self-esteem, self-respect, and respectfor other people,” said Holmes.“Bethel Academy has been very suc-

cessful to that end in Tallahassee.Though admittedly, Holmes

doesn’t leave two hours early forwork each day, the qualities instilledin him have led him to success inhis own life with a desire to fixwhat is broken in American familiesfor a better future for all.

“We need to celebrate the family,”said Holmes, president and founderof the “Save the Family Now” move-ment (savethefamilynow.com).

Save the Family Now’s goal is tostrengthen, save, and sustain theBlack family in particular, and allfamilies in general. Goals includereducing rates of divorce, HIV/AIDS,high school dropouts, and teenpregnancy by 25 percent by 2020,as well as establishing “Save theFamily Now” chapters in 25 citiesby the end of 2012.

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Canton is home to avibrant arts commu-nity, and MaloneUniversity is a proudparticipant. From thedowntown muralproject spearheaded

by professor of art, Barb Drennan, to currentstudents exhibiting their works at First Friday,to alumni working as curators at local galleries– Malone University is well represented.

Rick Huggett is a 2006/2011 graduate, andcurator of Mola Gallery, located in the heart ofCanton’s art district.

Over the past year and a half the MolaGallery has held solo shows featuring Maloneundergraduate students, alumni, professors,and group projects, each working with a'theme' suggested by Drennan.

Huggett said that his passion for the arts wasinspired by the enthusiasm and commitmentdemonstrated daily by Drennan and hercolleague Clare Murray-Adams.

“Prior to entering the Malone art program,”he said,“I had never displayed my art in publicbecause I was only interested in the ‘making’ ofthe art. The journey that led to the finishedproduct was what mattered most to me, notthe finished product itself.”

That changed when Drennan first hungHuggett’s work in a downtown Canton gallery.He continues to show his work “in public” tothis day.

During the break between the 2010/11 and2011/12 school years, Huggett was in need ofstudio space. “As luck would have it,” he said,“my neighbor and Mola Gallery owner Julia

Dick offered me the the base-ment space below her gallerywhere I moved my paintingequipment for the summer.That eventually led to mywork being shown in hergallery upstairs, and -- withencouragement from Julia --we began inviting other stu-dents from Malone’s artdepartment to show at theMola Gallery.”

Today, each month a differ-ent Malone student shows hisor her art at the Mola Gallery.“None of it would be possiblewithout Julia’s support for theemerging artists comingthrough the Malone ArtProgram,” said Huggett.

The most recent was MelissaLarkins who presented someof her work in a solo exhibi-tion at this past September’sFirst Friday. More Malonealumni artists to watch forinclude Heather Bullach,Michele Waalkes, and Tim Car-many, dubbed an artist on therise by About Magazine.

And Winnie King, wife ofMalone President David King,is herself immersed in the arts.She was recently treated to atour of Canton’s downtowngalleries by Huggett.“We hopeto partner with her to expand

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Homecoming Chapel with address by Rev. Dr.R.B. Holmes '72, Pastor, Bethel Missionary Church ofTallahassee, Florida, and president/founder of Savethe Family Now National Movement, Inc.Johnson Center, Sanctuary

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Inaugural Symposium featuring Harold Heie,Ph.D., author of Learning to Listen; Ready to Talk:APilgrimage Toward Peacemaking and Betsy Morgan,Ph.D., Emmy Award winning documentary produc-er. Reception immediately following Fred F. SilkAuditorium, Mitchell Hall

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A semesteraway from grad-uating with adegree inBible/Theology,one of Malone’snewest alumni,

Jon Detweiler ’12, decided he needed an adven-ture.

In a journey he dubbed “Sugar2Salt,” Detweil-er and his cousin Ben Swartz canoed fromSugar Creek, to the Gulf of Mexico, ending atthe most southern tip of Louisiana from August14-November 3, 2011.

Inspired to love the outdoors by his father,and having grown up on a farm, the city ofCanton was, at times, overwhelming forDetweiler.While writing a Theology paper lateone night in his residence hall, he was struckwith a notion he couldn’t shake.

“One of my frontiersman heroes did thisjourney himself way back in the 1700s, thathelped influence why I chose canoeing, andbecause I don’t know many people who havedone a trip like this,” Detweiler said.

Sugar2Salt may have begun as a fun canoetrip for two twenty-something cousins, butbecame a mission to help raise awareness andfunds for IRIS Ministries, an orphanage thatsupports nearly 10,000 children around theworld and equips new generations of Africanpastors through education.

This experience – which spanned 2,477miles, five connecting rivers, and 10 states –allowed Detweiler and Ben to experienceGod’s provision and protection in brand newways.“The most striking, kind of surprising, thing tome is we have not been denied once when wehave asked to stay in somebody’s yard to set upa tent,” Detweiler told the Dyersburg StateGazette, a newspaper that ran a story aboutthem last October 2. “I expected these peoplewould have been a little more afraid of us. It’srestoring my faith in America and people just ingeneral. One lady even brought us breakfast

down on a tray thenext morning. It hasbeen a completeblessing to me.”

The story drew agreat deal of othermedia attention –newspapers alongtheir journey.You canread about theiradventures, watchvideos, and seephotographs atwww.sugar2salt.com– or, of course, findthem on Facebook.

Detweiler saysGod’s provision was atheme in his time atMalone. After highschool he began looking forcolleges just because, he says, that’swhat everyone else was doing. Hetook several visits to differentschools, but only in reading aboutthe Bible/Theology major at Malonedid he sense peace in his decision-making process.

As a lover of the outdoors,Detweiler had difficulty adjusting tocity life. That is, until he began toserve it.

“It wasn’t until I served at theRefuge of Hope that I got anattitude change about Canton, Istarted to recognize homelesspeople I would see, and started tovalue it as a place,” he said.Detweiler also became active in theLoveCanton ministry.

Detweiler says that collegebecame a place where he builtfoundational relationships.“A lot of the value of the cost ofcollege for me has been in friend-ships. My purpose with my peers

will be intertwined for the rest ofour lives,” he said.

His ability to build quality rela-tionships started with his close-knitfamily, many of who are Malonealumni: Detweiler is the son of S.Conrad and Kathy (Witmer) ’87,and is related to numerous otheralumni such as his uncle LinfordDetweiler ’87 and aunt KarinBergquist ’88 of the band Over theRhine.

The journey concluded Novem-ber 3, 2011, to a poetic finish of dol-phins ushering them into the Gulfas they wrote about on their blog:“About a hundred yards out Icaught, in my peripherals, a glimpseof a fin. I swung my head to the leftin time to see a grey fin disappear.‘Shark! Dolphin! Shark? Dolphin?’I yelled.

Once it resurfaced and I got abetter glimpse of its fin and heard the blowhole I knew it was adolphin.

The little pod of five or so

followed us to the left and rearwhile we put in the literal finishingstrokes on the figurative canvas thathas been this trip.The Gulf openedwide before us with small islands tothe right and oil derricks far off onthe horizon.

Speaking of horizons, the Gulf oilspill, we heard, happened just thirtymiles south of the end of SouthPass, maybe fifty miles from wherewe stood; there were no tar balls orresidue. Not wanting to leave thedolphins we paddled and floatedout a little ways and watched themporpoise around us.The weatherwas perfect and the fact that wenow had ocean waves moving usaround nearly made me laugh outloud with delight.”

What's next for Detweiler? Hewrote in his final blog entry that,“you’ll probably be able to find mesitting on the bridge over SugarCreek, feet dangling over this side,thinking about where the watergoes.”

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In the spring of2004, the Can-ton YWCA wasfaced with adilemma. Itsgoal, of course,was to help

homeless families move out of emergency shel-ter and into permanent homes of their own.But these families would essentially be startingfrom scratch. Imagine – no beds, no tables orchairs, not even a lamp! For years the Y hadaccepted donations and stored them in a ware-house until needed. But the need had becomegreater than ever.

This called for a blitz day – first, to collectmuch-needed furniture, and second, to raiseawareness of the problem.That spring, theYWCA collaborated with the Malone Pioneerfootball team, a local radio station, and onemom & pop moving company to carry out thefirst Furniture Collection Day.

Not long after, the cross country and, later,baseball teams got involved as well, providingthe man – and sometimes woman - power toconduct two blitz days each year.To date, therehave been approximately 16 Furniture Collec-tion Days in all, the most recent one havingtaken place this past September 15.

Today, the event runs like a well-oiledmachine.The teams are pumped and ready toprovide the “muscle.”A group of professionalmoving companies and donors – most recentlyBuckeye Moving Systems, M. Conley Company,and DeHoff Realtors – provide transportation.Chick-fil-A feeds the team.And generous indi-viduals in the community donate the much-needed, gently used furniture and householditems.

At the end of the day, the warehouse is filledfrom floor to ceiling, ready for families to maketheir selections and begin anew. Sadly, the ware-house empties out again almost as fast as it isfilled.

There is an ongoing need for furnitureincluding dressers, beds, and mattresses in good

condition, headboards, chairs, couches,dinettes and tables, as well as house-hold items.

Many are surprised to learn that theYWCA emergency shelter provides aplace to stay for homeless persons andfamilies for a 60-90 day period. Duringthis time, social workers work withindividuals and families to assess prob-lem areas and needs, and then developcase plans to address these needs.TheYWCA has housed women since 1909.In 1986, grant funds were secured tohouse single women and women withchildren (boys aged 6 and under) whowere in homeless situations.The YWCAFamily Shelter, opened in 1989, housesfamilies with older males (children oradult). It moved to its new site at Gate-way House II in January of 2012,providing, also 39 units of permanentsupportive housing for homeless indi-viduals, couples, and families where atleast one adult member of the house-hold has a disabling condition.TheNew Beginnings program, transitionalhousing, provides housing for eligiblefamilies for a 2 year period with longterm support services to assist motivatedfamilies move out of poverty. GatewayEstates, which opened in October2001, offers permanent housing for thehard-to-house homeless in 36 lowincome single room occupancies.

The YWCA has seen a need forhousing assistance grow from serving189 individuals in 1986 to 362 individ-uals last year, 50% who were childrenfor 21,890 nights of service.Persons wishing to donate new or usedfurniture, or to make a monetary dona-tion, please call Theresa Ponchak at330.453.7644, extension 104.

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State Representative ChristinaHagan is currently serving herfirst term in the Ohio House ofRepresentatives, after beingappointed to serve during the129th General Assembly whilestill a senior at Malone Univer-sity. She currently representsthe 50th House District, whichincludes portions of StarkCounty.

An Alliance resident, Repre-sentative Hagan has continuedto remain active in ourcommunity. She has been akeynote speaker at severalevents within the 50thDistrict, and having formerlyworked for the Stark CountyRepublican Party, she hasplayed an active role in grass-roots efforts throughout thearea.

She was recently named toGovernor Mitt Romney’sYoung American’s Board – oneof only 11 public servants inthe nation to be so-named. Per-haps it was her youth thatcaught the attention of theGOP presidential nominee;perhaps it was her passion forunderstanding and addressingthe issues we face in the stateand nation.

“Some say,” she points out,‘So goes the state, so goes thenation. But I would suggest,‘sogoes Stark County, so goes thestate, so goes the nation.’”

It has also been said that allpolitics are local. In thatsense, Hagan cares deeplyabout her district, and sheuses her position as anelected public servant tobenefit the local community.

She has experiencedsuccess at the statehousethat few elected officialscan claim: bi-partisansupport! Her tourism bill –signed into law this pastsummer – doubles theamount spent on promotingOhio tourism.The legisla-

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Nadine McIlwain, a 1970 grad-uate of Malone University, hasdevoted a lifetime to bringingout the best in others.McIlwain finds inspiration inher former students – many ofwhom have overcome much.

“I love serving God throughassisting His people,” McIlwainsaid.“Ever since the eighthgrade, I wanted to be ateacher, and fulfillment of thatdream is high on my list of sat-isfactions. Seeing my formerstudents’ achievements, fromsuccessful classroom teachers,highly recognized entrepre-neurs, and service and busi-ness leaders – as well as won-derful parents – brings me joy.”

Following nearly 20 years ofservice to Canton CitySchools, she went on to serveas program officer for theSisters of Charity Foundationof Canton, as executive direc-tor of Coming Together StarkCounty, and still serves as amember of the Canton CitySchools Board of Education.

She’s enjoyed sharing thosesuccess stories on a nationallevel: she co-wrote From Ghet-to to God:The Incredible Jour-ney of NFL Star, Reggie Ruck-er with Rucker and MyFather’s Child with FredrickaStewart. Her biography of AlanPage appears in a nationalanthology of African Ameri-cans; she was published in thepopular Chicken Soup for theSoul books, and My Soul toHis Spirit by Mela Beaty. Shealso wrote the forward forlocal minister Rev.WarrenChavers’s The Mess in the Mes-senger and has edited severalotherpublications.

She models for all of herformer students’ civic involve-ment.

Recently, McIlwain chaired a

A LifeofService

tion jump starts a five-year experiment to determinewhether Ohio's tourism industry can support its ownmarketing fund using a portion of sales tax revenue.

The goal is for the self-funded model to create arevenue stream dependent upon the success of theindustry rather than the general revenue fund. Theindustry must perform to be sustainable.

Hagan points out that, until now, Ohio has not hadthe funding necessary to market itself. She cites themany attractions Ohio has to offer – including twonational landmarks in the Professional Football andRock & Roll Halls of Fame.

“Also Hocking Hills, Lake Erie, Cedar Point, whichis one of a kind in the nation and world!” she says.

The business major has done the math. For every$1 spent promoting our tourism industry, we experi-ence a $14 return on investment!

But “until we begin talking about these things wecan’t expect to see increased revenue,” she says.

The action goes further still, creating a tourismOhio advisory board staffed with industry experts instrategic marketing. Her goal is to tout Stark and sur-rounding counties, sharing all we have to offer, whileraising revenue for the state without further taxingits residents.

And it’s not just the large venues that will benefit.She says that some of the smaller destinations welocals take for granted – Amish Country, flea markets,and other “staycations” -- will now be able to buy intoa greater marketing share that the state is purchasingat a lower cost to them.

Hagan is enthusiastic about this co-op betweenprivate and public sector, working together to“market all the great things that Ohio has to offer.”

She continues,“These are significant things thatare happening in our state and our county, and it’sgreat that we get to talk about them…we are verycompetitive with states like Michigan, and we justneed to be talking about what we have. Now wehave the opportunity to do that.”

And what is Representative Hagan’s own reactionto such an impressive list of accomplishments atsuch a youthful age?

“I feel blessed to have gotten the opportunity toserve,” she said.

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campaign for the Greater Stark CountyUrban League (GSCUL), in which theorganization raised $100,000 in 100days.

“The success of this campaignprevented a potential closure of theagency. In truth, the campaign wassuccessful monetarily but more impor-tantly, the campaign stressed the needfor the GSCUL and its mission to serveAfrican American and other minoritiesand why the Stark County communityis better for having an Urban League.”

Her tenure on Coming TogetherStark County (CTSC), an organizationfocused on improving race relations,from which she retired in December2011, also led to great results: the fivecities and more than 70 percent of vil-lages and townships in Stark Countypassed resolutions affirming diversity.

Nadine has been honored with theMilken National Educator Award (thefirst in Stark County!) as well as theOhio Martin Luther King Jr. Humanitar-ian Award.

Most fulfilling to her these days – inaddition to her improving golf gameand shooting a low of 79 this year – isher grandchildren, who bring her greatjoy. She wants to be an inspiration tothem.

“I truly believe that God places eachof us on this earth for a purpose,” shesaid of the legacy she hopes to leave.“He gives each of us talents, abilities,strengths and weaknesses which weare empowered to use for His gloryand His people. I believe that God’spurpose for me is to help thecommunity in any way I can.”

Welcome to Canton,Dr. David and Winnie King.

Malone University’s story is one of learning, faith and community.

We look forward to the chapters you’ll write.

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