Kerrie Kimbrow, professor of nursing at Southwestern Adventist University, loves to travel. She’s been to 49 countries. Kimbrow hopes to pass on her love for nursing, as well as love for travel to her students. Kimbrow got her first travel bug as a child when her family took a trip across North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia. They had been on a study leave to the U.S. Rather than fly home to Australia, they traveled across four continents, 31 countries, and two oceans. “I just … [Read more...]

Alyssa Graves, senior business major at Southwestern, has a ten-year plan and intends to stick to it, but sometimes things work out unexpectedly. “God has a plan,” says Graves. “And my plan was definitely not what he had in mind.” Graves’ strategy was to get an internship at a local business, graduate from college, attend higher education, and work in the business field. Graves applied for an internship at a business in Cleburne. Several of her family works at that business, so she … [Read more...]

“You know when you’re fishing and you’re trying to catch a big fish, the hook will set but you don’t reel it in right away,” says Eddie Michaels, sophomore theology major. “It goes its own way and gets tired of fighting and eventually you just reel it in.” Michaels sees the moment in third grade when he prayed his school’s salvation prayer as setting the hook for his salvation. But from then on, until age 20, Michaels was putting up that fight. At twenty years old he had … [Read more...]

Michael Gibson thought he wanted to become an engineer, but by the time he got to his senior year of high school he decided engineering wasn’t meant for him. It took a late night encounter with a homeless mother and child in the Philippines to convince him that God indeed had a plan for him. During his junior year at Sandia View Academy, Gibson signed up for an evangelistic mission trip to the Philippines. Thinking he could help out with audio/visual needs, he was thoroughly surprised when … [Read more...]