Alumni News.

Here's what a few of your classmates have been up to. Send your news to alumni@wol.org.

Wilfredo Bobe (’79) is an interim pastor at Granite Baptist Church in Milford, New Hampshire. His daughter graduated from the Bible Institute in 2012.

Debbie Sanville Fanus (’79) is a special education teacher and teaches junior church. She encourages everyone to reconnect at Homecoming on Memorial Day weekend at the Bible Institute campus in New York. It’s a great opportunity!

John Walker (’82) is involved in a Jamaican ministry. He would like to encourage everyone to keep serving, keep giving, and never give up.

Rosario (Baez) Farese (’84) and her husband have a vending business. They are involved in a ministry that shares the Gospel with people in a drug program and in a church Bible study.

Jason Shugar (’89) is married to Lynn and has two children, Sarah and Jack. He is a classroom teacher, loves horseback riding, and plays guitar on the worship team at church.

Ted Whitney (’91, ’92) teaches a new believers class at his church. He recently started a new job at Liberty University overseeing online communities.

Victoria (Mahairas) Sotelo (’93) and her husband pastor at Inwood Church in New York City. She studied marriage and family therapy in graduate school. She encourages everyone to look up the New York Gospel Outreach in New York and to come and visit anytime!

Michele (Lockwood) (’99) and Robert Columbine (’98) are missionaries with World Venture in Senegal, West Africa. Michele would like to share that God's grace is sufficient.
 
Kelly Smith (’01, ’03) has been involved in drama and puppets with Word of Life Teens Involved. He married Kimberly Nolan last year, and they are planning on going to SYME (School of Youth Ministries in English) in Japan.

Kendra Jenkins (’04) is the office manager of the Business Intelligence Office at Liberty University. She is heavily involved with a missions organization in Kazakhstan and is involved in her local church’s worship team.

Jeremy Biesecker (’08, ’09) is trying to establish a full-time Gospel illusion ministry. He says that becoming a Word of Life student was one of the best decisions he ever made.

Meghan Gordon (’10) is a Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages major at Moody Bible Institute.

Rachel Williams (’11) is majoring in psychology and hopes to graduate next year and help with a church plant back home in Connecticut. She helps with youth ministries in Connecticut and Ohio.
 
Nathan Tse (’12) is studying media and helping with the tech needs at a local church. He encourages all alumni to keep up relationships with people! He still keeps in contact with some people he knows from Word of Life and says that has been very encouraging and has pushed him forward in his walk with God.