STORIES OF GRACE is a series, highlighting God’s faithfulness and loving-kindness in the lives of Bethel University faculty and staff. The series always proves to be a student favorite, and over the next few Chapels we will hear from Dr. Michelle Fish, Dr. Kent Eby and Robert Ortiz.
This morning we are blessed to hear from Dr. Michelle Fish, education professor at Bethel. She graduated from Bethel with a degree elementary education, and later earned a master’s in elementary education and reading, and a PhD in curriculum and instruction.
Dr. Fish is passionate about literacy and learning and connecting theory to practice. She and her husband, Brad, have been married 32 years and have four grown children and one grandson.
Michelle enjoys a good adventure, growing flowers, and being Nana to grandson, Jonah.
The DEEPER LIFE SERIES, is a time when we consider what it means to deepen our relationship with Christ and submit more fully to the working of His Spirit in our lives.
The DEEPER LIFE SERIES, is a time when we consider what it means to deepen our relationship with Christ and submit more fully to the working of His Spirit in our lives.
The DEEPER LIFE SERIES, is a time when we consider what it means to deepen our relationship with Christ and submit more fully to the working of His Spirit in our lives.
The DEEPER LIFE SERIES, is a time when we consider what it means to deepen our relationship with Christ and submit more fully to the working of His Spirit in our lives.
The DEEPER LIFE SERIES, is a time when we consider what it means to deepen our relationship with Christ and submit more fully to the working of His Spirit in our lives.
Our speaker is no stranger to Bethel. Nirup Alphonse is the Lead Pastor of LIFEGATE Church in Denver. Originally from Singapore, Nirup relocated to Chicago where he finished high school and later earned his degree from Trinity International University. After nearly two decades in ministry, Nirup is a highly sought-after speaker and communicator with a love for God’s Word and a profound passion for empowering individuals to embrace their fullest potential and to live out their calling of being made alive in Christ.
Outside of leading his church, traveling, and speaking, his greatest joy is being married to his wife Hannah and being a father to his four wonderful boys.
Dr. Emily McGowin is an associate professor of theology at Wheaton College, where she teaches classes on systematic and historical theology. Dr. McGowin has an M.Div. from Baylor’s Truett Seminary and a Ph.D. in theology from the University of Dayton. She is currently a faculty fellow at the Institute for Ethics and the Common Good at the University of Notre Dame where she is doing research for a new project on the communion of saints. She is the author of three books. And she and her husband of 22 years, Ron, are the parents of three teenagers.
Dr. Robert Brandt, is a professor of Youth Ministry at Bethel. Robert grew up in San Diego, California where he pursued an engineering degree at San Diego State University because he wanted to build buildings. But God had different plans. After he surrendered the control of his life to God’s will he was called into ministry and instead would build into peoples’ lives.
Robert served in full-time ministry for 15 years in churches in California and Colorado and is now in his 22nd year teaching at Bethel. He is married to his wife, Melody, and they have seven children…and three grandchildren.
Robert, Melody and his family have intentionally invested in a wide variety of students over their years at Bethel.
