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Confronting Ptsd In The Aftermath Of Abuse, Ayla A. Bilyeu

WWU Honors College Senior Projects

This narrative follows a young woman through seven clinical sessions with a psychiatrist as she confronts her diagnosis of PTSD following abuse sustained in a romantic relationship.

Developing A Small Groups Health Ministry At The Ventura County Korean Seventh-Day Adventist Church, Hee Choung Park

Professional Dissertations DMin

Problem

Although the members of the Ventura County Korean Seventh-day Adventist Church (VC KSDA) expressed interest in evangelism, the congregation had not shown evidence of evangelism during the past three years (2017-2020). As the pastor, I suggested that the members lacked a clear, planned, and structured program for outreach during the COVID-19 pandemic, especially for small group health programs. This study was to challenge the church to find ways to respond to the growing influence that the church wanted to have on the community.

Method

The program was designed and implemented at the VC KSDA Church in the fall of …

Programa Para Fomentar El Ministerio Filantrópico En La Iglesia Adventista Del Septimo Día Hispana De Georgetown, Delaware, Luz E. Pinzón González

Professional Dissertations DMin

Problem

In the last few years, many of the members of the Hispanic Adventist Church in Georgetown, Delaware, had not learned of community service activities, especially those available in Philanthropic Ministry. The church community has many families with economic needs, which would benefit from a philanthropic program that would supply their basic alimentary needs. Such a program would also open doors for the church to share the Adventist message with the beneficiaries. This problem was directly observed by the author, in consultation with the pastor and the church leaders.

Methodology

This present project is based on creating a program to …

The New Straightjackets: How Prisons Have Come To Be The Mental Illness Solution, Parker A. Wolfe

Soaring: A Journal of Undergraduate Research

This paper examines the current mental health resources that are available in prisons, as well as the correlation between deinstitutionalization and the rise of individuals struggling with mental illness within prison walls.

Soft Hands, Alessandra Lageorge

The Peregrine Review

I want my daughter to have soft hands. Hands that don’t know the labor that mine are so familiar with. Hands that don’t know the repeated action that my body responded to by giving me these calluses…

Books Received

The Asbury Journal

No abstract provided.

Local-Classical Singers Speak: Interviews With Trinidadian, Guyanese, And Surinamese Singers, Peter L. Manuel

Publications and Research

This is a compilation of transcriptions of several dozen interviews with Trinidadian, Guyanese, and Surinamese performers of Indo-Caribbean local-classical music (tan-singing, baithak gana) conducted in the 1990s by Peter Manuel. The informants include most of the leading singers of that era, such as Hanif Mohammed, Jameer Hosein, and Sam Boodram, as well as elder artists whose recollections date back to the 1920s-30s. The transcriptions are informal, messy, and unedited. Several of the interviews were conducted when Manuel was just beginning his research, and thus his questions were not always well informed.

Intergenerational Mentorship Model For Membership Revitalization And Involvement At The Guelph Seventh-Day Adventist Church, Aundrea A. Thompson

Professional Dissertations DMin

Problem

The Guelph Seventh-day Adventist Church faced challenges characterized by low spiritual vitality and a generational divide. These factors jeopardized the spiritual well-being of some members, leading to a decline in church engagement.

Method

Recognizing the urgency of revitalization, the study explored the impact of a seven-week intergenerational mentorship model on participants’ spiritual health and church involvement. Employing a Participatory Action Research approach led by the pastor-researcher in collaboration with the church board, the study utilized Lifeway’s Spiritual Growth Assessment and Growing Together: Taking Mentoring Beyond Small Talk and Prayer Requests by Melissa Kruger (2020) to guide the development and …

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Haarlem Church, Micaiah Saldaña

The Peregrine Review

No abstract provided.

Lambs, Courtney Kehler

The Peregrine Review

If you haven’t seen a lamb pitching forward on ten-minute-old legs using all its strength to wobble in the hay, making the heroic effort to live as its mother licks placenta off its jet-black wool…

Lamentations, Anna Cheng

The Peregrine Review

Art by Anna Cheng

Lamb’S Ear, Micaiah Saldaña

The Peregrine Review

Last summer, my boyfriend (now fiancé) took me to Hershey Gardens to see the roses. I’ve loved roses ever since I lived in a brick farmhouse with a rose garden, and upon seeing the many varieties of my favorite flower spread before me, I smiled as if meeting with old friends....

A Resolution, J.T. Crocenzi

The Peregrine Review

I will not let the feeling go, a tether tied between two worlds, one of longing and one of gain….

Penelope’S Deception, Jolie Lloyd

The Peregrine Review

As she weaves—still unweaves— they wait with bated breath Has she reached the end—resigned? Shall we seek justice—yet?...

Forty-Four Minute Walk, Erin Goudie

The Peregrine Review

it’s almost midnight but I’m standing alone on the shot put mound staring at mourning sky…

Babies Are All Cheese, Kara Graves

The Peregrine Review

Little Jerry coos in his mother’s arms, A little mozzarella ball nuzzled in a parent sandwich, He is a very plain and quiet child…

Un-Hormonal And Unknown, Sadie Mcfarland

The Peregrine Review

Six weeks of age Hospital room So many questions, no answers So many chances Risks that need taken Doctors confused Parents not amused Six days spent in a hospital room…

Belief, William Stowman

The Peregrine Review

belief is knowledge that has been tucked in at night comforted reassured…

His Silent Dance With Thoughts, Connor Fleming

The Peregrine Review

In the hush of nothing, there, a quiet so profound, Thoughts flutter like petals, gently unbound. Questioning whispers, a mind's tender kiss, In the simplicity of silence, lies subtle bliss…

To Be Loved, To Beloved, Eleanor Mund

The Peregrine Review

your hands, soft and gentle as a careful creator’s smooth my frizzed curls from out of my glassy, unfocused eyes and your fingers, like the delicate brush of a demiurge trace the tracks of mascara down my cheeks without paying mind to the pools of ink forming under your nailbeds...

Remember, Abby Ng

The Peregrine Review

How can I close my eyes And fathom How can I close my eyes And imagine The bodies The stench The cold The fear…

The Bleeding, Adahlee Schroeder

The Peregrine Review

Time and time again I am exposed My cap is taken My blood is spilled All for creation…

Eating The World, Alexandria Hay

The Peregrine Review

I have so much to give to this world who will hold it all? My pain and grief so vast and grand that the cupped hands of all my generations could hold the spilling sadness…

Arial, Connor Duncan

The Peregrine Review

Photo of sunset on Messiah University campus

By The Charles, Abby Ng

The Peregrine Review

They blew bubbles by the Charles. Dangled their feet by the pier. Sailed freely in the summer breeze. Got tipsy under the fairy lights…

Box Of Bricolage, Emmy Varner

The Peregrine Review

A fuzzy blanket scrap A fractured finger splint A found turkey feather A forgotten friendship bracelet…

Untitled, Becca Nicolson

The Peregrine Review

Black and white photograph featuring steps or layers

Saturated, Evelyn Janssen

The Peregrine Review

blue drips from your eyes mingling with the black pouring from your mouth suddenly it’s on my hands each crevice of my fingerprint every pore fills your colors seep into my blood until I bleed black and blue …

Homesickness, Evelyn Kelly

The Peregrine Review

it is heavy as a bruised thunderstorm, worn out as a knitted blanket; a mound of freshly baked abandoned laundry…