Ohio Christian Hosts A New Leaf Inc. For Afternoon of Fun

Amanda Grooms, a now mom of four, expected to walk across the stage and graduate with her bachelor’s degree from Ohio Christian University last weekend. However, complications resulted in her being hospitalized on bed-rest for the duration of her pregnancy, so she was unable to realize her dream of walking at graduation. Knowing how important it was to her, a group of Ohio Christian University officials secretly planned a surprise mini-commencement at Grant Medical Center on Friday, April 22. A teary-eyed Amanda entered a packed-room full of her family, friends, and co-workers. She

Let’s take a moment to leave our white Christmas behind and picture ourselves on the firm warm dirt of India. Just imagine the many eager hands reaching out, wide smiles, bright expectant eyes, and laughter filling the humid air. This is where Natasha Hudnell (pictured below), a Junior and Intercultural Ministries major at OCU, bore witness to a surprise delivery of Operation Christmas Child shoeboxes. She told of how one young teenage boy pored tears of joy with a tightly clasped first raised holding a small sucker. It was the first candy he had ever received.Many of us think “bigger

Ohio Christian University is blessed with an outstanding faculty and staff who not only impact OCU students, but are also actively influencing their academic disciplines nationally. Earlier this year, Dr. Krista Stonerock, Writing Center Director and Professor of English at the main campus in Circleville, was selected to serve on the McGraw Hill Freshman Composition Symposium in Boca Raton, Florida. Additionally, in March of this year, Dr. Stonerock was asked to serve on a panel at the College Composition and Communication national conference in Las Vegas, NV where she met with 15