TIU Volleyball presents its first alumna honoree, Renee (Burns) Lois, this year at the 2023 Match Point Dinner. The event, hosted in honor of the TIU Women’s Volleyball 2022 National Championship win, welcomed back former player Renee (Burns) Lois (Sports Wellness & Management ‘01) to highlight and honor her Trinity legacy. Not only did Renee […]

Bringing together a vast array of expertise on the Ancient Near East, a festschrift has been compiled to honor TEDS Professor of Old Testament, Semitic Languages, and Ancient Near Eastern History K. Lawson Younger, Jr. Dr. Younger specializes in Assyriology, Aramaic, and the Hebrew Bible, and he has published numerous works involving ancient Near Eastern […]

By Lillian Smith | Photos courtesy of Candice Pedraza Yamnitz A LIFE-CHANGING EDUCATION Many people dream of writing a book someday, and for Trinity alumna Candice Pedraza-Yamnitz (Elementary Ed ‘07) that dream has become a reality. After years of hard work, her first book, Unbetrothed, was published earlier this year by Iron Stream Fiction.  Candice […]

Alumnus Eric Rivera (MDiv ‘07, PhD ‘16) has returned to Trinity Evangelical Divinity School as the Chair of the Pastor Theology Department and an assistant professor! He is also the Senior Pastor of The Brook, a diverse and multi-ethnic church in Chicago’s northwest side. TEDS is glad to have him back and praises the Lord […]

By Lillian Smith | Photos courtesy of Sam Willis WORKING BEHIND THE SCENES Behind every truck, ship, or plane carrying products around the world, there is a logistics team working around the clock to make sure each shipment reaches its destination safely. Trinity International University alumnus Sam Willis (Business ‘21) is part of this behind […]

Written by Ethan Oskroba On Saturday, October 1st, the Trojan football family came together for an evening of recognition, celebration, laughter, tears, old friends and new beginnings. The annual Inside the Huddle event, hosted by Head Coach Willie Tillman, served not only to honor the legacy of the men who built up Trinity football with […]

With about 850 Navy Chaplains serving over 750,000 service members in the Marines, Navy, and Coast Guard, there is an increasing need for pastors and seminary graduates to minister to those in the military. As Navy Chaplains, alumni Jared Smith (MDiv ‘98), Jason Ragain (MDiv ‘06), Ronald Pettigrew (MDiv ‘96), and Matt Fisher (MDiv ‘05) […]

Forming men and women of resilient faith and Christian character has long been the focus at Trinity International University. And this has been true of traditional degree programs on campus as well as unique settings in our communities. TIU’s program at Waupun Correctional Facility – which recently graduated its second class – is one such […]

The First Evangelical Free Church of Wichita, Kansas, has been partnering with TEDS to offer residency to seminary graduates. First Free’s two-year program offers full-time, paid positions with placement support after residency. It has blessed a number of pastors in training already and offers them multi-ethnic preaching opportunities, ministry opportunities, and mentoring from experienced pastors. […]

Mission work was always on Charley Dever’s (MDiv ’20) radar growing up, but not necessarily planting a church. “I received my bachelor’s degree in public health and epidemiology thinking I would go on to graduate school to become a chiropractor,” says Dever. “You can imagine my surprise when God called me away from alternative medicine […]