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Atlantic Union College—FreeClasses For Incoming Freshmen!By Cindy Kurtzhals, Director of Public RelationsThe Ignition summer program is being offered for Fall 2006freshmen. Students can earn up to four free transferable credithours during Ignition and the only costs are room and board!Ignition is July 31–August 23.Summer Advantage in New EnglandWildlife Ecology of New EnglandEver want to watch a whale hunt its prey? Curious aboutwho lives under a fallen log or in a tree hole? Interested incatching snakes, crickets, frogs, bugs, and anything that creeps,crawls, swims, or flies? Don’t mind getting a little grubby andyour feet wet while having fun? Like to hike to the top of NewEngland’s highest peaks and wade the streams, or slosh throughthe warm water of a lowland swamp? Through this course, andthe extensive field trips it requires, you will have the opportunityto do all of these things and more, while having lots of fun andlearning many things about the wildlife of New England at thesame time.Wildlife Ecology of New England is one of three coursesbeing offered with 3-credit hours each during Summer Advantagein New England, July 23-August 17. Students can earn sixtransferable college credits in just four weeks this summer—forthe price of three. Summer Advantage in New England is a fourweek,pre-college program for high school students on a threeyearcycle, so those who begin the summer after their sophomoreyear can earn up to 18 credit hours at a reduced rate beforeentering college. A GPA of 3.3 is required.Master of EducationSummertime is the heart of the Master of Education program.The Master of Education is designed for people who already havestate certification and want to enrich their teaching skills or moveinto administration, and generate a pay increase. There are threeflexible plans to earn the M.Ed.—summers, evening classes, orthrough the Adult Degree Program. It can be earned in twentytwomonths by combining summers and courses back home froman accredited institution which offers graduate work. Masterdegrees are offered in administration, curriculum and instruction,and clinical ministry (chaplaincy).Information: 978-368-2235, 1-800-282-2030,enroll@atlanticuc.edu, www.atlanticuc.edu.Art ExhibitLocal impressionistic artist Carleen J. DeBlois will exhibit“Paint, Palette and Brushstrokes”—60 works featuring exquisiteflorals, still life and seascapes in oil and acrylics. Openingreception is Sunday, February 12, 1-4 p.m. at the BartlettArt Gallery, 314 Main Street (Route 70), South Lancaster,Massachusetts. Bartlett Gallery is located on the campus ofAtlantic Union College at the corner of Flag Street and Main.Open to the public.Look what’s coming up this summer at Atlantic UnionCollege! Tell everyone!Women Touching the WorldFor JesusBy Taashi Rowe, Adventist News NetworkDoes your church love Jesus? If so, does anybody else know?Seventh-day Adventist women are becoming more purposefulabout answering that question. While the church has long relied onpublic evangelism campaigns to get its message across, it is nowencouraging all areas of the church to find new and innovativeways to reach beyond church walls and into their communities.In an interview with Adventist News Network, Heather-DawnSmall, Women’s Ministries director for the Seventh-day Adventistworld church, discussed the department’s plans to combineministry and evangelism. Small says people need to see Jesus atwork in their communities before churches even start preaching.“The church has functioned as a gated community for too long,”Small says. “We bring people into the church to evangelize themwhen we need to go out into the community and touch lives.”She explains that Women’s Ministries is encouraging Adventistwomen all over the world to implement their new theme for thenext five years, “Touch a Heart, Tell The World.”“Where would the church be if we didn’t have the touch ofwomen supporting all the church’s ministries?” Small asks. “Theybring the touch of love to all. Our statistics show about 500,000people have been baptized through Women’s Ministries in the pastfive years, so it is clear that women can do evangelism, but themissing element is touch.”The theme emphasizes a more personal way of looking atevangelism. Small wants women in the Adventist Church to domore ministering or personal outreach that involves meetingthe needs of those in the community. This form of outreach, ortouching lives, is instinctive to women, she says.“Women are natural caregivers not just [for] their ownfamilies—but of the world,” she explains. She points to theChurch’s Women’s Ministries department in South America that isresponsible for membership conservation.Women’s Ministries has brought attention to women all aroundthe world who are sick, overworked, poor, lacking training/mentoring opportunities, abused and illiterate. They have sent outbrochures informing churches of the needs that exist around theworld. The brochures provide suggestions and choices on howwomen can help in their own way.Some of those choices include starting grief, loss or divorcesupport groups, nutrition classes, self-esteem classes, professionalmentoring, budgeting classes, leadership training, communicationclasses, women’s shelters, healing seminars, literacy classes andothers. Adventist women in the Middle East have been leadingsome of these seminars for the past 10 years.Small became more and more concerned about meeting theneeds of women after her two trips to the United Nations last year.“I saw the vast needs that exist. I was overwhelmed,” she recalls.With a renewed emphasis on outreach ministry combined withevangelism, more people will come to know Jesus, Small says.Women’s Ministries will release a series of six brochures thatdeal with difficult issues facing women globally.“They will include ministry ideas from women around theworld, who have been using these ideas,” says Small.The College Church Newsletter, February, 2006 Page 2