Ouachita Stories

We're excited to welcome our new Assistant Director, Hannah!

Hannah graduated from OBU in 2013 with a degree in Secondary Education & English. She's originally from Naperville, Illinois, but has spent the last 2 years working in South Asia.

We asked her a few questions so you could get to know her before everyone arrives on campus in a couple weeks.

What are some the most influential books you've read?

A Chance to Die by Elisabeth Elliot
Radical by David Platt
Don’t Waste Your Life by John Piper

What do you order at a coffee shop?

Dark roast with toffee nut and a little bit of cream.

What's something you've had to catch up on since you've been back in the U.S.?

The new Taylor Swift album!

You were pretty involved at OBU when you were a student. What do you think had the most impact on your time here?

The community and the lifelong friendships that I developed here had a huge impact as well as the global perspective I gained through trips with CM. I also learned so much through classes that helped me see the world through the biblical story.

What's something you've learned as you've traveled the last couple of years?

Every person in the world is searching for the unconditional, fatherly love of God. So many people yearn for forgiveness of their sins and for a personal relationship with God, but believe that God is arbitrary and aloof, distant and disinterested, judicial and judgmental, and that they must appease him or manipulate him into giving them their various needs. To see people from all over the world grasp the beauty and truth of reconciliation to God the Father through Jesus Christ was profound.

We hope you'll take time to meet Hannah and ask her a few of your own questions this fall! You can connect with Hannah and all the CM staff in our office above Dr. Jack's, as well as at ministries like Noonday and Refuge.