Doy Henley
The students provide talent for the churches that makes the churches successful, which is really when you get down to it, the key thing,” he says. “Successful churches, when people in the congregation are doing well, require people who are trained as teachers, musicians, and most importantly ministers and pastors. That's one of the many things Concordia supplies. They make sure students are trained to lead churches.
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Bill and Audrey Dahlgren
God was so good to me,” Bill says. “In my early days I wasn’t able to give service to the church like I wanted, and I didn’t have money to do it, either. Now it’s payback time for me. I can do more things for the church that I couldn’t afford to or had no time to do earlier.
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Chris ’04 and Katherine Pond ’05, Concordia Alumni & Donors
Katherine and Chris work actively to prepare and connect students with job opportunities by asking Concordia professors for recommendations of graduating students and paving the way for interviews at their companies. The result is that Concordia students are in demand.
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Phyllis Talmage
When you know there is something that really is needed, you become personally involved and that’s gratifying.” Phyllis was an athlete herself, in the 1940s. “I’ve always been interested in athletics, she says.
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Caryn and Michael Borland, Christ College Irvine, 1985
When the Borlands heard about the need for support of a building designed to significantly improve the quality of experience music and theology students have at CUI, they were eager to help.
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Elayne and Paul Lohr
Getting young people educated to go into various forms of ministry...was near and dear to Mom and Dad’s heart,” says their son Stuart. “One thing that provided them a lot of joy is when they financially supported a student, then went down and met the student on campus.
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Kelly and Cheryl Keithly
Anything invested in the lives of students at Concordia is going to be blessed manifold over the generations as these students go out and use what they’ve been taught, whether in church work, school, business, medicine, engineering, whatever. They’re not just learning academics, they are learning a way of life.
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