Alumni Updates

Update: Retired as a NY state pastor and lives in Mesa, AZ.  She conducts a seasonal Bible Study each week.

Update: Retired from evangelistic meetings and pastoring. Currently resides in Lakeland, FL. Celebrating 65 years of marriage with wife, Annette, who attended NCU for one Semester.

Major: Accounting & Finance

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Vern is active on Church Prayer Team and Home Group along with a ‘Mall Ministry’ to share Jesus with workers and walkers… God’s love received in a positive way by all connected with.

Linda is also active on Prayer Team and Home Group and also minister’s in love to staff and student in the school district she served as a Para-Educator for 20 years and still ‘Subs’ when she can.

Both still thankful for our years at NCU (NCBC) where they met and fell in love! Our family now numbers 40 with 4 Daughters and 4 ‘sons in love’ along with 13 (+4 adult Step Grands) and 5 Grands-in law along with 10 great grand-children with more to come.  God is Good and honored by all. they Praise God for good health at 81 and 83 and for His many Blessings!

Major: Biblical and Theological Studies | Biblical and Theological Studies

Update: Happily married 20 years, owner of the restaurant since 1993 in Willamina, Oregon, live on a small ranch, attend West Salem Four Square church.

Major: Accounting & Finance

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Recently retired from mission field after 45 years in Argentina

Major: Education

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After graduating for the second time from NCU in 2015, spent seven years as a substitute teacher in the St. Paul, Mounds View, and Centennial Public Schools. During that time he was assigned to over 200 different schools. Then after moving to Tennessee, he was hired as an interim Social Studies teacher for the past two years. This past year,  May 2022, he retired. Now it is time to enjoy the family, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren, along with a lot of travel nationally and internationally. 

Major: Pastoral Studies

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Retiring from being the National BGMC Coordinator at the national office of the Assemblies of God after working there for 23 years.

Major: Interdisciplinary Studies

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I have pastored churches in Wisconsin, Iowa, and Kentucky. I have also served as the Principal of Whitefield Academy in Louisville, Kentucky, and at Christian Academy of Carrollton, Kentucky. Helga and I have five adult children and four grandchildren.

Major: Psychology

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Completed her PhD in Education just before COVID shutdown. Has just started working at Martin University as a full-time faculty member/Early Childhood Department Lead/Director of Drop-in Center.  Amazed at how God brought this change in her career, and excited to see what He has in store for her in the future. 

Major: Strategic Leadership | Master of Arts

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The major list does not apply for me because I went on to graduate at other colleges for associate degree in applied science in graphic arts and later bachelor’s degree in graphic arts.

Major: Education

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Currently taking a course in daycare management and plan on opening an in home daycare that is open at night. Looking forward to using teaching experience and minor in children’s ministry to reach and educate children.

Major: Pastoral Studies

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Became the lead pastor at River City Assembly on Easter Sunday 2022.

Two oldest kids (Chloe – 12th grade & Josiah – 10th grade) are homeschooled and our 2 youngest (Layla – 7 years old and Liliana 6 years old, 1st grade and kindergarten respectively) attend a small Christian school. 

Lisa is busy as a homemaker, homeschooling mom and is on the worship team at church.

Major: Youth, Children, and Family Ministries

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Has been pastoring at St John’s since 2020 following thirteen years of ministry working with survivors of human trafficking. He and his wife Nicole I have a 10 year old daughter named Jubilee and a 5 year old son named Justice.

Major: Broadcasting

Update: Anchoring on Jacksonville’s Morning News on WOKV (a radio station in NE Florida) remotely, while living in North Dakota. He and his wife Elisa also have multiple AIR BNB’s here in Cavalier, and are working on ways to invest in our local community. Elisa teaches remotely for Clark State College in Springfield, Ohio. Two children are Aubrey (11) and Amelia (8)

Major: Church Leadership

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Included in the archives of the Flower Pentecostal Heritage Museum as a graduate of North Central University and COGIC licensed Evangelist making history running for US Congress in 2020 and winning the primary. Now running for US Senate in Missouri. A native of Mpls, MN.

Major: Music

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Living a long-time dream!  Sold [the] house and are traveling the country in an RV, roadschooling their 4 children for a few years!

Major: Music Pastor

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Welcomed their third child, Andrew Ryan Altschul on 10/3/22

Major: Youth, Children, and Family Ministries | Youth, Children, and Family Ministries

Update: Michael and I and our three kids are excited to be following Jesus to serve in East Africa.

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Youth, Children, and Family Ministries

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Married with four children.  Currently serving in full-time ministry as Director of School of Worship at Christ Church in Rockaway, NJ. Previously was on staff at Epic Church in Philadelphia, PA as a worship pastor for five years.

Major: Education

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Graduated from Mitchell Hamline School of law. Started position as Mergers & Acquisitions attorney at the law firm Fredrikson & Byron P.A.

Major: American Sign Language/English Interpreting Preparation

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Delighted to announce the birth of their second daughter, Adelaide Joan. She was born on May 22, 2022. Praising God for a healthy little girl after a frightening beginning. When delivered, she was wrapped in her umbilical cord and unable to breath independently initially. God provided for every tiny step of the process and she is doing well. Her older sister, Dorothy Joy, is proving to be an amazing help with the little one. 

Major: American Sign Language/English Interpreting Preparation

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Graduated NCU in December of 2012. Since then, has worked as an American Sign Language interpreter in grades K-12 since that time. Worked in Iowa for 4 years then in 2017 moved to Wisconsin to pursue her interpreting career for Sheboygan Area School District, located close to Lake Michigan. 

In December of 2019, she married Josiah Stoffregen, the East-Central Wisconsin Area Coordinator for National Network of Youth Ministries (NNYM). NNYM works to connect youth leaders with each other and resources with the goal of spreading the Gospel to every student in the United States. Recently adopted a rescue cat named Pumpkin. 

Major: Youth, Children, and Family Ministries

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After over three years of praying and working with The Ohio Ministry Network family has moved to a rural community where there is no Assemblies of God churches present in that county. They are working with the CMN Network  to provide a healthy church in the town of Continental. Asking for prayer as they transition from suburban life to rural. They are also praying that the Lord will give them workers and ministers to come along with them to plant their church. 

Major: Accounting & Finance

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Selected as an “Up and Coming” Attorney for 2022 by Minnesota Lawyer, a legal publication based in the Twin Cities. Received the award based on her professional accomplishments in civil trials and appeals in Minnesota. Accepted the award at a banquet in Minneapolis in September 2022.  

Major: Psychology

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Recently was selected to be the Owner/Operator for Chick-fil-A Plymouth, MN.  The store is currently under construction, but is excited to serve the community and the surrounding areas when the restaurant opens! 

Major: Intercultural Studies

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Rachel and Brandon just had their son, Leo James Rogers Powell, in February. They and their two daughters, Lena (7) and Jori (5) are missionaries in Thailand.

Major: Psychology

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Currently attending Bethel University for her Masters in Marriage and Family Therapy. Live in Minneapolis with husband Jake. 

Major: Psychology

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Welcomed our 3rd baby girl into the family. Bought a house and a new vehicle to fit family needs. 

Major: Strategic Leadership | Master of Arts

Update: Started working at Alliance Church in Appleton Wisconsin in November 2021 as the Special Needs Ministry Coordinator.

Major: Strategic Leadership | Master of Arts

Update: Married Adrian Paul Roth on July 25, 2022 at the Outpost Center in Chaska, MN.

Major: Pastoral Studies

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Graduated this spring (’22) with a degree in Humanitarian Leadership. Now working full time at a Homeless Shelter in downtown! 

Major: Pastoral Studies

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I have recently completed year 1 of the MABT program at NCU and I am loving it! I have learned so much from the professors, from the content, from my fellow studies, and from the hours of theological reflection spurred on by this program. North Central has a good thing going in their Graduate Studies programs!

Major: Strategic Leadership | Master of Arts

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Over the last summer, God brought about a massive life, career, and location change. Doors closed in ministries I had been involved with in August of 2021, which sent me into a season of prayer, preparation, and seeking the Lord’s will for what was to come. Everything became clear when I embarked on a trip to visit a friend who moved out to Alaska with the military. My focus for the trip was to spend more focused time in prayer while resting from a season of working seven days a week, reconnect with my long-time friend, write, and hike. The day before leaving, I expressed to a mentor, “If God comes in and completely changes all my plans, I’d be cool with that.” 

I arrived in Anchorage in June, and God allowed me two weeks of prayer, rest, writing, connecting, and hiking before He shifted my focus to talk with the Lead Pastor of Unite. The press and direction was so clear in my spirit that I knew I had to obey; my own understand aside, I made the step to talk with the pastor. From that moment until the end of my trip, I was whisked into partnering in ministry with this group of Spirit filled individuals. It was thrilling, refreshing in a way I hadn’t know possible, and fulfilling in all the ways I had been seeking over the last season of transition! When I prepard to fly home, I realized it felt like I was leaving home to go elsewhere for a time rather than leaving an unknown place to travel home. 

Since summer’s end, I have packed up what I could fit into the back of my jeep, and driven up to relocate in Anchorage, AK. I am now on staff with Unite Church serving as the Student Ministries Coordinator, while also partnering with the Kingdom Alliance Network leading worship sessions monthly. The staff has been a joy to work alongside in ministry while we get to know each other more. God has been so faithful through this entire journey, and continues to guide my steps toward the relationships and mentorships He has prepared for me in this season of life. 

God is so good all the time. A reminder he gave me through this entire experience was that he is Yahweh Yireh (the Lord who sees/provides) in every circumstance.