Each issue of the Messenger, we provide a profile for one NNU faculty member, one staff member, one undergraduate student and one graduate student. Meet Kendrey McGath, our undergraduate student profile for Winter 2025. NAME: Kendrey McGath MAJOR/MINOR: Politics,...
Each issue of the Messenger, we provide a profile for one NNU faculty member, one staff member, one undergraduate student and one graduate student. Meet Brad Curtis, our graduate student profile for Winter 2025. NAME: Brad Curtis MAJOR: Music Education FUTURE...
Each issue of the Messenger, we provide a profile for one NNU faculty member, one staff member, one undergraduate student and one graduate student. Meet Michelle Kuykendall, our staff profile for Winter 2025. NAME: Michelle Kuykendall PROFESSION: Executive...
Each issue of the Messenger, we provide a profile for one NNU faculty member, one staff member, one undergraduate student and one graduate student. Meet Dennis Waller, our faculty profile for Winter 2025. NAME: Dennis R. Waller PROFESSION: Educator/Professor ...
By Kelli Lindley Vice President for External Relations In the spring of 2015, shortly after I accepted the position of NNU’s Director of Athletics, the local newspaper reached out to me. Mother’s Day was coming up and they wanted to write a story on a working mom who...
“As I was with Moses, so shall I be with thee: I will not leave thee, nor forsake thee.” — Joshua 1:5b (KJV) Joel’s notes: As a junior high student (now it would be referenced as middle school I suppose), I memorized Joshua 1:5b. I have clung to this promise from that...
By Karen Pearson Vice President for Student Life Joel is his preferred name. Not President Pearsall or President Joel or Dr. Pearsall, just Joel. And it represents well who he is to our campus community. I have had the privilege of participating in the...
By Mike -77- and Carol (Wardlaw) -78- Poe Former NNU Faculty and Staff The first time I remember seeing Joel was in the fall of 1973. I was a freshman at NNC living in Chapman Hall, and from my room, I could see the tennis courts. One of the “students” playing was a...
The legacy of a leader is best told through the lives they’ve touched, and at Northwest Nazarene University, President Joel Pearsall’s impact is evident in the heartfelt words of those who have worked alongside him. In this collection of letters, current and former...
By Mike Zahare, NNU Board of Trustees Chair Had I known that one of my NNC intramural basketball opponents would one day be the 13th President of NNU, I may have gone easier on him on the hardwood, with an emphasis on the word “may.” That opponent, Joel Pearsall, not...
By: Josh Burkholder, Director of Athletics Communication Over the past five years, the Northwest Nazarene softball program has been the most successful team on campus. One could make a great case for it being the best run of any NNU squad since the move to NCAA...
By: Grant Miller, University Chaplain, Class of 2010 There’s a story that’s told from time to time on our campus about an early moment in our University’s history. As the account goes, in the spring of 1919, then-president H. Orton Wiley was walking our campus, deep...
