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Trinity’s theatre program has had an exemplary year with performances by talented students and winning awards and accolades for their work. Join us on May 3, 2023 for The Back and A Head in the Ozinga Chapel Grand Lobby to celebration this season.
Honors Program graduates and their families are invited to attend the Honors Program Graduate Celebration held in Hospitality Room in the President’s House.
You are invited to Trinity Christian College’s annual senior pinning and recognition service for nursing graduates.
We want your last afternoon on Trinity’s campus to be a memorable experience! Graduates, their guests, and Trinity staff/faculty members are invited to gather for a complimentary lunch hosted by the Student Life Division. No need to make lunch plans elsewhere! Enjoy a fun and relaxed time hanging out with your classmates, friends, and family!
Graduates and faculty/staff should arrive in their cap and gown. Commencement Day opens with Baccalaureate, a service of worship and celebration led by members of the graduating class. Contrasting the formalities of Commencement, the Baccalaureate service will be a time to slow down and give thanks for God’s faithfulness with your community. The service will include graduate testimonies and a brief message. All faculty, staff, students, graduates, and their families are warmly invited to attend. The Baccalaureate lunch will follow immediately afterward.
The History Department is glad to welcome Dr. Jennifer Powell McNutt, Franklin S. Dyrness Associate Professor of Biblical and Theological Studies at Wheaton College, to present the Women’s History Month Lecture entitled, “Women and the Reformation Through the Lens of the Marys.” Please, make plans to attend the Women’s History Month Lecture on Thursday, March 30, from 10:40-11:30 AM in the Grand Lobby. Dr. McNutt’s presentation will explore the important roles women and female spiritual devotion played during the Protestant Reformation, nuance narratives of Christian history that focus almost exclusively on men, and, more broadly, invite considerations for the importance of women’s experiences and viewpoints in Christianity.
Light refreshments will be served. This event is free and hosted by the History Department.
About the Speaker:
Dr. Jennifer Powell McNutt is the Franklin S. Dyrness Chair at Wheaton College in Biblical and Theological Studies and Associate Professor of Theology and History of Christianity. She is a Fellow in the Royal Historical Society and President of the Calvin Studies Society. Her forthcoming books including Know the Theologicans (Zondervan Academic) and The Oxford Handbook of the Bible and the Reformation (Oxford University Press). A recent chapter of hers was published on Marguerite of Navarre in Women Reformers of Early Modern Europe (Fortress Press). She is currently writing a book for Brazos Press on Mary Magdelene.
The spring production of On a Quiet Night in Suburbia is written and directed by MJ Huizenga, class of 2024.
Synopsis:
On a Quiet Night in Suburbia follows the stories of an ordinary family (maybe even extra-ordinary) living in suburbia. We see Schuyler, a caring teenager who’s navigating his understanding of himself and his parent’s expectations for him; Kimberly, a woman who’s struggling to find motivation for work that she no longer feels appreciated for; Stephany, an ambitious teenager who is eager for her future, she just doesn’t know what it is quite yet; and Hale, a man who has a lot of love in his heart but just doesn’t know how to show it.
Throughout the course of the play, we see these characters struggle with their individual burdens. They try different tactics to solve their issues, but ultimately their problems don’t begin to be resolved until they start to be honest with each other and themselves. Up until that point, they live in fear; fear of each other, fear of themselves, fear of the unknown. That fear is dissolved once they take down the walls they’ve built for themselves and choose to be vulnerable.”
Director & playwright: MJ Huizenga
Stage manager: Hailey Piorick
Production manager: Cassidy James
Production assistant: Lilli Bruxvoort
Crew:
Lightening designer: Jared Peters
Mural designer: Jonah Mudlaff
Sound designer: Halley Crossley
Hair and Makeup designer: Morgan Meinders
Costume designer: Ashley Yonkman
Hair and makeup crew: Emme Dyk, Abigail Rhoda
Stage crew: Hailey Sabido-Garcia, Leah Mathews, Ally Tillema
Cast:
Schuyler: Miles Williams
Dallas: Luke Rotman
Kimberly: Elizabeth Peterson
Amanda: Abby Tillema
Stephany: Ren Amador
Ashley: Gabby Mitchell
Jeremy: Tyren Brown
Hale: Jacob Contreras
Trinity Christian College welcomes incoming freshmen students and their families to Blueprints, our registration weekend. Blueprints is a wonderful opportunity to meet other students, faculty, and staff. Incoming freshmen will experience campus life, sleep overnight in the residence halls, sign up for classes, and begin friendships with other new students that will last a lifetime.
Be sure to get a taste of all aspects of the college experience during Blueprints. Spend time arranging class schedules, meeting with faculty advisors, and enjoying the wide range of planned activities.
For schedule and detailed information, please visit the Blueprints 2023 page.
The Education department is excited to host our 2024 Young Authors Festival on April 24th in the Ozinga Chapel. The festival brings together a children’s author, nearly 300 elementary school students, 30+ Trinity student leaders, and celebrates writing for and by kids. The children rotate through (3) 45-min workshops during the morning, which include an author workshop, TrinProv activity, and a writer’s workshop.
This year, we are honored to welcome author, Gary Schmidt. Gary is the amazing, award-winning author of The Wednesday Wars (Newberry Honor Winner), Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy (Newbery Honor and Printz Award winner), Okay for Now (Children’s Choice Book Award Winner and National Book Award finalist), as well as Orbiting Jupiter, Just Like That, and his latest, The Labors of Hercules Beal. In addition to these (and ten more) middle grades and young adult novels, Schmidt has written picture books including The Great Stone Face, In God’s Hands, Martin de Porrres, So Tall Within, A long Road on a Short Day, and One Smart Sheep.
Please contact the Education department with any questions at education@trnty.edu.
The Education department is excited to host our 2024 Young Authors Reception on April 23rd and the Festival on April 24th in the Ozinga Chapel. The festival brings together a children’s author, nearly 300 elementary school students, 30+ Education students, and celebrates writing for and by kids.
This year, we are honored to welcome this year’s author, Gary Schmidt. Gary is the amazing, award-winning author of The Wednesday Wars (Newberry Honor Winner), Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy (Newbery Honor and Printz Award winner), Okay for Now (Children’s Choice Book Award Winner and National Book Award finalist), as well as Orbiting Jupiter, Just Like That, and his latest, The Labors of Hercules Beal. In addition to these (and ten more) middle grades and young adult novels, Schmidt has written picture books including The Great Stone Face, In God’s Hands, Martin de Porrres, So Tall Within, A long Road on a Short Day, and One Smart Sheep.
We welcome the college community, friends and families to join us at the Young Authors Reception (April 23th at 6:30p) for a wonderful evening, as our author gives a short talk about how to write stories, and then the Trinprov team will turn some of the stories by kids into short hilarious skits. Reception to follow.
Gary Schmidt’s books will be available for purchase and to be signed at the reception.
Please contact the Education department with any questions at education@trnty.edu.