If you follow professional sports, sometimes you know teams have fans far beyond their home city: White Sox Nation, Packer Nation, you name it. During a trip last week, I found Olivet has fans in Hong Kong: Olivet Nation.
I visited a degree program we offer there, a Master's in Professional Counseling. More than 100 Chinese are enrolled specifically for the Christian perspective in counseling. They love the program, and are using their training already.
The May 12 earthquake in China killed 100,000 people and displaced about 500,000, so what is a Christian counselor to do? Go to the scene and comfort the afflicted. That's what our faculty and students did in China, with great results.
In fact, a high level official in the Chinese government gave special credentials to our group so they could slip in and out easily of the area to do their work. This official heads psychological services for the entire country and reports directly to Hu Jintao, head of the Chinese government. I talked with him myself. He said our students' training was "practical, beautiful and simple enough for other's to follow." And he said they served with "a humble attitude."
When you talk about impacting China, that's an example. I was proud of them. That makes me part of Olivet Nation, no matter where I am.
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