About Our People
Rhett Luedtke (Performing Arts) received a Meritorious Achievement Award for his direction of the university’s winter musical She Loves Me. A respondent from the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival (a faculty member from Oregon State University) saw the show and awarded the honor. He also recognized Bryan Boyd’s (Performing Arts) work on the show, awarding him a Meritorious Achievement Award for the set design.
Joel Perez (Dean of Transitions and Inclusion) was quoted in an article, “The Challenge of Diversity on Christian College Campuses,†that appeared on Urban Faith, a website dedicated to interacting on a variety of topics related to contemporary Christian life from an urban, African American, and multiethnic perspective.
Debbie Berho’s (Communication Arts) book Protestant Hispanic Churches of Oregon was published by Wipf & Stock this month. She is scheduled to make multiple presentations about the book to church leaders in various Oregon locations in March, April and May. The book contains observations about trends in the more than 250 Spanish-speaking Protestant churches in the state. Debbie believes the most significant finding was Spanish- and English-speaking congregations who had a common vision for ministry and shared finances, decision-making, and responsibilities, in addition to a building. This type of mutuality has not been previously described in other publications on Latino churches in the U.S.