Outlook: Local Student Wins Church-College Partnership

Written by JACK HABERER, Outlook editor

Annie Aeschbacher, a graduating senior at Whitworth University in Spokane, Wash., has won the 2012 Presbyterian Outlook Church-College Partnership Award.The competition was based on college seniors’ essays on the topic, “How my education at a PC(USA)-related college has shaped my faith and prepared me for significant service and leadership.”

Aeschbacher, who hails from Woodinville, Wash., earned a B.A. degree in Spanish. She will apply her studies as she heads to Guatemala Aug. 27 to serve the next 12 months in the PC(USA)’s Young Adult Volunteer Program. She awaits more specifics about the work ahead, but it probably will entail ministry with children and/or women in community development.

“I’m really looking forward to the opportunity and can’t wait to see how God will work through this year!” she said. Eventually she hopes to earn a master’s degree, possibly in education, and do nonprofit work with Latinos in the U.S.

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