Clarion 2004-10-12 Vol. 80 No. 03

              THE   BETHEL   UNIVERSITY
q L A 1WPiI
i
Tuesday, October 12, 2004
'Everyone speak the truth to your neighbor"
Volume 80 * Number 3
Outside
the
Bubble
Krista Clark
Edito r- in - Ch ief
World
Defense Secretary Donald
Rumsfeld visited U.S.
troops in Iraq and emphasized the importance of their
mission there. He feels that
violence is more probable as
the January elections draw
near in Iraq. Rumsfeld said
that 14 of Iraq's 18
provinces are seeing fewer
attacks and that, as more
Iraqi security forces are
trained and armed, the situation will steadily improve.
Nation
Actor Christopher Reeve,
star of "Superman" and
widely known for his paralysis, died at the age.of 52 on
Sunday after going into car'-
diac arrest in his home in
New York. He had been
treated for a pressure wound,
which became infected and
led to a systematic infection.
Reeve was admitted to the
hospital but never regained
consciousness.
Minnesota
Richard Ashton Oslund, resident of Monticello, goes on
trial today for being accused
of gunning down an armored
-truck guard six years ago in
Bloomington. It took police
four-and-a-half years to
arrest a suspect after the incident occurred. If found
guilty, Oslund faces a maximum of life in prison without parole.
Adoptive parents are nationally recognized,
and one Bethel family closely relates
Meika Vogel
StaffWriter
Mike Hos*kin and Jeanne Keller, along
with two other Minnesotans and representatives from across the country were recognized in Washington D.C. at the Angels in
Adoption ceremony on September 23.
Hoskin and Keller adopted two teenage siblings from Minnesota's state foster care system; kids across the nation are waiting to be
adopted, over 690 in Minnesota alone.
Many families represented in the
Bethel community have either adopted or
fostered children too. Some chose adoption
The Horn family, including biological and adopled children, as
well as in-laws: (back row, left to right) Martel, Josh. Josiah.
Micah. Jeremiah, Stephen; (middle row) Marian, Awna. Julie, Dan;
(front row) Joseph, Shauna, Cheryl, Kevin, Jess
as a result of infertility, while others feel a
call to reach out to children and adolescents
in need. Depending on the family, there
may be a mixture of biological, domestically adopted, internationally adopted, and
special needs children.
Senior Josh Horn is from one of these
families. After having four biological children, his parents, Dan and Cheryl Horn,
"fell like the Lord was calling [them] to do
more or something different, and that's
when [they] began to do foster care for
[their] county." Today, the Horn family has
10 children, four biological and six adopted,
ranging in age from 4-25. Currently, they do ■
not have any foster children in their home
because, Cheryl said, of the "intense needs"
their adoptive children have.
"Since the time my family started
.doing foster care, we've had close to 35 kids
come through our home," Josh said. Two of
those children, biological brothers of each
other, were the first to permanently join the
Horn family. "We saw the desperate need of
these children to be adopted," Josh said.
Next, they adopted a child who had
been born prematurely. "God put it on our
heart and we fell madly in love with him,"
Cheryl said. The final three adoptive children, who are African-
American, are biological
siblings.
The six adoptive children
in the Horn family have
many struggles, such as
having ADHD, Fetal
Alcohol Syndrome, or
being crack babies. Cheryl
said, "the kids that we have
taken were the ones that
nobody else wanted."
These special needs kids
have been a blessing and
challenge for the Horns.
"The biggesl thing is the
huge blessing of watching
kids that, for all intensive
purposes, our society said
weren't worth anything or
that would never amount to
anything, and watching the
Lord work in their lives,
change their lives, in
incredible ways," Cheryl
said. The challenges Dan and Cheryl face
consist of working to obtain the care their
special needs kids require in school, as well
as adjusting lo the idea that they'll never
lead a normal life: "because we're human
its easy to get tired and to want to have a
normal family life, and we'll never really
have that...Our kids will never be independent enough," Cheryl said.
The foster care and adoption processes
have impacted the biological children of the
Horn family as well. Josiah Horn is a graduate of Bethel and majored in Social Work.
He and Josh, a nursing major, have been
shaped by their family. Josh said, "I know
the way I see life is because of the way I've
been raised in a loving family, knowing
what a family is, and wanting to share that."
Cheryl said, "It has built within both Dan
and I and our biological kids an incredible
gift of learning patience and love... It's
given our family just a much broader sense
of commitment to each other and that's
probably the best way that it's impacted it."
"We all have different ways that the Lord
has called us to be used....If God tugs on
anyone's heart strings [with regard to foster
care or adoption], they can contact us,"
Cheryl said.
My own parents, Drew and Jean Vogel,
decided to adopt children after struggling
through infertility. Through Bethany
Christian Services, they adopted me and my
two younger brothers. We all came from
different biological families, but all of our
birthmothers, being Christians, gave us up
for adoption because they desired for us to
be raised by both a mother and a father.
Bethel graduate
speaks to social
work students
about helping
Bhurma refugees
Sarah Nichols
News Editor
According to' 1999 Bethel graduate
Angela Nelson, a typical "eight to five job
kind of drives [her] crazy." But Angela
Nelson is anything but a typical social
worker. After graduating with a major in
social work and a minor in Spanish, Nelson
spent two years working as a social worker
in Puerto Rico with AIDS patients and
women in drug treatment programs.
continued on page 3
"Realizing the
Dream," pg. 2
Classic college cars
students drive, pg. 9
Football on the
rebound for
St. John's, pg. 13