If you would like to write for the Voice (and it is my distinct privilege to inform you that you do.)

Here’s how you do it!

• Formal Submissions: Write an article (750 words), poem (300 words), devotional (300 words), or review (500 words). You do not need to be part of the committee to do this.

• Informal Submissions: Write a commentary (letter to the editor, opinion, comments etc.)(300 words). Volunteer for the Voice on the Street. Ask Brittany for some advice.

-Media Submissions: Videos, poems, songs and all your fun forms of creativity are wanted for our creative corner. Photos can be posted in the Photo Gallery Page

• Let us know what you think so far. Stop me (Mr. Vetro) or a committee member on campus or email voiceofebc@gmail.com and tell us your opinion.

• Join the committee. We meet the Tuesday after publication at lunch. This is where assignments are handed out, we discuss what we did and didn’t like about the previous issue and what can be worked on for future issues. No experience necessary!

• Submissions are due the Wednesday before the issue, at 5:00 pm

The VOICE of Emmanuel Bible College needs an Assistant Editor. They will take minutes at the meetings and help me edit the paper we all LOVE so much. The assistant editor is also being groomed to fill the Editorial position and sit on student council the following year. Contact Jordan Vetro if you are interested in receiving an application… BECAUSE YOU WANT TO DO IT!

Angela Meinzinger is looking for contributors for this year’s Yearbook. Please contact her if you are interested. You should start seeing sign up sheets popping up. Your participation would be greatly appreciated

Personally Interviewed by Bethany Kathleen Grace

FULL NAME: Daniel William Sage

STUDENT COUNCIL POSITION: Social Concerns Coordinator. My position is “awesome and people should listen to what I have to say and go to my events!” (said in a humble manner )

HOMETOWN: Wingham, Ontario. Don’t go there at all! It is “boring.”

CURRENTLY RESIDES: On campus.

HOME CHURCH: Saint Andrews Presbyterian in Wingham. Here I attend The Gig. (He took the opportunity to show me the website. J)

FAMILY: Well, I live with my parents when I was in high school. I have two little sisters named Rebecca and Morgan. My sisters are awesome.

PETS: A golden retriever named Winston. He is not very smart.

HOW DID YOU GET TO EBC: Well, how did I get to EBC? I was trying to figure what I was supposed to do with my life and through a series of events I felt that I should go into ministry and uh, I had heard of EBC from a Look In and I came in and checked it out and really liked it. I ended up coming the next semester. One thing that sold me to come here was contemporary evangelism course when I sat in at a class. That caught me and the fact that everyone was so nice.”

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND: Um, went to FE Madill High School. I took five years there and I played on the high school rugby team for five years.”

FAVOURITE BOOK AND WHY: Uhmm my favourite book…wow..uhmm.. currently it is the Irritable Revolution. I really like just the ideas that he brings in that book. . . It’s refreshing to compare it to what I hear preached on the pulpit.

FAVOURITE FOOD: I am not sure really. But my favourite drink is Iced Tea or Orange Juice.

FAVOURITE BIBLE VERSE: James 2:11-17, “Faith without works is dead.”

MOST INFLUENTIAL PERSON TODAY AND WHY: The most influential person in my life would have to be my friend Adam, just because he is someone I look up to a lot and he’s a great man of God who I have turn to a lot for advice.

FAVOURITE CARTOON CHARACTER AND WHY: Let me think, DarkWing Duck!

DREAM VACATION: I wish to go backpacking in Europe, as well as Australia and New Zealand.

COURSE YOU WOULD LOVE TO TAKE AT EBC AND WHY: I would love to take Documenting Justice because it sounds like it’s a very good course and it seems intriguing.

IF YOU COULD CHANGE PLACES WITH ANYONE FOR A DAY AT EBC-WHO WOULD IT BE AND WHY: Tabitha Rozeluk because she is a lot different than I am and it would be very interesting to see the world through her eyes for one day.

A QUOTE FOR THE MASSES: “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.” - Martin Luther King Jr. ( Dan needed to make sure this was accurately stated. )

NAME YOU WISH YOU WERE GIVEN: I don’ want to change my current name. like it just the way it is.

FAVORITE TV SHOW (S): Arrested Development and The Hour

WHERE HAVE YOU TRAVELLED THE FARTHEST: Scotland, England and Whales.

WHAT ARE YOU WEARING RIGHT NOW? Royal blue tee under a “Angry Agency” band sweater and denim shots and high top hemp “fair trade” shoes

HOW DO YOU WANT TO DIE? I want to die by “exploding in flames.”

EMBARRASSING STORY: I was out with some friends and we were going to a movie and all my friends were sitting in the Chapters next to the theatre. Me and this other guy went to buy the tickets and when we were leaving the movie theatre I went to walk out the door but when I went to walk out the door it was actually a pane of glass. I banged my head.

HOW HAVE YOU EXPERIENCED GOD TODAY?: I went to chapel today and I am the sound man for one of the chapel teams. It was awesome to stand up with the team and being able to have community with them. We are being involved in our respected ministries.

WHAT DO YOU EXPECT FROM GOD THIS YEAR? I expect God to teach me a great deal of things about myself and life, and the role and purpose that I am suppose to pursue in my life.

My fellow students, I come to you with a desperate plea. A plea for action, a plea for truth, a plea simply for your caring and initiative to come to life. There is a problem growing within our nation. Quietly festering in the underbelly of our society, a menace is growing, and it’s time you were all made aware.
Something festers in the heart of Wiarton. Every year, citizens of this small rural town gather together to beg advice of a small furry rodent, hoping that he will give them counsel Little are these duped people aware that that small furry rodent whom they hold in such high esteem is ACTUALLY a diabolical mastermind with secret motives of TAKING OVER ZE ENTIRE VERLD!
In 1999, the original Wiarton Willy, died at the age of 22, which is already a ripe old age for a groundhog, and was laid to rest on groundhog day. But, as you will learn if you do any research into this subject, it was not actually the body of Willy that was buried. Wikipedia informs me (no more reliable sources are available on such a silly topic as this) that it was actually the body of a stuffed gopher used for the burial, as Willy’s body had too much “decomposed.” Reporters had to retract their original statements. There says I. We have not yet been given proof that Wiarton Willy has died. I know what he’s doing.
Recent discussion with a top secret intelligence group (12 hours in a van) has led me to the firm understanding that Wiarton Willy is alive and well (in body if not in mind) and continuing his scheme.
One day, Wiarton Willy will rise up, proclaim himself falsely resurrected, and using the force of well spoken mystics, he will take hold of the good reputation he had already gained from the ignorant citizens of Wiarton, and begin to erect gulags all about our country, using the good people of Canada as tools so that he can become a major producer on the world market.
It’s true, Willy is not so ignorant as to believe dictatorship is now the greatest way to power, instead he will exploit the very system that we gave him to control our minds and lives and take hold of all which we so dearly established; Capitalism!
Oh woe are we, today Wiarton, tomorrow, the world. How could we have been so complacent.
In deep lamentation:
Jordan Vetro (Dedicated to EBC Professor Sean O’leary, in honour of his personal call for justice in this matter)

Life is sometimes rough and hard
I’ve been dealt the wrong card
Life does not give a brraek
And all it gives it seems to take
Yet

I can cry out
I can scream and shout
I can simply just sit it out
Yet my God will hear me out

My faith seems to wax and wayne
As I struggle with life’s daily pain
Sometimes I feel there’s no hope
I do not know how I even cope
Yet

I can cry out
I can scream and shout
I can simply just sit it out
Yet my God will hear me out

A God that hears and sees it all
A God that knows jsut when I fall
A God that cares about it all
A God that hears me when I call

By Brian Blake

When someone throws a rock at you,
What is the first thing to do?
Would you attack the person that threw the rock?
Would you focus all your senses and attention onto the rock?
Would you start to strip naked?
Would you ignore the rock?
Would you fear the person that threw the rock?
Would you try to understand the person’s state of mind/being?
Would you exuberantly begin a favourite activity?
Would you feel pity for the rock?
Would you fear the rock?
Would you take a picture of the rock?
Would you try to communicate with the person that threw the rock?
Would you analyse the rock’s composition?
Would you reach for your med kit?
Would you compare your personal background to that of the person that threw the rock?
Would you begin to plan a counter-attack?
Would you cry out, “Why didn’t I wear my armour today?”
Would you throw money at the rock?
Would you close your eyes?
I would move myself out of the rock’s path.

By Angela Meinzinger

There’s a light in my eyes
And a glow in my face
I smile because I know
It comes from one place

It comes from the heavens
From my Father above
I’m Blessed and I know
It’s because of his love