Well I realize that it has been a while, and I apologize for how long it took me to write another newsletter.  I am excited, however, to fill you in with all that the Lord has been doing in Antioch.  It’s the start of Spring term, and the weather is getting nice.  There always seems to be a burst of energy when the sun starts to come out, and the house seems to have new life this spring as well.
This I Week was a real turning point in the year for the house.  For those of you who are not familiar with I Week, it is the first week of every Spring term.  This is a week that we as a house set aside to follow passionately after the Lord and to grow closer together in fellowship.  Many guys in the house were very refreshed and encouraged by this week, even though it can be physically and emotionally exhausting.  New leadership has also started to take over, and with that comes a new set of ideas and a fresh resolve for improving the house.  I am really excited about our leaders this coming year, and I think we will see a lot of fruit come from their service to the house and to the Lord.
Any of you that have been down to see the houses know, they are both still a work in progress.  One of the great parts about Antioch is that the students get to take control and really be a part of the house that they live in.  A lot of the work that needs to still be done on the house has been taken up by the students.  Guys have been tearing out the old deck at the 14th St. house and putting in a new, smaller one.  The basement at the 14th St. house is also being repainted, and a lot of things in the house are being tidied up.  I know it is personally exciting for me to see guys get really passionate about the house and donate their time and skills to improving the house.
For all of you Moms out there, we have Mom’s weekend coming up!  If you havent been to a Mom’s weekend, I highly encourage you to come.  They can be a lot of fun, and I know the students really enjoy their moms coming down and seeing what the house is like.  We will have a brunch on Saturday morning, and various other events going on.  Its a university wide event, so there will also be events on campus so you moms are able to check out the campus.  The dates of Mom’s weekend for those who dont know will be April 29th-May 1st.  Also, back by popular demand will be the Mom’s Auction, which will happen right after the brunch on Saturday morning.  Any mom who would like to bring items to be auctioned off, they are certainly welcome to!  All profits will go to the house, and will help purchase items needed for the house.  Another upcoming house event will be the Spring Banquet, and that will be more towards the end of this term.  We will be having a little different format this year for the banquet, but all family and alumni are welcome to come as this will be a great opportunity to meet guys in the house and learn about Antioch.  We will have some guys who are currently living in the house talk about how the house has helped them and what the Lord is doing through our ministry.  More information and specific date and time will come later.
I have one more plug I would like to make.  This year Antioch is hosting a Relay for Life team.  For those of you unfamiliar with Relay for Life, it is an event put on every year by the American Cancer Society to help raise money for cancer research.  We thought this would be a great opportunity for the house to get involved and have a presence in the community.  If any alumni or friends of Antioch would like to sponsor our team, you are most certainly welcome to!  If you have any questions you can email me at rathjenjohn@gmail.com, or you can email our community service chair Brian Holmes at blenderaddict@gmail.com.
Also much appreciated is your continuous and faithful prayer for our house.  We are a houseful of college guys trying to figure out what it means to be a man who loves and follows after Jesus Christ whole heartedly, and any prayer or support you our fellow believers could offer would be much appreciated.  My favorite Psalm is the 27th, and the last two verses say this:  “I would have despaired unless I had believed that I would see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.  Wait for the LORD; be strong and let your heart take courage; yes, wait for the LORD”.  As Christians, we have no need to despair because we have the goodness of the LORD.  Pray for our house as we try to show others on the campus of Oregon State what the goodness of the LORD is like.  Also pray that we would learn what it means to wait on the LORD and let our hearts take courage.
Blessings,
John Rathjen

What follows is a collaborative effort to fill the schedule of Antioch University for Spring Term 07. If you come up with any classes, leave them in the comments so we can add them to the list:
Anderson 212 – Living with People Named James (Guest Lecturers: Morelli, J; Rothrock; Cookston; Oberst)

Armendariz 101 – Understanding Women: Shut up, I Know What I’m Talking About
Armendariz 102 – Interstellar Fashion – Star Wars T-Shirts
Armendariz 103 – Jedi Battling Techniques (Guest Lecturer: Tim Anna)
Armendariz 213 – TV: It’s on Discs Now, Stupid (Cross Ref: Vallely,C)
Armendariz 214 – Investigation Techniques: Knowing 93% of Charis
Armendariz 312 – The One Where I Watched All the Friends Episodes

Baretich 101 – Intro to Ben (Cross Ref: Mathias 101)
Baretich 111 – Doing Inappropriate Things, Sometimes
Baretich 412 – Hehrro: Influencing the Vocabulary of 20 Men
Baretich 444 – Toothpicks to Treasure: Building Anything Out of Nothing

Borne 122 – 4 Houses in 5 years
Borne 132 – Sleep and Art: Benefits and Consequences
Borne 342 – Sculpting with Hair
Borne 432 – Late Night Art: When the Night Becomes Morning (PreReq: DePaoli 412)

Burton 122 – Intro to Photography
Burton 222 – Intermediate Photography
Burton 322 – Advanced Photography
Burton 422 – The Naming of Other Andrews: Selecting the Right Name
Burton 456 – What To Do When You Wake Up and Don’t Know Where You Are
Burton 467 – Unconscious Monologues and Sound Effects
Burton 500 – Sleep Walking: Surviving the Fall from the Bed

Corbet 101 – Vegetables: Selection Techniques (Cross Ref: Reed 101)
Corbet 201 – Growing Things in Your Room
Corbet 300 – Anything as a Planter
Corbet 301 – Yard O’ Beef: Why It’s Funny
Corbet 302 – Mint: The New Tobacco

Crews 201 – Becoming the Humbler
Crews 501 – Shoe Hurling Techniques: Accuracy (PAC Class)
Crews 502 – Shoe Hurling Techniques: Power (PAC Class)

De La Motte 101 – Male Bonding Techniques (Cross Ref: Trott 101)

DePaoli 101 – Proximity Theory: How to get Engaged
DePaoli 300 – It Hurts When I Wii: Making A Comeback After a 4-Player Wii Tennis Mishap
DePaoli 412 – Late Night Art: Keeping the Last Bits of Sanity Alive
DePaoli 501 – LOST: Advanced Theorizing

Director 101 – Tuma Time, All the Time
Direction 102 – Life With the President: My Story

Eckley 122 – Of Naked Statues and Light Switches: When Art is in Plain View
Eckley 512 – Advanced Adonis-izing
Eckley 513 – Using the Adonis Ray to your Benefit

Edwards 412 – Getting Hosed During Board Games: When Accidents Hurt Others
Edwards 500 – Totalitarian Regimes
Edwards 510 – Post-Totalitarian Regimes: What To Do When You’re Overthrown

Emmons, Zek 101 – Dating Girls Named Barkley
Emmons, Zek 102 – Cheaper by the Dozen: Living the Movie

Frankie 101 – Behavioral Patterns of Girlfriends and Cows: Similarities and Differences
Frankie 312 – Advanced Girlfriend Communication (Cross Ref: D.Goheen 312)

Gatimu 101 – Online Glove Purchasing
Gatimu 102 – Telling Everyone Online About How Much You Love the Gloves You Got Online
Gatimu 202 – Out-Traveling Joey Tuma: How I Do It
Gatimu 302 – Turning Minute Knobs Whilst Wearing Gloves (that I Purchased Online)

Ghering 101 – Low Temperature Endurance: Living with the Cold
Ghering 102 – Shorts and Flip Flops: Year Round Fashion
Ghering 103 – Room Stench: Ignoring When Your Room Smells Like Skunk
Ghering 104 – Room Stench II: Denial and Justification Techniques

Goheen,J 322 – Receiving Your Doctorate before your Bachelor’s
Goheen,J 512 – Delicious Doctorate Development

Haley 122 – Summer Growth Studies: Seeming Taller in 3 Months
Haley 222 – Advanced Meteorology Foreknowledge – Knowing the Weather Before Most Others
Haley 224 – Talking Over Your Head – Figuratively and Literally
Haley 312 – Managing the Afro

Hartmann, Cr 122 – Me, My Girlfriend, and TJ9000
Hartmann, Cr 400 – How to Prepare a 7 Course Meal in your Dorm Room

Kupish 101 – iPod Economics – Buy Low, Sell High
Kupish 102 – Midterm Roommate Switching: Fearing the New Guy
Kupish 222 – Clapping: I Invented Clapping

Larson 101 – Hands-Free Talking: The Miracle of BlueTooth: Applications and Wisdom

Lindemann 101 – Waking Up Pissed: How to Know, and Select, the Wrong Side of the Bed Every Morning
Lindemann 202 – Midnight Oil Combustion: Achieving 6-Hour Endurance (Required Text: Shut Up and Listen to Me Teach by Ed Dehoog, Ph.D)
Lindemann 311 – Tabbed Browsing: Using Firefox as Your Filing Cabinet
Lindemann 422 – Fung’s Fanboyism: Why My Pan-Fried Mandarin Orange Chicken Slaughters Your 99cent Taco Del Mar
Lindemann 501 – Laugh Like You Mean It

Mathias 101 – Intro to Ben (Cross Ref: Baretich 101)
Mathias 200 – Advanced Business Majoring
Mathias 500 – 23 Credits + A Girlfriend: Miracles in Time Travel

Messenger 411 – Organizing 248 Girls’ Phone Numbers: Utilizing Your Officer Position (WIC Course)

Mierau 101 – Bombs: Filling the Hole Zach Gerig Left (And making plenty of new ones)
Mierau 203 – Oblivion Cartography and Navigation: Knowledge Through Experience

Nicholson,C 111 – Antioch Brotherhood (Cross Ref: Nicholson,J 111; Borne,N 111; Borne,R 111; Emmons, Zek 111; Emmons, Zep 111; Hartmann,Cr. 111; Hartmann,Co 111; Morelli,J 111; Morelli,A 111; Vallely,C 111; Vallely,N 111)
Nicholson, C 222 – Kittens vs. Puppies: Pros and Cons

Oberst 101 – Dance
Oberst 102 – Dance II
Oberst 103 – Dance III
Oberst 200 – 23 Credits: Dancing Your Way to a Full Schedule
Oberst 300 – Waltzing Your Way Through College
Oberst 400 – Dance IV
Oberst 401 – Ponytails: Hair Restraining Techniques (Cross Ref: Omundson 401)
Oberst 402 – Ponytails: When Your Hair is Too Long For Dance

Omundson 101 – Long Hair: Shampoo Selection Techniques
Omundson 401 – Ponytails: Hair Restraining Techniques (Cross Ref: Oberst 401)

Reed 101 – Vegetables: Selection Techniques (Cross Ref: Corbet 101)
Reed 102 – Indie Music Appreciation
Reed 201 – Assertiveness
Reed 202 – Manliness for Beginners
Reed 245 – Grinning, Jogging, and Grinning & Jogging
Reed 301 – Sneaking in Broad Daylight
Reed 310 – Bathroom, Sleeping Porch, Room, and Hallway: Jogging at All Times
Reed 312 – Why Have 1 Clock When You Can Have 2
Reed 316 – Show Us Your Abs: Reactions to the Mob
Reed 412 – Advanced Jogging: Around the World in 80 Strides
Reed 414 – Jogging Navigation: When a Wrong Turn Multiplies Your Distance

Roberts 101 – Airsoft: Anytime is the Wrong Time
Roberts 102 – Lessons in Singleness
Roberts 103 – All the other Antioch Pastors Got Married: When Your Future Catches Up to You
Roberts 104 – Creed Worship: Praise to the Almighty With the Heavenly Stylings of Scott Stapp

Rothrock 101 – Music on the Move
Rothrock 102 – Dial Denial
Rothrock 103 – Gangle Coordination (PAC Class)
Rothrock 312 – Presenting: Rothrock Style
Rothrock 450 – Pretending Someone Else Did It

Sander 101 – Mountain Dew for Breakfast (Lab Fee: $45)
Sander 102 – Maintaining Your Caffeine High: What To Do When Breakfast Wears Off

Scooter 101 – Urban Hick-ery
Scooter 102 – Living with Your Nickname
Scooter 202 – Advanced Ebay Techniques
Scooter 312 – Being Weirder Than Ben Baretich: Receiving the Passed Torch
Scooter 512 – MySpace Stalking – When They Can’t Even See You Coming

St.John 101 – L.A. on a Dime: Travel Techniques and Miracles
St.John 200 – How to Go to L.A. to See Your Girlfriend and Tell Everyone Else You’re Just Going to “Visit Friends”
St.John 209 – Getting “Friends” to Visit Madras
St.John 212 – Selective Smelling: A Life of Denial
St.John 333 – Advanced Proposing Techniques (Cross Ref: Chick 302)

Trott 101 – Male Bonding Techniques (Cross Ref: De La Motte 101)
Trott 102 – What to Do When the First and Last Initials of Your Roommate’s Name Are the Exact Same Letter: A Discourse

Tuma 101 – Traveling without Buying a Ticket
Tuma 102 – Traveling without Buying a Ticket: The Dark Side
Tuma 103 – Presidenting: Lessons from My Past
Tuma 201 – Presidenting: Officer Wrangling Techniques
Tuma 301 – Ruining FEST

Williams 449 – Chicago Lovin’
Williams 550 - I’ll Tell You What I Might Be…

Vallely,N 101: Looking good when you roll out of bed
Vallely,N 112: Freezing your hair in any position

Vallely,C 101 – Art: The Beginning of a Journey
Vallely,C 213 – TV: It’s on Discs Now, Stupid (Cross Ref: Armendariz 213)

Vasquez 101 – 5 O’Clock all the time – The art of electric shaving (Special tutorial-edition Norelco available at bookstore)
Vasques 102 – Apple Slices in a Bowl: Gourmet Cookery for the Established College Gentleman
Vasquez 211 – Size 40+ waist bands – The indispensability of the leather belt.
Vasquez 322 – I Wish Every Straw was an Udder: Living a Milk-Loving Life
Vasquez 412 – Advanced Library – When Your Only Timetable Entries are “Sleep” and “Library”.

Weiss 101 – Computer Geniusery
Weiss 102 – Bedtime: When to Stick to Your Guns

Well its been a long summer, but the wait is over and the 2010-2011 school year is now beginning!  For those of you who don’t know me, my name is John Rathjen and I am the House Pastor at Antioch House this year.  I have lived in the house for the past 3 years and I can safely say there’s never been a dull moment.  I also enjoy long walks on the beach and great conversation over candlelit dinners. (Okay; that part isn’t really true).  For years Antioch has been notorius for not keeping alumni and parents up to date with what’s going in the house.  This newsletter is our attempt to reconcile that and we plan on sending one out anywhere from once a month to once a term.  The Internet is a quick and easy way to keep everyone informed and so we are going to have this newsletter hooked up to Facebook and Twitter as well as an email list.
The Lord has done so much this summer that I could sit here all night telling you about it.  But fortunately for all of you I am someone who really enjoys sleep so you’ll have to trust me when I say that we have been blessed far beyond what we deserve.  As most of you know this summer Antioch moved out of our house on 27th st. which we had been in for four years.  We now have two houses located much closer to campus.  Both houses each have an exciting story attached to them that really shows how much our house has been blessed by the Lord.  Our house on 13th St is the first house ever owned by Antioch.  In the past Antioch has always rented and I know its an answer to many people’s prayers (including my own) that we now have a place to call our own.  The house on 14th St. is also a cool piece of history because it was the house that Antioch first started in.  It’s pretty awesome to see everything come full circle and have Antioch moving back to where it all started.
Moving from one house into two this summer seemed like a pretty daunting task.  We did not have an industrual kitchen facility in either house so we decided to remodel the kitchen in 13th St. to be able cook for 74 guys.  A special thanks goes to our cook Adam and his dad John, without them we would never have been able to pull it off.  Throughout the summer it always seemed like there was something more that had to be done; whether it was getting both houses up to fire code or building a bike shed, the Lord was faithful through all of it.  Although there are still a lot of details that need to fall into place both houses have guys living in them and are up and running.
The school year got off to a great start with our camping trip.  We all packed up our stuff the Monday before classes began and went camping at Butte Creek Ranch out past Silverton.  We spent a couple days out there just getting to know each other and enjoying Creation.  It was the perfect way to start out the year by getting rid of all the distractions in our lives and just being the body of Christ together.  Once we got back from the camping trip we had a few days of hanging out before classes started.  Now at the end of our first week of classes we are starting to get settled into both houses and trying to cope with the fact that we have homework.  We have already had three Friday Night Worships so far.  They have been a great success; we have had a packed house both times.  Talking with guys in the house and our small group leaders I really feel a big focus for the house this year is serving the campus and those around us who don’t have a relationship with Jesus Christ.  God didn’t put us so close to campus on accident.  So for the first Monday Night Meeting of the year we walked over  to the MU Quad and prayed for Oregon State University and for the thousands of students who go there.
In the Scripture we are told that even though young men can get weary and tired and mess up; if we wait on the Lord He will give us strength.  College and being tired are synonymous so I ask all you alumni and parents to pray that the men of Antioch would wait on the Lord.  Pray that we would be lifted up with wings like eagles; run and not get tired; walk and not become weary.  If we did that, we could do a lot of damage for the Kingdom.
So this is a pretty brief summary of all the things that have been going on with Antioch.  I am sure there is a ton that has been left out.  So if any of you have questions, feel free to contact the House and we can do our best to answer them.  I hope you all are as excited about this year as I am.  GO BEAVS!!!!!!!!

-John

P.S. Don’t forget about Alumni Weekend coming up the weekend of October 29th-31st!  More details to follow soon…

“You have a fifty-percent chance of survival.”  As I laid in a free bed in Chang Gang Memorial Hospital in Taiwan, these words uttered by my doctor caused my heart to sink.  I was strong for a moment…until the doctor left the room.

It was about 9pm, and I was in the hospital by myself.  I had been there for a week while the doctors did all sorts of blood tests, scans, etc.  The doctor came into my room and said they had concluded that I had Hodgkin’s Lymphoma, and that they would need to do a series of biopsies to confirm the diagnosis.  Immediately after the doctor left, I looked up what Hodgkin’s Lymphoma was on Wikipedia.  Finding out that it was cancer in the first few sentences of the article, my body shut down.  A fear I hadn’t ever felt welled up in me and manifested itself in tears.  I cried.  I cried like a baby for maybe ten minutes.  My week had started with a stomach ache and fever with me thinking that I had food poisoning, and it ended with news of cancer spreading throughout my body.

I had been engaged to be married for about a month at this point.  I texted Erica (who is now my wife), “Please come to the hospital as soon as you can after work.”  I didn’t want to tell her because her dad had just recovered from liver cancer.  He had half of his liver removed and was recovering well, but the stress of the situation economically, physically, spiritually, and emotionally takes its toll.  I didn’t want her to have to deal with that again.  Shortly after finding out that I had cancer, we learned that her uncle and aunt both contracted liver cancer.  It has been a tough time for the whole family.

Erica arrived at the hospital, and I told her the news.  We cried together, and the questions started pouring into my scattered and frail mind.  “Why?”, I thought.  Unimaginable thoughts of God punishing me came to the forefront of my mind.  “What had I done?”  “How had I sinned?” “Had I lost favor with God and wandered from His grace, shelter, protection, healing…?”  These thoughts were lingering, and I had to deal with them quickly.  “Maybe it wasn’t that I had sinned, but I had exposed myself to a bad diet, or chemicals, or…or….what!?”  I was a man who had lost control of his own destiny.  A man whose life was hanging by a thread.  A man who desperately wanted answers but had none.

The next day, I found out that I more likely had a ninety-percent chance of survival with proper treatment.  That was much needed good news and a bit of relief for my worried family.  I was told that I had to go under the knife to confirm the Hodgkin’s Lymphoma diagnosis.  The surgeons did a series of biopsies that were more or less horribly painful experiences.  My body was becoming more and more frail as I had been cut with knives and poked with needles continuously for three weeks.  I just didn’t want to feel any more pain.

The doctors told me that I could go home and that I would need to start chemotherapy treatments the next week.  The total treatments recommended for stage III Hodgkin’s Lymphoma is sixteen.  That is treatment every other week for eight months.  So far, I have done eight.  Half way through.  Chemo is no walk in the park.  Nausea, vomitting, loss of appetite, weight loss, and the inability to work very much has made me want to quit at various times throughout the last four months.

Yet through all this, I have felt God’s love and provision more than ever in my life.  I have come to understand that really believing in God as your Father is an altruistic human ability especially in the midst of crisis.  You have to have training and understanding beyond man’s wisdom.  It has been about two and a half years since I left Antioch.  I can see how God used the time I lived in the house and was the house pastor for two years to prepare me for my current situation.

As humans, we have the tendency to think that our works or acts are attached to God’s favor.  This is why in ancient times, people groups would sacrifice even humans to appease the gods and earn their blessings.  Christ tells us not to fear the world because He has overcome the world.

John 16:33 states,

“I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.”

and John 14:27 states,

“Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.”

He truly gives those who follow him a peace that passes understanding (Phil. 4:7).  In Philippians, Paul tells us that this peace will guard our hearts and minds.  Paul knew this as he was writing this letter from prison.  He was content whether he was abased or abounding.  He could sing worship songs in prison. This is NOT a natural human gift, but a gift from God.  It is a fruit of the Spirit.

Many people have said to me, “I can’t believe this is happening to you.  You were such a good person.”  It is just like the disciples who asked Jesus about a blind man,

Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?

“Neither this man nor his parents sinned, said Jesus, but this happened so that the work of God might be displayed in his life.” (John 9:2-3)

Instead of believing that I or my parents have sinned in some way and am deserving of this cancer as punishment for my sin,  I have chosen rather to see that God has saved my life to display His glory and love.

When I started feeling sick, my fiancé told me that I should go to the hospital to see what was going on.  I would never have gone to the hospital on my own because (due to past experience) I do not particularly like doctors, and I am also a stupid and prideful man.  If they wouldn’t have taken me to the hospital, I might not have found out that I had cancer because I had no symptoms whatsoever.  The doctors still don’t know if the stomach ache and fever I had was related to the lymphoma.

Also, I had been working for six months in Taiwan and had good health insurance.  With all my surgeries, prescription drugs, and three-week stay in the hospital, I only paid around $150 to $200.  If I would have been in the U.S. during this period, I probably would have been bankrupt.

It is hard, however, to be away from family and friends in the U.S., but I have been so blessed here in Taiwan with a new family that truly cares for me.  I have seen us grow closer than we ever would have without this struggle.

As I continue to work here in Taiwan and learn the difficult Chinese language, I pray that my life is used to impact the people here for God’s glory.  Only three-percent of the population is Christian and many are in desperate need to know a God who loves and cares for them.

The question still remains, “How did I get cancer?”  I can honestly say that I nor the doctors know exactly how it happened.  It can be from a number of causes including: bad diet, deficient immune system, pollution, heredity, and a number of other things.  Cancer is becoming more of an epidemic around the world every year. From research that I have done, it is caused by some things that you have control over and some not.  Those exposed to radiation, in Japan, from the nuclear bombs the U.S. dropped on their country didn’t really have a choice on whether they contracted the disease or not.  However, many of us in the U.S. are getting these diseases from the foods that we are putting into our bodies.  We do have a choice on what to eat, whether we exercise, and whether we get a proper amount of sleep.

Over the last one hundred years of human history, our ways of life have drastically changed with the advent of the “Oil Age”.  Throughout this experience, my eyes have been opened to a number of harmful things that we are allowing in our lives systemically speaking.  My main area of concern is with our western diet, and I want to issue a warning to all of us who are young men.  Please take consideration of what you eat and what ingredients are in the food that you consume.  Our mass produced food culture has to go, and as Christian men, we should be leading the way and not “eating the king’s meat” so to speak.  God’s creation is good and beautiful, but man has tampered with it more in the last few years than at any time in previous history.  Know that yes, we are a fallen people and have been cursed with death.  Every one of us must die someday, but as a man of God you must be aware of the current state of affairs and how you can protect yourself and your family.  I don’t want to tell you what you can or can’t eat, but just be aware of the corporate food system that our lives our intertwined in.  Do your own research and investigate these things for yourself and your family.  Be very wary of food products that are provided for you to consume by institutions whose primary concern is to increase their share price for their stockholders.  I don’t want to offend anyone, but I can see that the current food system can and will have dire consequences that God never intended and does not desire for His children.

A leading factor in many diseases is a poor diet.  This is a cultural problem.  Many of us, especially guys do not know how to cook.  We don’t know how, and we don’t have time.  So what do we do?  We just grab a pizza or a hamburger and dinner is served.  I did this during my tenure at Oregon State all the time.  It is easy and fast and tastes good.  That is the problem.

If I can leave you with two things it would be this: nurture your spiritual walk so that you are prepared for the crazy times that life will most certainly bring, and nurture your physical body with a good diet and exercise.  The first Christians were not afraid of death because they truly believed Christ was the firstfruits of the resurrection and that they would be resurrected in the second coming.  Nothing the Roman Empire could do could waver their faith in Christ.  Jesus invited them to participate in His kingdom.  It is a different kind of system where you are called to love your enemies, bless those who persecute, have peace in the midst of trials, and give to the poor.  All these things were against the culture of their day and are still very applicable today.  Don’t be afraid to go against the grain.  It is a narrow road that only a few have traveled.  The young men at Antioch can and should lead the way.

Please download the application, fill it out, and either email it to our House Recruiter at antiochfish@gmail.com, snail-mail it to us at P.O. Box 2334, Corvallis, OR 97339, or drop it off at our house on 13th street. The due date for us to receive the applications is May 9th. We look forward to seeing you.

If you are interested in living at Antioch over the summer please contact our President Zach Olson at antiochpres@gmail.com or House Pastor Tyson Butler. You may also email antiochclerk@gmail.com to put in a request to reserve your spot today.  Priority will be given to current Antioch residence and members but nonmember request will also be accepted.