For Coach Mike Jacobs, the baseball field was never just a baseball field. “It was a mission field. He didn’t run a baseball program. He ran a discipleship program,” former player Jared Baria ’09 said at a memorial service held …
Personal Chemistry
All the students who walk into Wanda Jones’ classroom are walking chemistry experiments — they just may not realize it yet. “We live this kind of science all the time,” she said. “For instance, if you get sick, you take …
Art that Speaks
Phillip Counselman says verbal expression isn’t his natural comfort zone. He’s a man of few words. And of all the topics he thought he might spend those words on this year, his boat definitely wasn’t one of them. “I never …
The Other Side of Mentoring
I always thought of mentoring as a one-way street. Something that flows in one direction, from the top down. A pouring into a student’s life, like water from a pitcher. The number of students I have had the opportunity to …
Coffee & Community
When Tori Acker graduated from the University of Mobile in 2017 with a degree in intercultural studies, she landed in a career that allows her to bridge the gap between cultures. Based in Alabaster, Alabama, her Vessel Coffee Co. started …
A Different Perspective
Many of the happiest and most successful people attribute their prosperity to a shift in perspective. Whether it was just meeting someone with different life experiences or surviving a crisis, there’s always a different way to look at things, which …
Dreams Do Come True
The University of Mobile is where Chelsey Sayasane found confidence in the Lord, and in herself. It’s also the place that prepared her to land her dream job, even before she graduated. As co-host of Studio 10, WALA Fox10TV’s morning …
Find Your Voice
Chris James ’15 During his freshman year at the University of Mobile, Chris James was a wallflower, someone so quiet one of his classmates wondered if he could speak at all. Then music helped him find his voice, and God …
The World is Your Classroom
College is a transformative time for most. It is an opportunity to learn new things, meet new people and develop independence from your past. For me, college was just that – a time to go and explore new parts of …
A World of Possibilities
International travel often changes who we are. It challenges us to consider new perspectives, helps us interact with those who are different from us, and leaves us with special memories of missed trains, delayed flights and new foods. At the …