WINTER 2022–2023 19 Michigan, and a Juris Doctor degree, with honors, from the University of Connecticut School of Law. Before the Lord called her back into Christian higher education, she practiced law for more than a decade in New Haven, Connecticut, before serving as president of the New Haven County Bar Association. Dr. Mamo Ishida met Jesus Christ as a student at DBU, developed a heart for Christ-like service in various leadership roles on campus, and is now carrying His Savior’s example of servant leadership into university classrooms and halls of learning as a teacher in his home country of Japan. Upon arriving to University Hill, Dr. Ishida was impacted by the spiritual life of the DBU campus and began attending Bible studies to befriend American students. During a chapel service, he encountered the love of God in the words of the song “As the Deer” based on Psalm 42. Dr. Ishida started reading about Jesus in the English-Japanese Bible that he had received as a part of DBU’s Intensive English Program and surrendered his life to Christ. Previously, Dr. Ishida completed his master’s degree in higher education at DBU. During the afternoon’s service, Dr. Ishida received his Doctor of Education in Educational Leadership.
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