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ABOUT OUR LEGACY BUILDER PROGRAM Denver Seminary invites those who recognize our role in forming men and women for God's work to become Legacy Builders. Legacy Builders have honored the Seminary with a gift in their estate plans. Estate gifts come in all shapes and sizes. Every gift is welcome, as the spirit behind each one is to encourage future generations. Denver Seminary has truly been blessed by Randy and Alice Mathews and their family in so many ways. We are thankful for them. If you have an interest in honoring someone through a gift to Denver Seminary or in becoming a Legacy Builder through an estate gift that will make a difference for many generations to come, please contact Chris Johnson, vice president of advancement at Chris.Johnson@denverseminary.edu or 303.762.6924. LEAVING A LEGACY WITH DENVER SEMINARY Over the years, four members of the Mathews family have graduated from Denver Seminary: Randall (1956), daughter Susan (1979), son Kent (1985), and daughter Karen (1986). Meanwhile, Alice served on the administrative staff for eleven years (1981–92). One of many reasons our family found a theological home at Denver Seminary was that self-effacing giant, Vernon Grounds. When Randall enrolled in 1953, Vernon was the academic dean, and later became the president in 1956. In 1979, the year Susan graduated, he shifted from the presidency to a new role as chancellor and remained in that position as an ongoing, powerful influence for all of us. It was Vernon's Thursday, 6:00 a.m. bagel breakfast in his office each week that confirmed for Kent his commitment to Christian social justice. When Kent was later killed by a drunk driver while working with profoundly disabled adults in northern France, it was a no- brainer that we turned to Vernon to discuss how Kent's vision could somehow be memorialized through the new Vernon Grounds Institute for Public Ethics at Denver Seminary. Endowing an annual lectureship in Kent's name that focused on Christian social responsibility through the Grounds Institute was the deeply satisfying result of that conversation. More recently, God has enabled us to add scholarship funding for students who share our son's concern for social justice in our world today. Our gratitude to God for the ongoing work of Denver Seminary has grown out of our personal experience of the school since its early days in the 1950s, and the impact of leaders like Vernon Grounds. Our ongoing contacts with President Mark Young and others on the Denver Seminary faculty and staff assure us that the school remains true to God's concern for the world around us—for evangelism, spiritual formation, and training in the Scriptures, but also for issues like racism, poverty, or violence in God's name. We (Randall and Alice) are blessed to be an ongoing partner of this school that has given us so much over more than a half century. We thank God that we have been enabled in some small measure to share God's blessings to us with the continuing, cutting-edge ministries of Denver Seminary. — Randy & Alice Mathews 5