{"id":586,"date":"2020-12-22T23:59:49","date_gmt":"2020-12-23T04:59:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.cedarville.edu\/cedarville-stories\/?p=586"},"modified":"2020-12-22T15:51:16","modified_gmt":"2020-12-22T20:51:16","slug":"s3e19-rufus-matthew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cedarville.edu\/cedarville-stories\/2020\/s3e19-rufus-matthew\/","title":{"rendered":"S3:E19 | Rufus Matthew"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Mission to the (United) Nations<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In this holiday rebroadcast, we get reacquainted with a remarkable young man we first met on the Cedarville Stories podcast back in January of this year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rufus Mathew grew up in Bahrain and never heard of Cedarville University. So how did he end up on the other side of the globe at this school in the cornfields? After all, Bahrain and Cedarville are a mere 7,000 miles apart and 20 hours by plane from one to the other.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rufus\u2019 story is a testimony to the Lord\u2019s amazing work of bringing students to campus. He decided to study cybersecurity at Cedarville, a program recognized by the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA). Remarkable, right? Sure, but then consider where his sights are set for his career \u2014 the United Nations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rufus completed a very selective internship at the U.N. during the summer of 2019 with students from top-tier programs around the world. 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