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Ben Verkerk
 
Hey! Well at this point you should know my name (it says it right there^^) but that's 
like reading a book cover and knowing the whole plot. Unlike a Star Wars movie, my 
name gives away very little! This is my last year at Mac and I'm very excited to move 
into the next stages of my life! With 4 years of honours business and marketing 
education nearly behind me, university has been quite good to me. By the end of 
things I'll also have a minor in religious studies -- something I've come to enjoy 
learning while here.
Aside from education at Mac I'm on the exec for the McMaster Longboarding Club - a 
newly formed group of rag-tag shenanigan'ers who enjoy the wind in our hair and our 
lives on the blade of a knife! Longboarding, the downhill racing component of 
skateboarding is really the cheap and counter-seasonal alternative to snowboarding - 
where I was first introduced to board sports.
These sort of riske, extreme sports aren't really where I started my athletic 
ventures; I've been playing soccer since I could walk, played and coached badminton 
in high school and I captain the intramural soccer and volleyball teams at Mac for 
All Things.
As this whole page implies, I am one of the student leaders of the McMaster Christian Reformed Ministry.
This entails leading the Men's Bible Study, captaining and organizating the previously 
mentioned teams and heading up our weekly dinner-speaker series, All Things.
I've had the privelege of working closely with Dr. Michael Fallon and through his 
vast experiences I've learned much about relational leadership and coordination.
It's not all roses and root beer though, I've been challenged, particularly within 
and by the Men's bible study. This has really forced me to dig deeper into my faith 
and experience God in a way I've never done before. 
As excited as I am to be entering the next saga of my life, I will truly miss the 
community I've come to love and call my own in this ministry. The blessings I've 
received while a part of it I won't easily forget and I am sure I'll continue to be 
blessed through All Things for years to come. 
I hope you read this as excitedly as a wrote it, and if you have questions or want my 
job when I graduate, email me at ben.verkerk@gmail.com! Just let me know you want to 
talk and we'll grab lunch or tea or a beer or whatever it is you're into.
God Bless!
 
That's all :)

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Benjamin Verkerk