by Brianna Langley | Feb 25, 2013 | News Slider
Expansion, more locations and even a church plant loom in the future for The Well Coffeehouse, which, for eight months, has provided a place for people to enjoy good coffee. Originally founded by Lipscomb professor Rob Touchstone and Chris Soper, The Well — located at 2025 Richard Jones Road in Green Hills — is a nonprofit ministry designed to share love and nurture the feeling of community in Nashville. With outreach efforts ranging from The Wishing Well (a wall in the coffeehouse where people can pin notes expressing specific needs in hopes that someone will read it and be able to help) to an effort that helps fund fresh water wells in Africa, The Well Coffeehouse has provided opportunities for Lipscomb students to get involved with local ministries and nonprofit organizations. “All Lipscomb students can take advantage of partnering with all the nonprofits that we work with right now,” Soper said. “There are five or six different nonprofits we can get you involved with.” The Well has continued to grow through the help of Lipscomb students and the Nashville community. Change seems to quickly be approaching this ministry. “We do have a lot of plans for The Well for the future,” Soper said. “There are a lot of things that we are working on and working towards.” Soon, it may become a place to worship, too. “Yes, there are plans in place to do a church plant in The Well and grow the church through The Well,” Soper said. Besides just planting a church, expansion and even possible relocation have been hinted at by The Well’s leaders. “It is...
by Brianna Langley | Feb 24, 2013 | News Slider
Caffeine addiction runs rampant in colleges and universities. College students, as well as the general population, tend to consume absurd amounts all throughout the day. Is this much caffeine dangerous? Can it really affect health in a negative way? According to Nancy Hunt, director of Lipscomb’s dietetics program, it...
by Brianna Langley | Nov 20, 2012 | Uncategorized
In the cafeteria of Lipscomb University, usually around lunch or dinner, you can find Sheila Hood cleaning tables, straightening chairs, scolding some messy boy or greeting a student at the door with a warm hug. To those around her, Hood goes by Mama Sheila, and all 4,000 students at Lipscomb University are her kids. “I’ve been in food service all my life,” says Mama Sheila, “Ever since I was 14.” Mama Sheila started out working for both Vanderbilt and Baptist Hospitals, where she was employed for many years. Eventually, Hood decided she wanted weekends off, so she came to Lipscomb after seeing an ad in the paper about the new position. Mama Sheila found herself at Lipscomb in 2002. She also had a son who worked on campus, which made the job hunt easier. Mama Sheila remembers all the places on Lipscomb’s campus where she’d ever worked in order. She used to work at the now-closed Pizza Hut in the food court, Smoothie King , the Grill and Sub Connection, as well as the currently in business Starbucks and Chick-fil-a. Of course, after all these places had come and gone, Mama Sheila eventually found herself in the cafeteria. “She always makes my day,” says Courtney Rider, a sophomore nursing major from Greenbrier, Tenn., “After the first day I met her, she already knew my face.” The students of Lipscomb University are almost as attached to Mama Sheila as she is to them. Meal times would be a different experience without a “Hey, baby” or a “Be sure you put those chairs back where you found them” from the campus Mama. “Having Mama Sheila in the cafeteria means you always...
by Brianna Langley | Oct 7, 2012 | Uncategorized
On Saturday, Sep. 29, a multicultural global festival called the Celebration of Nations visited Franklin. The festival took place at the O’More College of Design in downtown Franklin, and the atmosphere was one of an open-air market, complete with food sampling and live music. “Going to the festival was definitely an eye-opening experience in many ways. As a dietetics major, it was awesome to try foods from different countries and to hear stories from all the different kinds of people,” said Trish Stocker, a Lipscomb freshman from Latham, New York. “Personally, I love getting to know new people and learn about cultures all over the world, and I can’t wait to get into the field of nutrition and see how food can tie all cultures together with a common love.” The festival featured a stage with live cultural music and performances placed in front of rows of shaded seating, while booths from different countries and cultural organizations encircled the chairs and the stage. When you first walked onto the small college square, the first booth you would see would be a booth promoting everything Norwegian. A very friendly Norwegian-American family ran the little shaded kiosk and welcomed anyone who passed by to step inside. An older man sat in the corner, cracking jokes and whittling a wooden spoon with his switch knife, while an older woman hospitably offered up traditional Norwegian treats (sweet, bread-like desserts and a cup of fruit soup). A younger woman stayed in the background, busily making up more tasty morsels so they wouldn’t run out throughout the day. After the Norway booth came the “Compassionate...
