by Reese Lusk | Mar 10, 2016 | News Slider
After long summers of pouring into collections of youth group students, now Bible majors will have the same opportunity to pour into each other’s lives. Next semester the first ever undergraduate Bible major student retreat will be established. “I hope this is a place where people can come back after summer internships, or even just a summer at home, to just decompress,” junior Chase Whiting said. Last summer, a group of youth ministry majors sat around a campfire — with them was Walter Surdaki, a Lipscomb Bible professor. They all traded stories of their internships and summer experiences. Whiting and Lipscomb graduate Drue Clark shared how their recent spiritual formations retreat inspired them to start a version of this retreat for undergrads at Lipscomb. “We heard how shaping it was for them, and it left us asking how we could have something like that,” Whiting said. After talking with the Bible department, the responses they received were positive, Whiting said. Whiting and Clark spoke before a selected board of Bible professors on campus with the approval of Leonard Allen, Dean of the College of Bible and Ministry, and the committee said the project had the complete backing and full use of the recourses the Bible department had to offer. Now with the support of the university, a leadership team has been formed consisting of six students — both graduate and undergraduate — along with three professors. The team has been meeting consistently since January, planning what exactly the retreat will look like. “This should be a place of affirmation,” Whiting said. “But even more importantly, this should be a...
