by Todd Lamberth | Mar 24, 2016 | News Slider, Sports
After giving up three runs in the first inning, the Lady Bison softball team rallied in the seventh inning to beat rival Belmont 4-3 on Wednesday. Ahead 3-2 in the seventh with runners on the corners and two outs, Belmont’s Ashley Johnson threw freshman Khayla Green, allowing her to tie the game. After sophomore Abby Finichel walked, freshman Sarah Higgins stepped to the plate with runners on first and second and two outs. Facing a full count, Higgins shot her next pitch to center field to drive in junior Kasey Gibson and give the Lady Bisons the 4-3 win. “She (Higgins) had a rough game tonight and she’ll be the first to tell you that,” Lipscomb head coach Kristin Ryman said. “I thought for her to have as rough of a game as she did, at the end she honed back in a found a good pitch to hit.” Despite the win, Ryman was not pleased with what she saw from her team most of the game. “We escaped,” Ryman said. “Honestly, I feel like we got outplayed. Sure we’re happy with the win. Some tough lessons learned through that game. We can’t take pitches off and tonight we took several innings off.” Lipscomb (15-15) senior pitcher Kelly Young was able to settle down after allowing three Bruins to cross the plate in the first inning. Young hit her first batter and walked the second before Belmont’s Lexi Rouse took her first pitch over the left field wall to give her team a 3-0 lead. “Obviously, the tone wasn’t set from the get-go. You never want to give up three runs off the...
by Mignonne Bryant | Mar 22, 2016 | BREAKING NEWS, News Slider
Lipscomb students studying abroad in Vienna, Florence and London are safe and accounted for after Tuesday morning’s terrorist attacks in the Brussels international airport and metro station, according to a university spokesperson. And just as is the case for citizens in Brussels, the strategy right now is to shelter in place. “No one is scheduled for travel during the week, and weekend plans will be evaluated in a few days,” said Kim Chaudoin, assistant vice president for communication and marketing. Three bombs total went off Tuesday morning – two at Zaventem airport, killing at least 11 people, and one at the Maelbeek metro station, killing at least 20 people, according to Belgium’s health minister. Some international news sources have put the number as high as 34 dead so far. ISIS — the so-called Islamic State — has claimed responsibility for the attacks. It was more than a little too close for comfort for some Lipscomb students who had been at the scene of the terrorist slaughter just a day before. Lipscomb sophomores Liv Bell and Ashley Harman and junior Courtney Craun were traveling from Paris to Florence and had a flight out of Brussels to Milan early Monday morning. The students arrived at the airport at 4:30 a.m. and departed to Milan at 9:30 a.m. “We woke up this morning with the news about the attacks and were shocked,” Bell said. “Some of the videos and pictures show where we were sitting, and that just blew our minds.” Belgium has been called the “hub of terrorism” by experts in counter-terrorism. The attacks took place just four days after the main organizer of the November 2015 Paris attacks,...
by Lyndi Locke | Mar 19, 2016 | News Slider
When senior education major Sarah McCormack first traveled to Dundee, Scotland for a mission trip during her senior year of high school, she had no idea just how eye-opening it would be. “At first, the beauty and adventure of Scotland itself is what intrigued me about the mission trip,” McCormack said. “But then, talking about faith in school was something that was foreign to me because I went to public school.” For the past five years, McCormack and her mission trip team have traveled to Dundee in effort to build relationships with local teens. She said they spend the majority of their time discussing faith, which is something that is foreign to the locals. “Being a Christian is not a part of their culture, and is seen as ‘weird,’” McCormack said. “Most of the time, the only time they go to church are on holidays like Easter and Christmas.” McCormack said that Dundee has high dropout, teen pregnancy and violence rates, which has caused teens to have anxiety about their culture. “They have a glamorized version of America in their heads; they think if they travel over here, all problems will go away,” she said. “We explain to them that they have talents and a purpose, no matter where they live.” Participating in this mission trip differs from other ones because it’s not quite as physical. “Since we are not doing something tangible like building a house or giving out food, sometimes we don’t always get to see the fruits of our work,” she said. “It is more about building relationships.” McCormack said that one of the most rewarding...
by Mignonne Bryant | Mar 17, 2016 | News Slider
Sprinkles Cupcakes has swiftly become a 12th Avenue South attraction and continues to integrate into the bustling Nashville community. Its success can be attributed to its many sweet treats – cupcakes, cookies and ice cream. But the cupcake ATM is one inclusion that sets it apart and has customers coming back for more, even after store hours. “The cupcake ATM is a completely automated machine where you can place an order for up to four cupcakes, swipe your card and watch as the robotic arm retrieves your boxed cupcakes, cookies or brownies,” said Molly Moore, assistant manager. The ATM has especially drawn in university students in the area who are looking for quick and convenient service. Olivia Thomas is an elementary education junior at Lipscomb University who enjoys visiting Sprinkles with her friends. “I love having the cupcake ATM convenient to me at all times,” Thomas said. “It’s super nice because even if there is a long line inside, you can get one quickly from the ATM located outside.” Besides a top-notch customer experience – with friendly greetings from employees, the smell of waffles in the air and rainbow colors on the walls – Sprinkles prides itself in offering freshly made products, according to Moore. “Sprinkles is a one-of-a-kind experience where we bake our cupcakes and cookies fresh on site everyday using the finest ingredients such as Madagascar bourbon vanilla, fresh bananas, Belgian chocolate and never any artificial ingredients or preservatives,” Moore said. Moore said the cupcake flavors rotate on a weekly menu. Employees hand-frost each cupcake and top it with dots or imported sprinkles from France. Customers can...
by Erin Franklin | Mar 14, 2016 | News Slider
Laura Valentine’s name suits her well. Lipscomb sophomore Laura Valentine Lock has a heart full of love for orphans all around the world. The 20-year-old journalism student started Laura-Valentine Ministries when she was just 16 years old. The ministry is a non-profit organization devoted to raising awareness and funding for abandoned children to be adopted into loving homes. The organization is a singing ministry with all of the proceeds going completely to Christian families wanting to adopt. “Doing something that you are passionate about and that is glorifying God will make you 10 times happier because you are doing something that you love,” Lock said. Lock herself was adopted from China and loves telling her parents’ story of adopting her. Before her adoption, her mom had just given birth a year earlier to a healthy baby boy. But one night she felt God calling her to go to China and adopt a baby girl. Lock believes adoption does not have to be only a second option, such as a couple who has not been able to have children. It can also be a first choice, like her story, since her mom could have chosen to give birth to another child later, but she followed God’s call in adopting Lock. Lock likes to refer to her ministry objective as being adopted twice. “I was first adopted into my forever earthly home, and then secondly I was adopted into my heavenly home through the blood of Christ. I want to help as many abandoned children all around the world get adopted twice just like I was.” Lock recalled she had the...
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...
