by Anna Waites | Mar 28, 2011 | Uncategorized
I was so tired from not having slept nearly at all on Friday night. I had packed, done laundry and finished my last minute shopping with little time left to sleep before time to meet up with the team at 3 a.m. Saturday March 12 Once we got to school to ride the bus out to the airport, my tired eyes weren’t even a concern because I was so excited to be with my team, ready to go for the week. We prayed together over our trip and all of the other groups leaving from Lipscomb to serve God’s grand kingdom in the world. After several hours in airports and on airplanes, we arrived at the Casa Mirage where the girls from the team stayed for the week. I was incredibly excited to get to Cozumel. Being back there after a year was such an incredible feeling; I loved smelling the smells and feeling the breeze that I hadn’t felt since last spring break. Saturday night, we went to the campus of Ciudad de Ángeles and served dinner and smores to the “angels” and the staff there. I was pretty nervous because I didn’t know if any of the kids would remember me from last year. I don’t know why I worried so much. Even though some of them didn’t recognize me at first, the girl that my family sponsors was waiting to greet me with a hug. I also met a boy who had just moved to Ciudad last year. It is amazing to see how God is blessing Ciudad de Ángeles daily. Last year, 8 new angels...
by Allyson Hall | Mar 23, 2011 | Uncategorized
From Nashville, Tenn., to San Quintin, Baja California Norte, Mexico in 19 hours. That might have been the longest day of my life, but where we arrived and the week we experienced made the end well worth the means. This is the fourth time I have gone with Lipscomb on a spring break mission trip to San Quintin, a small town about six hours south of San Diego, Calif. Our trip works with the non-profit called Baja Missions, which has started more than ten churchs on the Baja peninsula. To say this year’s trip started off with a bang would be an understatement. We woke up on our first morning to a tsunami warning, but that didn’t stop us from immediately starting to work with the Iglesia de Cristo en San Quintin. There are three main components to our trip: building a house for a family, visiting the homes of members of the church, and Vacation Bible School (VBS) classes for men, women, teens, and kids. The house visits continue to be the most meaningful part of this mission trip for me. The church members we visit always have huge smiles on their faces when we come to their homes to spend time with them and pray for their families. They are always so inviting and so appreciative of the little amount of time and supplies we give to them. It is there, in their homes, that many long-lasting relationships have been formed with the church members. On Sunday, there was a soccer game between the Mexicans and the Americans. Unfortunately we Americans lost, but it was so much fun...
by Kelsey Durnin | Mar 21, 2011 | News Slider
A recently increasing level of violence at Middle Tennessee State Unievrsity has resulted in injuries, deaths and growing concern among students. Lara Kaplan, a senior from Brentwood majoring in foreign languages at MTSU, has been attending the school since 2006 and, initially, did not feel unsafe on campus. However, the school began the Rave Emergency Alert System that notifies students of potential safety threats via text messages and e-mails, consisting of everything from false alarm reports to the recent stabbing of Tina Stewart. This program has created awareness of the violence that has become more and more apparent. Former MTSU student Josh Gross, who attended the university from 2009-2010 says he received these violence alert messages about once a week. “It was somewhat comforting because the messages were pretty specific about the what, who and where,” Gross said. “But there seemed to be a lot more issues off campus in the student apartments.” Kaplan finds it hard to believe the violence didn’t exist prior to the program, but does believe it has definitely instilled more fear in people knowing that these things were going on. “There has always been violence to some degree in Murfreesboro,” Kaplan said. “But now there have been two shootings, a stabbing, a burglary and shots fired all within a month.” Former Lipscomb student and current MTSU student Anna Taylor doesn’t feel nearly as safe on the campus in Murfreesboro as she did when she attended school in Nashville. “At MTSU, I feel as though I am constantly checking my surroundings while making my usual 15 minute walk to class,” Taylor said. “I could probably...
by Emily Snell | Mar 10, 2011 | News Slider
Harding University attracted national media attention last week when it blocked a website created by gay students. But Harding, affiliated with the churches of Christ and located in Searcy, Ark., isn’t the only Christian university to be confronted with the issue of gay rights in the last few months. Belmont University in December terminated the contract of the head women’s soccer coach, who is a lesbian; last month the university changed its non-discrimination policy to include “sexual orientation” and has officially recognized the first gay student organization. The issue has prompted discussion of homosexuality, sexual behavior and tolerance among the student body and even in the president’s office at Lipscomb. “Even though we want to be a Christian university, and we seek to be and we are, that doesn’t mean that topics like [sexuality] are inappropriate,” President Randolph Lowry told Lumination. “In fact, they’re very appropriate. And we believe that, in the context of a faith environment, they must be held.” Lipscomb’s student handbook points out that sexual contact, including but not restricted to intercourse, between students is a moral violation and is subject to discipline. Lowry emphasized that this code applies to any behavior—heterosexual or homosexual—and that all sexual contact outside the marriage relationship of husband and wife is “inappropriate and inconsistent with the community we seek to be.” The president said he does not foresee a change in policy but expects that the university will continue “being gracious, being in conversation, being of help and assistance.” Patrick McAnally, a law, justice and society major, said he thinks dialogue about the topic is one benefit of the Harding...
by Aaron Schmelzer | Feb 24, 2011 | News Slider
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