by Logan Butts | Jul 8, 2014 | News Slider
Update: The arrangements for Jacob Akers’ visitation and funeral are as follows, courtesy of Scott McDowell. Visitation will be on Saturday, July 12, at the Taylor Funeral Home in Dickson, Tennessee, from 2 to 8. Memorial service will be at 2 on Sunday, July 13. The burial will be at Dickson County Memorial Gardens. Original story below. Jacob Akers, a May 2014 graduate from Charlotte, Tennessee, was killed in an auto accident Monday night. Senior Vice President for Student Life Scott McDowell notified students of Akers’ death via email Tuesday afternoon. A molecular biology major, Akers, 22, had plans to attend Lincoln Memorial University in the fall for medical school. He had also proposed to his girlfriend on the Fourth of July. Kyrsten Turner, a fellow May graduate from Lipscomb, spoke on why she was glad to know Akers. “From the very start, Jacob was never afraid to ask a question or to speak out for what he believed to be right. He had a true, servant heart, and it was evident by his attitude that Christ was forefront in his life,” Turner said. “Jacob is going to be missed so, so much.” In a statement released to the Lipscomb community, McDowell shared his condolences on behalf of the university. “We were deeply saddened to learn of that May 2014 Lipscomb University Graduate Jacob Akers lost his life in an automobile accident,” McDowell said. “Please lift the family up as well as his fiancé, Savannah Grant, in your prayers.” A prayer service, hosted by Lipscomb’s department of biology, was held Tuesday night on the front steps of the McFarland Hall of Science. Additional reporting by...
by Colleen Casner | Jul 2, 2014 | News Slider
Summer Celebration keynote speakers Rick Atchley and Shon Smith called audience members to examine their sin and recommit to God at Tuesday morning’s gathering in Allen Arena. The messages, based on Joshua 7-8, were just two of the ten keynote messages Summer Celebration attendees heard over the course of the event. Rick Atchley (to the right), minister at Hills Church of Christ in North Richland, Texas, related Joshua 7 to the problem of sin within the church and how the sins of the individual affect the group as a whole. “Would we please stop ranting about what’s wrong in Hollywood and what’s wrong in Washington,”Atchley asked. “It’s not a shock to heaven when sinners sin. Let’s stop criticizing the sins of others and start dealing with our own.” Atchley’s message spoke poignantly to Samantha Davis of Americus, Georgia. An active member of her church community, Davis said her biggest takeaway was that “sometimes, we tend to forget that we have to fix ourselves before we can reach out to others.” Shon Smith, the minister at Naperville Church of Christ in Naperville, Illinois, focused his message on the temptation to live apart from God and the need for Christians to recommit to living godly lives. “There is a nasty tendency for us to drift,” Smith said. “Any amount of drift, however slight, if it goes on long enough, eventually you find yourself miles away from the person you desired and committed yourself to be.” Smith compared the Israelites’ need to redefine themselves as God’s people in Joshua 8 to Christians’ need to recommit to God to avoid drifting. “The message...
by Colleen Casner | Jun 27, 2014 | News Slider
With a vast array of programs, Lipscomb’s Summer Celebration has something for everyone. Campus is about to get a lot busier in the next few days as it gears up for Summer Celebration, an annual three-day lectureship, beginning on Sunday, June 29. Summer Celebration features messages from 10 keynote speakers, various worship services, a movie series, an a cappella singing festival, children’s activities and more than 100 classes to choose from. All of these programs are free, although visitors are requested to register. This year’s theme is “Reviving the Mission: Insights from Joshua.” Summer Celebration culminates on Tuesday evening with a family picnic, a concert from the Annie Moses Band and a fireworks display on the Allen Arena Mall. Last year’s event brought more than 2000 people to campus. This will be the first Summer Celebration for Kaitlin Shetler, Lipscomb’s Director of Disability Services, who will be teaching a two-part class on disabilities in the church. “I’m looking forward to the collaboration of people coming together from different ministries and letting us know what’s happening with them,” Shetler said. “I’m excited about meeting a lot of different people.” For more information, visit the event’s official website. Photo courtesy of...
by Haleigh Ker | Jun 25, 2014 | News Slider
The Lipscomb community gets a new icy treat next door with Padrino’s Pops. The new paletas shop opened next to the Copper Kettle on Granny White Pike in March. “My family made Popsicles 25 years ago,” said Lorena Cantu, owner of the shop. “We want to make something fresh here in Tennessee.” Cantu wishes to follow her father Geronimo, who started making paletas, also known as Popsicles, in 1978. By following his footsteps, Cantu creates paletas made with fresh fruit daily. There are several choices to choose from once you walk into the colorful store. There’s two different types of paletas, cream or water based. A chalkboard menu is hung on the right wall and lists all the flavors that are available, from strawberries and cream, banana and even cucumber. Another specialty Padrino’s Pops provides is the Agua Fresca, a water and fruit drink that’s heavily popular in Mexico. “It’s like a smoothie without all the heavy cream,” said Lipscomb student Virginia Lodholz, who tried a sample of Piña Colada Agua Fresca. “It’s refreshing.” Cantu wishes to expand the love of the paletas and Agua Frescas. “We want to cater, and we want to open franchises,” Cantu said. “This is our first one, but we want to open more popsicles in Nashville and in other cities.” Visit their website for more...
by Colleen Casner | Jun 12, 2014 | News Slider
Every summer since 2000, high school students from middle and west Tennessee have ventured to Lipscomb’s campus for a three-day journalism camp. From Sunday evening to Wednesday morning, eleven campers took part in journalism classes taught by Lipscomb faculty and students, enjoyed mixers and wrote and photographed their own news stories, the best of which was published on Lumination Network. The camp is co-hosted by Lipscomb’s Department of Communication and Journalism and the Tennessee High School Press Association and is directed by Jimmy McCollum, an associate professor in the department and the head of the THSPA. Unique to this year’s camp, the campers gained their hands-on experience at writing and photographing a news story by covering Lipscomb’s BisonBot Robotics Camp for students in fourth through sixth grades. McCollum came up with the idea to take the camp beyond simply having the campers interview and write stories about each other and instead giving campers a real story to work on that could potentially be published on Lumination. “Now, they can show the fruits of their labor to their friends and family back home and say, ‘Hey, I was a reporter. Here’s my article. Here’s my news story. Here’s my newscast for all the world to see,’” McCollum said. In addition to covering the robotics camp, campers attended the different classes that were geared to the aspects of journalism that interest campers the most. Jai Cosey, a rising junior, especially enjoyed McCollum’s newswriting class. “Mr. Jimmy’s fun,” she said. Cosey originally discovered through poetry that she enjoyed writing and is now interested in newswriting, as well as possibly working on her...
