by Hunter Patterson | Jan 20, 2011 | News Slider, Sports
Miguel DaSilva, a former forward for the Lipscomb Bisons soccer team received three offers to go overseas and play professionally. That is not the story though. The story is where DaSilva chose to go play. DaSilva received offers from Finland, Portugal and his home country Angola. That last offer made his decision a lot easier. He signed with Santos FC of Angola in December and is expected to begin play with the club this month. Miguel first arrived in the states in 2001, just a day before the attacks of 9/11. Since arriving that day, he has not returned back to what he used to call home. “I always knew inside of me that I wanted to go back home once I graduated college,” said DaSilva, who earned his degree in international business last month. “When the deal was offered to me back home, (you) couldn’t imagine how excited I was. My family is there, friends, people that I miss daily and I haven’t seen them for about 10 years. I think that’s the place God wanted me to go.” Although he fought with injuries during his time at Lipscomb, DaSilva still posted 32 goals and 28 assists over four seasons. He tied for the team lead with eight goals last season, became the first Lipscomb player to earn all-region honors, and has prompted his coaches to call him the best player in Lipscomb’s history. Now it’s time to return to where life began, time to reconnect with family he hasn’t seen in a decade. “My mother never really saw me play when I grew up, so that’s one...
by Aaron Schmelzer | Jan 18, 2011 | News Slider
There are plenty of things going on the rest of the week to get involved with. Be entertained by Zach Brantley, check out Alpha Phi Chi and friends as they entertain the masses during Anteater’s Ball or go caving. It’s all part of this week’s Lipscomb in Motion! Thursday: Coffee House in Starbucks: Free Drinks and Music by Zach Brantley Friday: Anteater’s Ball Saturday: Anteater’s Ball Cave Trip Sunday: Come to ARLOs to watch the NFL Playoff Games **Be on the look out for more information on Running of the Bison this coming...
by Leah Raich | Jan 18, 2011 | News Slider
New York City holds a different place in the hearts of this year’s winter break mission trip participants, after having seen the city in a different light than most tourists.. Coby Davis, assistant professor of education, along with 15 students and 2 alumni traveled to The Big Apple with a unified purpose: service before self. In a city, or shall I say, City, with so many distractions and tourists traps, it is rather easy to overlook the needs of the people who live there. The majority of our time was spent at P.S. 179, a school in the Bronx, one of the five boroughs of New York City. This school serves pre-kindergarten through fifth grade. I had the opportunity to be a teacher’s aide in a third-grade class. My goal was to foster good relationships with my students, in hopes that they would feel comfortable talking and reading to me and asking for help as needed. Although I have been on several other mission trips to Mexico, Honduras and Africa, this was my first chance to work with this age group. Was it challenging and frustrating at times? Certainly. Would I go back tomorrow? Absolutely. Another aspect of our trip included service projects at both World Vision and Momentum. World Vision is an international evangelical relief and development organization whose primary objective is to “promote human transformation, seek justice and bear witness to the good news of the Kingdom of God.” This organization receives school supplies, clothing, food commodities and medicine from vendors across the world that seek to engage in the act of giving to the less fortunate....
by Emily Snell | Jan 17, 2011 | News Slider
Protesters stood in the cold outside Allen Arena. But this wasn’t a typical demonstration. Students re-enacted protests against integration before chapel last Thursday, Jan. 13, in recognition of a visit from Freedom Riders who are here observing the 50th anniversary of their historic stand for civil rights. Dr. Bernard LaFayette, a civil rights activist, spoke to the student body in the arena before joining two fellow Freedom Riders, Etta Simpson Ray and Mary Jean Smith, for a session in Shamblin Theatre. LaFayette said the purpose of the Freedom Rides was not simply to desegregate the bus system. As part of the Freedom Rides, Americans from the North and the South banded together in an effort to change segregation that was still in pratice in the transportation industry. The riders were “combating the false notion” that black people were inferior to white people, LaFayette said. According to the riders, their decision to participate in the non-violent activities did not come easily. They knew that violence was a common response when the buses arrived in various cities. They said they had to consider their own safety and the safety of their families when choosing if they should go on the trip. “I was supposed to go all along, but I was stubborn,” Smith said, explaining that she resisted getting involved for quite some time. When they stopped in various cities along the journey south, many of the riders were beaten. Most were arrested and imprisoned. Some, like Smith and Ray, were expelled from their universities. “We could not avoid the violence,” LaFayette said. “There was not an easy way to make this happen....
by Aaron Schmelzer | Jan 13, 2011 | Opinion
I like to catch up with friends at the end of the Christmas holidays. I often ask them, “What did you do over the holidays? ” With that question, my friends most often respond with the same answer. “Nothing much. Just spent time with family, you know.” They then follow up with the same question I asked them. I respond by telling them: “You know, I did the same thing. Oh, but I did do something a little different this year. I went to Peru on a mission trip.” I had been to Peru before– last June on vacation with a fellow Lipscomb student and great friend Joel Collao, who is also from Peru. I was privileged to be able to return on January 2nd with a group from Lipscomb on a mission trip to Lima, the capital of Peru that I had visited before. While the heart of Lima, the Plaza de Armas, retains its colonial architecture and is quite beautiful, outside of the colonial center is also outside “tourist country.” However, outside is where the real heart and culture of Lima lie. That is from where the real Peruvians come, but the real Peruvians are also often the people that need the most help both spiritually and physically. We went to Lima to create a VBS for the children and families that attend or live near the Iglesia de Cristo de Lucyana (Lucyana Church of Christ). Several members of the church welcomed our arrival with a large homemade sign and songs. The same members helped us throughout the week in breaking through the language and culture barriers....
