by Janice Ng | Feb 20, 2015 | News Slider
Sarah McGee and Carly Bergthold lead this week’s Lumination News, giving the latest on the icy weather that took Nashville and Lipscomb by storm. Ice and snow covered campus earlier in the week, calling for canceled classes and activities. Leslie Newman has more on how the campus handled the freezing temperatures. If you spent the snow days on the Internet, you might have noticed that several websites are blocked. Sarah McGee breaks down how Lipscomb’s Information Security controls what students can and cannot access on the web. Lumination also features a look at Nashville’s refugee population, and a look to warmer weather with Lipscomb’s spring break mission plans. Erin King has weather updates, Mignonne Bryant provides a mix of world news headlines and Katherine Harris delivers the most recent Hollywood buzz. Do you have story ideas? An event you want us to cover? Email our News Director at...
by Travis Byrd | Feb 26, 2014 | News Slider
The clock is ticking, but it is still not too late to sign up for a spring break mission trip. Lipscomb will be sending out eighteen mission teams all over the globe this spring break. Missions coordinator Paul Stevens says there is still time for students to sign up and participate. “Students can still sign up,” Stevens said. “Our trips are not full. There is still time to get involved.” With spring break only about two weeks away, many students think they have missed their shot at going on a trip, but Stevens says that is not the case. “We have had students sign up two or three days before the trip in years past,” Stevens said. “Lipscomb wants as many students to go that can.” Many mission teams have been meeting over the last few months to prepare for their trip, but students who still want to go should not let their lack of preparation keep them from going. “We have had teams meeting for months now,” Stevens said. “This has allowed them to grow together as a team and find out how well they will be able to work together. If there is room and the student has the capability to go, then we want them to.” Students may be wondering, “How do I get started this process started? Where do I go to check to see if trips are open?” Stevens says he recommends that students check out the university’s spring break missions page for trip availability. “All the mission teams are listed there and if the trip says it is open, then there is space, but some will say close...
by Brianna Langley | Feb 25, 2013 | News Slider
Expansion, more locations and even a church plant loom in the future for The Well Coffeehouse, which, for eight months, has provided a place for people to enjoy good coffee. Originally founded by Lipscomb professor Rob Touchstone and Chris Soper, The Well — located at 2025 Richard Jones Road in Green Hills — is a nonprofit ministry designed to share love and nurture the feeling of community in Nashville. With outreach efforts ranging from The Wishing Well (a wall in the coffeehouse where people can pin notes expressing specific needs in hopes that someone will read it and be able to help) to an effort that helps fund fresh water wells in Africa, The Well Coffeehouse has provided opportunities for Lipscomb students to get involved with local ministries and nonprofit organizations. “All Lipscomb students can take advantage of partnering with all the nonprofits that we work with right now,” Soper said. “There are five or six different nonprofits we can get you involved with.” The Well has continued to grow through the help of Lipscomb students and the Nashville community. Change seems to quickly be approaching this ministry. “We do have a lot of plans for The Well for the future,” Soper said. “There are a lot of things that we are working on and working towards.” Soon, it may become a place to worship, too. “Yes, there are plans in place to do a church plant in The Well and grow the church through The Well,” Soper said. Besides just planting a church, expansion and even possible relocation have been hinted at by The Well’s leaders. “It is...
by Erin Gupton | Nov 11, 2012 | Uncategorized
Serving at the Cap Haitien Children’s Home in Cap Haitien, Haiti, brings the Lipscomb men’s and women’s track and cross country teams closer as they minister to children in need. “At the end of the day, we won’t remember every 100-meter sprint or every mile we ran with each other. But I will never forget serving with my teammates and my family,” said Alexander McMeen, a junior from Nashville. The teams strive to make service a focus both in Nashville and around the world. They have held mission trips to Los Angeles and Belize City, Belize. But they have recently shifted their attention to Haiti, making it an annual mission trip. The Cap Haitien home was founded in 1988 and hosts about 60 children of all ages. For the past few years Hunter and Jillian Kittrell – two Lipscomb graduates – have taken position as the field administrators. “Our main goal while in Haiti is to use our athletic abilities as a tool for teaching the kids in Haiti and showing Christ’s love through the talents that God has given us,” said Katie Bunker, a junior from Cedarville, Ohio. Every aspect of this trip calls for teamwork, even the fundraising. The teams hosted a 24-hour relay on Friday, Nov. 2, where track and cross country teammates ran for a full 24 hours, switching runners during allotted times. The runners tracked their miles, and people who wanted to help the team raise money donated a certain amount of money per mile. This year, the team ran a total of 160 miles, raising about $2,500 for their trip. “It’s an event...
by Brianne Welch | Oct 24, 2012 | News Slider
Clean drinking water is so often taken for granted, but there are areas all over the world that struggle to get a safe drink of water every day. Safe and clean drinking water has been always been an issue in developing countries around the globe. There are people in countries worldwide who get water-born diseases because they drink, bathe, wash clothes and perform other daily tasks in the same water source. According to Dr. Joe Morgan, the university’s department chair of civil and environmental engineering, engineers are some of the most important people in helping deal with the clean water crisis in the world. ”Typically engineers that are helping people have access to clean water would work with local or national populations to try and help folks look at available sources,” he said. Safety for the communities is the key issue for engineers who are helping develop clean water systems. “We have to analyze and know what is the best plan for meeting the needs of the community,” Morgan said. “We decide which technology may or may not be required to make sure the water is reasonably safe.” Morgan said for communities who only have one water source for the entire area, the solution may be very simple. “A lot of times, all that is really required is just to put in a well.” Morgan said, explaining that putting in a working well can greatly enhance the water quality of a community that uses the same water source for everything they do. Not only do engineers help with the building process of wells and treatment plants. Morgan said they are also very...
