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BAGP THE IPE 1955 2012 C O E V E E G N A N T C O L L THEThursday, September 27, 2012 - Vol. 59.5 14049 Scenic Highway, LookoutBAGPIPE Mountain, Georgia, 30750 bagpipeonline.com Campus All sung out Stewardship by Rebekah Taft For the first time in 40 years, a lord, a lady, and a boar’s head will Committee fail to make an appearance in the Great Hall around Christmastime, as Covenant’s annual Madrigals continues dinner is to be replaced with a Christmas concert that showcases by Garrison Dale the music department more com- prehensively. In last Thursday’s senate meeting, “With this being a year of tran- Student Senate came to the con- sition in the music department, clusion that the Campus Stew- we thought it a good time to offer ardship Committee (CSC) will a different type of Christmas cel- continue as a committee and the ebration,” said Dr. Jeff Hall, Vice recycling program will continue President for Academic Affairs under student direction. and Chief Financial Officer, in In recent meetings, the Senate Covenant College an email to the student body last had discussed the possibility of week. either suspending the CSC’s Inspired by Christmas dinners recycling program or turning the hosted by lords and ladies in the CSC into a club. 16th century, Covenant’s ver- After Thursday’s meeting, A changing chaplain sion of a madrigal dinner began neither of these plans will be put in 1969, when former head of in place. by Rachel Cohen There has been a buzz around set me free.” the music department Dr. John Co-chair of the CSC Marcos campus, particularly following Junior Emily Kuhn remarked, Hamm created the event to give Campbell impressed the Senate Some shocking news reached the chapel each Monday. Although “When I leave chapel, I feel like the music department some iden- with his plan to reconfigure the student body last Friday in an a few students have not per- it has been life-giving and trans- tity. He decided to hold the tick- committee’s leadership. Moti- email from President Halvorson ceived a difference in Chaplain formational.” eted dinner concert in the Great vated by Genesis 1:28, Campbell announcing Chaplain Messner’s Messner, countless others have Other students commented Hall, making use of its castle-like is taking the call to steward upcoming departure. Many up- noticed a drastic change in that Messner is “now preaching atmosphere, where it has been Covenant’s resources seriously. perclassmen have watched Mess- “Messner Mondays.” more from the heart,” and that located ever since. “Marcos put in a lot of effort, ner grow during the time that Senior Sam Bowman shared his messages “seem more heart- “It was kind of like being based on some documentation he he has been at Covenant, but it that he can tell that Chaplain felt and vulnerable” than ever transported back in time for one had not seen before, to come up is likely that few know the story Messner “truly believes and is before. evening,” said Visiting Profes- with an agenda for the CSC this behind the process--a process resting in the truths that he’s While Messner cannot point sor of Music David Long, who year,” said Student Senate Secre- that seems to be at a peak this preaching. Everything he’s been to any drastic personal changes conducted Madrigals at Covenant Continued on page 2News Continued on page 2News Continued on page 3News school year. teaching this semester has really Arts Opinions Sports Mumford Student weighs The Studnut & Son: in on recycling strikes again Babel News: 2 The Bagpipe Vol. 59.5 All sung out “Over the past few years, atten- enant community- Continued from front page dance at the dinners has declined -the students, and the audience included less faculty, and Look- from 2009-2011 as an adjunct and less students, staff and faculty out Mountain professor. members of the college,” said Hall. residents,” said The night traditionally made use The decrease in attendance in Long, who under- of about a dozen student vocalists tandem with this year’s departure stands that many as part of the Madrigals Choir, 10 of Associate Professor of Music Covenant students student instrumentalists as part Dr. Jeanell Brown, who organized could not afford of the Renaissance Consort, and the Madrigals dinners in years the $50 price tag numerous other students servers, past, are reasons for canceling the for Madrigals. all clad in renaissance garb. A lord evening. Still, though and lady led guests throughout the Instead, the music department, Madrigals is gone night’s festivities. under the direction of Professor from Covenant’s “Hamm was very successful,” Long, will put on a Christmas calendar this said Professor Long. “There was concert. The event will make Christmas, it is a time not too long ago when it use of musicians traditionally not necessarily would sell out. People would be involved in the Madrigals din- gone for good. outside in the cold waiting to get ners, but will also involve the “We have not in.” Covenant Chorale, the Brass ruled out attempt- Naomi Belz In those days, Madrigals would Ensemble, and the portions of ing to celebrate sell out at 320 tickets for all three the Orchestra. the Madrigals in the future, visit the idea of holding the event regards to the future of Madrigals nights, but the event has become “We wanted an event that perhaps on an intermittent basis,” in 2013. may be sent to Dr. Hall and the less popular recently. would welcome the whole Cov- said Hall, who says they will re- Any visioning questions in Academic Office. Changing chaplain just can’t get across on paper. that I thought I was doing for Covenant was so the Lord could to pastor a church. One church Continued from front page Over the past several years, it’s God.” work on his heart to show him in particular, Westminster been a process of finding out He continually pressured his where his identity truly is. Presbyterian in Atlanta, asked this summer, he sees this semes- how I communicate most effec- wife, Nancy, to make more and “The big question has been, him to enter into a conversation ter as perhaps the culmination of tively,” said Messner. more sacrifices, which resulted ‘Is my identity fundamentally in with them about the possibility a five-year process. Rhetoric aside, God has in a struggle for the survival of what I can do for Jesus? Or is it of becoming their senior pastor. Prior to coming to Covenant, worked in Messner’s life over the their marriage. One friend in fundamentally in what Jesus has Upon his approval, Messner will Messner served on staff at Tenth past five years. While Messner particular saw Messner hold- done for me?’” Messner said. assume responsibilities there in Presbyterian Church in Philadel- and his family were living in ing onto his theological vision The answer to that question, January 2013. phia, which is a very traditional, Philadelphia, they were the only with “clenched fists,” and urged Messner said, leads to what you Messner described Westmin- established congregation. The white family in one of the poor- him to consider what it would desire for students to get from ster Presbyterian as “a small, style of preaching there followed est and most dangerous neigh- look like to hold that vision with your ministry. When identity lies suburban church in an area a more structured approach. borhoods in the city. He hoped open hands instead. For the sake in what we can do for Christ, surrounded by several different Many of the pastors there would to one day plant a church in that of their marriage, the Messners ministry will be spent trying to demographic groups.” write out entire sermons and neighborhood; he has a huge decided to put church-planting get people to do the stuff we’re While it will be extremely simply read them from the heart for the inner city. on the shelf for a while. doing. When identity lies in hard for him and his family to pulpit. Messner genuinely loved the It was around this time that what Christ has done for us, leave Covenant and Lookout Young pastors often adopt the city and thought that it was a Messner heard about the posi- ministry will be spent helping Mountain, they are very excited style of preaching that they have strategic place for ministry, how- tion at Covenant. President people to understand that truth. about this next chapter of their heard used, and it can take some ever he also selfishly loved what Nielson eventually called Mess- Over the past year, Messner lives. After all that God has time to find out how they best the city could do for him. ner, saying that he would love for has been contacted, rather out been teaching him over the past communicate in the pulpit. “I felt like the city made me him to come work at the college of the blue, by several churches five years, he is eager to bring “I think I’m a better oral com- somebody,” Messner reflected. and Messner accepted. and international organizations his fresh passion for the gospel municator than I am a writer. “My identity very subtly got Messner can now see the main asking him to come and serve. to bear in his new ministry in There’s part of my heart that I wrapped up in the radical things reason that God brought him to Messner has long felt the desire Atlanta.