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NONPROFIT ORG FALL 2020 U.S. POSTAGE PAID LANCASTER, PA PERMIT NO. 1242 901 Eden Road Lancaster, PA 17601 lbc.edu Learn more about online, undergraduate and adult education programs in a variety of marketable fields at lbc.edu/online. 2 ECHO Contents FALL 2020, Volume 20 | No. 1 This magazine is produced three times a year to provide students, alumni, parents, friends and donors with news from the institution, articles 4 20 connecting our readers with our community and features on relevant Christian thought. The President Speaks A Lifetime of Learning MISSION STATEMENT Lancaster Bible College | Capital Seminary & Graduate School exists to educate Christian students to think and live a biblical worldview 6 22 and to proclaim Christ by serving Him in the Church and society. Right at Home: “He Became a Second Meet Shannan Kiedis VISION Dad to Me” Lancaster Bible College | Capital Seminary & Graduate School will be a premier learning community that intentionally develops the head, heart and hands of servant ministry 10 24 leaders for global impact. ‘College Wasn’t for Her’ Faculty ACCREDITATION Accredited through the Middle States Commission on Higher Education and the Association for Biblical Higher Education 12 Commission on Accreditation, LBC | Capital is 30 also approved by the Pennsylvania Department Taking a Biblical Worldview Athletics of Education and the Association of Christian into a Broken World Schools International. LBC | Capital is approved to operate in Pennsylvania, Florida and Maryland. LBC | Capital is authorized to offer online programs in all states where our online 32 students reside. 14 EDITORIAL COMMITTEE Blooming Where He’s Planted Graduation Thomas L. Kiedis, Ph.D., D.Min. PRESIDENT Judy Heckaman, B.S. (‘97) ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT 16 34 Q&A with Dr. Tanya Solomon Keith Baum, B.A. (‘18) Alumni DIRECTOR OF MARKETING COMMUNICATIONS Daniel Spanjer, Ph.D. CHAIR OF THE ARTS & SCIENCES DEPARTMENT 18 Karen Perago, B.S. (‘85) 39 MARKETING & ECHO PRODUCTION MANAGER Capturing Passion Into The Best Days Are Ahead Amy Mongiovi, M.A. a Career at Kodak MANAGING EDITOR & CONTENT CREATOR Saundra Hess, B.A. (‘19) CONTENT CREATION SPECIALIST COVER: Paulette McPherson (’18 & ’20) uses her LBC | Capital degrees to counsel patients, doctors The perspectives of the author(s) do not necessarily and nurses during a worldwide pandemic. This represent the perspectives of Lancaster Bible College | edition of The ECHO highlights LBC | Capital alumni Capital Seminary & Graduate School. who are also using their post-graduate degrees to impact the world. Photo by Sara Vars 717.569.7071 lbc.edu READ THE ECHO ONLINE Find current and past issues at lbc.edu/echo. ECHO 3 hen the wife of Winston Churchill’s First, without being overly dramatic, I wonder if doctor asked him which year of his 2020 is our 1940? A global pandemic. Crumbling life he would want to re-live, Churchill economies. Racial tensions. Multi-trillion-dollar W replied: “Nineteen-forty every time. stimulus packages. Political angst. For LBC | Capital Every time.” and hundreds of other colleges and universities, unparalleled challenges in higher education. Tight I find it fascinating that Churchill chose his most budgets, furloughs, layoffs and students having difficult year as his repeat year. Churchill became second thoughts about college. Prime Minister of Great Britain on May 10, 1940. He took the helm after years of British appeasement Second, like Churchill and like Paul, LBC | left Great Britain in a perilous position. Hitler and Capital remains immovable. Immovable in our “Immovable Nazi Germany seemed invincible. Nations fell like commitment to biblical integration, immovable in dominoes before them: Austria, Czechoslovakia, our commitment to a “student-first” orientation, is a word that Poland, Denmark, Norway, Belgium, Holland, immovable in being a leader in biblical higher doesn’t take a lot Luxembourg and France all bowed to the education and immovable in our efforts toward Third Reich. a diversity and unity that reflects God’s vision of explanation. described in Revelation 7:9-10. The United States, refusing to send its boys Immovable people into battle, stood on the sidelines, leaving Great Despite hardships and setbacks and uncertainties, Britain to fight alone for freedom in Europe. In we will continue to do what we have done since do not change their June 1940, more than 350,000 British and French 1933: “Educate Christian students to think and live status. They stay soldiers were stranded on Dunkirk. Nightly a biblical worldview and to proclaim Christ by bombings wreaked havoc on London. Death and serving him in the Church and society.” In many the course even destruction reigned. Britain was ill-prepared. Guns, ways, there has never been a more important ammunition, tanks, battleships and especially time for us to pursue our mission with the “always if it means airplanes were all in short supply. And that was abounding” mindset to which Paul refers. the year Churchill wanted to repeat?! standing ALONE.” Third, and perhaps most important, we part from The theme he chose for the second volume of the great statesman on where we place our hope his history of World War II was “How the British and where we draw our strength. As much as I people held the fort ALONE till those who hitherto admire Winston Churchill’s resolve, his resolve was had been half blind were half ready.” his source of strength. Churchill, no doubt raised Churchill, facing the might of Nazi Germany, up by God for his role (Daniel 4:25, 32), did not rely illustrated a word God expects of his people: on God in his role. Christianity was a crutch. Fate Immovable! dictated the affairs of men. Writing to the church of Corinth, the Apostle Paul Against this background, we have the amazing penned these words, “Therefore, my beloved words of the prophet Elisha who, encouraging a brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always king facing his own daunting challenge, said, “This abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that [challenge] is only a simple thing for the Lord, for in the Lord your labor is not in vain” (1 Corinthians he will make you victorious…” (2 Kings 3:18). 15:58 ESV). I am so grateful to be standing with an amazing Immovable is a word that doesn’t take a lot of team, surrounded by generous friends, all intent explanation. Immovable people do not change on serving mission-fit students, knowing these their status. They stay the course even if it means challenges—which are real and difficult—are a standing ALONE. simple thing for the Lord. As I reflect on Churchill and Paul, three things Are these difficult days? Absolutely! But knowing stand out. He will make us victorious, we stand immovable! 4 ECHO ECHO 5 College | Capital Seminary & Graduate School—excitedly At the time, Tommy was also a student at Mid-South, and but with a few tears, too. the two had a few mutual friends. The young man stood out to Shannan when he stepped into what was called On Monday at 3 a.m., the couple started the 17-hour drive the Koinonia room at the college. Their friends jumped from Florida to Pennsylvania. At this point in their lives, at the chance to introduce Tommy and Shannan, but he very little takes Shannan Kiedis by surprise. didn’t seem interested at the time. After all, he was dating “Everything about our life tends to be an adventure,” someone else, and Shannan said she had to respect that she said. he stayed true to his then-girlfriend. By the time they arrived in Lancaster late that night, the By the time they actually started dating, it was Shannan campus was quiet. The couple got some rest at the nearby who was still playing the field a bit. It’s a long-standing Eden Resort, and Tuesday morning, their life at LBC | Capital family joke that Shannan had a date with another young began. Soon after the official presidential start date of Feb. man the night before Tommy proposed. 1, the Kiedises began to immerse themselves into the LBC | She prepared for her date the next night with Tommy, Shannan Kiedis Settles into Her New Life in Capital culture—getting to know students, faculty and staff. who had impressed her so much over the past 10 months with his passion for life and his commitment to Christ. “The best way to learn about a culture is to listen to Her prayer for a life partner had always been for someone Lancaster and Looks Forward to Immersing people,” Shannan said. “It was beginning that dialogue who would put God first in everything, even if that did with people, getting to know them and getting to know Herself into the LBC | Capital Culture not equal the most successful career but instead a life their hearts.” of service. By Amy Mongiovi After a very busy January and February, they were looking “When you do that, you will always have clothes on your forward to taking a little time off to coincide with LBC | In the spring of 2019, Dr. Thomas and Shannan Kiedis made the back and food on your table,” Shannan said. “God will Capital’s spring break. Three days into the break, however, move many empty-nesters make. With six kids living out of the always provide.” tough decisions had to be made, and the “getting to know house and with families of their own, they downsized you” phase was short-lived. Six weeks after their arrival, For their date that August night in 1980, Tommy had told their Florida home, simplified a bit and packed up LBC | Capital was closed due to COVID-19, students did Shannan he had four surprises—three were gray and one for a summer trip.