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LANCASTER BIBLE COLLEGE Fall 2014 CONTENTS FALL 2014, Vol. 14 | No. 1 Gap Year Program Helps M Students Make the Most of Their OneLife Explore how the alternative to the traditional first year of college captures a special group of students. 6 Called to Serve: A Reflection on Our Graduates M 18 Hear the exciting stories of the class of 2014. BIBLICAL THOUGHT • 14 ADVANCEMENT • 16 New LBC Partnership ALUMNI UPDATES • 27 M Down Home in Memphis Learn about our strategic UPCOMING EVENTS • 30 partnership with Memphis Center for Urban Theological Studies. COVER: (l to r) Dr. Peter W. Teague, President; lbc.edu Dr. Verley Sangster, former president of CUTS FOR CAPITAL in Philadelphia; Dr. Larry Lloyd, founder of bible.edu 10 Memphis Leadership Foundation; Dr. Rob Thompson, president of MCUTS. This magazine is produced in the fall, winter, spring, and summer to EDITORIAL COMMITTEE provide students, alumni, parents, friends, and donors with news from Peter W. Teague, EdD the institution, articles that connect our readers with our community, PRESIDENT and features on relevant Christian thought. Josh Beers, MABS VICE PRESIDENT FOR ENROLLMENT MANAGEMENT MISSION STATEMENT Philip Dearborn, EdD, ‘90 Lancaster Bible College exists to educate Christian students to think and live a bib- VICE PRESIDENT OF ACADEMIC AFFAIRS & DEAN OF THE FACULTY lical worldview and to proclaim Christ by serving Him in the Church and society. Judy Heckaman, BS ‘97 ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT VISION Cameron Martin, MAM ‘12 Lancaster Bible College will be a premier learning community that intentionally DIRECTOR OF ALUMNI develops the head, heart, and hands of servant ministry leaders for global impact. Karen Perago, BS ‘85 MARKETING & ECHO PRODUCTION MANAGER ACCREDITATION The college is accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education John Zeswitz, BA (MSCHE) and the Association for Biblical Higher Education Commission on EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT| EDITOR Accreditation (ABHE). Elementary Education, Health & Physical Education, Music Education, and MEd graduates are eligible for certification by the Pennsylvania Department of Education (PDE). Graduates of all undergraduate education programs receive private school certification through the Association of Christian Schools International (ACSI). The President Speaks BY PETER W. TEAGUE, EdD [email protected] Being at God,s Right Place at His Right Time It is hard to believe until we pause to reflect—40 years have Paul’s words to Timothy in 1 Timothy 1:12 express our passed. July 1, 2014 marked 40 years to the day that Paulette exact feelings: “And I thank Christ Jesus our Lord who enabled and I began our journey in full-time ministry. That same me, because He counted me faithful, putting me into the evening our Board of Trustees hosted 200 friends at a gala ministry…” event, celebrating the faithfulness of God in our lives. Paul also wrote in 2 Corinthians 3:5: “Not that we are It is difficult to wrap my emotions around words on this competent in ourselves to claim anything for ourselves, but our occasion. So many people made a profound and significant competence is from God.” The presidency of Lancaster Bible impact on our lives these past 40 years. College has always required more than I could provide, and the difference is always made up by the Lord Himself, often This may date me, but the truth is the lyrics of a Bill through a host of friends. Gaither song say it well: German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer once wrote, “In Old friends, after all of these years, just old friends, normal life we hardly realize how much more we receive than through laughter and tears, old friends, what a find, what a we give, and life cannot be rich without such gratitude. It is so priceless treasure, old friends, like a rare piece of gold, my easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements old friends, make it great to grow old, old friends, with all lbc.edu compared with what we owe to the help of others.” I will hold to old friends. bible.edu FOR CAPITAL As I begin my seventeenth year at Lancaster Bible College, I Now God must have known, there’d be days on our recognize it is one matter to be a teacher and leader for others, own, we would lose the will to go on, that’s why He sent, but quite another to be a mentor—someone who has earned friends like you along. the opportunity to become a trusted counselor, personal coach, Old friends, you’ve always been there, my old friends, and guide; one who is privileged to play a significant role in we’ve had more than our share, old friends, we’re all shaping another’s life. That is an entirely different level of help. millionaires, in old friends. I am so blessed in this stage of my life and ministry to live up close and personal with students, providing hands-on guidance As if that were not enough cause to celebrate, July 1 also and correction, or affirmation in face-to-face encounters. My marked 15 years to the day the Lancaster Bible College Board 40 years of ministry has given me many open doors to be a of Trustees held a reception in our honor to welcome us into mentor and friend to a new generation of leaders. the presidency! The presidency of a Bible college today is a unique job, to say My identity with Lancaster Bible College, which has spanned the least! I have met some very interesting people, promoted 25 years—9 as trustee, 1 as academic dean, and 15 as president, some big ideas, and affected the lives of countless students. I provided a passport to respect and appreciation among friends have had a front row seat watching students and their families around the world, which I could never individually deserve. live dreams that are limited only by their imaginations. Paulette and I have often reflected that we were at the right place at the right time, and when we are at God’s right place at With the passage of time—40 years now—I increasingly K God’s right time, great things can happen. recognize that the job is a limited term engagement. I must fall 2014 | 1 “Last week I receive the Peterson commemorative issue of Echo. I actually read the entire K The President Speaks continues magazine, this is a first, not just of Echo, but any alumni make every day I hold this office count. Andy Stanley says it this way: “Leadership is a temporary stewardship.” The price has always been worth the magazine. It was a nice tribute. I cost to lead. A.W. Tozer reminds us: “Life is a short and fevered rehearsal for went to college with Gil’s sister at a concert we cannot stay to give. Just when we appear to have attained some proficiency we are forced to lay our instruments down. There is simply not Northeastern Bible College.” time enough to think, to become, to perform what we are capable of. How Robert F. Davis, consultant completely satisfying to turn from our limitations to a God who has none. Eternal years lie in His heart. For Him time does not pass, it remains; and those who are in Christ share with Him all the riches of limitless time and “Just spent a quiet time reading endless years.” the tributes to Dr. Peterson Institutions of biblical higher education are one of the most unique in the May Echo. It is quite a institutions remaining in and influencing our society. Serving Lancaster Bible College and her students, faculty, and staff remains an honor for which testimony and it really can serve I am profoundly grateful. And the friends added along the way are pretty as a type of devotional. Well incredible. Friendship is one of the sweetest joys of life, and Paulette and I are done.” so grateful for the many good friends God has sent us. Stu Levey, trustee As I look forward to many more years of serving Christ, this close-up view of the passing years reminds me of a quote by C.S. Lewis: “We long for more, and the promise of God is that there is more beyond us, and still more awaiting us, more to delight us than we will exhaust, for the fountainhead of joy is our inexhaustible God.” Gratefully, through friends like you, @ LETTERS to the Editor We invite our readers to submit letters to the editor, comments, or suggestions to the President's Office by email at Years of Ministry [email protected] or by mail to 901 Eden Road, Lancaster, PA 17601-5036. 2 | echo {NEWS} Education Majors Take Their Ideas to the Classrooms GROUP (from left): n April 4, 2014, seven pre-service teachers in the Education Department collaborated Jonathan Reynard ’16, O Sarah Heilenman ’16, with Jason Zimmerman ’12 and his fellow fourth grade teachers at Fritz Elementary Emily Timberlake ’16, School, Lancaster, in a day focused on simple machines. LBC students designed the Brittany Judd ’14, Jessica lessons for each simple machine station, gathered the supplies for hands-on learning, Crist ’15, Julia Hershey ’98 and taught the information with enthusiasm and professionalism. Afterward they shared (chair, Education Dept.), their comments about the day: Rob Kuhmer ’15, Jason Zimmerman ’12 “I enjoyed preparing for lessons that I was actually going to teach and working with (classroom teacher). @ teachers and students to make it happen.” “The day exceeded expectations and delivered on its goals of giving the students a fun day while giving LBC students experience.” “The day was definitely a great success in helping me become a better teacher.