Evangel University has announced dates for the inauguration of Dr. Carol A. Taylor, its fourth president. Events will take place Oct. 9 and 10 during homecoming. The theme for the weekend is “Celebrate: Called to Serve!”
The board of trustees of Reach Beyond (www.reachbeyond.org) announced today that SonSet Solutions, its technology division based in Elkhart, Ind., will become a new independent nonprofit ministry effective Jan. 1, 2015. The move will allow SonSet Solutions to pursue new ministry opportunities while continuing to serve the technology needs of Reach Beyond.
Robert Stearns has been unanimously voted as successor to pastor Jack Hayford’s leadership role at the Israel-Christian Nexus, it was announced Monday. The Nexus is a historic interfaith cooperation organization based in the Los Angeles area.
Athanatos Christian Ministries has been hosting Christian novel contests for more than five years as part of their mission to use the arts to defend the Christian faith. The 2014 grand prize winner is Paul Bennett, who won with his story, “A Fall of Sparrows.” Second place went to Luke Ainsworth for his story, “Everything that Rises.”
Redeemer City to City (CTC) and Reformed Theological Seminary (RTS) are pleased to announce a strategic partnership to provide a seminary education in New York City. This advances the vision of RTS to provide graduate theological education globally and that of Redeemer Presbyterian Church and its founding pastor, Dr. Timothy Keller, who started CTC to prepare ministry leaders, pastors and church planters for New York and cities internationally.
While U.S. President Obama sends ships and troops to West Africa’s Ebola zone, for the first time in its 36-year history, Mercy Ships, operating the world’s largest civilian hospital ship, has canceled a scheduled port–expanding costs, lengthening travel time, reassigning volunteers . . . and saving lives. Fitted solely for surgeries and specific non-disease treatments, and with a volunteer professional crew and staff, the NGO has postponed its intended field services to Guinea and Benin, adjacent to West Africa’s Ebola outbreak, to serve instead in the Republic of Madagascar.
