PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE My father is an inveterate prankster, and his gentle demeanor often masks his tricks.
Our longtime next-door neighbor, Bill, once planted a couple of pecan trees be- tween our houses and remarked, “It will take years for these trees to yield nuts. You plant them for the future, not the present.”
Dad took this as an opportunity for a prank. Te next year, during nut season, he sprinkled pecans from the store on the ground and watched to see the neighbor’s reaction. Bill picked up a few nuts, looked up in the tree, looked on the ground and saw more pecans, and then kept walking around, trying to figure out what was happening.
What he was missing was the prankster pastor, stealthily sipping coffee on his back porch!
North Greenville’s founders planted our campus for the future back in 1892. Tey had no idea what that future might look like, but they were optimists: they believed in God’s providence and in the transformational power of a Christ-first education. Tey may have planted a boarding school, but in reality, they had founded a univer- sity!
Tey built for the future, a future they did not yet know. Christ, however, knew!
Today, North Greenville University is an institution with a vibrant and optimistic future. In Tigerville, we continue to prepare traditional-aged students for a wide variety of fields. In Greer and online, we focus on empowering adults and profes- sionals to take the next step in their career path.
But NGU is not just about our places; it’s about our people. We are a community of faculty, staff, students, and so many others who seek to serve God in every aspect of what we do. We are co-laborers in His work, as He weaves the redemptive plan He has prepared from the foundation of the world (Eph. 1:3-4). And as we each live out our callings as servant-leaders, we are shaping the future for our churches and our communities.
Together, we are building a future that serves the Christ who makes the difference!
Dr. Gene C. Fant, Jr. President North Greenville University
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