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Dr. Deborah DeCiantis (English Department) received NGU’s Lamar S. Chapman Award for Meritorious Service by Faculty at the Spring 2016 awards day chapel. DeCiantis has served as a judge for the National Council of Teachers of English Norman Mailer College Poetry Writing contest for the past three years. In addition, Associated Collegiate Press has nominated DeCiantis; Hayley Douglas, instructor for the Art Department; and student editors of the 2016 issue of “The Mountain Laurel,” Tyler Casamassa (’16) and Elizabeth Latzka (’16), for the Individual Design Award in the annual Pacemaker Best of Collegiate Design contest.
History Department faculty members Dr. H. Paul Thomp- son and Dr. Paul Yandle participated in a panel presenta- tion with Carey Latimore, chair of the History Department at Trinity University, titled “The Dangling Conversation: Southern Evangelicals, the Academy, and the Shattered Myth of Post-racial America.” The panel — chaired by Dr. John Turner, associate professor in the Religious Studies Department at George Mason University — was part of the program at the 30th Biennial Meeting of the Conference on Faith and History at Regent University in Virginia Beach, Va. The theme of the 2016 meeting, held Oct. 20-22, was “Christian Historians and the Challenges of Race, Gender, and Identity.”
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For the past two years, NGU’s Office of Develop- ment has held a new annual event that invites local business leaders to learn from their peers on the
topic of Christian leadership in the workplace. At the 2017 Faith at Work Business Symposium, more than 500 busi- ness leaders and students gathered to learn from three guest speakers who lead companies based in Greenville, S.C.: Will Huss Jr., CEO of Trehel Corp.; Kip Miller, CEO of Eastern Industrial Supplies Inc.; and Erik Weir, CEO of WCM Global Wealth LLC.
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GRADUATE SCHOOL OF CHRISTIAN MINISTRY
Dr. Bill Cashion, professor of missions and evangelism, recently led three sessions on “Deacons Helping the Church to Understand Her Responsibilities to Her Pastors” during the Equipping People in Churches (EPIC) Conference of the Saluda Baptist Association in Anderson, S.C. Cashion asks for prayer as he begins service as a trustee of the Rio Grande Bible Institute in Edinburg, Texas. The institute trains church leaders from Latin America and operates a language school for missionaries who serve in Span- ish-speaking countries.
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Dr. Larry McDonald wrote five articles for the “Ency- clopedia of Christianity in the United States,” edited by George Kurian and Mark Lamport and published
by Rowman & Littlefield in November 2016. McDonald’s articles covered the topics of John “Praying” Hyde, the Em- maus Walk movement, Daniel Marshall, The Prayer Revival of 1857-58, and the Worldwide Discipleship Association. McDonald served as interim pastor at Blue Ridge Baptist Church in Greer, S.C., for seven months in 2016. He plans to teach a Doctor of Ministry seminar on discipleship and spiritual formation at NGU’s Greer campus in October 2017.
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