INTERIM PRESIDENT’S LETTER Randall Pannell
Letter from Interim President Dr. Randall Pannell
We have often heard that our faith is not only about the destination, but even more about the journey. I see our journey similarly to what the Lord says in Isaiah 43:18-19a: “‘Do not cling to events of the past or dwell on what hap- pened long ago. Watch for the new thing I am going to do. It is happening already — you can see it now!’”
NGU’s journey has an incredible past and foundation. How- ever, the Lord is not calling us to live in that past. His in- tention is still to do something new, something more! Just as the Old Testament prophets looked ahead to the Lord’s Anointed One, they were not merely predicting something that would happen; they built on what the prophets before them had envisioned, an advent of someone greater, ever increasingly greater.
Our mission continues full steam ahead! We are called as a community to offer an exceptional education of excel- lent academic programs, founded on a biblical worldview and focused on serving the Lord and impacting others by serving them.
But the Lord has brought us to a place to do something new, to continue our journey of 125 years, to take our next step into the Lord’s future for us. We are poised at this moment to take the next step, which is not really different, but more and fuller. It is time to “sing a new song to the Lord” (Psalm 98:1) by building on the wonderful things He
has done by His own power! I see a time ahead for new things — not so much a different kind of new, but a more and fuller kind of new!
This next step also begins a new leadership era at the university. Whenever the Lord does a new thing, it is often accompanied by a leadership change. The focus is on the benefit to others of that leadership. The Lord’s timely lead- er is a signal to those he will lead that the Lord has more in store for the community’s mission.
I have been honored to witness what the Lord is doing in our midst. And I truly hope that you, the NGU family, are sensing that the Lord intends to do something in us, some- thing for us, and something through us in the days ahead. It is not too often that we get to witness what the Lord is on the verge of doing next!
Blessings and peace,
Randall J. Pannell Interim President
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