ETBU college students host fall festivals

East Texas Baptist College’s Studying and Main lessons hosted fall festivals for all 5 of Marshall ISD’s elementary colleges on Oct. 10. The autumn festivals at David Crockett Elementary, Sam Houston Elementary, William B. Travis Elementary, Worth T. Younger Elementary and Marshall Early Childhood Heart College served about 1,000 elementary college students and their households. “Internet hosting these fall festivals is an effective way for our college students to work collectively as a workforce to learn their group in areas the place they’re already serving individually,” stated Elizabeth Ponder, ETBU assistant provost. “College students in every class tackle management roles to plan, construct and host a wide range of cubicles to offer a enjoyable occasion for folks and college students to interact with their faculty. We hope that by the autumn festivals, our college students study to search for ways in which they’ll positively affect their communities.” Annually, the ETBU freshman class plans and organizes the autumn festivals throughout their Studying and Main programs and the freshman honors program by organising cubicles and planning video games and prizes.

Howard Payne College’s departments of social work and of Spanish and Hispanic research are partnering with Buckner Worldwide to gather sneakers for weak youngsters throughout the globe. The shoe drive continues by Nov. 2 with donation bins positioned in varied buildings on the HPU campus. In 2020, HPU and Buckner Worldwide launched a collaboration to present college students alternatives for ministry and repair. “The HPU/Buckner shoe drive is one other instance of how the collaboration we solid two and a half years in the past continues to assist serve weak youngsters and households in Texas and internationally,” stated Albert Reyes, president and CEO of Buckner Worldwide. “Buckner Footwear for Orphans Souls is one among our hottest applications, as a result of it permits anyone individual to make a tangible affect within the life of a kid by the easy reward of a brand new pair of sneakers. And if you contain your entire scholar physique at a passionate, service-driven college like Howard Payne, the likelihood to create actual change is limitless. I sit up for studying what number of youngsters will have the ability to safely stroll to high school and be protected in opposition to damage and illness because of HPU’s college students and their servant hearts.”

Baylor College researchers acquired a $2.5 million grant from the John Templeton Basis for an interdisciplinary venture, “Illuminating Theological Inquiry and Christian Ethics By Coaching in Psychological Science.” A workforce of researchers in psychology, faith and bioethics will discover the right way to sort out complicated issues of human flourishing by coaching theologians to include the strategies and insights of the psychological sciences into their work. Over a three-year interval, the researchers’ venture will equip theologians to answer particular person challenges and alternatives by incorporating the instruments of psychology. Devan Stahl, assistant professor of faith at Baylor and a theological bioethicist is principal investigator. Co-leader of the analysis workforce is Sarah Schnitker, affiliate professor of psychology at Baylor. “The central speculation of this grant is that the Christian theologian has many makes use of for psychological science and shares frequent considerations with psychologists about struggling, advantage improvement and aesthetics,” Schnitker stated. “Based mostly on our integrative mannequin and hypothesized factors of connection, we are going to run a aggressive course of of choosing theologians inside and outdoors Baylor College who’ve experience in these areas and are all in favour of persevering with or broadening their interdisciplinary analysis to incorporate the psychological sciences.” Stahl and Schnitker function a part of the Baylor Ethics Initiative, a group of students and practitioners devoted to important and inventive analysis about how Christian beliefs and practices relate to broader cultural, social, financial and political techniques.

Ordination

Nile Joye as a deacon at South Garland Baptist Church in Garland.

Tommy Louthan as a deacon at First Baptist Church in Hale Heart.