In August of 2000 we started Heritage with just five kindergarteners and ended the year with ten children. Each year we have added a grade and this past May 2010 graduated our first 8th grade class. Our graduates have been accepted at the best magnet public schools and highest achieving private preparatory schools. Our enrollment... Continue Reading

For hundreds of years, whites enforced segregation, and blacks adjusted to it. Unfortunately, this is basically where we are ecclesiastically. During slavery, whites had church on the main floor of a building, and blacks—when they were allowed in—went to the balcony. Eventually, blacks formed their own churches, and nobody seemed to care. We “circled the... Continue Reading

Police in Beaver County have ended their search for a missing Geneva College student but are continuing to conduct interviews of friends and family today. Search called off for Geneva College student Torsten Ove, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Devon Minor, 19, of Clifton Heights, near Philadelphia, was last seen on the Beaver Falls campus on Thursday. His family... Continue Reading

Covenant College will celebrate its 56th commencement on Saturday, May 7, 2011, and pastor Kevin DeYoung will deliver this year’s commencement address. A prolific author and blogger, DeYoung has been senior pastor of University Reformed Church in East Lansing, Michigan, since 2004. He is the author of five books, including Why We’re Not Emergent and... Continue Reading

The Office of Dr. David Norman, President of Erskine College and Seminary, announced that Dr. Stephen D. Lowe, Sr. has been appointed Interim Executive Vice President for the seminary to replace Dr. Neely Gaston who resigned on Thursday. Here is the text of that announcement from Dr. Norman: I have asked Dr. Stephen D. Lowe,... Continue Reading

The refugees are among more than 40,000 Bhutanese exiles who have migrated out of camps in Nepal over the past three years. The exodus, overseen by the United Nations, has dispersed a stateless people across dozens of cities in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Europe. Of all the wonders the Mainali family... Continue Reading

The UN estimates that 810,000 Haitians continue to sleep outdoors. One reason: Of $8.36 billion pledged in aid commitments by donor nations last March, less than $3 billion has been received. The good news: About 690,000 people have been moved off the streets to new temporary or permanent housing, and of those most have adequate... Continue Reading

Editor’s Note: One of our semi-regular bloggers, Iain Campbell, pastor of the Free Church of Scotland congregation on the Isle of Lewis in northwest Scotland. This past week he attended – along with 1/3 of the ministers in the Free Church – a continuing education event (they call it ‘in-service’) at the Free Church College... Continue Reading

“We were selected to provide service to the school, and within a month we had equipment in, services provisioned, and students online. Brocade was a huge part of simplifying the process.” In an effort to support electronic learning initiatives on and off its campus, a small college in rural South Carolina will be overhauling its... Continue Reading

Each day was made up of four hours of classroom work with our professor in the AM, followed by three hours of lab work (back in that day, it was tapes and earphones). Needless to say this was full immersion. Prior to being commissioned as an Officer in the Chaplain Corps of the United States... Continue Reading