Christian Faculty and Staff Network gathering on 9/1 - Guest speaker: Kim Andrews, Director of Baptist Campus Ministries

Join us on Wednesday, September 8, at 11:45 AM (done by 12:45 PM). We meet at the Baptist Campus Ministries building (University Boulevard and 4th Avenue), and (drum roll!) lunch will be served! At $1 per meal, it's the best meal deal in town. 

Meeting logistics 

We have a guest speaker! Kim Andrews, Director of Baptist Campus Ministries, will tell us about that particular ministry on 9/8. Kim will tell us how BCM serves students and how faculty and staff can help campus ministries. Each semester, we invite representatives from the different campus ministries to tell us about their groups. 

Items of interest 

Food for thought 

From the Theology of Work Project's How to Read the Bible with Workplace Eyes: "But there's quite another way to see an understanding of work in the Scripture. The Bible has a lot to say to us about how to live out our lives. Whether it's through the fruit of the Spirit, whether it's through an understanding of this is how you were to live as people of my kingdom (Matthew, chapter 5), we begin to see that these passages don't really say anything about work, but they say something about life. And if I realize that a large part of my life I'm living out at work, then I start thinking about these passages as: what does it mean to be faithful at work? What does it mean to be patient at work? What does it mean to be humble at work? And so these passages come alive with workplace applications as well." 

Speakers and facilitators

  • Phil Bishop, UA Professor Emeritus, Kinesiology, will share on Building a Legacy that Lasts on 9/15.
  • Jerran Hill will facilitate discussion of a chapter from this semester's book, Crazy Love by Francis Chan, on 10/6.
  • Contact me if you would like to facilitate one of the weekly gatherings. 

Semester schedule. Our semester schedule is at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1f8gdIycPWFZwhs7YFJ0_HW5p1I6ik_LY4NaLDkX7Pn8/edit?usp=sharing. 

 

These happened on the day of our meeting

  • 70. Jerusalem surrendered to the besieging  Roman army under Titus after five months. It was the decisive event of the First Jewish-Roman War instigated by rebellion against Roman rule and taxation.
  • 1636. Puritans in Massachusetts founded Harvard College, our first institution of higher education, to train ministers.

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