Cottonwood Creek Baptist Church in Allen will be the host site for a concert at 7 p.m. Feb. 12 to benefit Texas Baptist Men and the United Methodist Committee on Relief in their efforts to provide ongoing assistance to victims of tornadoes that hit North Texas the day after Christmas. “Hearts for North Texas: Bringing Back the ’70s” is the theme of the concert featuring Texas Baptist Men and the United Methodist Committee on Relief in their efforts to provide ongoing assistance to victims of tornadoes that hit North Texas the day after Christmas. “Hearts for North Texas: Bringing Back the ’70s” is the theme of the concert featuring Connections Band, the Allen Symphony Chorus and members of the Allen Philharmonic Orchestra. Tickets are $20 for adults, $15 for seniors and $10 for youth. They can purchased at the door or ordered here.
William Willimon, professor of the practice of Christian ministry at Duke Divinity School, will deliver the 16th annual T.B. Maston Lectures in Christian Ethics at Hardin-Simmons University’s Logsdon Seminary. Willimon will speak at 7 p.m., Feb. 22, in Logsdon Chapel on “The Challenge of Being an American and a Christian at the Same Time.” He will speak at 9:30 a.m., Feb. 23, at Behrens Auditorium on “Christians as Resident Aliens.” Willimon, pastor of Duke Memorial United Methodist Church in Durham, N.C., is former bishop of the North Alabama Conference of the United Methodist Church and author of more 60 books. Lectures are free and open to the public.
Ryan Crocker, a Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient who was U.S. Ambassador in Lebanon, Kuwait, Syria, Pakistan and Afghanistan during his 37 years in the Foreign Service, spoke Jan. 29 on the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor campus. Crocker, dean and executive professor at the George Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University, challenged students: “Whatever you do in life, get as far forward as you can, as close to the front as you can be. Find your comfort zone and get outside of it.”
Emily Prevost, director of ministry guidance and assistant professor of leadership in the Fred Hale School of Business at East Texas Baptist University, delivered the keynote chapel address in the 2016 Meyer Lecture Series. Prevost spoke in the absence of the scheduled speaker, Peter Greer, president of Hope International, who was unable to travel to Texas due to the blizzard that hit the northeastern United States. ETBU rescheduled Greer to speak April 4.
Wayland Baptist University’s School of Music added two faculty members. Steven Weber, who has spent 24 years as director of choral activities at Amarillo College, was named director of choir and professor of choral education at Wayland. Weber earned his doctorate from Arizona State University in 1992. He also holds master’s degrees from ASU and The Catholic University of America, and a bachelor’s degree from Lebanon Valley College. Carl Rowles was named Wayland’s director of bands and assistant professor of instrumental education. Rowles is interim director of the Monmouth College Wind Ensemble while completing his doctor of musical arts degree at the University of Iowa. He holds a master’s degree from Tennessee Technological University and a bachelor’s from Simpson College.
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