Guyana Christian University graduates ten preacher students

August 26, 2011

by Glenda Williams, BNc correspondent

LETHEM, Guyana (BNc)  — Graduation ceremonies were held July 13, for ten graduating students of Guyana Christian University, Lethem, Guyana. Tom Holland, President of GCU, traveled to Guyana and delivered the commencement address.

Approximately 75 were in attendance for the graduation ceremony and the reception for the graduates, family and friends. Read more

Scott Gleaves named Faulkner Univ. Assistant Dean

July 20, 2011

Christian collegeMONTGOMERY, Ala. (BNc) – Dr. G. Scott Gleaves has been named Assistant Dean of the V. P. Black College of Biblical Studies of Faulkner University.

For four years, Scott was the preaching minister at Granny White church, Nashville, Tenn. His last Sunday at Granny White was July 17.

During the evening service, Dr. Gleaves was presented a Faulkner Eagle statue by Dr. Ernest Clevenger. The eagle had been presented to Clevenger when he was the academic dean in 1977.  In the presentation Clevenger asked Gleaves to “take the eagle back home.” Read more

Faulkner locks down after threat

December 4, 2009

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (BNc) – Faulkner University locked down its campus yesterday, Dec. 3, after a threat appeared on Facebook, a social networking site on the Internet.

A parent who had gone to campus for an event wrote on Facebook that he was told a “student [had] threatened to shoot some people.” Read more

Magnolia Bible College to close

August 28, 2009

KOSCIUSKO, Miss. (BNc) — Magnolia Bible College will close its doors on Dec. 17, according to the school’s website. The decision was made Aug. 19 by the board of trustees.

The 33-year-old Bible training school cited as the cause of the forced closure financial pressures from the trend of decreasing enrollment, escalating costs and lack of donations and revenues. Read more

Guyana Christian University graduates first class of ten

August 10, 2009

gcufinal09graduates3 LETHEM, Guyana (BNc) – Jerry O. Davidson, missionary to the Amerindian villages in Guyana, South America, since 1999, reports that the school’s first graduation, held on July 3, 2009, was a success.

Ten Amerindians received diplomas for their two years of concentrated Bible study.

All of the graduates will be preaching in the Amerindian villages, some returning to their own villages. Read more

Faulkner lectureship chooses hope theme

February 24, 2009

faulkerlectures2009MONTGOMERY, Ala. (BNc) – The Faulkner University Bible Lectureship, slated for Mar. 2-5, will highlight the theme, “Hope for a Hopeless World.”

“If ever there was a timely theme this is one,” wrote Faulkner’s Sam Long, in an email. “In time of personal and financial crises where can we go to find hope? God’s Word tells us that there is hope among the storms of life.”

Over 90 different speakers have been scheduled in 101 different sessions. Read more

OC prof John Thompson dies

December 13, 2008

OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. (BNc) — Dr. John Henry Thompson, Oklahoma Christian history professor, died of chronic illnesses. Read more