Dr. Robert H. (Bob) Orner has been named the Dean of Students at Reformed Theological Seminary’s Orlando campus and will take on those responsibilities on June 1, 2012, when the current Dean of Students, Scott Redd, becomes the president of RTS’s Washington, D.C., campus. Read the Article.
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Killing time on a 12-hour van ride, the college students talked about what else they might have done for spring break. Read the Article.
On behalf of the Covenant College Board of Trustees, Chairman Martin A. Moore announced the selection of Dr. J. Derek Halvorson as the sixth president of Covenant College. Dr. Halvorson’s tenure will begin on July 1, 2012. Read the Article.
Mission to North America’s (MNA) Special Needs Ministries has just released a DVD series, Same Lake Different Boat: Coming Alongside People Touched by Disability. The series is based on Stephanie Hubach’s 2006 book, Same Lake Different Boat. Read the Article.
For the last 10 years, the PCA’s Christian Education and Publications (CEP) Committee and Mission to North America (MNA) have called churches to 50 Days of Prayer for the denomination’s General Assembly. Read the Article.
The Rev. William Iverson would like to see the vision for starting ethnically diverse congregations spread throughout the PCA. So he’s helping to coordinate a special PCA-DNA Conference — “Out of Our Comfort Zones and Into the World” — scheduled for April 25-28 at the Ridge Haven Conference Center in Brevard, N.C. Read the Article.
MNA and CEP first teamed up for the Mercy Conference 10 years ago. Leaders of both organizations felt their goals lined up nicely. Read the Article.
Dr. Scott Swain, currently associate professor of systematic theology at Reformed Theological Seminary in Orlando, has been approved and appointed the academic dean starting June 1, 2012, while continuing to teach. Read the Article.
Overture 8, from Rocky Mountain Presbytery, seeks to amend Rules of Assembly Operation (RAO) 11-5. Read the Article.
Overture 9, submitted by Rocky Mountain Presbytery, seeks to amend section 14-9 of the Rules of Assembly Operation (RAO). The overture, if approved, would allow the Assembly, by a super majority vote, to “consider a [subsidiary] matter … without having to recommit the original overture to the corresponding Committee of Commissioners. Read the Article.
