Reformed Theological Seminary is pleased to announce the opening of the Nicole Institute of Baptist Studies on its Orlando campus for the 2012-13 academic year.

Rev. Kevin Smith, senior pastor at Pinelands Presbyterian Church in Culter Bay, Fla., will be the new senior pastor at New City Fellowship Church.

The number of retired PCA teaching elders will triple in the next 25 years. One-third of them won’t receive Social Security benefits, and many more haven’t saved for the golden years. That’s why in October the PCA’s Retirement & Benefits, Inc. (RBI) hired David Anderegg.

In the Army, you don’t ever have a home,” explains the Rev. David Myers when asked about his hometown and background. The son of a longtime Army chaplain, Myers, a retired PCA pastor, never stayed in one place for very long.

Tiny Providence Christian College already had been planning for significant growth when it announced a merger with a larger school near Chattanooga, Tenn., last week.

Lamp Post Group — a Chattanooga business incubator managed in part by members of PCA churches — received attention in The Atlantic last fall, and so did a few ventures in which it invests.

Killing time on a 12-hour van ride, the college students talked about what else they might have done for spring break.

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.

Nineteen year-old Nathan Slater can often be seen walking around the University of Mary Washington campus wearing a shirt that reads “MODGNIK.” He’s always ready with an answer to the questions he inevitably gets: “It’s ‘KINGDOM’ spelled backward . . . God’s kingdom is an upside down backwards kingdom.”

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.