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COUPLE KEEPS RETURNING TO CARSON-NEWMAN

By Lonnie Wilkey
Editor, Baptist and Reflector

Ron Johnson, a volunteer from Wallace Memorial Baptist Church, Knoxville, paints a handrail on the campus of Carson-Newman University.

Ron Johnson, a volunteer from Wallace Memorial Baptist Church, Knoxville, paints a handrail on the campus of Carson-Newman University.

JEFFERSON CITY — Last year George and Margaret Bradley spent their sixth summer at Carson-Newman University coordinating volunteer missions teams. At the end of the summer they thought they were through. Not so fast.

The Bradleys, members of First Baptist Church, Greeneville, were contacted by C-N officials once again to see if they would serve yet another year, but on a much smaller scale. Instead of the typical two to three months they’ve served over the last six years, only two weeks were needed this year.

“We couldn’t face a summer without coming to Carson-Newman,” laughed Margaret Bradley. “We love coming here,” her husband agreed. [Read more…]

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CARSON-NEWMAN GRAD HONORED BY NATIONAL WMU

By Julie Waters
Baptist Press

Mindy Jamison, center, co-director of the Friendship Baptist Center in Des Moines, Iowa, stands with David George, left, president of the Woman’s Missionary Union Foundation, and Wanda Lee, right, retiring WMU executive director, during the WMU Missions Celebration and Annual Meeting Monday, June 13, in St. Louis. Jamison was the recipient of the 2016 Dellanna West O’Brien Award for Women’s Leadership Development for her work.

Mindy Jamison, center, co-director of the Friendship Baptist Center in Des Moines, Iowa, stands with David George, left, president of the Woman’s Missionary Union Foundation, and Wanda Lee, right, retiring WMU executive director, during the WMU Missions Celebration and Annual Meeting Monday, June 13, in St. Louis. Jamison was the recipient of the 2016 Dellanna West O’Brien Award for Women’s Leadership Development for her work.

ST. LOUIS — Mindy Jamison, co-director of Friendship Baptist Center in Des Moines, Iowa, for the past 17 years along with her husband Jon, is this year’s recipient of the Dellanna West O’Brien Award for Women’s Leadership Development.

“Mindy pours her life into people living in the inner city of Des Moines, and at the same time invites and encourages others to minister alongside her,” said Joni Wilkinson, executive director of Iowa Woman’s Missionary Union and volunteer at the Friendship Center, who recommended Jamison for the award. “She is a mentor to women of all ages and backgrounds and continues to teach about her passion — living out her faith in her community and seeing people living in poverty come to know Christ.”

The Jamisons are well known to many Tennessee Baptists who traveled to Des Moines and worked at the Friendship Center during the decade or so that the Tennessee Baptist Convention partnered with the Baptist Convention of Iowa. [Read more…]

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LAYMAN’S GIFT AIDS C-N PROGRAM

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The McLean Investment Center will be housed in the University's Ted Russell Business Building.

The McLean Investment Center will be housed in the University’s Ted Russell Business Building.

JEFFERSON CITY — Carson-Newman University will soon provide a new valuable learning experience for business majors. A $100,000 gift from Nashville native Steve McLean will establish The McLean Investment Center at Carson-Newman University, scheduled for completion this fall.

Set to be located on the second floor of Carson-Newman’s Ted Russell Business Building, the Center will give students access to powerful computer-based analytical tools and enable them to perform real-time market trades and research as part of 21st Century investing and stewardship. Students will have instant links with international markets and experience a unique style of learning that prepares them for the world stage.

“A synergistic space where students will actually work on investment strategy and management will solidify our finance/economics program as an important discipline at the University,” said Carson-Newman Provost Paul Percy. [Read more…]

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EXHIBIT EXAMINES CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT

Public invited to open house event at Carson-Newman on Sunday, Jan. 31

Carson-Newman News Office

Recent Carson-Newman graduate Darius Childs works with other students in preparing the university’s new “We March with Selma” exhibit. Housed in the Appalachian Cultural Center on Russell Avenue, the exhibit will be the focus of an open house on Sunday, Jan. 31.The display is free and open to the public.

Recent Carson-Newman graduate Darius Childs works with other students in preparing the university’s new “We March with Selma” exhibit. Housed in the Appalachian Cultural Center on Russell Avenue, the exhibit will be the focus of an open house on Sunday, Jan. 31.The display is free and open to the public.

JEFFERSON CITY – A new exhibit on Carson-Newman University’s campus focuses on the 50th anniversary of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Student-curated, the display will be housed in the University’s Appalachian Cultural Center throughout the spring semester.

The public is invited to an open house event scheduled for Sunday, Jan. 31, from 3-5 p.m.

The “We March with Selma” exhibit is part of the University’s “A Simple Justice: The Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the Voting Rights Act,” a year-long observance of the historical event. [Read more…]

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GROUP TARGETS BAPTIST UNIVERSITIES

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160126alexandra-la-mapALEXANDRIA, La. — The homosexual activist group Human Rights Campaign has targeted 23 institutions of higher learning with Southern Baptist ties in a report that also names 35 other colleges and universities with distinct Christian identities. Among the schools targeted are Carson-Newman University, Jefferson City, and Union University, Jackson.

Released just before the 2015 Christmas season, the report, “Hidden Discrimination: Title IX Religious Exemptions Putting LGBT Students at Risk,” asks Obama Administration education officials to increase reporting requirements for these 58 schools because each was granted “exemptions of interest” relating to either “gender identity” or “sexual orientation” or both. [Read more…]

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CLAIMING EXEMPTION PROTECTS COLLEGES

Tennessee universities among those that have asserted right to Title IX exemption

By Lonnie Wilkey and Chris Turner
Baptist & Reflector

151215title9BRENTWOOD — In a world and culture where sexual orientation and long-held traditions such as marriage are constantly being redefined, Christian colleges are taking steps to protect their institutions. Approximately 30 religiously affiliated colleges and universities nationwide (including Carson-Newman College in Jefferson City and Union University in Jackson) have asked for and received recognition of their exemption from certain sex nondiscrimination regulations of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. Title IX generally prohibits institutions of higher education that receive federal funding directly or indirectly from discriminating on the basis of sex. However, when it was enacted, Congress made provision for an exemption to accommodate religious beliefs, and the Department of Education acknowledges the exemption to those colleges and universities that follow the United States Department of Education’s process and assert their rights to the exemption. Carson-Newman and Union both asserted their rights in letters to the Department of Education earlier this year. [Read more…]

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C-N HOLDS 10TH OPERATION INASMUCH

Carson-Newman News Office

Carson-Newman freshman Lorenjae Pryor, a member of Knoxville’s First Calvary Baptist Church, volunteers with the Appalachian Outreach home repair ministry as part of a recent Operation Inasmuch day of service.

Carson-Newman freshman Lorenjae Pryor, a member of Knoxville’s First Calvary Baptist Church, volunteers with the Appalachian Outreach home repair ministry as part of a recent Operation Inasmuch day of service.

JEFFERSON CITY — On a recent Saturday, 535 Carson-Newman University volunteers took part in the school’s 10th annual Operation Inasmuch service blitz.

Teams were comprised of students, faculty, and staff members. The groups joined to conduct service projects across Jefferson, Knox, and Hamblen counties.

“The fact that we have been able to make this a priority and do this every year working as a team speaks to how much we value serving through Operation Inasmuch,” says Anya Piotrowski, community development coordinator with Carson-Newman’s Bonner Center, which oversees the event.

“Hundreds of hours go into making this one day of service happen. Everyone is really invested in making sure it’s a success,” she said. [Read more…]

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Carson-Newman’s Appalachian Outreach moves to new 20,000-square-foot facility

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Dilyn Palmer, a junior at Morristown's Cornerstone Academy, helps to stock shelves in the dry pantry of Appalachian Outreach's new location. She was joined by several students of the school who helped the ministry prepare its new home for service.

Dilyn Palmer, a junior at Morristown’s Cornerstone Academy, helps to stock shelves in the dry pantry of Appalachian Outreach’s new location. She was joined by several students of the school who helped the ministry prepare its new home for service.

JEFFERSON CITY — Carson-Newman University’s Appalachian Outreach has a new home with more space to carry out their ministry. The organization moved this month to the former BAE building on Municipal Drive.

Appalachian Outreach has been in the same building on Old Andrew Johnson Highway since it opened 31 years ago, and the organization did not have plans to move.

Appalachian Outreach Executive Director Jean-Ann Washam says they were able to occupy the new building thanks to the success of Second Source thrift store, the profits from which go to Appalachian Outreach.

“It wasn’t something we were looking to do, but when it happened it was obvious to me that it was a gift from God,” says Washam, a member of Corryton Church, Corryton. “The new building gives us better logistics from handicap accessibility, to parking, to the walk-in refrigerator and freezer.” [Read more…]

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