category: Campus News University to honor MLK legacy during Social Justice Week category: Campus News | January 14, 2014 (Jan. 14, 2014) – Carson-Newman University will honor the memory of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. during its upcoming Social Justice Week. On Monday, Jan. 20, students will join the communities of Dandridge and Sevierville in Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day marches. Carson-Newman student and Bonner scholar Taylor Fitzpatrick will be a featured student speaker at the Dandridge celebration, while Sevierville native and C-N senior, Isaac McMahan will speak in Sevierville. Other C-N Social Justice Week events include: • Chapel service with Chris Walker, former defensive end for UT football and current FCA chaplain for UT-Chattanooga, held Tuesday, Jan. 21 at 9:30 a.m., in the sanctuary of Jefferson City’s First Baptist Church. • Global Coffee House held Friday, Jan. 24, at 8 p.m. at the Creek Café. Featuring an open-mic format, the event will sponsor Tiny Hands, a Christian nonprofit organization dedicated to helping orphaned and abandoned children, and fighting sex trafficking in South Asia. • MLK Day of Service will allow Carson-Newman students to volunteer at Appalachian Outreach Ministries and Narrow Ridge Earth Literacy Center in Washburn on Saturday, Jan. 25.
Campus News Learning to shepherd: C-N students embrace common desire to share the gospel It’s a rainy Thursday on Carson-Newman University’s campus. A few minutes before noon. But the late February overcast doesn’t dampen spirits of the students filing into the conference room. The […]
Campus News Students embody servant-leadership “here and now” The histories of Carson-Newman University and Jefferson County are inseparable. One cannot be told without the other. Carson-Newman was founded in 1851 with the name “Mossy Creek Missionary Baptist Seminary,” […]
Campus News Beneath the Collapse by Dr. Marshall King, assistant professor of Biblical Studies Every archaeologist knows the rule: the richest material lies below the destruction layer. I did not expect God to prove the […]
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