Articles for tag: Parental Support

August 17, 2015

Colleges & Seminaries Organizations & Events

We”re Glad We Sent Our Kids to Christian College!

By Arron Chambers By way of full disclosure, I am not unbiased when it comes to the value of a Christian college education. My grandparents and my wife”s grandparents all attended Christian college. My parents and my wife”s parents all attended Christian college. My wife and I are both graduates of Florida Christian College (now Johnson University Florida). I am also a graduate of Abilene (Texas) Christian University. I worked for three years as director of admissions and for several more as an adjunct professor at Florida Christian College. Our daughter also attended Christian college, and our younger children discuss

March 26, 2012

Christian Standard

Colleges & Seminaries Organizations & Events

We’re Not Alone

By Darrel Rowland Colleges in the a cappella stream of our movement are also experiencing greaterÂ religious diversity in theirÂ student bodies. Abilene Christian University crossed a historic threshold in 2008. For the first time since the Texas college was founded 102 years earlier, a majority of its freshman class was not part of a (noninstrumental) church of Christ. Just 10 years before, about two-thirds of its students belonged. The decline at Abilene Christian shows that the a cappella branch of the Restoration Movement is experiencing the same, if not a greater, decrease in the proportion of fellowship students making up its

July 13, 2005

Mark A. Taylor

Family & Relationships Parenting

Homegrown Ministers

A child’s view of ministry is shaped early at home. This piece urges families and churches to model respect, prayer, and support for ministers—especially when a child senses a call that may lead far from home.