Thursday, March 8, 2018

The Promise of Youth

We just spent a day and a half in a regional Christian Faculty Conference. One of the most encouraging things was to meet a newlywed couple, just married last June, who had driven a bit over 5 hours to get to the conference. The young wife had stumbled on some mention of the conference. Her goal is to earn a Ph.D. and teach, and her philosophy is that teaching Christianly is her calling. In one of my talks I emphasized the difference between Profs who happen to be Christian, and Christians, who are following Christ as professors. She, even before starting her Ph.D. already is seeking to follow Christ as a prof.  Wow!

I am obviously, an old tired, retired prof.  But this coming generation, they are clearly our future. If one of these young ones, catches a vision for what G^d can do through their career, thousands of students can be impacted; not to mention the scores of other profs and staff.

Thanks be to G^d for allowing us to be involved in what He is doing!

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