Featured picture (above): Scholarship recipients Mateo Villegas and Kendal Matas stand with Lipscomb College enterprise dean Ray Eldridge and president Candice McQueen.
AWARDED — KENDAL MATAS and MATEO VILLEGAS, the Psalm 78:72 Scholarship from Lipscomb College in Nashville, Tenn. The scholarship honors college students who exemplify “talent of the hand and integrity of the guts” by demonstrating character. Oklahoma Christian College’s chapter of historical past honor society PHI ALPHA THETA, the Greatest Chapter Award for Division I-sized faculties.
BAPTIZED — CODY DAVIS, CAIDEN DAVIS and TYNEETA SILMON of the Dominion Park Church of Christ in Houston. GRACIOASA DA COSTA of a Church of Christ within the Quelimane, Mozambique. LEDICIA DOS SANTOS of a Church of Christ within the Molocueo, Mozambique. CHARLIE MORTON of the Prattville Church of Christ in Alabama. MALLORIE SELVAGE of the Jackson Boulevard Church of Christ in Chicago.
From left, Mallorie Selvage, Scott LaMascus, Don Rose, Mike Willoughby and Sean Wu.
ELECTED — SCOTT LAMASCUS to the board of the Federation of State Humanities Councils (the Federation). LaMascus is the founding director of the McBride Middle for Public Humanities at Oklahoma Christian College.
NAMED — JAMES EDWARDS and JONATHAN NEWSON as elders and SHAUNELL HYATT, BRIAN SMITH and JONATHAN TURNER as deacons of the Northwest Church of Christ in Southaven, Miss. DON ROSE as govt director of Mission Alive Canada, a ministry launched by U.S.-based Mission Alive to assist Canadian Christians plant church buildings. Rose served for 18 years with Nice Lakes Christian Excessive Faculty in Beamsville, Ontario. BRAD SCHMITZ (spouse Julie) and CALEB BELL (spouse Lindsey) as deacons of the Grand Strand Church of Christ in Surfside Seaside, S.C. MIKE WILLOUGHBY as dean of the School of Enterprise Administration at Abilene Christian College in Texas. SEAN WU, a senior at Pepperdine College in Malibu, Calif., because the college’s first-ever Rhodes Scholar. Wu and 32 different American undergraduate college students will obtain a full scholarship to pursue graduate research on the College of Oxford in England.
