UNION TO INCREASE SCHOLARSHIPS FOR MKS
By Suzanne Rhodes Union University news office JACKSON — Beginning in fall 2022, Union will offer its highest financial merit scholarship to all students who are dependents of missionaries through the Southern Baptist Convention’s International Mission Board or North American Mission Board. Dan Griffin, vice president for enrollment management, said giving children of missionaries more […]
TENNESSEE MISSIONARIES THANKFUL FOR COOPERATIVE PROGRAM, LMCO SUPPORT
Editor’s Note: Many churches across Tennessee observed the Week of Prayer for the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering for International Missions last week and are in the process of collecting the 2021 Lottie Moon offering. IMB missionaries Andy and Michelle Milam are on stateside assignment at Blue Mountain (Miss.) College. They traveled to Jackson recently for […]
UNION TRUSTEES APPROVE NEW PROGRAM
Union University news office JACKSON — Union University trustees welcomed five new members to the board and received a clean audit report during their Dec. 3 meeting on the university campus. Beginning their tenure as Union trustees were Adam Dooley, senior pastor of Englewood Baptist Church in Jackson; Kay Griffin, a Union graduate and retired […]
UNION STUDENTS HELP WAVERLY FLOOD VICTIMS
By Suzanne Rhodes Union University news office JACKSON — Since the deadly floods that hit Waverly in late August, Union University has sent multiple groups of volunteers to assist Tennessee Baptist Disaster Relief with flood relief efforts. One of these students is Kathryn Anne Thierfelder, a sophomore communications and creative writing double major. As she […]
LEWIS DONATES MOST OF PASTORAL LIBRARY TO UNION
By Grace White Union University JACKSON — Pastor Frank Lewis of First Baptist Church, Nashville, has donated approximately 2,000 books from his personal library to Union University to be used by students and faculty. Lewis’ collection is expansive, including various Bible commentaries and devotionals as well as books that he inherited from the two pastors […]
ANOTHER ‘FIRST DAY’ FOR STUDENTS, STAFF
By Todd E. Brady Vice President for University Ministries; Union University, Jackson Tuesday (Aug. 17) was the first day. It started again. We did it last year and we’ll do it again next year. For almost 200 years (Union celebrates its bicentennial in two years.) Union University has been starting school every fall. After the […]
UNION NAMES JEFF PALMER AS 2021 DODD AWARD RECIPIENT
By Suzanne Rhodes Union University news office JACKSON — Union University has named Jeff Palmer, founder and former CEO of Baptist Global Response, as the 2021 M.E. Dodd Award recipient, the highest denominational service award given by the university. Union President Samuel W. “Dub” Oliver presented Palmer with the award June 15 at First Baptist […]
SBC: MISSION, TRUST, TRANSPARENCY, UNITY
By Todd E. Brady Vice President For University Ministries, Union University, Jackson In mid-June, I was one of the 15,726 Baptists who attended the annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention in Nashville — the most attended convention since 1995 and the first large gathering in Nashville since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Having […]
UNION TRUSTEES APPROVE $95M BUDGET
Union University news office JACKSON — Union University trustees celebrated the 25th anniversary of the McAfee School of Business, approved a $95 million budget and granted tenure and promotions to several professors during their April 9 meeting on the Union campus. In his report to trustees, Union President Samuel W. “Dub” Oliver updated them on […]
UNION, SOUTHERN SEMINARY LAUNCH PARTNERSHIP FOR MBA, M.DIV. DEGREES
JACKSON — Union University and Southern Baptist Theological Seminary have signed an articulation agreement in which certain credits earned by students in Union’s Master of Business Administration program will also count toward a Master of Divinity degree at SBTS. Likewise, students in the Master of Divinity program at SBTS can earn credits toward their MBA […]