Alumni Gatherings: Spring 2014.

We're still locking down the details, but pencil in the dates and locations for these alumni gatherings this spring.

March 21: Capital City Baptist Church (Columbia, South Carolina)
March 22: The Summit Church, Brier Creek campus (Durham, North Carolina)
April 10: The Chapel (Goetzville, New York)
April 11: The Bible Chapel, South Hills campus (McMurray, Pennsylvania)
April 22: Bridgewater Baptist Church (Montrose, Pennsylvania)
April 26-27: The Creation Museum (Petersburg, Kentucky)
April 29: North Royalton Baptist Church (North Royalton,Ohio)
May 9: Faith Community Church (Gambrills, Maryland)
May 10: Fellowship Bible Church (Sewell, New Jersey)
May 16-17: Bible Institute's Owen Sound campus
May 23-26: Homecoming/Founders Conference/Alumni Reunions/Memorial Day (Bible Institute's New York campus)

For a complete list of alumni gatherings, visit wordoflife.edu/alumnigatherings.

Alumni Gatherings: Coming to a town near you!

Alumni Director Mike Bush and the Bible Institute's new director of admissions, Greg Dyson, are going to be at a bunch of alumni events and gatherings in the coming months. They want to encourage alumni to come, and to bring prospective students with them. Here's a complete list of upcoming events (check back at the alumni website for more details):

April 1: Sheets Memorial Church
210 Cotton Grove Road
Lexington, NC 27292
6:30 to 8 p.m.
                                                               
April 6: Fellowship Bible Church
590 Jackson Road
Sewell, NJ 08080
5 to 6:30 .p.m

April 9: Calvary Church
1051 Landish Valley Road
Lancaster, PA 17601
6:30 to 8 p.m.

April 10: Cairn University (details still in the works)
Langhorne Manor, PA

April 11: Heritage Baptist Church
219 Breezewood Drive
Lynchburg, VA 24502
6:30 to 8 p.m.

April 15: Maryland (possibly adding)

April 16: Baptist Bible College and Seminary
538 Venard Road
Clarks Summit, PA 18411
6:30 to 8 p.m.

April 23: Columbus, Ohio (details still in the works)

April 25: Plainfield Bible Church
752 North Dan Jones Road
Plainfield, IN 46168
6:30 to 8 p.m.

April 26: Sugar Grove/Wheaton, Illinois (details still in the works)

April 27: Mayfair Bible Church
5339 W. Pierson Road
Flushing, MI 48433
5 to 6:30 p.m.

A message from the new alumni director, Mike Bush.

By Mike Bush, Class of 1981

Hello, alumni! Don’t be alarmed — Wayne Lewis is still around. We just wanted to take this time to let you know about some changes that will be going on at Word of Life, and specifically for Bible Institute alumni.

Wayne has spent the last couple of years working on ramping up our alumni connections, and now I’m coming on board to help as the new alumni director. Wayne will continue as the “alumni director emeritus,” and we’re already looking at a few new ways we can connect with and serve alumni.

First of all, this marks some changes for me and my wife, Amy. We have had the high honor of serving at the Word of Life Inn since September 2000. That ministry has been one of the most demanding, stretching, tiring, exciting, impactful, fun, and rewarding things Amy and I have ever done.  We’ve seen God at work, changing the hearts and lives of children, teens, adults, and families from all over the world. We renewed old friendships and made many new ones. We served with some of God’s most faithful servants and loved being part of a wonderful family, including full-time, part-time, volunteer, and summer staff.  But, like they say, “All good things must come to an end.”

Now, we’ll be moving our focus to two things: connecting with alumni, and helping host the winter conference season in Florida. With alumni, I will take the lead from Wayne and continue to encourage, help, and support our 18,000-strong alumni family. Wayne and I have already been working with Greg Dyson, our new director of admissions, on events this spring in partnership with our Local Church Ministries missionaries. Wayne has called this our “Back to the Future” tour. We are encouraging alumni to attend these events and bring prospective students with them (“back” = alumni, “future” = admissions). We would appreciate your help with these events as well, as we hope to introduce many new people to the Bible Institute.

My other responsibility, the winter conference season in Florida, will be very similar to what I have done at the Inn.  I will host guests, lead Bible hour, and plan activities. I will also spend time connecting with alumni in the Southeast. We will be in Florida from the first week of January and return to Schroon Lake in April. Amy and I will be in Schroon Lake for much of the spring, summer, and fall, connecting with friends in the ministry and alumni.

We look forward to these exciting new changes, and how we continue to extend the reach of the Bible Institute by connecting former students and finding new ones. Please be in prayer as we make these changes, and we look forward to continuing the work God has done.

“I will seek unto God, and unto God will I commit my cause. He does great things and unsearchable, marvelous things without number” (Job 5:8-9).