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The 48th National Campus Ministries Seminar was a tremendous success spiritually and numerically with 450 present in Morgantown,
West Virginia, July 19-August 1!
NCMS director Jason Locke and the Mountaineers for Christ along with the local Church of Christ members were gracious hosts. The attendance was the most ever for a NCMS in the East and the third most ever in the seminar’s long history! The seminar’s mission emphasis of the church and starting new campus ministries challenged us to re-think the “open door” that exists at about ninety per cent of our colleges and universities in America where Churches of Christ have no presence.
Congratulations to Bunny Parker for winning the “Bessie Woodward” National Campus Ministries Award and to Mike Stroud for being honored with the Stephen Eckstein National Campus Ministries Award at the NCMS banquet July 31! Parker has been the college ministry assistant at Angelo State University in Texas for 20 years, while Sroud has served as campus minister at Middle Tennessee State University for nearly as long. NOTE: The two awards are presented yearly and nominations can come from any campus minister in the Churches of Christ and then the past recipients, along with the CCW board, vote for the final honorees (nominations for 2005 Woodward and Eckstein awards should be sent to Mike Buckley,
, by June 1, 2005).
The 2005 NCMS will be held at the University of Oklahoma in Norman August 4-7. “Amazing, A New Day Is Coming: Campus Ministry Bigger Than We Ever Dreamed” is the theme for the 49th annual NCMS. Tim Melikian, campus minister at OU, will be the seminar director and can be contacted at
or through the Sooners for Christ web site, http://www.soonersforchrist.org.
For the first time ever, the CCW board will be the host for the 50th NCMS in 2006 to be held in the Dallas/Fort Worth area
(in the past, a local congregation and/or campus ministry has hosted the seminar). Since no campus ministry or church submitted an application for the 2006 NCMS (and the CCW board has ultimate responsibility for the seminar, according to our bi-laws), it was proposed by the board at the July 31, 2004 campus minister’s business meeting and approved unanimously to allow the board members to “take on” the golden 50th event!
Rick Rowland, D.Min., is the President of the Campus CrossWalk board. He is a professor in Speech Communication at Pepperdine University and has taught courses in Campus Ministry for 25 years. Rick is the External Campus Ministry/Young Adult leader for the Murrieta, Church of Christ serving students at Mt. San Jacinto College in California.
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