Amp It Up Camp is just around the corner! Registration deadline is May 1- Visit this page to register!The first night of camp will be kicked off with a live album recording concert titled “In the Company of Friends.” The album will be produced by Joel Cameron of Nashville. The concert will include C ...
Guidero Announced as 2015-2016 Visiting Scholar
The Institute for Discipleship is pleased to announce that Kirsten Guidero will be our visiting scholar for the 2015-2016 school year. Kirsten is a Ph.D. candidate from Marquette University. She received her B.A. from the University of Chicago where she graduated with general and departmental honors ...
Dr. Sigler heading to Seattle Pacific University
Dr. Matthew Sigler, our visiting scholar during the 2013-2014 and 2014-2015 academic years and interim campus minister, has taken a position at Seattle Pacific University as assistant professor of Wesleyan Theology and United Methodist Liaison. To see the full announcement from Seattle Pacific, clic ...
Institute to launch BeADisciple Academy
(from sckans.edu)Southwestern will soon launch the online BeADisciple Academy, thanks to a grant received from the General Board of Higher Education and Ministry of the United Methodist Church.“We are so appreciative of the General Board of Higher Education and Ministry of the United Methodist Churc ...
Matt Sigler Takes Over as Campus Minister
Matthew Sigler has been selected to be the campus minister for the 2014-15 school year at Southwestern College. He takes over for Ashlee Alley who left SC for a position with the Great Plains Conference of the United Methodist Church.Sigler is in his second year at Southwestern College. He spent l ...
Molly Just Returns to Southwestern as New Director of Discipleship
Returning to Southwestern from Asbury Seminary, we are pleased to have Molly Just as our new Director of Discipleship. Molly is both an alumna of Southwestern and the Discipleship program. She is on track to finish her M.Div. from Asbury Theological Seminary by December of 2015.To read more about Ju ...
Announcing the BeADisciple Academy for young people
The Institute for Discipleship is pleased to host the BeADisciple Academy for high school and college students beginning September 8 (Enrollment ends August 31). Watch the video below and pass the link along to high School and college students you know who might be interested in this great opportuni ...
Dr Sheppard releases a new book and interview
Dr. Andy Sheppard, dean of faculty at Southwestern, recently was interviewed about his book "Christendom at the Crossroads" for the GOD Talks program. You can hear the radio conversation with Jonathan Armstrong of the Aqueduct Project at http://aqueductproject.org/j-a-sheppard-christendom-at-the-cro ...
Amp It Up! Worship Band Camp
If your church has a high school student who loves playing and singing praise worship, or if you church has a youth praise band, Amp It Up! Camp (May 24-28, 2014) is the perfect summer learning opportunity. Attention will be on learning to lead worship and growing as a Christian musician.Amp It Up! ...
Registration Open for Builders in Ministry Week 2014
The 8th Annual Builders in Ministry Conference will explore “Building a ‘Culture of the Call’ in your Church and College” and will be held at Southwestern College, February 20 -21, 2014. Funding for this conference has come from the Council of Independent Colleges and the Institute for Discipleship. ...
Southwestern highlighted in the Interpreter
Southwestern College students and alumni were featured in March/April 2013 issue of the Interpreter, a magazine produced by United Methodist Communications.In “A Higher Calling for Higher Education,” freshman Jordan Ramines, Sabetha, Kan., is highlighted at the sound board of a worship outreach conc ...
Worship Outreach Tours Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia
Martin Rude, director of worship outreach, led a group of 10 Southwestern College students on a concert tour to southeast Asia May 7 - 24. Countries on the tour were Singapore, Indonesia, and Malaysia, and 11 concerts were presented. The tour was in combination with their newest CD “No Secrets,” whi ...