Dallas Baptist University recognized Beautiful Feet Ministries in Dallas at its Community Partnership Luncheon. Beautiful Feet has served more than 135,000 meals to the homeless, and its facility is open 359 days a year. Within the past year, 3,800 volunteers have served with the ministry. Beautiful Feet holds daily worship services in the inner-city and serves two meals a day, seven days a week. Showers and laundry services are offered to the homeless, and clothing is given to the needy every Sunday. Beautiful Feet also offers no-cost dental and medical clinics each week. DBU students have served with Beautiful Feet since 2005. Mike Myers, a graduate of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, is pastor, director and co-founder of Beautiful Feet.
Baylor University President Linda Livingstone will chair the Big 12 board of directors for the next two years. She succeeds Texas Tech President Lawrence Schovanec, whose two-year term expired June 30.
Buckner International and Andrews University signed a memorandum of understanding to provide university students with experiential learning opportunities through Buckner volunteer and humanitarian aid projects. Beginning in September, Students will participate in community service and learn about ministry and service in the context of Buckner’s mission-driven outreach to vulnerable children, families and seniors. Opportunities may include advertising employment opportunities with Buckner, creating credit and non-credit opportunities for students, mission trips and involvement with Buckner Shoes for Orphan Souls. The collaboration also will offer professional development and graduate study and degree options for Buckner staff. “This initiative allows both organizations to excel at what we do best,” said Albert Reyes, CEO and president of Buckner International, who earned his doctorate in leadership from Andrews University in 2009. “Buckner will support Andrews University with opportunities for its students to follow the example of Jesus through service to others, while Andrews will offer Buckner employees the chance to grow their leadership skills through an exceptional program. Our Buckner leaders are definitely ready for this. Andrews is uniquely poised to help Buckner develop its talent and build leadership capacity for the future.”
Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary President David Dockery named W. Madison Grace II as provost and vice president for academic administration and as dean of the School of Theology. Grace has served as interim dean since January. Dockery also named former missionary Dean Sieberhagen, associate professor of Islamic studies, as interim dean of the Roy J. Fish School of Evangelism and Missions, and he named Carl J. Bradford, associate professor of evangelism, as interim associate dean of the Fish School of Evangelism and Missions.
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