Niles Daily Star: Contemporary Christian Artist to Perform
Regarded as "The Voice" of contemporary Christian music, Patty will be in concert at the Howard Performing Arts Center on the campus of Andrews University. Read full article.
Regarded as "The Voice" of contemporary Christian music, Patty will be in concert at the Howard Performing Arts Center on the campus of Andrews University. Read full article.
President Niels-Erik Andreasen was featured in the Crónica Chillán. Read the full article (in Spanish)...
"We Remember Haiti."
That was the simple message at Wednesday's one year anniversary benefit service to remember the Haitian earthquake victims: The people of Haiti will not be forgotten. Read full story.
They may be thousands of miles from home, but their hearts are still in Haiti.
Haitian students at Andrews University took time to pause on Wednesday — exactly a year after an earthquake ravaged their homeland — to remember the thousands of lives that were lost on Jan. 12, 2010, when a 7.0 magnitude quake ravaged their country. Read full story.
Monday is Martin Luther King Jr. Day but Andrews University in Berrien Springs is getting the celebrations underway early, with a special speaker on Thursday morning. This year's events focus on the theme of women's achievements and concerns. Read full story.
Events to honor the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. will take place across Southwest Michigan beginning Thursday. Read the full article...
Naturally7, whom Quincy Jones describes as “poised to take a cappella to the next level,” will be performing at the Howard Performing Arts Center on Sunday, Jan. 23 at 7 p.m. Read full story.
Public attention has shifted away from Haiti since last year's earthquake, but its problems haven't gotten any better. Read the full story...
The sisters of BarlowGirl, a rising contemporary Christian band that combines the beauty of songs and ballads with emotionally weighty wordplay, will take to the Howard Performing Arts Center stage at Andrews University on Saturday, Jan. 29 as part of “Howard Center Presents…” for the 2010-11 season. Read the full story...
BERRIEN SPRINGS - Geston Pierre is packing a suitcase as he talks about his whirlwind week.
"It's been busy," he says, laughing. "We have a flight from L.A. to New York in a few hours so we can appear on the 'Today' show."
Pierre, a graduate student at Andrews University's Seventh-day Adventist Theological Seminary, is still adjusting to his new-found fame as part of the six-member a capella vocal group Committed, which beat out Jerry Lawson & Talk of the Town, Street Corner Symphony and the Backbeats for $100,000 and a Sony Music recording contract Monday in the finale of the NBC series "The Sing-Off." Read full story.
Geston Pierre said he plans to return to Andrews University in January to continue his graduate studies.
But he won't come back to Berrien Spring empty-handed.
In just a few short weeks, Pierre went from a relative unknown to a star after his six-member group, Committed, competed on and won season two of the NBC reality series "The Sing-Off," which pitted 10 a cappella groups against each other. Read full story.
An Andrews University student has made it to the finals of NBC's show "The Sing-Off" with the A-capella group "Committed." Read full story.
Kate Mitrovich of the Lincoln Township Public Library in Stevensville, MI. discusses her thematic book discussion group. Read more.
Includes a reference to Becky De Oliveira, graduate writing instructor.
Enjoying the cold? Neither is Dragos Prahoveanu. A native of Romania, the 22-year-old senior at Andrews University in Berrien Springs says, no, he wasn't raised in a home without heat. Yet he hates being cold, and he knows there are many in the area who feel the same way. Read full story.
A student at Andrews University has begun a blanket drive for those in need this winter. Dragos Prahoveanu created the "Stay Warm Project" in an effort to collect blankets for those in need this winter. See full story.
Geston Pierre doesn't know how many of his Andrews University classmates will be watching him Monday night when his six-member a capella vocal group, Committed, competes on the NBC series "The Sing-Off."
"It's the night before finals begins," says Pierre, a graduate student at the university's Seventh-day Adventist Theological Seminary. "So they might have to catch it on Hulu or something." Read full story.
Geston Pierre, a graduate student at Andrews University, is "committed" to making a name for himself in the music industry.
Next month he'll get the greatest opportunity of his life to do just that when he and his six-member group, Committed, compete on the NBC series, "The Sing-Off," which pits 10 a cappella groups singing against each other. Read full story.
Contemporary jazz pianist David Benoit tries to downplay the Lifetime Achievement Award he received last month at The American Smooth Jazz Awards in Chicago.
"It's nice when you get recognized for what you've given to the format, especially at 57," he says by telephone from his home in Palos Verdes Estates, Calif. "I feel like I have a lot more in me, so it's kind of funny to get a lifetime achievement (award). It's nice, but I'm more interested in what I'm going to achieve than what I already have." Read full story.
A big TV break for a college student here in Berrien County. Next month, Andrews University grad student Geston Pierre will be part of an a-capella group performing on NBC's The Sing Off. Read more.
A formal vote on transferring ownership of Griggs University and a surprise rallying of financial support for the Bibles for Freshmen Project were high points of interest at President Niels-Erik Andreasen’s annual Board Briefing following the October meeting of the Andrews University Board of Trustees. Read full story.
Students at Andrews University were throwing raw eggs off a building Tuesday.
No, they weren't egging the building, they were actually competing. Read and watch full story.
Andrews' Horn Museum is a treasure trove of Mesopotamian and other biblical-era history
Some might think this qualifies for Ripley's Believe It or Not, but one of the largest repositories of ancient clay tablets in the United States is right here in Berrien County.
Nearly 3,000 of those once-buried treasures are kept at the Siegfried H. Horn Archeological Museum & The Institute of Archeology at Andrews University just outside Berrien Springs. Read full story.
Chile may be quite a distance from Michiana, but Chilean natives here have been watching the mine rescue saga unfold while feeling unity with their fellow countrymen.
Andrews University professors Carolina Olivares and Ruben Perez have both followed closely the events unfolding in their native Chile, and have been keeping in touch with family and friends in the country. Read full story.
The Seventh-day Adventist Church this week brought in new executives, including a new leader of the Adventist Development and Relief Agency, and appointed a new editor for Ministry magazine. Read full story.
A meal prepared entirely from ingredients that came from within 150 miles of Andrews University was served at the university’s first Eat Local Challenge on Sept. 28.
The challenge was designed to help students, staff and faculty think and talk about local food, educating them on the environmental and economic benefits of eating straight from the farm. Read full story.
Move, merge subject to Andrews board approval
Griggs University, the distance-learning institution of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, could move its operations from the church's headquarters in Maryland to Andrews University in Michigan following an action by denomination's Executive Committee. Read full story.
The child of a missionary pastor in Kenya, George Agoki grew up in an Adventist atmosphere. After moving to Uganda in fifth grade, he attended Bugema Missionary College until 12th grade. During that time, the Seventh-day Adventist atmosphere provided a "hedge" around him, as he calls it, filtering the outside world and not presenting a test of faith. Read full story.
My first encounter with Ray McAllister was via e-mail. I knew he was completely blind so when an e-mail written by Ray and sent by Ray popped into my Inbox, I was a bit surprised. He doesn't even let something like sight keep him from typing a perfectly spelled and grammatically-correct e-mail, I thought to myself. But his typing skills aren't what set Ray apart from his peers. Ray is the first blind student to ever graduate from the Seventh-day Adventist Theological Seminary and, according to the Society of Biblical Literature and National Federation for the Blind, perhaps the first completely blind person to ever tackle a degree so heavily dependent upon biblical languages, including Akkadian, Hebrew, Greek and even Cuneiform. Read full story.
When J.N. Andrews set forth from a Boston harbor 136 years ago, he had no idea his service as the first overseas missionary for the Seventh-day Adventist Church would one day serve as a creed of Christian service at a university named in his honor. Read full story.
Esperanza Alvarez-Muñiz has never been afraid to question God. In everything, she asks for His guidance—and it usually takes the form of a sign or a test. "I'm a very shy person," she says, "so whenever I felt God wanted me to do something, I would always test Him." Two years ago, God led her to the position of assistant dean of Lamson Hall—and she began asking God the hard questions. Read more. Read full story.
Andrews University has again been named one of the "Best National Universities" for 2011, as reported in U.S. News & World Report's "America's Best Colleges 2011" issue. Andrews was also recently ranked on Forbes.com's 2010's "America's Best Colleges." Read full story.
What I remember most about Thanksgiving every year is hearing the shattering of glass and the sound of crunching metal—the sound of change—the sound of a moment that would completely change my life.
They tell me it was a good thing I was asleep. If I had been awake and tensed up, it would have caused devastating damage. Then again, if I had been awake I probably wouldn't have crashed. Still, driving to work early one crisp Sunday morning in November during my senior year at Andrews Academy, I was overcome with sleepiness and dozed off behind the wheel. The impact sent my car rolling several times and snapped my neck, fracturing the fourth and fifth cervical vertebrae. Read full story.
It was 8:30 a.m., July 23! The General Conference pages from Andrews University navigated their way through the Georgia World Dome to our reporting destination—Building E. It was there we were assigned our responsibilities for the next ten days. As we parted ways, I walked through the hallways circling the Dome to find myself approaching the main platform where I had been called to serve. Amazed by the sheer size of the stage and stadium, I looked around pondering what the next few days had in store. Read full story.
"This little light of mine, I'm gonna let it shine..."1 It's a song we start hearing as infants and sing as children in hopes that it will translate into a creed of conduct during our adult years. For Mimi Weithers-Bruce, it has. Her light shines every time she pulls out her Bible, a Bible so well-used that a rubber band is holding the pages together. The mere sight of her well-worn Bible is sometimes just the conversation starter she needs to begin sharing her faith. Read full story.
Recruiting students to attend Seventh-day Adventist colleges and universities is one of the most adventure-filled jobs in the church.
Imagine traveling to distant exotic places (like North Dakota, Kenya, California, Hong Kong or Brazil), where you spend exhaustive hours talking with students and parents about life goals, personal finance, educational achievement and spiritual commitment. And all the time you think about the challenges a student will face by traveling to a new and different community like Berrien Springs, Michigan. It's never easy, but it's always exciting. Read full story.
A 50-foot long white and salmon colored wall loomed before me. I had about a day, 15 students and no paint or paintbrushes to complete a Noah's Ark themed mural on the wall of an orphanage in northern Jordan. Overwhelmed, to say the least, I jumped into the project feet-first with full confidence that God was in control. Read full story.
Sisters Kemily and Kalicia "Kali" Morrison are familiar faces at Andrews University, Pioneer Memorial Church (PMC) and in the local Christian music scene. From their dedication to mentoring teens through the PMC Evergreen Club, to their regular leadership in worship services at Andrews, to sharing their music far and wide, this pair is committed to actively sharing God's love at every opportunity. Read full story.
BERRIEN SPRINGS - Sometimes, it only takes the smallest gesture to broaden a person's understanding of music that they haven't heard before. Read full story.
BERRIEN SPRINGS - Michael Card, a musician who has been writing, composing and performing for more than 25 years, will perform a concert alongside Christian pianist and lyricist Ginny Owens at 7 p.m. Sunday at the Howard Performing Arts Center on the campus of Andrews University. Read full story.
Desmond Murray believes a concept called “early research participation” provides not only an educational value but an economic value, as well. Read full story.
Appiah Kwarteng, an Andrews University student from Ghana, says international students are welcomed from the moment they sign up for classes to the day they receive their diplomas. Read full story.
The list was put out by Newsweek Magazine and compared the population of the school with the percent of ethic students. Read full story.
More than bricks and mortar went into the arch that supports the new whisper dish at Curious Kids' Discovery Zone.
"Every Renaissance kid is embedded in this," said Mark Moreno, a professor of architecture at Andrews University and leader of the Renaissance Kids Summer Architectural School. Read more.
A more than 4,000-year-old clay cuneiform tablet, documenting the receipt of a dead goat, and several other historical items were recently donated to Andrews University's Horn Archaeological Museum. Read more.
Couple donates school supplies for Benton Harbor students
For students and teachers at Seely McCord Elementary School in Benton Harbor, principal Stephanie Rockette described the atmosphere Monday morning as “Christmas in September.”
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6 Food Rules You Should Break
We separate fact from fiction for some of the top misunderstandings about nutrition. Read more.
Check out the interview Naomi Best did with Mike from Big Daddy Weave this past Sunday.
First blind doctoral student graduates from Adventist seminary
A decade after he embarked on doctoral studies, a blind student has graduated with a Ph.D in religion, marking the first time such a student has earned the degree from a Seventh-day Adventist theological seminary. Read more.
College students take ‘action,’ volunteer
As if being an incoming college freshman isn’t intimidating enough, some students have added shoveling mud, building fences and staining wood to their itinerary. Read more.
Ray McAllister graduates today from Andrews University, having overcome obstacles and achieving what very likely no one else in his position has. Read more.
At camp, kids get foundation in the art, technique of designing spaces
They may not all end up becoming architects, but the young people attending this summer's Renaissance Kids Architecture Day Camp at Andrews University are certainly learning to explore their creative side. Jessica Snively, a student at Andrews Academy, took part in the architecture camp last year and thought it was fun. She spent much of this week designing a sculpture garden that has a path in the shape of a snake, little bridges, a fountain with fish squirting water and a giant turtle people can walk under. Read more.
Robert P. Bartlett, president of the Michigan Colleges Foundation, and Van G. Hurst, president of the Indiana Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, are among the featured speakers for the Andrews University graduation weekend Friday through Sunday. Read more.
A New Edition of the NKJV Bible Opens Doors for Adventist Evangelism
The new Andrews Study Bible was released last month at the 59th General Conference Session in Atlanta, Georgia. Featuring a wide range of study tools and classic NKJV text, the new Bible was produced by an international team of Adventist scholars in cooperation with denominational leadership. Spectrum asked General Editor Dr. Jon Dybdahl about the process and vision that guided the new Bible to completion. Read more.
Andrews group assesses mental health care needs
Harvey Burnett's recent trip to the earthquake-ravaged country of Haiti was a little different than the ones other area residents have taken to help out over the last several months. For Burnett and other members of a study tour by Andrews University faculty and staff, the goal was to assess the native population's needs for mental health and other counseling services. Read more.
Nursing student's Good Samaritan act credited with saving bleeding man on Benton Harbor street
BENTON HARBOR - Nursing student Dowin Coffy wasn't obligated to stop when he saw a man lying on Empire Avenue severely bleeding Sunday night, but he decided to put his medical knowledge to use. . . Coffy said he was driving home around 11:30 p.m. after watching fireworks in St. Joseph when he spotted McClinton, who was surrounded by about a dozen people, some of whom had wrapped a shirt around the wound. Coffy, a fifth-year nursing student at Andrews University who is scheduled to graduate in May, said from the amount of blood spurting from the wound it appeared that an artery had been ruptured. Coffy said McClinton's eyes were glazed, a symptom of shock due to loss of blood. Read more.
Andrews University announced today the Howard Performing Arts Center's 2010-2011 concert series, which will include Big Daddy Weave, the Sphinx Chamber Orchestra and Christian music legend Sandi Patty. Read more.
Motions affirm creation position, reopen Fundamental Belief for enhancement
In the face of a society and academic community where challenges to the Seventh-day Adventist fundamental belief in a "literal, recent, six-day creation" are rampant, delegates to the 59th General Conference Session in Atlanta, Georgia, voted June 30 to reaffirm that belief and possibly strengthen the church's fundamental belief language on that point.
Nine appointed vice presidents; associate secretaries, treasurers ...
Schoun was formerly president of Adventist World Radio and associate dean of the Theological Seminary at Andrews University, and who has traveled to more ...
Reunited (and it feels so good): Social networking websites are changing the face of class reunions
As the time for high school class reunions approaches, the same questions will arise that have always confronted people trying to reconnect with long-lost friends.
How do I get in touch with people who have changed their names or are scattered across the country?
Adventist publishing house releases study Bible: Volume set for launch at World Session
A Seventh-day Adventist publishing house has released a study Bible, the first of its kind featuring unique study notes and commentary from Adventist Bible scholars around the world. Read more.
Savoring the Word: Engaging Scripture with the new Andrews Study Bible
More than three years in the making, the recently published Andrews Study Bible marks a milestone in Adventist publication. Under the leadership of Andrews University president Niels-Erik Andreasen and the Andrews University Press, the project moved from vision to reality in record timeâespecially considering the complexity of working with an international team of contributors, as well as numerous editors, designers, and proofreaders. Read more.
Students mark completion of degrees at Andrews University
The overcast skies didn’t dampen the excitement of graduates, eager to hold their diploma, on Graduation Sunday, May 2. Altogether, 588 students — undergraduate and graduate, both affiliate and main campus — marked the formal completion of their degree from Andrews University, according to a news release. Read more.
Governor General Sir Patrick Allen has been awarded an honorary degree from Andrews University in Berrien Springs, Michigan. Read more.
As I wandered around Kellogg Park last Thursday, something Congressman Thad McCotter said earlier in the day resonated with me.
Looking out over a crowd that may have topped a thousand people, he talked about the fundamental disconnect between elected officials and ‘we the people.’ Read more.
BERRIEN SPRINGS - The U.S. Senate chaplain and the governor general of Jamaica will be the commencement speakers at Andrews University over the upcoming graduation weekend. Read more.
A 46-year-old Andrews University student is dead after a three-car accident in Oronoko Township in Michigan Thursday afternoon, police say in a news release Friday. Read more.
A few monitors and old network gear were dropped off for recycling by John Frambach, director of technology at Johnson-Rauhoff, a local business in St. Joseph, Mich.
He brought the items to the electronics recycling collection at Andrews University in Berrien Springs this week. Read more.
Andrews University is mourning the loss of a Seminary student who died Thursday afternoon in a car crash near Berrien Springs. Read more.
A 46-year-old Andrews University student is dead after a three-car accident in Oronoko Township in Michigan Thursday afternoon, police say in a news release Friday.
Denroy Black, a native of Jamaica, was traveling northbound on Garr Road when he failed to stop at the stop sign at Shawnee Road near Andrews University in Berrien Springs at 4:10 p.m. A pickup truck traveling eastbound struck the drivers side of Black's car, sending his vehicle into another vehicle waiting to turn south onto Garr. Read more.
Wednesday, the Berrien County Community Development Department, along with Andrews University, is hosting the second Berrien County electronics recycling collection. Read more.
Documentary discusses church's approach to health
BERRIEN SPRINGS - It wasn't exactly a Hollywood premiere with stars walking down a red carpet, but the Southwest Michigan premiere of "The Adventists" drew rave reviews from those watching Saturday night at Andrews University.
Nearly 2,000 people crowded into Pioneer Memorial Church on campus to watch the one-hour film about the Seventh-day Adventist Church's role in promoting a holistic approach to health.
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Berrien County residents and businesses can recycle electronic waste on Wednesday, April 14th at Andrews University in Berrien Springs. Read more.
College-level programs would stay with the world headquarters-affiliated school; K-12 programs could migrate to North America
A dramatic plan to remake Griggs University and Griggs International Academy, the 101-year-old distance learning arm of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, took its first steps April 6, when delegates to the Spring meeting of the world church's Executive Committee accepted a report calling for a restructuring. Read more.
For Christians, Easter weekend is about more than bunnies and eggs. Every year, Andrews University in Berrien Springs teaches the biblical Easter story to thousands of people. This is the 7th year the college has presented the Easter Passion Play. Read more.
Andrews University is expecting up to eight-thousand people to attend its annual Easter Passion Play this weekend in Berrien Springs. This will be the event's seventh year, and Director Richard Parke says it's like no other play you have seen. Rather than taking place in one location, the Passion Play is spread out in several areas around campus. Visitors will be led on walking tours from each area to the next, taking in scenes that depict the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Read more.
BERRIEN SPRINGS - Andrews University once again is offering area residents a unique and inspiring way to experience the passion story this Easter weekend.
For the seventh time in the past eight years, the university is offering an interactive Easter Passion Play on April 3 where people can go back 2,000 years to experience the life, death and resurrection of Christ. Read more.
Throughout its history, the Seventh-day Adventist institution has not sought public attention. Yet because of its global outreach, Andrews recently was recognized as fifth in the nation for largest proportion of international students. Noteworthy too is the devotion to serving others throughout the world that Andrews sows in its students. Many other schools have only recently embraced this means of broadening and enriching life experience. Read more.
Volunteers are still needed for the 2010 Passion Play at Andrews University. It takes more than 700 people to carry off the live performance, according to director Richard Parke. Read more.
The seventh annual Easter Passion Play will be held Saturday, April 3 on the campus of Andrews University in Berrien Springs. This indoor/outdoor walk-through experience depicts the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Read more.
For the next year and a half, Andrews University will be bustling with the sounds of construction. Read more.
Andrews University will start $17 million worth of building projects in April, the largest in terms of cost it has ever undertaken. Read more.
For the next couple years, the sound of construction will be heard around the campus of Andrews University in Berrien Springs. Read more.
Andrea Luxton has been named the new provost at Andrews University. Read more.
Saving the planet one book at a time
tudents looking to avoid hauling old textbooks back home at the end of the semester or seeing them end up in a dumpster have a new option. Read more.
Benefit Concert For Haiti Planned At Andrews University
A Haitian relief concert is planned at Andrews University. When the earthquake hit Haiti this year, it was learned that Andrews currently has over 20 students enrolled who come from that country...Read more.
Area residents are safe after quake: Niles couple felt building sway when quake struck
Several local residents, including a Niles couple, are safe in Santiago, Chile, despite Saturday's massive earthquake.
The Niles husband and wife are Bernardo and Martha Navia.
Pedro Navia, chairman of the languages department at Andrews University in Berrien Springs, said he was able to contact his parents on Saturday, shortly after the quake hit. Read more.
Spectrum Magazine is featuring Time for Lent: Mentoring, a blog co-authored by Desmond Murray, assistant professor of chemistry at Andrews University, and Charity Garcia, a visiting scholar at the University of Maryland, College Park and a Curriculum & Instruction doctoral student at Andrews University. Read more.
It was a time for reflection as people gathered on the Andrews University campus to honor those who died in the Jan. 12 earthquake in Haiti.
Over 150 people gathered in the Seminary Chapel Saturday night to hear words and songs of hope in the midst of grief. They honored members of the local Haitian community who lost loved ones in the earthquake. Read more.