This past Friday, we welcomed our new students to campus for the beginning of the 2009-2010 academic year. Rainless cloud cover provided a comfortable environment for unloading packed vehicles and toting boxes, and, as usual, Covenant “veterans” made moving in a delightful and relatively easy process for the newest members of the Covenant community. See pictures of this year’s Move-In Day here, and watch an audio slideshow about Move-In Day here.

The previous evening, our entire Student Development team was joined by other campus folks for the annual prayer walk through all the hallways of all our residence halls. As we filed silently past every doorway, adorned with the names of those who would soon occupy each room, we breathed prayers for God’s blessing on the new and returning students. We ended up in the large, beautiful lobby of Carter Hall for a time of corporate prayer and mutual encouragement as we look forward to the Lord’s gracious and sovereign work among us all.

Just last night, faculty and staff hosted groups of new students for dinner in their homes. Click to continue »

This week I want to call this blog’s readers’ attention to two of Covenant’s many programs, one because it is unique among Covenant’s program offerings and the other because it is a relatively new initiative that is off to a wonderful start.

Covenant has one graduate program, the Master of Education program, now in its eighteenth year. The program, offering two tracks (Educational Leadership and Integrated Curriculum and Instruction), combines three-week summer campus residencies with pre- and post-campus coursework so that working teachers and administrators can continue in their educational roles during the school year and also benefit from a dynamic learning community on Lookout Mountain each summer.

In mid-July, I had the privilege of hosting a luncheon for those M.Ed. students in their final year. Click to continue »