It has been a good while since my last post on this site. Since my resignation last spring, my priorities and schedule have taken some different turns, focused on preparing the way for my successor and by God’s grace doing all I can to leave the presidency in good form. As this leadership transition occurs, I am very encouraged to witness God’s provision: solid enrollment, strong financial position, a healthy campus ethos, engaged alumni, faithful donors, a wonderful and wise board of trustees, and an outstanding faculty and staff. In addition, we enjoy a sound and happy relationship with our sponsoring denomination, the Presbyterian Church in America, as well as with a host of other churches and fellowships and schools. This is a very good period in the long life of Covenant College!

I must also admit that I have been peeking ahead a bit toward my next calling, which is a kind of extension of Covenant’s Christ-centered educational mission across the globe. It will be exciting to see how God may choose to put the resources of the College into the mix in supporting the work of Christian schools in so many parts of the world where the gospel is moving, churches are growing, demographics are changing, and economic development is occurring.

As I bring this blog to an official close, I am very grateful for the opportunity to communicate with you through these four years of blog postings on topics of interest to me, to the College community, and, I hope, to you as well. This has been a very useful exercise for me, and I have many times recovered older postings as resources for various purposes. I trust that all this communication has served the College and, even more, the gospel and the Kingdom well.

Please remember to pray for the presidential search committee as they enter the final stages of the search process. To learn more about the process and its progress, please visit the presidential search website.

God’s blessings to you all!

Niel Nielson, Ph.D.
President