| Educator
Sunday: J. B. Milliken Preaching
 In our 100th year, Westminster is having a month long
celebration of education in September. This includes our special guest
preacher on September 11, University of Nebraska President J. B. Milliken.
It was in the Renaissance when the printing press was invented and ordinary
people started reading the Bible. Scholarly insights gave rise to understand
the Bible in a fresh light, and helped the young church to flourish. In
turn, the Reformers saw the establishment of academies, schools and colleges
as part of their faithful task.
Today there are sixty-seven colleges that were started
by the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), along with campus ministries on nearly
eight hundred colleges and university campuses. Add to that ten graduate
seminaries which provide theological education for pastors and church
leaders, and you see that education and faith are vitally linked for our
understanding of Christianity.
Faith for us includes an on-going vital dialogue
between what we can learn through the Bible and the insights gained through
broad fields of secular study. So it is with great pleasure that Westminster
welcomes President J. B. Milliken to the pulpit as we celebrate Educator
Sunday. We are delighted to have J. B. and Nana as relatively new members of
the congregation. Westminster’s heritage of University of Nebraska leaders
has included L. Dennis Smith, Clifford Hardin and Woody Varner as well as a
host of distinguished professors and faculty.
Educator Sunday is a day when we encourage our members
to bring a teacher, school administrator or anyone involved in education to
be honored for their work in building up the common good of the community,
nation and world. Being called by God to be an educator is a ministry we
want to celebrate together with joy and thanksgiving. A light lunch will be
provided afterwards in honor of all our educators. |
