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29Oct

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Students have more chapel options

By: Ashley Walling Students have more options for chapel credits this year, including the possibility of receiving credit for attending a student-led service. SOMA, a student-led worship service, will be offered three times on Thursday nights for chapel credit. Additionally, the chaplain's office has planned more than 50 chapel services for the school. Students must attend 24. (more…)

29Oct

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Survivor to share story in chapel

By Blake Stewart A survivor of one the longest lasting civil wars on record will be speaking at chapel on Tuesday. James Baak, founder of Solidarity Ministries Africa for Reconciliation and Development, is in Nashville to tell his story of survival of redemption. "By inviting Mr. Baak to share his story, I hope that students will learn of today’s refugee struggles and begin asking how they can be the hands and feet of Christ as we strive to answer the call of Mathew 25:35 which states 'For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, … I was sick and you visited me,' " said James Casler, director, J.V. Morsch Center for Social Justice. (more…)

29Oct

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Holy week services planned on campus

by Hannah Pollok Though campus will shut down for Easter Break late this week, there will be several opportunities for students to participate in Holy Week activities before leaving for break. Holy Week, which beings Sunday with Palm Sunday and ends on Easter Sunday, includes Maundy Thursday and Good Friday. The chaplain’s office has several events and services planned for the first part of the week. (more…)

29Oct

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Community Conversations discusses body image

By Blake Stewart For students in college, learning to care for and love their body is important part of their spiritual formation. A discussion about body image issues, expectations, finding a healthy balance and implementing God into that plan was the focus of Monday's Community Conversations. (more…)

29Oct

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Students and Faculty prepare for 2017 TAG trips

By Hannah Pollok Teams of students and faculty sponsors will head out on on mission trips to serve in Mexico, Croatia and the Philippines. The first Trevecca Around the Globe trip of the year will be to Monterrey, Mexico during spring break. Matt Toy, associate vice president of marketing and communications, and his wife Melissa will lead a team of nine female students on the trip. The team will be working with Back2Back ministries, an international Christian non-profit organization with a holistic approach to orphan care ministry. Toy worked with Back2Back ministries in 1997 on a high school mission trip. After learn-ing about the connection, he was asked to lead Trevecca’s spring TAG trip. “The trip that I took 20 years ago really shaped my life. I pray that this trip can have some o...

29Oct

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Jason Sivewright to speak at spring Spiritual Deepening Week

By Hannah Pollok Children’s book author, poet, musician, and public speaker Jason Sivewright will be the speaker for the spring semester Spiritual Deepening Week. The week for spiritual renewal is scheduled for Jan. 31 - Feb. 2 with regular Tuesday and Thursday morning chapels and evening services Monday through Thursday. Sivewright, owner of Sweet Boy Books, a Kansas City based company that produces children’s books, plans to bring a message about the importance of arts in spirituality to Trevecca students this week. (more…)

30Oct

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New Worship Service to Start

By Brooklyn Dance A brand new, student-led worship service kicks off tonight. SOMA, a completely student lead worship service, starts at 9 p.m. in TSAC. Jacob Bell, a junior religion major and student body chaplain, has had the idea of a worship-based gathering since the fall semester of 2015. “There is a lot going on in our city, state and country, and we want to be a part of what the Lord is doing,” Bell said. (more…)

30Oct

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Spiritual Deepening Week Starts Today

by Brooklyn Dance Spiritual deepening week kicks off today in chapel. Jacob Edwards, lead pastor of New Beginnings Church in Lee’s Summit, Mo. will be the guest speaker this week. His theme for the week is “Bodies of Hope: resurrection in bodies broken, rejected and dead.” He will be preaching out of the Gospel narratives; the stories of the life of Jesus and what we see of bodies of hope in those Gospel stories, Songer Gaines said. (more…)

2Nov

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Rachel Held Evans speaks at Trevecca

By Christy Ulmet Thursday morning, Trevecca brought in a special guest named Rachel Held Evans to lead the weekly chapel service. She told a story about a yearlong experiment she tried, which led her to the conclusion that, “It’s not about what you do, it’s about how you do it.” Evans, New York Times bestselling author of “A Year of Biblical Womanhood” and blogger, spoke Thursday morning in chapel, and she will be back tonight as a part of the Common Ground series. Evans has written three books about her experience growing up in the church and wrestling with some of the hot button topics, such as changes in the modern church, biblical womanhood and learning to admit that we don’t know everything, and that it’s okay to ask questions. (more…)

5Nov

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Spiritual Deepening Week at Trevecca

by Bailey Basham Next week, February 2-6, students and faculty will gather for Trevecca’s bi-annual Spiritual Deeping Week. Deirdre Bower-Latz, president of Nazarene Theological College in Manchester, England, will be delivering a series of messages inspired by Psalm 42:7 and will be wrestling with what the scripture means in regards to her own faith and spiritual journey. (more…)