Summer 2006 Newsletter, Kansas University GFM

Summer Bible Study: The Summer Plunge in Luke is set to begin on May 23, Tuesday evenings at 7:00 pm, at Denny and Judy Chadwick’s home. Each week’s study will be a self-contained unit, so missing a week here or there should not be a problem. The group will meet on Tuesdays through July. 2009 Oxford Road in Lawrence, 749-3396, dennis.chadwick@gmail.com.

Graduations and Transitions: Four GFM participants are completing dissertations or professional programs this spring and moving on to the next thing. Amy Scheuermann, Ph.D. in Special Education, will join the faculty at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. Andrew Campbell hopes to apply his M.S. in Museum Studies as a collections supervisor. Betsy Thomas, M.S.W. is still wondering what her next step will be. We will also say farewell to John and Ann Bauer. John, with Ph.D. in Geography, will teach at the University of Nebraska at Kearney. Ann will be seeking contract work in archaeology. Rob (Liese) Mead has taken a post as head of the State Supreme Court library in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Even further to the south in Waco, Texas, Baylor University welcomes Jeff and Linda Olafsen to their Physics Department. Not moving, but retiring – Nancy Yacher of the KU English Department. Alex Senf (Computer Science) became a naturalized US citizen in April. Congratulations also to Ben and Suzy Jones (Military History) on the birth of their third child Henry Robert Jones, born May 12.

Alumni sightings: Tat, Jo, and Samuel Ebihara visited the April First Friday meeting, back for a visit from Lombard, Illinois with their newly adopted son. Bob and Debbie Clark were in town briefly early in May to attend a wedding. And Dr. Todd McAlpine successfully defended his dissertation in Physics at KU on May 9.

Bible Study groups: The “Thursday night study” has been meeting at the home of Brian and Amanda Thomas, most recently studying the Gospel of Mark. A study at Justin and Rebecca Pennington’s, the “Sunday night study,” has been examing the Old Testament book of Lamentations. A six-week GIG (group investigating God) completed a study of the final chapters of the Gospel of Matthew. Denny and Judy Chadwick led this group of mostly Chinese students. Note the information above about the Summer Plunge in the Gospel of Luke.

Hymn Sing: Fifteen alumni and friends of IVCF gathered at the Chadwick home in late March to sing four-part harmony and enjoy worshipping God from the classic IV Press books Hymns and Hymns II. An expanded version of this event is being planned for the last Friday in September,

this time to include all local IVCF staff and students from the respective ministries.

Reading Group: A few intrepid readers, meeting for lunch and discussion at the Burge Union, rushed through the ten chapters of Dallas Willard’s The Divine Conspiracy (Harper, 1998) in nine months. The book is an excellent and provocative interpretation and application of the “Sermon on the Mount” from Gospel of Matthew. Note that this group will not meet for the summer, but will launch out again in the fall with a new selection.

Summer Opportunities ---

Area Grad Student Camp: “Created to Praise: Delighting in God in All that We Are and Do,” with Dr. Terry Morrison, June 2-4 at Camp Wesley Woods near Des Moines, Iowa. Brochures available from Denny Chadwick, 749-3396, dennis.chadwick@gmail.com.

National Faculty Camp 06: “In Thy Light We See Light: Theological Acuity and Academic Vocation,” June 17-22, 2006, Cedar Campus, Cedarville, Michigan. Go to www.intervarsity.org/gfm and navigate to “conference brochure” or contact Denny Chadwick.

Christian Worldview Conference: “Scholars Coming to Faith: Commemorating the 75^th Anniversary of C.S. Lewis’s Conversion,” July 20-22, 2006, Kansas City Airport Hilton. Go to www.iics.com or contact Denny Chadwick for a brochure.

Urbana 06: Register by May 31 for the Student Missions Convention (December 27-31, 2006, held in St. Louis) and GFM participants can get significantly discounted registration rates. Contact Denny Chadwick for a special registration code.

C.S. Lewis Course: Mark your calendar for an off-campus reprise of Nancy Yacher’s highly subscribed course “Reason and Imagination in the Writings of C.S. Lewis,” Wednesdays from Sept. 9, 4-5 pm, at the Catholic Student Center. More later.