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For Immediate Release
RE: MBU Welcome Weekend 2006: Energize Your Spirit
MBU Welcome Weekend 2006: Energize Your Spirit
August 24, 2006
Stacy Bowman launched her new life at Missouri Baptist University last weekend by lending a helping hand to those in need.
Along with dozens of her classmates, Bowman, a junior transfer student from Kansas City, Mo., busily mopped a dusty floor inside All God’s Children, a soon-to-be completed community center in Jefferson County, Mo. All God’s Children was one of three sites around the St. Louis region where more than 300 MBU students volunteered time and energy in conjunction with this year’s Welcome Weekend events.
“I can just sense the excitement at MBU,” Bowman said, as she took a break from her community service project. “I am confident this is a place where I’ll grow academically and spiritually. I am so excited about what God has in store for me this semester.”
In addition to All God’s Children, MBU students volunteered at a Habitat for Humanity worksite in downtown St. Louis and at the Missouri Baptist Children’s Home in Bridgeton, Mo. The community service project was one of a host of Welcome Weekend activities aimed at acclimating students to life at MBU. Students also participated in, among other things, a MBU Street Fair, live karaoke, cosmic bowling and the annual President’s Ice Cream Social.
An estimated record-breaking number of students returned to class Monday morning to find a host of additions at MBU. Among other things, MBU has implemented the following changes:
- Classes began for the following new academic majors: Biotechnology, Speech/Theatre, Worship Arts and Musical Theatre. Musical Theatre builds upon the drama minor and the Worship Arts program compliments the existing Music program. In addition, MBU has begun offering a minor in Entrepreneurship under the University’s division of business.
- Construction is underway for a 2,500-sq.foot coffee house / student center.
- Jonathan White, former college pastor of The Church at Crosspoint in Murfreesboro, Tenn., has been appointed MBU Campus Pastor. White founded the Bonhoeffer’s Coffee Shop, a full coffee bar ministry located adjacent to the largest university in Tennessee.
- The University’s main campus has undergone a multitude of aesthetic upgrades, including interior renovations and landscaping projects.
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Missouri Baptist University is a premier Christian university in Saint Louis, offering graduate and undergraduate studies in over thirty specialized fields and nine degrees. MBU's education and fine arts programs are nationally known in addition to business, religion, administration of justice, and more. MBU is one of the fastest growing higher education institutions in Missouri with an enrollment of over 4,500 students at five locations in the bi-state region — West County, Lincoln County, Jefferson County, Franklin County and the new Illinois extension at Lewis and Clark Community College.
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