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MINISTRIES

Chaplaincy program expanding to Dallas

LIFELINE CHAPLAINCY

Eighty potential volunteers for a new Lifeline Chaplaincy program in Dallas attended an orientation session July 30 at the Prestoncrest church.

The Houston-based ministry is expanding to Dallas after months of prayer and planning, officials said.

Jesse Stroup, who recently completed Clinical Pastoral Education training at St. Thomas Hospital in Nashville, Tenn., will become the first Lifelline chaplain in Dallas in October.

Lifeline-Dallas will train and equip volunteers to minister to patients and loved ones at the hospitals. Other volunteers will be involved in Lifeline’s Soft Touch ministry, making comfort items such as small pillows, stuffed toys and lab robes.

For more information, call (888) 767-6363.

UNIVERSITIES

Cascade College receives $1 million gift

CASCADE COLLEGE

Cascade College, Portland, Ore., has received the largest single gift in its 11-year history — a $1 million contribution from Dr. Don and Rose Gambill of Roseburg.

The Gambills donated a 58 percent interest in an Umpquah River-front property to Cascade, a branch campus of Oklahoma Christian University, Oklahoma City. The gift, appraised at $1 million, was announced Aug. 19.

“We hope this contribution will further strengthen Christian education in the Northwest,” said Gambill, whose family contributed a separate property two years ago worth $688,000. “God blesses us and we have a responsibility to use his blessings for his glory.”

Professor, missionaries climb Kilimanjaro

ABILENE CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY

After spending 10 days doing medical mission work in Zambia, professor Neal Coates and seven others embarked on a different kind of mission.

Coates, an assistant professor of political science at Abilene Christian University, Abilene, Texas, and the rest of the group climbed Mount Kilimanjaro in late July.

The group reached the 19,341-foot-high peak of Uhuru after a seven-day, 38-mile trip in which they circled halfway around the mountain.

“It was the hardest mountain I have climbed, and the highest mountain I will ever climb,” Coates said.

The other six in the group included Coates’ 15-year-old daughter, Rebekah, Lynn Berry, Ross Berry, Phillip Garner, Luke Riddle and Rick Riddle. Before the climb, all joined in a medical mission sponsored by the Hillcrest church.

Sports management program launched

OHIO VALLEY UNIVERSITY

An expansion of academic offerings at Ohio Valley University, Vienna, W.V., will include a sports management degree.

“Our research indicates that student interest in sports management is booming,” said Larry Muller, chairman of the School of Business and Information Technology.

Ohio Valley also plans bachelor’s degrees in English and history and concentrations in biology, journalism, communications/mass media, criminal justice, mathematics and music.