By Norm Miller PINEVILLE (LCNews) – Louisiana College’s Preview Day featured Fred Lowery and Wayne Jenkins as keynoters for prospective students interested in a Missions & Ministries degree, and for students already in that track of studies. “Love God and love people.” That was the advice from Lowery, after whom the Fred Lowery Missions & Ministries Scholarship is named. “Do that and God’s favor will be on you.” Lowery, now retired from full-time church ministry, shared several vignettes of evangelism and their results from his career that included a 30-year stint as pastor of First Baptist Church, Bossier City. “God plus nothing is all you need,” Lowery said, adding that “trusting God alone allowed me to do things for God beyond my wildest dreams.” Christians “can get involved in so many things that we can forget the main thing, and that is telling others about Jesus,” Lowery added. “Do what God tells you to do and let God do the rest.” Jenkins said he owes “a huge debt to what Louisiana College taught me about evangelism and missions. LC shaped me and molded me, and I thank God for the missions heart planted in me there.” Now retired from the Louisiana Baptist Convention as Director of … [Read more...]

By Victor Villavieja PINEVILLE (LBM) — Louisiana College’s Preview Day attendance has increased 59 percent since last year, continuing the solid growth tendency of the last three years. Over 140 high school students were part of the March 24 event, which suggests that the student enrollment for the coming school year will rise again. The students and their families congregated at the Martin Performing Arts Center around 1 in the afternoon. It was a standing-room-only occasion. Rick Brewer, president of Louisiana College, welcomed the attendees and explained how the school is attempting to equip the students with the means to succeed in the 21st century. “We are preparing graduates to implement a change,” Brewer said. “The students receive an education that enables them to develop critical thinking, analytical reasoning, and problem-solving skills, while growing in their relationship with God. We have grown 24 percent in our student enrollment in two years, and the good word is getting out.” In the fall of 2017, Louisiana College registered a total of 474 new students, including first-time freshmen and transfers. Among them, there were 17 new international students from countries as diverse as Spain, Sweden, … [Read more...]

By Victor G. Villavieja Larraz PINEVILLE (LBM) — Richard Blackaby, president of Blackaby Ministries International, led Louisiana College’s chapel March 20, calling the students to become the mighty warriors they can be in God. Son of Henry Blackaby - author of “Experiencing God” – Richard travels the world speaking on various aspects of Christian life, ministering Christian CEOs as well as church and family leaders. Blackaby opened his sermon at the Martin Performing Arts Center by manifesting how necessary it is for Christians to integrate their faith and their occupation to implement change in God’s name. “Sermons alone will not transform a broken nation into a blessed one,” Blackaby said. “God is always calling professionals, business people, men and women who aren’t preachers. Many times, when God gets something done it’s not because someone preaches from a pulpit, but because someone puts his life in God’s hands and lets Him drive.” To illustrate his message, Blackaby read Judges 6:11-13 from his Bible, recalling the story of Gideon. “Now the angel of the Lord came and sat under the terebinth of Ophrah, which belonged to Joash the Abiezrite, while his son Gideon was beating out wheat in the winepress to hide … [Read more...]