[Perspective] A season of stewardship
With Convocation, we bring together new and returning students with faculty and staff to formally begin the academic year.
September 19, 2024
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With Convocation, we bring together new and returning students with faculty and staff to formally begin the academic year.
I’m grateful for the generations who came before us who faithfully and effectively stewarded this Christian university.
This year’s university theme has been “lives of meaningful work,” a phrase in our mission statement focused on one purpose of an Ouachita education. There are many dimensions to a life of meaningful work.
During the past four years, the number of worship studies majors has grown from fewer than 10 to more than 30.
It’s their stories that give me joy in this work and ministry known as Ouachita Baptist University and that illustrate the stewardship of Arkansas Baptists’ investment.
Arkansas Baptist churches, Baptist Collegiate Ministries, Williams Baptist University and Ouachita Baptist University are better together in helping the next generation contend for the faith which was once for all delivered unto the saints.
The following is the text of Dr. Ben Sells’ address to students, faculty and staff during Ouachita’s August 2023 Convocation ceremony.
At Ouachita Baptist, we’re committed to preparing our students for lives of meaningful work.
The most effective people are “learners” rather than “knowers.”
In four years, Ouachita’s nursing program has grown from zero to 100 students.
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