Celebrating young women and Christian higher education during the Alabama Baptist State Convention annual meeting, Judson College President David Potts shared about life at the Marion campus as well as the Judson imprints that have been left around the world.
“We celebrated some wonderful events this past year,” Potts said, noting various missions trips taking place around the world and just down the street from the 169-year-old college.
In the Book of Reports, various activities were noted such as the Marion Matters ministry projects and other ongoing projects in local schools and nursing homes.
Judson also experienced an upgrade to campus facilities with renovations to the WMU Residence Hall and the new Charles F. Dunkin Athletic Park. Renovations will soon begin on the Mary Katherine Archibald Blount Student Union Building.
The college continues its small student-teacher ratio, according to the Book of Reports. “Our student-teacher ratio is 10–1 which ensures individual attention for every student and an engaged collegiate experience. … Our students enjoy all the advantages of a small campus, yet they can choose from a wide variety of academic programs — 19 majors, 24 minors and 11 pre-professional programs.”
“Judson College is a remarkable place academically for a young woman to receive her education,” Potts said.
Laura Bohler Forman echoed Potts’ assessment of Judson.
Forman, church relations representative for the college, spent four years in China following her graduation from Judson in 2001.
“It was because of Judson College that God gave me a heart for the nations where I could meet a China Christian who was doing exactly what Jesus said in Matthew 16:24–25,” she said.
A church leader and her daughter were being questioned by police officers while Forman was with them.
“Fear began to rise up in my heart as I wondered what would happen to this leader,” she said. “I was standing there with her daughter, who was 14 years old. She said, ‘Don’t worry about us. We have no money to give to God, but we can give Him our life.’”
Forman is part of what Potts referred to as the “third wave” — the new millennium of those who have served in China and the Middle East.
Pointing to Luke 8, Potts said, “It is significant to know Christ kept company with and ministered to women.
“By far the most important thing we do is encourage young women to be in the company of Christ.” (TAB)
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