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Volume IV, Number II Montreal, NC 28757 September 26, 2003
Community Stands Strong
During Presidential Search
Lyndsay Mayer
Former Montreal College presi
dent John S. Lindbcrg resigned his
position in May 2003. The Asheville
Citizen-Times linked Lindberg with
allegations of an Internet scandal
in association with a female minor,
although official charges have yet to
be filed.
The Board of Trustees unani
mously elected Montreal College
professor Dr. Don King as interim
president until another president is
appointed.
The presidential search committee
continues to wade through a stack of
applicants in the quest for finding
the man or woman who will lead
Montreal into the future. The com
‘^You will go out in joy and be led forth in peace;
the mountains and hills will burst into song before
you, and all the trees of the field will clap their
hands. ”
- Isaiah 55:12
Chapel Band Packs Up
to Rock SYATP Rally
Kortney Blythe
Early on September 17, 2003 sev
eral million middle and high school
students from around the world
circled their school’s flagpole for
the 14“’ annual See You at the Pole
- National Day of Student Prayer
(SYATP).
That evening Black Mountain
area church youth groups hosted
the 3''“ after-the-event rally at Lake
Tomahawk to press the importance
of “really changing the next day at
school and not going back to the
way things were,” according to Scott
Davis, youth pastor for First Baptist
Church.
Members of the chapel band
jarnmed with their new portable
equipment for about 75 kids and
adults from the area. This was just
the type of outreach the new equip
ment was purchased for, according to
Nathan Thomas, leader of the chapel
band.
Thomas boasts that the new speak
ers, monitors, sound board, and
microphones, “enhance the worship
experience with a crisp and clear
sound and allow for easy transporta
tion.”
“1 wish our sound equipment was
this good,” admits David Tranthan,^
Van Brocklins Say
Aloha to Montreat
mittee’s ideal president is someone
able to demonstrate Christ-centered
servant leadership with experience in
fund raising and student recruitment,
preferably in higher education.
Board of Trustees Chairman Bob
Wynne reports record enrollment and
retention at Montreal, as well as tre
mendous support from the commu
nity. The college received a $50,000
anonymous contribution over the
summer, in addition to a $1000 gift
from a Black Mountain schoolteacher
who told interirri president King she
wished it could have been “ten times
as much.”
Wynne praises King for “doing
an outstanding job in the healing
process.” Another faculty member
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April Heyward
Dr. Gary and Marlene Van Brocklin
will relinquish their teaching positions
in the Bible and Religion Department
this December to join the pastoral staff
at First Presbyterian Church in Hono
lulu, Hawaii.
In January, Dr. Van Brocklin will
take on the role of Pastor of Family
Life in the 1000+-member church.
Youth workers within the Family Life
department will be reporting to him.
His specific focus will be the church’s
singles ministry.
By moving to Hawaii, the Van
Brocklin’s are able to return to their
previous missionary career. “Most of
our adult life has been spent minister
ing in a multi-cultural, multi-ethnic
metropolitan area,” says Gary, “This
senior at Owen High School and
member of First Baptist youth group.
Chaplain Dr. Bill Cain bought the
equipment from Hames Music in
Gaffney, SC with money from the
Chaplain fund. Throughout the last
several years various churches have
made donations to supplement the
$8,000 yearly budget, and the money
from their giving provided for the
extra purchase. Cain clarifies, “There
is no way we could have purchased
[the equipment] without the gifts
from the churches.”
In the past the chapel band and
Montreal Presbyterian Church shared
equipment. Thomas commented,
“now we don’t have to ask for
permission to use it for any event.”
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gives us a chance to do that again.”
The move will be a way to “con
tinue the call of cross-cultural work,”
says Mrs. Van Brocklin. The couple
worked in the mission fields of Latin
America for 17 years. They have lived
in Lima, Peru, La Paz, Bolivia, and
Miami, Florida.
Senior Candace Kohli thinks Dr.
Van Brocklin “brings in his view of
the world from being a missionary in
Bolivia and Peru. He teaches in light
of that, and opens people’s eyes to the
fact that there is something other than
white middle class suburbia.”
To Dr. Van Brocklin, relocating to
the island enables him to reunite with
his past. “My childhood years were
spent in Honolulu,” he explains. When
preaching at the church as part of the
interviewing process, he was able to
see high school and college classmates
as well as old family members. “Some
people I hadn’t seen in forty years,” he
said .
For the eight years they have
worked at Montreal, the Van Brocklins
both strived to teach students “a con
cern for the larger world.” They taught
many classes for the Cross-Cultural
concentration of the Bible and Reli
gion Department, and incorporated
past missionary experiences in their
lectures.
Sophomore Stephanie Kates con
siders Dr. Van Brocklin’s Foundations
of Cross-Cultural Ministry class one
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