May 15, 2009

This past week has been a shuttle run between meetings at the Columbia Union, and spending time at Blue Mountain Academy. At the Columbia Union, I attend the President’s Council, which consists of all the Conference Presidents in the Union along with the Union Officers. Then I also attended the Columbia Union College Board of Trustees meeting. One of the significant issues at the CUC BOT meeting was to vote to recommend to the CUC Constituency meeting that the name of CUC be changed to Columbia Adventist University.

Tuesday night, the BMA Board interviewed 2 candidates for BMA Principal. I also had 2 faculty/staff appointments that night to listen to campus concerns and hopes for the future.

Thursday I met with the BMA Principal Search Committee as they interviewed each of the 2 Principal candidates for about 2 hours each.

Tamyra Horst, our communications Director also filmed me giving the closing appeal for this years Evangelism offering DVD to be shown in each church. Also on Thursday I met with each of the Principal candidates one-on-one. I also met with another member of the BMA faculty to listen to concerns and hopes for the future. Then in the evening on Thursday, the Principal Search Committee met again to carefully consider what recommendation to make to the BMA Board on Friday, based on the interviews. On Friday, the Search Committee recommended to the BMA Board that we not make a final decision on a candidate at this time, but prayerfully consider an additional person before making a recommendation.

While at BMA on Thursday, I got to see the finishing work on the first bathrooms in the East wing of the Boy’s Dorm. Brian Butler and his daughter Monica are doing a great job with the tile.

Dean David Ringer showed me an example of the new windows that will shortly be installed.

Please encourage all those you know to give generously for BMA to make this wonderful necessary upgrades.