UNION MEETINGS INCLUDE NEW BUILDING AT WAU AND POTENTIAL WAU OFFERINGS AT ATLANTIC UNION

Four times per year, as Conference president, I join all the other Conference Presidents of the Columbia Union by meeting with the Columbia Union Officers for regularly scheduled meetings and committees. This particular week also included a meeting of the Columbia Union Board of Education, on Tuesday afternoon.

Then on Wednesday, I met on the campus of Washington Adventist University. Early in the morning I served as a member of the Marketing sub-committee of the WAU Board of Trustees to discuss ways that WAU can continue to make the opportunities for Adventist Christian Higher Education better known throughout our region.

One of the unique opportunities for our Pennsylvania youth and young adults, is that WAU has agreed to offer the same scholarship matching grant to our Pennsylvania young people who participate in our PA ShareHim summer evangelism program of preaching a full series overseas and then a second series within PA. That means WAU is willing to fully match 100% of the $1,500 scholarship from the PA Conference for our young people participating in our summer evangelism program.

Later in the morning, I participated in the Washington Adventist University Board of Trustees meeting. While we were meeting, work was taking place outside our meeting area on the new Music Building. The excavation was preparing the ground for the foundation to go in. It is good to see this new building on the WAU campus taking shape.

WAU is beginning a serious conversation with Atlantic Union College and the Atlantic Union on WAU being the educational institution providing the educational coursework at the Atlantic Union College location. AUC has recently lost is accreditation, and WAU and AUC are diligently exploring the possibility of WAU becoming the college provider for SDA higher education in New England under the title, Washington Adventist University at Atlantic Union College. Technically, this means WAU would establish a branch campus of Washington Adventist University at Atlantic Union College.

You can read more about that on the Columbia Union Visitor or on the Visitor website. WAU would then be THE Seventh-day Adventist institution of Higher Education from New England down the Eastern Seacost through the mid-Atlantic.