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Gardner-Webb Office Of Christian Life And Service Leads Mission Groups To U.S., Brazil And Kenya, Office Of University Communications Sep 2024

Gardner-Webb Office Of Christian Life And Service Leads Mission Groups To U.S., Brazil And Kenya, Office Of University Communications

Gardner-Webb NewsCenter Archive

“Mission trips orient students’ hearts toward God and their hands toward humanity (Mark 12:30-31),” asserted Dr. Josh Parrott, Gardner-Webb’s vice president and university chaplain for Christian Life and Service. “These trips allow us to live out our university motto: Pro Deo et Humanitate (for God and Humanity).”


Gardner-Webb Mission Team Will Assist In Medical Clinics In Eswatini, Office Of University Communications Feb 2024

Gardner-Webb Mission Team Will Assist In Medical Clinics In Eswatini, Office Of University Communications

Gardner-Webb NewsCenter Archive

In May, Gardner-Webb University students and leaders will travel to Eswatini (formerly Swaziland) to assist in the medical clinics run by the Kudvumisa Foundation (https://www.kudvumisafoundation.org/). Impoverished families in this African country have little to no access to medical care and one of the world’s highest HIV/Aids prevalence rates. Over the last 15 years, with the help of generous donors and volunteers, the non-profit organization has built two clinics and maintains a mobile outreach van. The Foundation’s missionaries constantly strive to increase the number of families they serve.


Gardner-Webb Pa Students Travel To Kenya For Final Clinical Experience Before Graduation, Office Of University Communications May 2023

Gardner-Webb Pa Students Travel To Kenya For Final Clinical Experience Before Graduation, Office Of University Communications

Gardner-Webb NewsCenter Archive

For their final elective clinical practice experience in the Master of Physician Assistant (PA) Studies Program at Gardner-Webb University, three May 2023 graduates decided to test their skills in another country. Myah Harrison of Belmont, N.C., April Evans of Spartanburg, S.C., and Sarah Hiscocks of Bullock, N.C., flew nearly 18 hours and paid out-of-pocket to work in Kenya.


Gardner-Webb Is Only N.C. School Recognized As A Christian College Of Distinction, Office Of University Communications Aug 2022

Gardner-Webb Is Only N.C. School Recognized As A Christian College Of Distinction, Office Of University Communications

Gardner-Webb NewsCenter Archive

Colleges of Distinction, a unique guide for college-bound students, has recognized Gardner-Webb for its commitment to encourage and challenge undergraduate students in their Christian growth. The University is the only North Carolina school to receive designation as a 2022-2023 Christian College of Distinction.


Volunteers From Gardner-Webb Serve On Medical Mission Team To Dominican Republic, Office Of University Communications Jan 2020

Volunteers From Gardner-Webb Serve On Medical Mission Team To Dominican Republic, Office Of University Communications

Gardner-Webb NewsCenter Archive

Two members of the Gardner-Webb University community recently returned from a medical mission trip to Barahona in the Dominican Republic. Dr. Sydney Brown, dean of the Gail Bolt Price School of Graduate Studies and professor of education, and Brook Wright, a second-year student in the Master of Science in Nursing-Family Nurse Practitioner program, traveled with Dream Ministries, an organization that has been working in the Dominican for over 20 years. Through the years, multiple GWU nursing faculty and students have been a part of this mission experience.


Gwu Fall Semester Begins By Celebrating Academic Excellence And Christian Mission, Office Of University Communications Sep 2019

Gwu Fall Semester Begins By Celebrating Academic Excellence And Christian Mission, Office Of University Communications

Gardner-Webb NewsCenter Archive

Gardner-Webb University President Dr. William M. Downs recently began the semester by presiding over the Fall Academic Convocation and giving a special address to students as part of the Dimensions series. During both programs, Downs focused on Gardner-Webb’s mission. “I want to underscore one important message as we launch this new year,” Downs stated at the Fall Convocation. “And the message is this—we are a private university with a very public mission, and it is incumbent upon all of us to live up to that public mission in some way.”


Medical Mission Team From Gardner-Webb University Cares For Refugees In Thailand, Office Of University Communications Jun 2019

Medical Mission Team From Gardner-Webb University Cares For Refugees In Thailand, Office Of University Communications

Gardner-Webb NewsCenter Archive

A 12-member team from Gardner-Webb University served on a medical mission trip to Thailand from May 13-23. Led by Dr. Nicole Waters, interim associate provost of the College of Health Sciences, associate professor and dean of the Hunt School of Nursing, and Dr. Candice Rome, associate professor of nursing, the group included six nursing majors, two exercise science majors and two biology majors. Working with missionaries, team members provided basic health care in Thailand to approximately 300 refugees of all ages, from multiple countries.


Gwu Research Scholar Conducts Testing For The American College Of Sports Medicine, Office Of University Communications Apr 2019

Gwu Research Scholar Conducts Testing For The American College Of Sports Medicine, Office Of University Communications

Gardner-Webb NewsCenter Archive

Research conducted by Gardner-Webb University senior Savannah Hollifield will have an immediate impact on the fitness world. Her findings will be added to the data used by the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) to establish a normative base for its cycle ergometer protocol and push-up test. The exercise science major from Forest City, N.C., was one of 13 students who received a grant from the Undergraduate Research Scholars program for the summer 2018 term.


Gwu Physician Assistant Alumna Provides Medical Care In Underserved Community, Office Of University Communications Mar 2019

Gwu Physician Assistant Alumna Provides Medical Care In Underserved Community, Office Of University Communications

Gardner-Webb NewsCenter Archive

The Gardner-Webb University Physician Assistant (PA) Studies program launched in 2014 with a mission to provide care to medically underserved people. Sarah McManus, a member of the program’s second graduating class in 2017, is fulfilling that goal. She works with her father in a rural family practice in Morganton, N.C.


Gardner-Webb Alumnus, Former Trustee Chairman Passes Away, Office Of University Communications Dec 2018

Gardner-Webb Alumnus, Former Trustee Chairman Passes Away, Office Of University Communications

Gardner-Webb NewsCenter Archive

A physician known as a quiet, humble servant in the Boiling Springs and Gardner-Webb community passed away Dec. 9, 2018. Dr. H. Gene Washburn, a 1952 GWU alumnus and former Board of Trustee chair, is remembered for his devotion to his family and faith, his dedication as a family practice physician, and his support for his alma mater. His family connection to Gardner-Webb dated back to the very birth of the institution.


Couple Who Met At Gardner-Webb University Share A Passion To Serve Others, Office Of University Communications May 2018

Couple Who Met At Gardner-Webb University Share A Passion To Serve Others, Office Of University Communications

Gardner-Webb NewsCenter Archive

Military wives often wonder what they will do while their husband is deployed. The answer for Hannah Currin Keller, a 2012 alumna of Gardner-Webb University, was to follow God’s direction. Hannah is volunteering in West Africa for nine months, while her husband, Jake, a 2013 GWU alumnus, spends the next year serving in Iraq with the 878th National Guard Engineering Company based out of Kings Mountain, N.C.


Mission Experience Gives Gwu Nursing Student A Look Into Her Future, Office Of University Communications Nov 2017

Mission Experience Gives Gwu Nursing Student A Look Into Her Future, Office Of University Communications

Gardner-Webb NewsCenter Archive

As a 15-year-old, Hope Still sensed God was calling her into medical missions. Her first step toward answering the call was choosing to major in nursing at Gardner-Webb University. A recent opportunity to spend three weeks at a mission hospital in South Asia helped to provide even more clarity for the junior from Harrisburg, N.C.


Fourth-Year Medical Student Values Gwu Professors Who ‘Invested In His Life’, Office Of University Communications Feb 2017

Fourth-Year Medical Student Values Gwu Professors Who ‘Invested In His Life’, Office Of University Communications

Gardner-Webb NewsCenter Archive

Tyler Beckler (’13), a native of Hickory, N.C., described himself as an idealistic 18-year-old when he arrived on campus at Gardner-Webb University. “I wanted to make people’s lives better—to change the world—but I had no idea how to do that,” he recalled. Before the end of the first semester, though, his future started to take shape.


Nursing Faculty And Noel Center Help Student Achieve Success, Office Of University Communications Sep 2016

Nursing Faculty And Noel Center Help Student Achieve Success, Office Of University Communications

Gardner-Webb NewsCenter Archive

On her first day of class in the Hunt School of Nursing at Gardner-Webb University, Kimberly White (’17) of Shelby, N.C., strained to hear what her instructor was saying. As she wondered what to do, the instructor came to a section in the syllabus that described how the Noel Center provides assistance to students with disabilities. “I had a hearing deficit due to Meniere’s disease and I wear hearing aids, but I didn’t see myself as having a disability,” White explained.


Gardner-Webb Alum Prepared For Medical School And Ministry, Office Of University Communications Sep 2016

Gardner-Webb Alum Prepared For Medical School And Ministry, Office Of University Communications

Gardner-Webb NewsCenter Archive

Caitlin Silver Porter (’14) majored in biology at Gardner-Webb University as a stepping stone to medical school. She minored in mission studies, because of her heart for ministry. A course that explored issues in science and religion helped to connect her two interests.


Gwu Athletic Trainer, Students To Participate In Medical Mission Trip May 13-20, Office Of University Communications Feb 2014

Gwu Athletic Trainer, Students To Participate In Medical Mission Trip May 13-20, Office Of University Communications

Gardner-Webb NewsCenter Archive

The Gardner-Webb Athletic Training Program is looking for help to fund its mission trip to the Dominican Republic this May, and is offering several different means through which people can donate. Assistant Athletic Trainer Stephenie Stark and two Gardner-Webb athletic training students will depart campus on May 13 and travel to the Dominican Republic to help those less fortunate than themselves. Through Christian Sports Medicine Alliance (CSMA) and a partnership with SCORE International, Stark and the students will be teaming up with Dr. Doug Duncan of SCORE and their team of missionaries to help raise the profile of athletic training …