From our President WELCOME TO THIS YEAR’S
Students returned back to campus
committed to being “Bible-centered” in
EDITION OF THE GRACE CHRISTIAN
under these health precautions and
our curriculum, and in our actions and
UNIVERSITY JOURNEY MAGAZINE!
screening processes which continue
processes. The need to prepare a new
to be practiced daily. Last fall, we held
generation to be effectively serving in
Does it seem to you like it has been a
chapel outside in the Quad for the first
an anxious world has never been more
journey of more than one year since you
three months of the semester until it
important! Also, the need to reach
received the last edition? It sure does to
became too cold to do so. We moved
adults with our online classes who desire
most of us! The last twelve months have
into the Aldrich Athletic Center for
to be equipped to serve more effectively
aged us by about five years instead of
chapel, and then on to Baker Chapel
where they are is clearly also fulfilling
one year (it’s like we are living in “dog
with only a limited number allowed in
our mission.
years”) due to all the unrest, uncertainty,
person and most others viewing online!
and having to navigate extenuating
Students were restricted from in-person
Please take some time to read a few
circumstances. Last spring, Grace had
attendance the last three weeks of the
articles and thank God for how He
to send students home due to state
fall 2020 semester. As you read the
continues to sustain Grace Christian
mandated shutdowns and complete
good athletics article, you will see the
University (your institution) through
the semester by teaching exclusively
sudden cancellation of the basketball
the storms of time. This generation
online. We had to send almost all our
season last year, and that COVID testing
must take the challenge to educate and
employees home, and ask them to work
prevented the women’s volleyball from
prepare the next generation to serve
from home.
competing at nationals this year.
Christ! Please engage in this with us and be part of God’s force for good and His
We have updated and sterilized our
In the midst of all of this crazy upheaval,
saving voice to the lost (2 Corinthians
campus thanks to Nate Johnson and his
we continue with the same mission –
5:17-21) and needy.
wonderful team as well as the excellent
Graduating Godly Individuals Prepared
housekeeping staff. Faculty and staff
To Serve Christ In Church And Society.
have been welcomed back, and daily
Our mission did not change and it
screening procedures have been put into
will not change, as it remains relevant
place for our employees and students.
and impactful throughout all these challenges. Grace Christian University is
2 | THE JOURNEY
Ken Bruce Kemper, PhD
