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Regent University’s 38th annual commencement on May 12, the most graduates in the school’s history (1,976) earned associate, bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees as members of the Class of 2018. The ceremony drew thousands of new alumni, family members, friends and distinguished guests to the Library Plaza. Beautiful spring weather served as a perfect backdrop for the 1,070 men and women who were on campus to receive their diplomas.
“We have more than 10,000 students representing 50 states, and 89 different countries. … With this year’s graduates, we will soon surpass 25,000 alumni who are making an impact for the kingdom of God.”
The university’s founder, chancellor and CEO, Dr. M.G. “Pat” Robertson, welcomed those in attendance to the biggest graduation ceremony in the university's history by sharing an impressive list of recent Regent accomplishments. “In the past few years, we’ve doubled our enrollment,” he stated.
“You are about to join many Regent alums who are already having a
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After officially opening commencement in prayer, Robertson introduced Phillip Walker, chairman of Regent’s board of trustees. Walker challenged the Class of 2018 to be leaders in their communities, their states and our nation:
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major impact in the areas of education, nursing, communication, law, government, counseling, ministry and business.” He continued, “I expect many of you will become the leading executives, educators, or even public servants improving the lives of our citizens, having the opportunity to take the gospel to the marketplace.” Walker closed his congratulatory remarks by encouraging graduates to hold the words of Philippians 1:6 close to their hearts: “Being confident of this very thing, that He who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.”
the commencement address at a school he’s been associated with since its early years, Crandall replied, “Wherever I can go to proclaim Christ, I go. It’s a great honor.”
Crandall first became involved with Regent many years ago, because he had a desire to interact with other like-minded professionals — lawyers, doctors, business people, "If you are achieving excellence, etc. — who believed in the power of the Holy all those around you will see Spirit. “When I came to that you are different, that the university for the first you're special — set apart from time,” he recalled. “I felt the presence of God.”
the world and different from what the world can offer.”
Regarding what he hoped graduates would remember from his DR. JOHN C.W. CRANDALL IV commencement speech, Crandall told Impact, “What I want them to take away is the sense of the power of the Holy Spirit in their life, Robertson then introduced commencement that the Holy Spirit will never leave them … speaker, Dr. John C.W. “Chauncey” and they can go forward with great boldness Crandall IV. A world-renowned cardiologist, author and speaker, Crandall currently and authority and still proclaim Christ in the workplace.” practices interventional vascular and transplant cardiology at Mount Sinai In his commencement address, Crandall Heart Hospital in New York, where he's challenged the graduates to always pursue an assistant professor of medicine. He also excellence. “As you are recognized for serves as director of preventive medicine and your good works and performance, you complex cardiology at Mount Sinai Heart are constantly building and setting up a Hospital in Palm Beach, Florida. professional work platform of credibility for Christ.” He added, “Everyone will In addition to these professional be watching you. If you are achieving accomplishments, Crandall is vice-chairman excellence, all those around you will see that of Regent University’s board of trustees and you are different, that you're special — set champions the university’s mission to equip Christian leaders to change the world. When apart from the world and different from what asked by Impact what it was like to deliver the world can offer.”
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Crandall also assured graduates that the biblical principle of sowing and reaping works in life and in the workplace. “If you sow excellence, you will reap excellence. If you sow respect, you will receive respect. And if you sow Christ’s love and kindness, you will reap a harvest of souls,” he said. “‘Never give up, and never give up on God’ should be your battle cry.” In closing, Crandall urged the class to follow the will of God for every decision and every step they take in life: “Seek Him. Pursue Him. Go into the world proclaiming His name. … This world is just too dark, too difficult, to navigate through without Christ and His direction.” When Robertson returned to the lectern to deliver his charge to the graduates, he urged them not to fear the future. “God says, ‘I have a plan for you to prosper you and do you good’ (Jeremiah 29:11). But as we step out into the future, He is the future, and we walk out into the One who loves us. … God Almighty is on your side. He is not against you. He is a Father who loves you.” He continued his charge, saying: “Don't fear the future. Be bold. Step up boldly into the future, because you are in the hands of an almighty and loving God. You don't have to be afraid.” In closing, he stated, “There's opportunity in today's world like you would not believe. So, don't fear when you graduate
from this place. I want you to know that, when you leave here, you step out into God. ‘I not only hold the future,’ He says, ‘I am the future.’” In response to that charge, Terry Smith, who received her Ph.D. from the School of Education, spoke on behalf of her fellow graduates. “Every one of us has a unique story,” she said. “While we will undoubtedly reflect on our past to help us determine what we seek for our future, it will not be our past that defines us. It will be the choices we make in the coming days, from the gifts we received today, that make the world a better place.”
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She encouraged her class to promote excellence, innovation and integrity in all they do: “Excellence, not apathy, is the goal of all those that cherish a prosperous direction. Too often people lean toward mediocrity to avoid standing out in the crowd. Be bold and proud of the skills you've attained, and encourage others to strive for their best.” The graduates also heard from the 2018 Alumnus of the Year, the Rev. Dr. Colleen Derr, president of Wesley Seminary at Indiana Wesleyan University in Marion, Indiana. She urged her new fellow alumni to recognize how the Holy Spirit used the university to change their lives. (See page five for a full article about Regent’s 2018 Alumnus of the Year.)
“Through Regent, the Holy Spirit has pushed you, has He not?” she asked. “He has pushed you, and you have learned how to think deeper, to dig down deep into knowledge, and it has become wisdom — wisdom that He wants you to use to change this world for Jesus Christ.” After the presentation of the graduates and the conferring of degrees upon the members of the Class of 2018, Robertson
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proclaimed, “Ladies and gentlemen, the moment you’ve been waiting for. You can now flip your tassels!” Immediately, the crowd was showered with 70 pounds of green, blue and silver confetti, signaling the end of commencement. For the benediction, Regent’s patriarch prayed the Aaronic Blessing from Numbers 6:24-26 over the graduates, “May the Lord bless you and keep you. May the Lord cause His face to shine upon you and be gracious unto you. May the Lord lift up His countenance upon you and give you His peace. In Jesus' name, amen and amen!”
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Raising Up the Next Generation The 2018 Alumnus of the Year tells graduates to embrace the impact Regent had on their lives
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he Rev. Dr. Colleen Derr ’13 was honored at commencement as the 2018 Alumnus of the Year. The School of Education graduate serves as president of Wesley Seminary at Indiana Wesleyan University in Marion, Indiana. Derr said she was “shocked” to be named alumnus of the year. “I’m just doing what the Lord calls me to do and walking through the open doors,” she told Impact shortly before commencement. “It doesn't feel spectacular. It just feels like what I'm supposed to be doing. So, when the call came, it was quite surprising.” Derr and her husband Wayne have been married for 37 years. They have four children and two grandchildren. “They're quite impressed that their mom is the president of a seminary,” she quipped. But, when it comes to partnering with and equipping local church leaders, Derr takes that very seriously. “Children and family ministry is my real passion,” she insisted. “I want to raise up the next generation of people who are going to serve the Church.” Prior to the commencement ceremony, Derr said she intended to deliver a charge to the Class of 2018 that invites graduates to embrace Regent’s impact: “They are a new person today than they were when they showed up. You can't be here and be a part of this community without it changing you. There is incredible formation that happens here when you're not looking. You come pursuing a degree, and you get so much more.” She continued, “Hopefully, they walk away looking back and saying, ‘I really am thankful for this place.’ Looking inward and saying, ‘I really have changed.’ And then, looking forward and saying, ‘OK, Lord. What do You have next?’”
Derr earned her doctorate in Christian Education Leadership at Regent by taking online courses and attending weeklong, on-campus residencies during the summer. “A graduate of the School of Business & Leadership said to me, 'You need to look at Regent,'” Derr explained. “It literally was one phone call with a faculty member that convinced me this is the place that I needed to be.” The Alumnus of the Year award was established in 2004 by the Regent University Office of Alumni Relations to recognize individuals who have gained elite distinction by their accomplishments and have brought positive change to the world. After receiving her award, Derr addressed the graduates, encouraging them to enjoy and celebrate the moment. “The Holy Spirit has used this place and these people to change your life,” she said. “The truth is you are more fully the person God created and ordained you to be today than you were that day when you first stepped on this campus. Embrace who you have become.” In closing, Derr added, “When the opportunity comes to do something really, truly outstanding … be willing to take the leap. It will scare you to death, but it is those moments where we let go of what we can do and jump into the things that the Lord is calling us to do that we truly experience His presence and His power in our lives. And we can say blessed be the name of the Lord!”
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A LEGACY A REGENT ALUM WATCHES HIS SON WALK THE SAME PATH HE DID DECADES EARLIER BY BRIAN CONNOR
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antaloupe and cottage cheese. Many people enjoy the dish for breakfast, but Dr. M.G. “Pat” Robertson ordered it for lunch in 1975 at the Grand Hotel across from Disneyland in Anaheim, California. It was a simple, yet providential, meal that God would use to impact me, my family and countless others, literally, around the world.
I first heard about a groundbreaking graduate university in Virginia Beach, Virginia, during my junior year at The King’s College in Briarcliff Manor, New York. It was 1985, the pre-internet era. So, I turned to an “ancient” resource for help — a landline. A few phone calls later and a CBN University brochure and application were on their way to my parents’ house outside Boston, Soon, “Eye has not seen, nor ear Massachusetts. I received word that I was heard, nor have entered into accepted and began making to head south after the heart of man, the things plans earning my bachelor’s degree in the spring of 1987. which God has prepared
You see, when Dr. Robertson bowed his head, giving thanks for his cantaloupe and cottage cheese, the Lord began to speak to him. “‘Build a school for My for those who love Him.” glory,’ and I said, ‘Yes, sir,’” But around that same Regent’s founder, chancellor time, several prominent 1 CORINTHIANS 2:9, NKJV and CEO remembers. televangelists became “He impressed on me that it engulfed in scandal. The was to train people in areas that would most media seemed to relish the opportunity to greatly impact society. We were going to mock these men and women of faith, whose have schools of law, government, education, sin was laid bare before the world. I quietly theology and so forth, and especially a school wondered and worried that the Christian of communications, where we could teach Broadcasting Network might be next. people how to do television.” Late one night, while flipping through TV channels, I asked God, “Who’s going to care Things moved quickly after that coffee-shop about a degree from CBN University?” lunch. Just three years later, on September 11, 1978, CBN University was born when seven As soon as I finished that thought, my faculty members began teaching 77 students cable box stopped on The 700 Club. I saw in rented office space in Chesapeake, Virginia. Dr. Robertson introducing a guest on the Thanks to the Christian Broadcasting program: CBN University student Antonio Network’s daily television program, The Zarro. His 1986 film, Bird in a Cage, had 700 Club, word spread far and wide about recently won the student Oscar for best this “adventure in Christian education,” as picture from the Academy of Motion Picture Dr. Robertson still refers to it. Arts and Sciences. Immediately, the Lord
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spoke to me: “If that school is good enough for the Academy, it’s good enough for you.” I arrived on campus in February of 1988. Over the next 2 1/2 years, I worked hard to earn my master’s degree in communication, while making lifelong friends and learning life-changing skills. I developed and sharpened my news writing and producing “chops,” studying under one of the university’s original seven professors, Dr. Robert Schihl. Studying and learning about communications, the media and the arts from a biblical perspective was an amazing experience. The professors were incredible, approachable and experts in their fields. My fellow students and I knew we were part of something very special. During my final few months at CBN University, I learned that my graduating class would be a historic one. The school, almost 12 years old at that time, was changing its name, and the Class of 1990 would be the first to have “Regent University” on our diplomas. That same year, Regent would play a huge role in orchestrating my introduction to the best and greatest blessing of my life: my beautiful wife Nancy. We met on campus and started dating when she was volunteering as a makeup artist on student films. We’ll be married 25 years this summer, and we have five wonderful children. Our two oldest — Ryan (’18) and Sarah (’20) — chose to pursue their undergraduate degrees at Regent, which now makes me a “legacy parent” at the university. When Ryan walked across the Library Plaza on May 12 to receive his Bachelor of Science degree in cybersecurity, it was a surreal feeling. First, I couldn’t believe that the 22 years since he’d been born and the 28 years since I walked that same path had passed so quickly. Second, I was surprisingly overwhelmed by the joy and gratefulness I felt for a God who had ordered both of our steps so completely and lovingly. You see, Ryan has his own amazing story about how he came to Regent. After graduating from a local Christian high school, Ryan accepted a scholarship to attend an area college that had direct ties to a prominent religious denomination. But after studying there for more than a year, he called me one day to discuss an important decision he was considering. “Dad, would you be OK if I transferred to Regent?” he asked. “I was sitting in the library today and realized that I don’t want to be here. I want to go to a real Christian college.”
My answer was a resounding, “Yes!” While I wouldn’t want to pressure any of our children to attend Regent, Nancy and I were thrilled to learn that Ryan and Sarah both felt God was leading them here. After all, I’d met the love of my life at this university. Also, the School of Communication & the Arts prepared me for a successful career that has taken me to six continents as a writer, copy editor, producer, and reporter with local and national news organizations and media ministries. Why wouldn’t I want to see my children blessed by Regent University the same way I have been? After commencement ended and I tracked down Ryan, he commented on how “fantastic” and “well done” the ceremony had been. “Everything was amazing. I couldn’t have dreamed this up,” he said. “It’s very overwhelming but very exciting.” I told him that I understood exactly how he felt. Then, I explained why the legacy that our family shares with Regent is so important and so special. It’s the fulfillment of God's promise that He will always watch over us. That He has a plan for us — a plan for good and not for evil, to give us a future and a hope (Jeremiah 29:11). My prayer for our son, our daughter and anyone associated with the university is that our rich legacy with Regent becomes their legacy. This university has become a very special and even a sacred place for us. But I know in my heart that Regent also wants to be that for other families, too — whether they attended in the past, are here now, or will attend in the future. This verse sums up our family’s Regent University experience better than any other: “Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor have entered into the heart of man, the things which God has prepared for those who love Him” (1 Cor. 2:9, NKJV).
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LAUNCHING LEADERS Meet six Regent graduates ready and equipped to change the world
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hortly after commencement ended, six newly minted alumni were asked to speak at a special Chancellor’s Luncheon inside The Founders Inn. Kayla Babitz, who had earned her master’s degree from the Robertson School of Government just minutes earlier, was the first “outstanding graduate” to share about her Regent experience. “These past three years at Regent have shaped my character in ways I could not have imagined,” she said. “My goal in attending Regent was to learn how to study government without becoming dismayed or discouraged like so many of the people I knew back home. In addition to being on the university’s moot court team, a Life Group Leader and involved in Campus Ministries, Babitz also helped lead the new Regent Royals cheerleading squad to a second-place finish at its first-ever national competition this year. “Regent introduced me to a community of believers who pursued government with the same passion they’d give the work of the mission field or the pulpit,” she explained. “We’ve learned at an institution that exalts Christ as the center of our study; and at this center, our eyes find focus.” Captain Shane Ferrell of the United States Army received his doctorate from the School of Psychology & Counseling. But he didn’t graduate alone, his wife Michelle also received
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her Ph.D. In fact, they met, fell in love and got married while attending Regent. “The story of what brought me to Regent is one of God’s faithfulness,” Ferrell said. “God’s plan throughout the [doctoral] program for me was one that I could never have guessed. Ferrell confessed that he applied to Regent after losing a bet. But he had a peace in his heart about being accepted into the School of Psychology & Counseling — a full year before submitting his application. “God is good,” Ferrell says. “He has placed me in a position where my full trust is on Him. He has directed us. So, I have no other reason to believe that it will not be anything other than the amazing life it has been so far.” Kelly Whelan endured a tremendous loss while pursuing her Doctor of Strategic Leadership degree at Regent. During the course of her studies, her father and oldest son died. The wife of an Army combat veteran, Whelan’s Regent journey began with two years left on her husband’s G.I. Bill. “I was compelled to research programs and schools,” she explained. “I wasn’t necessarily looking to attend a Christian university, but I kept being drawn in by the story of our founder Dr. Robertson, his vision to start a university, and a call to train students to represent Christ.”
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But answering the call to earn her doctorate at Regent was, at times, “overwhelmingly painful” for Whelan. Still, she walked through challenges and made sacrifices on the way to becoming the person that the Lord created her to be. “During my time at Regent, God stretched and challenged me to lean on Him, and not my own understanding,” Whelan shared with the luncheon crowd. “Regent University’s call for Christian leaders to change the world is a call to rise and build the Kingdom. And rise is what I will continue to do.” Captain Bruce Carson of the U.S. Navy graduated from Regent with degrees in both law and government. He has orders to be the foreign area officer stationed in Indonesia. But his first order of business at the Chancellor’s Luncheon was to thank his wife for “enduring” with him as he completed two degrees in two years.
Even though Dandridge dreamed about becoming an attorney since she was nine years old, the journey to earning a law degree wouldn’t be an easy one. “I walked away from God right after I graduated high school,” she said. “I went away to college … but it only lasted one semester. I didn't realize how difficult it would be.” Dandridge shared that she went through a long season of searching. But on February 12, 2010, God called her back to Him. “I answered with a yes,” she said. “Looking back, I realize that my dream of becoming an attorney was always in God's plan for my life.” Dandridge will head to Uganda soon to use her law degree to serve the people there. “I'll be working with the director of public prosecutions on things like child sacrifice and land grabbing,” she explained. “When I return from Uganda, I plan on going back to Chicago. I want to serve the community.”
Carson also thanked another family member, his late grandfather: “I live in this moment to live up to the legacy that he created. When he took me to church in the backwoods of West Virginia, he sparked that drive of Christ within me. So, I'm here because of that.”
Edward Moses graduated with a Master of Fine Arts in Film-Television and was the recipient of Regent’s Chancellor’s Scholarship. Just three years ago, he was at his computer, staring at the university's website.
Gloria Dandridge is from the South Side of Chicago. She’s one of only 10 students from her high school to go to college, and the only one to attend law school. “My high school class started with 300 students,” she remembered. “By the time I graduated, we were 100 students.”
Moses added: “I have seen God move mountains in my life. I have seen God split oceans in front of my eyes. I have seen God opening the floodgates of heaven and pouring out His unmerited favor and His goodness into my life. And I'm totally convinced that if this God starts something in someone's life, He is faithful, and He is able to complete it.”
“Not long ago, while I was in India,” Moses Originally, Carson enrolled at Regent to earn explained, “I was sitting in my house like a a law degree, but the Army wanted him to do potato with no hope, with no way, surrounded something completely different. “The Army by mountains of impossibilities [and] filled said we don't need any more with fears and anxieties lawyers. We need you to get about my future. … But all “During my time at an international degree.” through that time, there was he explained. this little bit of flame that Regent, God stretched was burning in my heart.” and challenged me to So, after spending the next year in California, learning lean on Him, and not my Moses admitted that he to speak Indonesian, he’ll faced some difficult, even own understanding.” spend another year as a embarrassing, times at foreign exchange Army officer Regent due to cultural KELLY WHELAN in Malaysia. Then he’ll go differences. “But all through to Indonesia and work as a that time God was with military attaché to the U.S. ambassador there. me,” he insisted. “God used his people here to “I will go forward,” he insisted. “I will be that encourage me, to speak life into me and even Christian leader to change the world!” to give me a hug. God has been faithful.”
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REGENT WORLD CHANGER Dr. Arian Moore, the founder and publisher of Bibs & Business Magazine, graduated, for the second time, from Regent this spring. But when she earned her master’s degree in journalism from the School of Communication & the Arts in 2010, Moore was unable to attend the ceremony. She wasn’t out of town; she was in the hospital.
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“I did not participate in commencement when I completed my master’s degree,” she explains. “I literally turned in my thesis in the hospital after giving birth to my first son.”
Thankfully, Moore was able to attend her second commencement ceremony. She graduated on May 12 with a Ph.D. in Organizational Leadership from the university’s School of Business & Leadership. “It was an amazing experience,” she says. “The procession was the highlight for me, because that's when it really hit me that I had finished; that I was now ‘Dr. Moore.’ … I started my master’s degree while living in Virginia Beach when it was just my husband and me. I came back with four children and a Ph.D. He's a good God.” The busy wife, mother, journalist and adjunct professor puts her Regent degrees and 15-plus years of media experience to use publishing Bibs & Business. The online magazine, launched in January 2018, provides tools and resources to promote a healthy work-life balance for working moms. It covers topics ranging from parenting to leadership to helpful recipes and is written by contributors who are living life every day as working moms. “Regent prepared me to be a world changer because I was given the tools to go out in the world and honor God in any field,” Moore insists. “The integration of faith and instruction opened my eyes to the spiritual connection between our faith and academia, our faith and the world. We don't have to be in a Christian environment to put God on display. His influence in our lives should be evident no matter what arena we are in.” PLEASE JOIN THE ENTIRE REGENT UNIVERSITY COMMUNITY IN PRAYING FOR DR. ARIAN MOORE, JUNE’S ALUMNI WORLD CHANGER.
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A Message From the Chancellor Dear Friend, I was thrilled to see Regent award associate, bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees to nearly 2,000 members of the Class of 2018 at the university’s 38th annual commencement ceremony. Thanks to this year’s graduates, we reached a historic milestone and now have nearly 25,000 alumni. Regent alums reside in all 50 states and in 131 countries around the world. By offering degrees in 129 unique areas of study, these men and women are making a global impact in the fields of media, cybersecurity, education, law, business, theology, government, psychology, nursing and more. In my charge to this year’s graduates, I told them not to be afraid of the future because the God we serve is the future. The Lord will hold their hand as they prepare to walk boldly into the world. He has a plan for every one of them — to prosper them and do them good. I also encouraged Regent’s newest alumni not to fear because God is on their side as they prepare to serve as communicators, teachers, lawyers, politicians, ministers, missionaries, business leaders and other professionals. God has done so much since telling me to build a school for His glory more than 40 years ago. But it’s the faithful prayers and generous support of friends and donors that empower us to continue equipping Christian leaders to change the world. Influenced by award-winning faculty, Regent University is one of the world’s leading academic centers for Christian thought and action. I want as many students as possible to have the resources they need to answer God’s call to attend Regent University. Please consider what role you can play, financially and/or prayerfully, to help equip the next class of Christian leaders to change the world. Thank you for your friendship and support.
Dr. M.G. “Pat” Robertson Chancellor, Founder & CEO
May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in Him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit. ROMANS 15:13, NIV
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