Tony Campolo to speak at Missions Emphasis Week
MILLIGAN COLLEGE, TN (September 8, 2006) — Nationally-known speaker and author Dr. Tony Campolo will speak at
Milligan College’s Missions Emphasis Week next Tuesday, Sept. 12, at 11:00
in Seeger Memorial Chapel. The theme is “reaching the global
community.”
Campolo, who is a professor emeritus of sociology at Eastern University,
is a media commentator on religious, social and political matters. He has
appeared on Nightline, Crossfire,
Politically Incorrect, The Charlie Rose Show, Larry King Live and CNN News.
He co-hosted his own television series,
Hashing it Out, which aired on
the Odyssey Network. He has authored 32 books, his most recent being,
“Speaking My Mind.”
Campolo is the founder and president of the Evangelical Association for
the Promotion of Education (EAPE). EAPE
is a ministry that serves at-risk youth in urban America, as well as
sponsoring education and economic development programs in Third World
countries. The association runs 75 literacy centers in Haiti, helps the
National Evangelical University of the Dominican Republic, and has a
private school in Philadelphia for children from "intensely adverse
neighborhoods." EAPE also has organized an urban program in 30
neighborhoods across the country, offering sports and other activities for
poor children.An
ordained minister, Campolo has served American Baptist churches in New
Jersey and Pennsylvania and is presently an associate pastor of the Mount
Carmel Baptist Church in West Philadelphia, Pa. He previously served for
10 years on the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania. He is a
graduate of Eastern College and earned a doctorate in religion from Temple
University.
This
will be Campolo’s third visit as a guest speaker to Milligan College,
previously speaking as part of the Staley Distinguished Christian Scholar
Lecture Series in 1980 and 1999.
Missions
Emphasis Week is part of Milligan’s comprehensive campus ministry program,
which encourages spiritual formation through weekly chapel and vespers
services, convocation programs, small groups, community service, and
prayer and discipleship groups.
For
more information contact Nathan Flora, campus minister, at 423.461.8748,
or NFlora@milligan.edu.
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