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Campolo to speak during Milligan’s Mission Emphasis Week


Milligan College, Tenn. (September 6, 2007) –Innercity minister Bart Campolo will speak in Seeger Memorial Chapel on Tuesday, Sept. 11, at 11 a.m., as a part of Mission Emphasis Week at Milligan College.

Campolo, a veteran urban minister and activist who speaks and writes about grace, faith, loving relationships and social justice, is the leader of The Walnut Hills Fellowship, a local ministry in innercity Cincinnati.  He also is the founder of Mission Year, a Christian ministry which recruits committed young adults to live and work among the poor in innercity neighborhoods across the country, and executive director of EAPE, which develops and supports innovative, cost-effective mission projects around the world.

Campolo’s visit is sponsored by Compassion International, a Christian child advocacy ministry that strives to release children from spiritual, physical, economic, and social poverty and enable them to become responsible, fulfilled Christian adults.

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 about Milligan College spiritual formation program and a schedule of speakers and events, visit http://www.milligan.edu/spiritual. You may also contact Nathan Flora, campus minister, at 423.461.8748, or NFlora@milligan.edu.


Posted by on September 6, 2007.