Exciting Speakers

Man, how I wish somebody would have been organizing stuff like this during my first year. I just want to share how excited I am about a couple upcoming chapel and Dean's Forum speakers in November-December.

Wednesday, November 30 brings a Dean's Forum and the Student Council Worship Service at 5:00 and 6:30, respectively. For both we've got Rev. Donald Messer, former President of Iliff School of Theology, Director of the Center for the Church and Global AIDS, author of Breaking the Conspiracy of Silence, a book on the same subject, and co-author with the eminent Midwestern Senators Bob Dole (R-KS) and George McGovern (D-SD) of Ending Hunger Now, a congregational resource that works as a book or as a six-week small group discussion on world hunger. As near as I can figure, Messer is a class act. (And he thinks Wesley is an excellent school.)

Oh, yeah, he also used to be the Director of the UMC's General Board of Global Ministries, whose "Global Justice Volunteer" program remains the best value in service-abroad programs I have ever heard of, and which happily sent me to a summer (winter) in Stellenbosch, South Africa. Can I stress that I think he's a good guy?

More on the other speaker later.