Mercer student Kevin Waits traveled to China with a group from the Mercer on Mission program, when he returned, his hometown newspaper the Jackson Progress-Argus in Jackson, Ga., wrote a story on published Wednesday, June 25. To link to the story, click here.
Archive for June, 2008
This story was published Thursday, June 19, in the Macon Telegraph. Click here to link to the story.
Mercer student Andrew Lockwood, of Ringgold, is spending his summer working with Baptist missionaries in Ecuador and is documenting his trip on his blog, andrewinecuador2008.blogspot.com. The trip, which began June 6 and will end Aug. 2, marks Lockwood’s fourth time in Ecuador. The junior industrial engineering student is keeping the blog this year to document his trip.
Lockwood is assisting missionaries Steve and Carol Thompson in their work. The Thompsons have been working in the country for 21 years and run a camp for church groups who come on mission trips. Lockwood said he plans to do whatever is needed to help the Thompsons, including construction, vacation Bible schools, translating and hosting church groups that come in from the United States on a weekly basis. Lockwood hopes to travel to the Amazon jungle, another area of Steve Thompson’s ministry, which is located in the outpost city of Tena.
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Andrew Silver, associate professor of English, will be interviewed on Georgia Public Broadcasting’s statewide news program, “Georgia Gazette,” today at 6 p.m. Silver, who also teaches in the First Year Seminar program, will speak about the prevalence of sex trafficking in Macon.
Silver and his FYS 102 class researched sex trafficking after studying the concepts of justice in the Judeo-Christian tradition and were surprised by the scope of the problem in Macon. In the latter half of spring semester, students from Silver’s class, along with some of Dr. Mary Alice Morgan’s students from the Women’s and Gender Studies program, along with Chris Fuller and members of Baptist Collegiate Ministries, founded an organization called S.T.O.P., the Sex Trafficking Opposition Project, to raise awareness about the issue.
“Georgia Gazette” is a news program that showcases topics from politics to arts and culture throughout Georgia. It airs each weeknight at 6 p.m. on local GPB stations and at 7 p.m. in Athens. In Macon, the show airs on WMUM 89.7FM. To listen online, visit the GPB streaming site for a live stream of the broadcast, or listen to the Georgia Gazette podcast after the interview. For a list of GPB stations, dowload the pdf here.
Allen Lynch, associate professor of economics at the Eugene W. Stetson School of Business and Economics was quoted Thursday in The Financial Times, one of the world’s most important business and financial newspapers. The June 11 article about the business of golf cites Lynch’s work in the use of sales data for golf equipment as an indicator of financial downturns.
The column, by David Owen, entitled “In the Rough” is available here. (Free registration may be required)
