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Jackson News 11/06/2007 - “The Small Church: Wasteland or Promised Land?” On November 6, 2007, as part of the John Reed Miller Lecture Series, the Session of Delhi Presbyterian Church hosted a pizza lunch to discuss the life of the small church. Did you know that the typical Protestant church has an average attendance of 89 on Sunday?  In fact, 60%... Click here to read full article 11/06/2007 - Mark Dever Gives John Reed Miller Lectures We wanted to take a minute to extend a big “Thank You” to Mark Dever for delivering an outstanding series of lectures on the subject of preaching on November 6-8, 2007.  Mark Dever serves as the pastor of Capitol Hill Baptist Church in Washington, DC, is the... Click here to read full article 11/05/2007 - Clarifying that which the New Sign Signifies During the week of November 5, 2007, a new Student Center sign was placed in front of Patterson’s Porch that is consistent with the other fancy new signage around campus.   This sign is not the actual Student Center, but this statement reflects an important theological principle which you’ll find... Click here to read full article 11/05/2007 - Hoffecker Releases Revolutions Revolutions are more than warfare.   “Revolution in ideas” is the theme of the recently released Revolutions in Worldview: Understanding the Flow of Western Thought edited by Dr. Andrew Hoffecker, Professor of Church History. Working from the premise that all people have a worldview (i.e., the fundamental beliefs and... Click here to read full article 10/27/2007 - The Fall Festival, A Report The Fall Festival held on October, 27, 2007 was quite a festive affair with games for the kids that included bobbing for apples, a three-legged race, and a horse piñata. All sorts of characters came out: Batman and Batgirl, Superman (complete with goggles), Anakin Skywalker, Angelina Ballerina, a pumpkin, a... Click here to read full article 10/15/2007 - Introducing the 2007-08 Student Cabinet The Student Cabinet may go unnoticed but it is they who plan and organize special activities of fellowship and fun on campus such as the Luau, Game Night, Fellowship of the Nations, and sports tournaments.   All of which are greatly enjoyed by the unseen... Click here to read full article 10/15/2007 - New Maintenance Staff Member Michael Clark has joined the RTS Jackson maintenance staff as HVAC specialist.  Michael was born to a military family in Honolulu, Hawaii, but he grew up in Jackson.  He is self taught, self employed, and has spent the last two years working down on the coast repairing Katrina damage.  He... Click here to read full article 10/15/2007 - New Staff Member Bethany Wilber has agreed to take over where Robin Elliott had begun to work as Assistant Bookstore Manager for our Jackson store.  Most of her duties will be in the “back room” handling receivables, inventory, reports, etc.  Bethany attended RTS for three semesters back in 2006-07.  She is a graduate... Click here to read full article 09/24/2007 - The Field of Dreams is Finished The “Dream” began back in the spring as we were finishing the lighting project in which the old concrete monstrosities were replaced with our current aesthetically pleasing “neighborhood like” lampposts.  We needed to dispose of 8 of those towering concrete lights, and Robert Benton (Maintenance) suggested to Guy Richardson (President)... Click here to read full article 09/23/2007 - Siding Installation at the RTS Townhomes Installation of siding at the RTS townhomes began the week of September 23, 2007. Robert Benton’s letter about the siding installation informed residents that contractors will only be working during regular business hours (7:30am to 5:00pm) and will not work on Sunday.  To give a sense of when the crew... Click here to read full article 09/22/2007 - Fall 2007 Launch Dr. Hurley has done 22 Launches since he came to RTS. The “Launch” here at RTS is a graduation ceremony of sorts for our MFTC students as the MFTC department sends them into the world as counselors. As graduation symbolizes the completion of coursework, the Launch symbolizes the completion (or... Click here to read full article 09/21/2007 - Fellowship of the Nations Potluck On September 21, from 6 to 8pm the Student Cabinet hosted the Fellowship of the Nations Pot Providence Supper. Not only did it provide fellowship, but it also gave a literal foretaste of heaven (Rev. 7:9-10) with its huge assortment of heavenly tasting foods. Towards the end of the... Click here to read full article 09/17/2007 - 2007 Missions Conference, A Report This week Dr. Walter Kaiser was the key note speaker at RTS's annual Missions Conference.  Dr. Kaiser emphasized the concept of missions in the Old Testament (77.2% of the Bible).  Missions isn't just a New Testament phenomenon, folks!  From Psalm 67 Dr. Kaiser demonstrated that even the OT announced that... Click here to read full article 09/17/2007 - Game Night, A Report: The More “Wii” Get Together… …the happier we will be.  On September 7, the Student Cabinet demonstrated this old adage to be true by hosting Game Night.  It was, yet again, a wonderful reminder of the great community and fellowship we enjoy here at RTS Jackson.  From Apples to Apples to Scattegories to Settlers of... Click here to read full article 09/17/2007 - MFT Cookout at Hurley's Pad, A Report Every year MFT students kick off the year with a get together at Dr. Hurley's house. This year was no different. Beginning at 4:30 on Friday, September 7, a small crowd began to form in Dr. Hurley’s enormous backyard. While the burgeoning therapists were in the midst of small... Click here to read full article 09/12/2007 - ThM Applications for the Jackson Campus Program Not Accepted at this Time On September 6, 2007, the RTS Jackson faculty voted to suspend indefinitely further admission to the Jackson ThM program.  We are not taking ThM applications at this time. For individual's interested in a ThM program, you may contact the Admissions Office at our Orlando Campus about the Th.M in Reformation Studies.... Click here to read full article 09/03/2007 - MIM Welcome Brunch, A Report On Saturday morning August 25th,  Mrs. in Ministry (MIM) hosted the annual Welcome Brunch complete with delicious food provided by faculty wives and Starbucks coffee compliments of one of our student wives (a Starbuck's employee).  Wives of new students (as well as new wives) were introduced to those wives...