Boy, can things change in life quickly. My dear friend Karen Mullins has up and moved to Oklahoma. I am very happy for them but miss her already. God has wonderful things planned for her and Curtis. Another change is that Collin is home. He had all of ACU he could take. He had never been truly happy there and only saw the negative at ACU, the liberalism of chapel and trying to make the kids happy, not God. The tradition ends here in our family. Brenna and John said they would never send their kids to ACU and Collin ---well it would not be a thought for his kids. What a shame that a school who claims to be a church of Christ school does not use God's church's principals. The one and only good thing about ACU that he went back for was his roommate, Tyson. They had gotten very close in a year and a half and Collin really wanted another semester living with him. Tyson is a wonderful Christian young man and we are very thankful for him.
Some exciting news---Dik's dad is getting married. She is a WONDERFUL lady. We all love her very much. She is so good to Jim. The wedding is February 29 and Dik is performing the ceremony!!!
We love life and thank God for our health and our family and friends.
Much love til I write again!
Angie
Some exciting news---Dik's dad is getting married. She is a WONDERFUL lady. We all love her very much. She is so good to Jim. The wedding is February 29 and Dik is performing the ceremony!!!
We love life and thank God for our health and our family and friends.
Much love til I write again!
Angie
3 comments:
Hey Angie! I was on Mel's blog today and clicked on yours. I was so sad to read what you had to say about ACU. While you are more than entitled to your opinion, I want to let you know how transformational ACU was to me and so many others. I had classes taught by professors that showed God's love and teachings to me everyday. It was an environment that nurtured my close relationships with friends that still hold me accountable to God's principles to this day. I felt my spiritual relationship grow with God and was sincerely blessed by my time there. ACU is not for everyone, and just like with churches you have to find an environment where you feel most comfortable. I am sorry that Collin did not feel comfortable there, and I pray that he does find a school where he can be comfortable and where he feels challenged to grow in his relationship with God.
I just don't feel it is right to cast judgement on a school that does in fact do such amazing things. I think we all need to remember that ACU is a Christian University and not a church and to expect it to be such is unrealistic. I loved that I was in an environment where my professors asked for prayer requests before class started, where my professors had us over to dinner and became a mentor, where my professors gave the class their home numbers as well as cell numbers to call whenever we needed them. The close relationships with my professors and friends will always fill me with joy.
I made the "best of the best" friends at ACU who I know I will love and stay in close contact for the rest of my life. I met Matt there who in itself is worth every dime of my ACU experience. I often wonder where my life would be had I attended a state school like my high school peers. I will forever be thankful for my family encouraging me to attend ACU.
I pray that my children will want to attend ACU and receive not only a wonderful education, but have a life changing experience that I and so many others had there. Having them at a Christian college that holds Christian standards and principles to a very high standard would make me proud.
I guess it doesn't matter where you are in life-- if you are only trying to see the negative, then that is exactly what you will see. I find that the positives at ACU greatly outweigh the negatives, and I just felt so very obligated to express my thoughts on ACU because it is so near and dear to my heart, my family's heart, as well as my friends. We have to be careful in judging the sincerity of peoples hearts. To say that ACU is out to make the kids happy and not God is your opinion is such a strong accusation on people you don't even know . We are all different and all share our faith in different ways. I think we are called to live a life of worship and show Jesus in every action we make.
Allison—
Let me start by saying—I was at ACU for 4 years. I met my husband at ACU. It was worth every penny. I still, after 25+ years send Xmas cards to each of my three roommates and GATA sisters. Brenna, found her husband at ACU. She also had the beauty of having her best friend of 18+ years with her. They believed the same and backed each other up on their beliefs when ACU taught differently. You are right—ACU is a “Christian University” “and not a church and to expect it to be such is unrealistic:” But it WAS a church of Christ school. It WAS based on church of Christ, Bible, doctrine. The shame is that you cannot go to ACU with church of Christ principals without being disappointed. I was disappointed 25 years ago, Brenna was disappointed 6 years ago- and it has come a long way since then. That is where ACU is making the “kids happy”. I should not just say the kids---because two of my GATA sisters and friends are a key factor in these changes. We are not supposed to make people happy, only God, and to do that we have to follow the Bible to the letter. It is not hard. It is in black and white- but religious dancing in chapel and women in the pulpit are not pleasing to God and were very offensive to Collin. It is not something he could, or would, accept. ACU lets the Baptist churches in now at the beginning of the year to recruit kids to their church. Not necessarily c of C kids, but when we were there—our Baptist friends went with us and were converted to God’s church. Collin is very conservative and follows the Bible principals as closely as he can---not adding and subtracting from it. He did some wonderful things while at ACU. He fought for what is right. One person brought each new idea to ACU and Collin, being one person, tried, and achieved, getting some of it out. He got tired of fighting for what was right and decided to leave. He also has the love of his life in Wichita Falls who will be going to Midwestern, where Collin will transfer. You and I found the loves of our lives at ACU.
There is something going on at ACU right now where a large percentage of the student body voted to have women more involved in chapel: Leading singing, Public prayer, Preaching. The only thing that is keeping it from going to that is----the ACU original charter that will not allow these changes to be made. God is the same yesterday, today, and forever (Heb. 13:8-9) and it saddens me so much that men think they can change what God has laid out for us. We are so proud of Collin on the stance he made at ACU. We are sorry he was not able to get the same wonderful experience from ACU that you or I had, but there are many roles played on a happy experience. I could overlook some of the things at ACU when I was there. Collin could not. I praise him for that.
With love,
Angie
It is so good to hear from you. At least now that I am a blogger we can keep up with each other. I am not on facebook and lucky I can keep up with my blog :)
Take care! Hope to hear back from you soon.
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