Cedarville Magazine Spring 2019

C r a s h Course u A test drive of the classroom experience (without the final exam) PROGRAM TITLE Worship Practicum INSTRUCTOR Roger O’Neel Associate Professor of Worship Assistant Chair, Worship DESCRIPTION Intended for worship majors during their junior and senior year, this class helps students refine their worship leadership abilities. Students learn to plan a worship service that includes singing, Scripture reading, videos, and congregational call and response elements, and then put it to practice with real-world experience leading worship both in class and outside of class. As part of the coursework, students discuss current trends in worship and advanced worship leading topics. BIG IDEA At the end of this practicum experience, students are able to: • Recall principles of effective worship leading • Demonstrate ability to plan and lead in worship events from platform skills to “behind the scenes” planning • Articulate their own philosophy of worship • Demonstrate ability to think critically about the topic of worship ministry • Develop a personal worship ministry portfolio LEARN MORE: cedarville.edu/worship “Not only do we get to talk about using these different elements of the worship experience, but then we get to practice them by planning and carrying out praise chapels. It has taught me that it is extremely important to know the spiritual needs of the body of believers you are serving and to use that knowledge to plan services that are geared specifically toward that group.” Josh Graham ’19 Wiersbe Library Coming to Cedarville Warren Wiersbe, one of the foremost Bible teachers, professors, and authors of the 20th century, a man known as the pastor’s pastor, has gifted his vast personal library to Cedarville University. Cedarville University will become the repository for Wiersbe’s collection of books, estimated somewhere between 13,000 and 14,000 titles. This impressive collection of commentaries, nonfiction publications, and works of literature will be housed in the Warren and Betty Wiersbe Library and Reading Room, to be located in Cedarville’s Center for Biblical and Theological Studies. From 1971 to 1978, Wiersbe pastored Moody Church in downtown Chicago. He ministered over the radio through his Songs in the Night at Moody and with Back to the Bible radio network from 1980 to 1993. Wiersbe is a prolific author, having written more than 170 books, including his most recent title, Delights & Disciplines of Bible Study: A Guidebook for Studying God’s Word . To honor his long-term friendship with Cedarville and his commitment to the cause of Christ, Wiersbe was awarded an honorary Doctor of Letters degree on January 26, 1987, as part of the University’s Centennial Celebration. “Dr. Wiersbe’s life and ministry has been committed to the right handling of the Scriptures, and pouring into others who would do likewise,” Cedarville President Thomas White said. “Cedarville has been blessed to steward this considerable collection, which is more than books on shelves, but because of the marginal notes and observations, is the accumulated wisdom and insight of one of the great servants of the church in the 20th century. We thank God for this amazing privilege.” “When I thought about the students at Cedarville, and they perhaps would not be able to get some of these books, the Lord convinced me this was the thing to do,” Wiersbe said. “I pray God will continue to use Cedarville to turn out balanced, evangelical preachers and missionaries. Just keep up what you’re doing because you’re turning out some wonderful people.”