Torch, Fall 1999

C edarville began its 1999-2000 year of instruction on Sept. 23 with a record 2,762 students enrolled. Upon arrival, students found numerous changes to campus, including a newly-opened dorm complex and conference center (right) , new athletic fields, continuing construction on the Student Life Center, a resurfaced gym floor in the Athletic Center, and a new parking lot on the former site of Bethel Hall. Debate Team Wins Awards MIS Update During the summer of 1999, Missions Involvement Services sent 200 students, faculty, and staff members on sho1t-term missions trips around the world. Each year the teams aim to use their talents for enhancing the ministry of field missionaries. This year's 19 teams included music/drama, English teaching, Christian education, broadcasting, basketball, soccer, sign language, nursing, orphanage, and medical teams. The music and drama team to South Africa, pictured above, was involved in a serious automobile accident on their trip. Of the nine team members, six were treated and released. Team co-leaders Courtenay Shoaff and Carol Lee and senior Kara Doden were seriously injured and required hospitalization in South Africa. All have since returned home. C edarville' s debate t~am excelled at the 1999 National Education Debate Association' s tournament in Kankakee, Ill. Besides winning numerous awards for individual performance, Cedarville won first place in the Open Division and second place in the Novice Division. Team coach Deborah Haffey received an award for best debate program. Cedarville Student Receives Theological Fellowship 14 Torch D errick Doherty, a native of Forked River, NJ. , and a junior Bible/preseminary major, has received a 1999 undergraduate fellowship from the Partnership for Excellence program of the Fund for Theological Education (FTE). The Partnership of Excellence Program encourages persons with exceptional gifts for ministry and superior academic achievement to pursue positions as church ministers. Doherty, who was one of 37 students selected from numerous denominations, serninruies, and colleges and universities, will receive a monetru·y award as well as continued support from FTE as he considers pursuing theological education in preparation for ministry. As an FTE fellow, Doherty is invited to attend the FTE Summer Conference on Excellence in Ministry to be held June 22-25, 2000 at Wesley Theological Seminru-y in Washington, D.C. Established in 1954, the Fund for Theological Education, Inc. is one of the leading voices in theological education today through its efforts to attract the best and brightest students to the practice of ministry. The Fund has awarded some 5000 scholarships; many of the country's most prominent theological educators and church leaders have been recipients.