The Rev. Joel Wood, pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Sand Springs, Okla., will visit campus on the week of Jan. 29 as part of the University of the Ozarks’ Struthers Visiting Pastoral Study Leave Program. He will lead the University’s weekly Chapel Service at 11:30 a.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 30. Wood is a graduate […]
University of the Ozarks has received a $966,099 grant from Lilly Endowment Inc., to help establish the Thriving Rural Congregations Program to support rural Presbyterian Church (USA) congregations within the Presbytery of Arkansas. The program is being funded through Lilly Endowment’s Thriving Congregations Initiative. The aim of the initiative is to encourage the flourishing of […]
The Rev. Chip Hatcher, pastor at Westminster Presbyterian Church in Hot Springs, Ark., will visit campus on the week of Nov. 13 as part of the University of the Ozarks’ Struthers Visiting Pastoral Study Leave Program. He will lead the University’s weekly Chapel Service at 11:30 a.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 14. Hatcher has lived all […]
The Rev. Dr. Sue Coller, lead pastor at the First Presbyterian Church in Lincoln, Neb., will visit campus on the week of Sept. 17 as part of the University of the Ozarks’ Struthers Visiting Pastoral Study Leave Program. She will lead the weekly Chapel Service at 11:30 a.m. on Tuesday, Sept 19. Coller has been […]
The Rev. Gail Henderson-Belsito will be on the University of the Ozarks campus March 13-17 as part of the University’s Struthers Visiting Pastoral Study Leave Program. Henderson-Belsito serves as the associate minister at Caldwell Presbyterian Church in Charlotte, N.C. She will speak at the University’s weekly Chapel Serivce at 11:30 a.m. on Tuesday, March 14, […]
The Rev. Dr. Teri McDowell Ott, a pastor, writer, and editor/publisher of The Presbyterian Outlook, will speak at University of the Ozarks on Tuesday, Feb. 28, as part of the University’s annual Farmer Lecture Series. The event will begin at 7 p.m. in the Rogers Conference Center. Ott’s visit is made possible by the Cecil […]
The University of the Ozarks will present its annual time-honored Christmas tradition, A Service of Lessons and Carols, at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 7, in Munger-Wilson Memorial Chapel. There is no cost to attend the concert and the public is invited to attend. The service will feature the University Choir, under the direction of […]
The Rev. Marie Mainard O’Connell, a minister in the Presbytery of Arkansas, will visit campus on the week of Sept. 12 as part of the University of the Ozarks’ Struthers Visiting Pastoral Study Leave Program. Mainard O’Connell is currently serving as the interim director of adult education at Second Presbyterian Church in Little Rock. She […]
The Rev. Elizabeth (Gabbard) Brinegar, who served as chaplain at University of the Ozarks from 2013 to 2015, will return to campus on the week of March 28 to April 1 as a visiting pastor in the Struthers Pastoral Leave Program. As part of her visit she will lead the University’s weekly Chapel service at […]
The arrival of the November 15 edition of The Presbyterian Outlook magazine highlighted a memorable achievement for two University of the Ozarks senior English majors. Abby Asencio from Gentry, Ark., and Brian Wilken from Claremore, Okla., both had byline, full-page book reviews in the national magazine’s annual higher education edition. Based in Virginia, The Outlook […]