When I joined the Collegiate faculty in 1971, I was asked to take the position of Chair of the Christian Studies department and told that there were parents who would be willing to help me establish a viable curriculum and campus-wide program to offer students spiritual encouragement and nurture.
Two parents in particular, Bill
Brunson and George Fooshee, worked closely with me. One of the suggestions that
came out of those meetings and subsequent meetings with Headmaster Storms was
holding a Bible Emphasis week with a nationally known speaker to address
students daily. For the next five years this event became a Collegiate
tradition.
Our first Bible Emphasis week
featured John MacArthur who went on to become one of the nation’s best-known
and popular conference speakers and authority on evangelical theology. The
second was Dave Breese, a recognized national radio speaker. Others included
Frank Kik, senior pastor of Eastminster Presbyterian Church; Willie Franklin,
ex-major league football player and popular speaker on the youth circuit; and
Mike Andrus, pastor of the First Evangelical Free Church in Wichita.
The five years of the Bible
Emphasis Week provided the students not only with theological information but
with the opportunity to think critically about spiritual issues and their
application to their lives as they heard a variety of approaches to Christian
theology.
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