Dr. Phillip Bishop (Alabama,Kinesiology) spoke on Friday, Sept 4 about reasons for hope.

Bishop talked about those who have mentored him in academia, as well as those he has mentored, both as graduate students and as young faculty. Over time he realized that he would not be the greatest instructor at the University of Alabama, nor the most prolific writer, though he did win recognition from the university for both during his career.

Phil encouraged people within the university to look for ways to show grace to students, particularly in this difficult environment. And, he added, to recognize our calling: “From everyone who has been given much, much will be demanded; and from the one who has been entrusted with much, much more will be asked” (Luke 12:48) The university, he said, is a place of tremendous possibilities and one way to help others is to extend the grace that Christ has shown us to others.

You may be working from home — but you don’t have to be alone!

This summer we held Zoom Bible studies on Ephesians on Thursdays (noon) or Friday (8am).

This study was open to all UNT employees.

Dave Engle has been departmental chair at Iowa State and Oklahoma State. After retiring recently from OSU in Rangeland Ecology, he has volunteered with Faculty Commons.

As Dave interacts with Christians on a variety of university campuses, he has discovered that one of the greatest challenges for both faculty and staff is a sense of isolation. His talk will present ideas on how to address this.

Dave was born in Roswell, NM and attended college at Abilene Christian University and has a PhD from Colorado State University. He and his wife Deb have one son and three grandchildren.

Friday, January 24
8AM
Goolsby Chapel

Mike Scheer has a B.A. from the University of Kentucky, an MBA from the University of North Texas and a ThM from Dallas Seminary.

He is the missions pastor at Denton Bible Church and travels much of the year encouraging missionaries and groups of Christians to live courageously in locations both friendly and unfriendly to Christianity.

He and his wife Kerry have three sons, the oldest of which is a freshman at Blinn Junior College.

Ronda Bewley works in the Accreditation Office. Her willingness to reach out to a new UNT student led to this recognition on UNT’s website. One of the key values of our Fellowship is service — we are thankful that she exemplifies this.

Ronda coordinates the prayer list for our group; if you have a prayer request related to the UNT community, please let her know: ntbelievers [at] gmail.com.

Friday, Nov 15
12:15 pm
UNT BSM &
DISCOVERY PARK

Thomas Weakley is a professor of Leadership Studies at Western Kentucky University and also a staff member of Faculty Commons.
He spoke about “When God Grabs Your Heart”

Thomas and his wife Laurie have served with Cru in Slovakia, Russia, the Philippines and Poland.