When I arrived at Erskine last August, the 2014-15 fiscal year was just a few weeks old. To say we started the year together with difficult challenges is certainly an understatement. Erskine was faced with making significant financial course corrections.…
You have probably heard it said, “God is more concerned with your holiness that He is with your happiness.” My experience is that when this statement is made everyone nods their heads. No one challenges the validity of this “truism.”…
Junior Sarah Baroody of Lugoff , S.C., says her Erskine experience is about making a difference in the lives of the people around her. It was Erskine’s intimate, small-town atmosphere that attracted her when she visited the Due West campus.…
…he who keeps you will not slumber; Behold, he who keeps Israel Will neither slumber nor sleep. The LORD will keep your going out and your coming in from this time forth and forevermore. Psalm 121:3b, 4, 8 Reading…
Steve Southwell serves as president of the Alumni Association. He came to Erskine in 1976 from Kings Mountain, North Carolina. Having learned about Erskine from a family doctor, he received a baseball scholarship and moved to Due West to study banking…
In February 2012 a conversation began about how to commemorate Erskine’s 175th anniversary in a special way. That conversation resulted in a plan to create Erskine’s first full-length documentary film chronicling its past and looking prayerfully toward its future. Will…
The Student Christian Association led students in an evening of worship and prayer at the Ellenburg Pavilion Oct. 21 to celebrate “A Night for the Nations,” reflecting on summer mission trips. Students shared testimonies from their summer travels. Sophomores Ashley…
Dr. Russell Benton ’61 claims the title of Erskine’s “Most Traveled Alumnus,” having visited 193 foreign destinations on seven continents. Benton began his travels in the summer of 1964 when Alumni Director Winnie Phillips took a group of students and…
As I consider the future of Erskine in relationship to its past 175 years it is quite obvious that we have challenges. If I list them in order of importance they would be: Our greatest problem is spiritual. There has…
Erskine College is equipping the next generation for lives of service. That kind of mission requires a staff with tireless dedication to students. Over the past year or two, Student Services has welcomed new staff members and modified staff members’…
