Micah Mandate

A survivor of the Rwandan genocide and activist who trains other survivors spent a week with Trevecca students talking about forgiveness and reconciliation.

Dr. Célestin Musekura, president and founder of African Leadership and Reconciliation Ministry (ALARM), came to Trevecca to speak as part of a weeklong Reconciled conference that also included prayer services, lunch gatherings and a viewing of the film “As We Forgive.”

The conference was co-hosted by the Center for Social Justice through Trevecca.

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The Environmental Sustainability club kicked off the new school year with a peaceful hike.

Four members of the club dedicated to environmental stewardship spent a few hours in creation before coming back to campus to promote creation care.

“This is what we we’re made for. We’re not supposed to sit inside all day,” said Lyndsi Groves, president of the club.

The three-mile venture happened at Radnor Lake in Nashville.

Dr. Chris Farrell, Director of Medical Technology Program and Professor of Biology, said that the hike was “just to get [the students] out there.”

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The first garden is in. Sunflowers, tomatoes, corn, and squash are growing in the two-acre plot that Trevecca planted in last spring as part of the J.V. Morsch Center for Social Justice’s plan to grow local food for Treveccans and their neighbors.

Trevecca chickens are beginning to lay eggs.

So far the 105 chickens who call TNU home have laid around seven eggs.

“I’m a proud papa,” gloats Jason Adkins, the environmental projects coordinator, while he lovingly cradles a speckled, fawn egg.

Boxes of 3-day old chicks were bought in late Spring semester 2011 by the J.V. Morsh Center for Social Justice to reflect Trevecca’s environmental-sustainability efforts around campus.

Adkins nursed the chicks from their original purchase until present, building their barn-style coop by hand over the summer.

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