Eagle Scholars serve in Washington, D.C.

Having to balance school assignments, service projects and program events, the members of the Eagle Scholars Program are busy, but not too busy to take the time to serve others in Washington, D.C. The Eagle Scholars Program helps freshmen and sophomore students of any major acquire and hone leadership skills for college and beyond. It aims to build connections, develop […]

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Exploring faith with literature: Department chair shares how she came to Liberty and expresses her love for teaching English

Teaching requires time, effort and dedication to the students and the subject. Virginia Dow is an associate professor of English and chair of the Department of English. She has been teaching full time at Liberty University for 15 years. Before moving to Virginia, Dow’s husband, Mark, worked as a law enforcement officer in Maine, and she worked as a teacher. […]

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Waymaker Church: Local Forest church helps people connect with Jesus through missions

Building bridges to help people connect with Jesus is something that Waymaker.Church has aimed to do since the beginning. Waymaker is what lead pastor Jon Dupin referred to as a restart church, or a church branching from the original, that began in February 1999 in Campbell County.  “We started about 10 minutes outside of Lynchburg in an old country church […]

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Starting a blog and business comes with its own set of challenges, but Ryien Blackwood, one of the creators of For the Deaf Girl, an online blog and business, was able to overcome them. She created not just a business, but a community of people with the intention of representing and connecting with deaf and hard-of-hearing women. Blackwood was born […]

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