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I believe I am a grateful person.\u00a0 I often stop to thank individuals, and I also thank the Lord who has blessed me in ways I do not deserve.\u00a0 You are probably much the same.<\/p>\nI believe I am a grateful person.\u00a0 I often stop to thank individuals, and I also thank the Lord who has blessed me in ways I do not deserve.\u00a0 You are probably much the same.<\/p>\n
“An Embarrassment of Riches.”\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Have you ever heard or used this phrase?\u00a0 Maybe you have used it when you see someone with too many possessions?\u00a0 More \u201cstuff\u201d than they can possibly house?<\/p>\n Have you ever thought about it in relationship to your friends and spiritual blessings in ministry?\u00a0 I have recently been overwhelmed<\/em> – not with an overabundance of physical resources, rather, overwhelmed by God’s supply of people who serve together with me at Grace Christian University to labor for His glory!<\/p>\n Our faculty serves our students with love.\u00a0 Our staff serves others with dedication.\u00a0 Our administration leads by giving tremendous hours and effort. Our Board of Directors is a group of people who voluntarily give of themselves to make the College successful.\u00a0 In addition to these, there are the friends, alumni, and donors of the College who faithfully partner in ministry so there are funds to do ministry. \u00a0I enjoy this so much that I believe it is a normal occurrence until I speak with people at other colleges and universities.<\/p>\n Our Provost and Academic leader Kim Pilieci and I recently visited another longstanding institution to encourage them and to offer help after we heard they were in the midst of some difficulties.\u00a0 What we found was extremely disheartening and painful.\u00a0 They also have good people who are working hard, but they are not seeing\u00a0good results.\u00a0 They are not pulling together with the same sacrifice and resolve that we have been blessed with here at Grace Christian University.\u00a0 It made both of us extremely grateful and thankful for how God has blessed us at Grace Christian University!<\/p>\n It is almost “an embarrassment of riches,” only the \u201criches\u201d are blessings from God<\/em>:\u00a0 the very talented and dedicated team which God has allowed me to serve with at Grace Christian University for God’s glory and renown.<\/p>\n Please pause a moment to thank God for the many areas of talent God has blessed us with here at Grace — faculty, staff, administrators, Board, alumni, and financial partners — so that our students (another blessing!) are being served with Christ-like actions.\u00a0 \u00a0Your prayers and your support of this work are also an incredible blessing to all of us!<\/p>\n Grace upon Grace,<\/p>\n Ken B. Kemper<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I believe I am a grateful person.\u00a0 I often stop to thank individuals, and I also thank the Lord who has blessed me in ways I do not deserve.\u00a0 You […]<\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"author":3,"featured_media":20950,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[103],"tags":[],"dipi_cpt_category":[],"class_list":["post-20949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-presidents-blog"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n