SWU track and field crowns national champs at NCCAA indoors
Southern Wesleyan University crowned its first NCCAA national champions in track and field.
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Westfalls welcomed as new pastors-in-residence at SWU
Southern Wesleyan University welcomed Karl and Sharon Westfall as the new pastors-in-residence. The couple will build into the lives of religion students and division faculty at the university.
Wesleyans in the news
A beloved Wesleyan pastor passes away in a car accident, Houghton College recognized for economic impact and safety, Southern Wesleyan singers perform, and retired couple serves in Haiti.
Seeking lasting solutions for earthquake-ravaged nation
Southern Wesleyan University is working with a South Carolina organization to help create long-term solutions in Haiti, ravaged by an earthquake five years ago.
Wesleyans in the news
OKWU implements new program to help students with debt, SWU singing group featured on local TV, and a South Carolina church gives to local charity fighting hunger.
Wesleyans in the news
Pennsylvania church helps hand out 3,000 blankets, OKWU files appeal against federal government, SWU hosts spiritual transformation services, and more news.
U.S. Senator Lindsay Graham helps Southern Wesleyan dedicate huge new Memorial Flag Plaza
U.S. Senator Lindsay Graham and S.C. Lt. Gov. Yancey McGill assisted in dedicating a flag plaza honoring fallen soldiers on the SWU campus. Sen. Graham calls it one of the best memorials in the state.
Wesleyans in the news
A Wesleyan church is featured in area magazine, layperson marks 63 years of service, a university is suing the federal government, another higher institution hosts national championships, and more.
Dedicated to Krystal
Southern Wesleyan dedicated a bench in Krystal Pearce’s memory on its new flag plaza on campus. Pearce, killed in a car accident in 2013, prayed for fellow athletes at SWU to know Jesus.
Wesleyans in the news
Jo Anne Lyon is interviewed about evangelical nonprofits’ hiring women in top positions, IWU partners with the Indianapolis Colts, a magistrate resigns regarding uniting gay marriages, and more.
‘This isn’t a track thing–it’s a Jesus thing’
Two SWU coaches reflect on how revival is happening in the athletic department. One coach says he hasn’t seen anything like it in his 28 years at the university.
Oklahoma Wesleyan is first among Wesleyan colleges in top-10 men’s soccer rankings
In the preseason, all four of the U.S. Wesleyan colleges made top-10 in NCCAA division I, including the first three slots, in men’s soccer. Women’s sports in our schools are also making an impression.
Wesleyans in the news
OKWU men’s soccer projected to do well, a church holds vigil for missing girls, the Ebola crisis in Sierra Leone is examined, IWU expands to Australia through partnership, and SWU hits new record.
Campus Challenge at SWU
Students compete in well-known event to win college scholarship money.
“Never the Same” comes to SWU
More than 600 Wesleyan youth from several southeastern states converged on Southern Wesleyan University’s campus July 21-25. Southern Wesleyan was one of five locations for the 2014 camp.
SWU students take Urban Ministry Plunge
A group of SWU students spent time alongside residents living in the poorest areas of Milwaukee and Chicago as part of the university’s “Urban Ministry Plunge.”
SWU pilots student-run coffeehouse
Southern Wesleyan University is offering positions to enterprising students as part of Blue Hill Coffee & Tea Co., located in the campus life center.
SWU establishes scholarship in memory of professor
SWU is establishing a new education scholarship in memory of Harold Waters, who passed away June 20.
Southern Wesleyan and Baptist Easley Hospital sign agreement
Southern Wesleyan University and Baptist Easley Hospital sign agreement for new MBA program and more.
Wesleyans in the news
Each week, Wesleyans are covered in online news publications. As we are alerted to those news items, we are privileged to pass them along.
The “relentless” pursuit
God moved in mighty ways March 28 and 29 during Fellowship of the Called (FOTC), a two-day event at Southern Wesleyan University in Central, S.C.
Wesleyans in the news
Quad Cities church helps feed the hungry, prestigious U.S. newspaper talks about “Heaven is for Real,” Indiana pastors traveling to the capital to discuss immigration, and other Wesleyans in the news.
Gary Cockerill honored at Southern Wesleyan
Dr. Gareth Lee Cockerill is celebrating being named Southern Wesleyan University’s Alumnus of the Year and also the success of his latest book.
Former Wesleyan missionary to Russia to be SWU baccalaureate speaker
A former missionary to Russia will deliver the sermon at Southern Wesleyan University’s baccalaureate service on May 9.
