Maranatha often receives compliments on its website. The College has been blessed in recent years with websites that have proven attractive and functional, presenting information to users in formats that have been easy to view and navigate. We are excited to announce the Dec. 27 launch of a new, even better, website. The responsive design [Continue Reading...]
When Maranatha prepared to launch its first unified campus database in the fall of 2011, the College chose Jenzabar EX as the software package to make it happen. Staff members were able to share some of the knowledge gained during the last year, and gain even more, when Maranatha hosted the Jenzabar EX Midwest Regional [Continue Reading...]
Maranatha keeps moving forward! The launch of Bridge to Campus is another giant step in our mission of developing leaders for worldwide local church ministry. The Bridge to Campus program provides a fantastic first-year experience, utilizing the latest in videoconferencing technology to allow students to attend Maranatha classes at sites closer to home. Each site [Continue Reading...]
Download the PDF version here After her second daughter was born in July, 2009, Beth Holmes decided it was time to finish what she had started back in 1997—her college degree. A few months later, Holmes applied to a local community college in hope of earning an associate’s degree. Holmes then came across a roadblock. [Continue Reading...]
Ten years and four children after her last class at Maranatha, Shera O’Neal was still determined to finish college someday. “I knew it would be hard, but I never gave it (not finishing) a thought,” O’Neal said. The 30-year-old mom/substitute teacher/tutor/volleyball coach/bookkeeper from Dallas will soon have several full-time career options available to her, thanks [Continue Reading...]
Carl Conrad wanted to learn more about the Lord as well as music. “I needed more theology to prepare me for future ministry,” said Conrad, a 2011 Maranatha graduate who will enroll this fall in Maranatha Baptist Seminary’s new Master of Arts in Church Music degree program. “I am thankful that the Lord led me [Continue Reading...]
Ten Maranatha students earned Microsoft Office Specialist certification by completing testing at the end of the second semester. Maranatha is a certified testing center for Certiport, which administers Microsoft testing. Any student is eligible for the testing, although most have completed a Microsoft computer course at Maranatha during the previous semester. The tests require students [Continue Reading...]
Maranatha nursing students may be surprised this fall to meet a small family living in the Dining Complex’s bottom floor. Pediatric and infant simulators affectionately nicknamed “Kid Kasey” and “Baby Micah” have joined adult medical simulator “Hal” in the Nursing Department’s educational family. The newest medical mannequins arrived in mid-May. “Hal,” in his mock hospital [Continue Reading...]
Maranatha students who entered the gymnasium for chapel at the conclusion of spring break were surprised to discover that the west wall had been painted tan and the stage had a new decorative oak frame. It was a big project that had resulted in a big improvement. “Before, it was just a hole in the [Continue Reading...]
Dr. Jesse Sherburn is grateful for a job with positive impact—no pun intended. Sherburn (’04), a Research Mechanical Engineer at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Engineer Research and Development Center in Vicksburg, MS, returned to campus recently to speak to the student body during Winterfest week. He took a short respite from duties that [Continue Reading...]