Mary Morris Award reception and ceremony

Thursday, March 12, 2020 10:00 AM-12:00 PM

Ezell Center (Reception in lobby; award ceremony in chapel)

The Mary Morris Award for exemplary service to society will be presented to Roger Wiemers, professor with the College of Education, on Thursday, March 12. There will be a reception in the lobby of Ezell Center at 10 a.m. and a ceremony in the Ezell Center chapel at 10:55 a.m.  

The award is in memoriam of Mary Morris, another member of the faculty in the College of Education who passed away in 2005. It is given each year to a member of the Lipscomb community who has demonstrated a dedication to service in the community. 

Wiemers spent decades as a missionary in India, Papua New Guinea and then with a group of Lipscomb students in Prague, Czechoslovakia.

In 2007, Wiemers was deeply moved to begin a work called the Tamar Ministry in Mumbai with his friend P.D. Prasada Roa. Through safe housing, spiritual guidance, job training and education, many women and their children there have been delivered from a life of prostitution and have come to know Jesus and His love for them through the Tamar Ministry. 

Wiemers’ local community service consists of his tireless work on behalf of refugees here in Nashville and his service as a shepherd at Woodmont Hills. He is also a model professor who is beloved by hundreds of Ed.D. students. He has served tirelessly on the Lipscomb Institutional Review Board for nearly 10 years, having served as chair for four years. He has been serving and working with doctoral students in our community involved in educational leadership programs for many years, first at Tennessee State University and then at Lipscomb. 

We hope you can join us for this special time as we honor Roger Wiemers for his work. Please send an RSVP to Christin Shatzer at christin.shatzer [at] lipscomb.edu (christin[dot]shatzer[at]lipscomb[dot]edu) if you plan on attending the reception.