Summer Celebration sees rise in pre-registration numbers

Chris Pepple | 

As Lipscomb University prepares to welcome a large number of visitors to campus for Summer Celebration, an annual festival of faith and fellowship, organizers announced an increase in pre-registration for the event, for on-campus housing and for the children’s program. 
 

“Over 1,000 people have pre-registered for Summer Celebration next week. Over half of those preregistered are staying in on-campus housing. On-campus housing reservations are up 50% over last year, and children’s program pre-registrations are up over 20% compared to last year. This is a wonderful opportunity to bring together families on our campus,” said Robert King, Summer Celebration’s assistant director and fine arts director for the campus school.
 

“I look forward to Summer Celebration and the opportunity to study and worship with Christians from Middle Tennessee and across the nation. Rhonda and I welcome everyone to the Lipscomb campus and pray that this celebration will be a meaningful time in your life,” said L. Randolph Lowry, president of Lipscomb University.
 

Summer Celebration, being held on campus July 1-3, offers full and exciting programs for children and teenagers that include devotionals, classes, games, and service projects and offers more than one hundred practical and inspiring sessions for adults.
Highlights include:

  • Full programs throughout each day for both the children and the teens;
  • More than 100 practical and pertinent sessions for adults, including sessions on these marriage and family issues:
    • Developing faith in our children
    • Raising adolescents
    • Sexual purity and integrity
    • “Controlling our money so it doesn’t control us”
    • “Marriage from the Inside Out”
    • Intergenerational relationships;
  • More than a dozen singing groups entertaining throughout the day and a one-act play for the family each night
  • Affordable food (children under 5 eat free) and lodging on campus;
  • A family picnic, inflatable games, live entertainment and spectacular fireworks on Friday night.

In her popular session Walking in the Spotlight: Conversations with Christian Celebrities, Rhonda Lowry will talk with Scott Hamilton, world-renowned skater, author and speaker.  Hamilton, author of The Great Eight: How to Be Happy (Even When You Have Every Reason to be Miserable), speaks openly about his skating days, his work with the Scott Hamilton CARES Initiative (Cancer Alliance for Research, Education, and Survivorship), and his faith;
 

Inspirational speaker Chet McDoniel speaks Thursday and Friday mornings - offering a message of hope. Born without arms and facing numerous physical challenges, McDoniel has inspired thousands to get past the barriers in their lives and to have a positive attitude no matter what comes your way. As a university graduate, a husband and father, McDoniel offers inspiring insight on what it takes to deal with challenges in life whether they are big or small.
 

Register online at  http://summercelebration.lipscomb.edu