Gall and Lueking Earn First Team Honors for GC Volleyball

ST. LOUIS, Mo.,--Five Lady Panthers earned SLIAC post-season honors, including Tricia Gall and Ellen Lueking who were on the SLIAC First Team.

Gall, a senior from Troy, Ill., had 256 kills, 89 total blocks, and 3.5 points per set this season. She led GC offensively as an outside hitter, earning a .292 hitting percentage, the fourth best percentage in the Conference and best for Greenville. She earrned SLIAC Player of the Week honrs twice this season.

Lueking, a sophomore setter from Hoffman, Ill., ended 2012 with 873 total assists and 8.64 assists per game, the second best in each category in the SLIAC. She joined Gall on the  SLIAC First Team.

Corinne Coon and Nicole Schaffer were both awarded spots on the SLIAC Second Team. Coon, a junior from Warsaw, Ind., 255 kills and ended 2012 with an average of 2.59 kills per set. She also had 3.2 points per set and was SLIAC Offensove Player of the Week once this season. Schaffer, an outside hitter from Carlyle, Ill., had 213 total kills and 27 service aces this season. The sophomore averraged 3.1 points per set and .45 blocks per set.

Freshman, Jamie Schollenbruch, was awarded a SLIAC Honorbale Mention this year. The libero earned 32 services aces, 455 digs, and 4.38 digs per set

Senior, Hannah Groves was awarded Greenville's spot on the All-Sportsmanship team.

The 2012 All-SLIAC Teams are as follows:

FIRST TEAM
Tricia Gall, Greenville (Sr., Middle Blocker)
Ellen Lueking, Greenville (So., Setter)
Tess Rountree, Principia (So., Outside Hitter)
Jenny Howard, Webster (So., Outside Hitter)
Sam Kersting, Webster (So., Middle Hitter)
Alex Berry, Westmnster (Sr., Outside Hitter)
Jordan Berry, Westminster (Fr., Outside Hitter)

SECOND TEAM
Corinne Coon,Greenville (Jr., Opposite Hitter)
Nicole Schaeffer, Greenville (So., Outside Hitter)
Kiersten Andersen, Principia (Sr., Outside Hitter)
Elisa Burkman, Spalding (So., Outside Hitter)
Allie O'Toole, Webster(So., Setter)
Jordan Vehlewald, Webster (So., Outside Hitter)
Lexi Collier, Westminster (Fr., Middle Hitter)

HONORABLE MENTION
Courtney Kincaid, Eureka (Sr., Defensive Specialist)
Taryn Ballmann, Fontbonne (Jr., Outside Hitter)
Abbie Bergtholdt, Fontbonne (Jr., Middle Blocker)
Jamie Schollenbruch, Greenville (Fr., Libero)
Sammy Petefish, MacMurray (Jr., Libero)
Liz Abraham, Webster (Jr., Defensive Specialist)
Emily Ratkewicz, Webster (So., Middle Hitter)

This story was published on November 03, 2012

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Greenville College Welcomes Hauerwas for First Annual McAllaster Lecture

Many esteemed speakers have visited Greenville College through the years, and Dr. Stanley Hauerwas will rank among the most notable when he comes to campus on Nov. 26. He is a theologian who has explored philosophy, ethics and other disciplines in his effort to truthfully articulate the nature of the Christian life and the importance of the church.

Hauerwas was named "America's Best Theologian" by Time magazine in 2001, and his book, A Community of Character: Toward a Constructive Christian Social Ethic, was selected as one of the 100 most important books on religion of the 20th century. Hauerwas attained international recognition as a Gifford Lecturer at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland in 2001. He holds degrees from Southwestern University, Yale University, and University of Edinburgh.

Hauerwas will have the honor of presenting Greenville College's first McAllaster Lecture. The lecture series is an annual event sponsored by the school's McAllaster Scholars Program. The McAllaster Lecture is scheduled for 7 p.m. on Nov. 26 when Hauerwas, a professor with a joint appointment at Duke Divinity School and Duke Law School, will deliver a lecture entitled "Faith and Politics." Hauerwas will also give a chapel address at Greenville College on Nov. 26 at 9:30 a.m. Both presentations at the Wilson Recital Hall in the Whitlock Music Center are free and open to the public.

"Hauerwas has been the most influential Christian theologian in America for the last several decades," said McAllaster Scholars Program Director Dr. Kent Dunnington. "Of course, part of what he makes us think about is how being Christian and being American are not the same thing. We're priveleged to have him come to our campus to speak on 'Faith and Politics'"

Greenville College is a four-year accredited Christian liberal arts school with more than 1,500 undergraduate and graduate students. Founded in 1892 and affiliated with the Free Methodist Church, the college is located in Greenville, Illinois, 45 miles east of St. Louis.

This story was published on November 01, 2012

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The Pilgrims and the First Thanksgiving

The story of the Pilgrims is the story of the beginning of the holiday we know as Thanksgiving.  But sometimes in America, we equate the Pilgrims with the Puritans, and assume they were identical groups.  They were not.  Pilgrims were also known as “Separatists,” meaning they chose to separate from the established Church of England, the Anglican Church.  The Puritans remained in the Anglican Church and chose to attempt to “purify” it from within—hence the name “Puritan.”  In 1608, this group of Separatists, who would become the Pilgrims, fled England and settled in Holland.  They desired freedom of worship there.  Strongly influenced by the Calvinism of Geneva, Pilgrims believed that the Church of England was too much like Catholicism and cultivated half-hearted believers at best.  They rejected the hierarchy of Anglicanism and desired to have a gathered church of the “elect,” who joined together in a covenant.  For these Separatists, the local congregational church would only be composed of the “chosen ones” (i.e., the elect) of God, not the halfhearted or lukewarm Christians of Anglicanism.  The Bible was their guidebook for everything in life and they believed the Anglican Church was on the wrong path.  They thereby refused to worship in the Established Church of England and believed that all true believers needed to separate from Anglicanism.  That is why they fled to Holland.

After ten years in Holland, they began to fear losing their identity as Englishmen, so they began to ponder re-locating to the New World.  Thus in July 1620, they sailed for England on the Speedwell, and then from England 101 Separatists sailed on the Mayflower for the New World.  As they approached America, a majority of the men signed the Mayflower Compact, based on the Separatists’ Church covenant.  They agreed to pass necessary and just laws based on their religious convictions.  It was in many ways, an extraordinary document, for they pledged to govern  themselves.  It is therefore an important document in the history of political and religious liberty.  They landed farther north than they intended and settled in Cape Cod, New England.  They named their settlement, “Plymouth,” in honor of the English city from which they had sailed.  Because they were strangers in a new land, they called themselves “Pilgrims.”

We are all familiar with the story of the first Thanksgiving hosted by the Pilgrims.  But God’s grace to the Pilgrims was extended through a Native-American named Squanto (his actual name was Tisquantum).  They called Squanto “a special instrument sent of God for our good, beyond our expectation.”  What did the Pilgrims mean?  Squanto had been captured in 1605 and made a slave.  He was taken to England, where he spent nine years and where he learned English.  He was of the Pawtuxet Indian tribe of New England and was able to return to them on Captain John Smith’s ship in 1614.  But he was tricked by Captain Thomas Hunt, who lured him and a few others to his ship.  Squanto was enslaved again and taken to Spain.  By God’s providence, Squanto became a Christian in Spain.  Making his way again to England, Squanto got passage on a ship bound for America.  When he arrived at Cape Cod, he learned that his entire tribe had been wiped out by smallpox.

The Pilgrim’s first winter was filled with hardship and sickness; it was harsh and it was dreadful.  In March of 1621, an Indian named Samoset walked into Plymouth.  He had learned English from English fisherman in the area of Maine.  Samoset informed them that they had settled in an area developed by the Pawtuxet tribe, which had been wiped out by smallpox.  Samoset then introduced them to Squanto on 22 March 1621.  Squanto informed the Pilgrim leaders that the great chief of the Wampanoag tribe, Massasoit, who was also the leader of a confederation of Indian tribes, would be visiting their area that day.  Squanto’s connection with Massasoit produced a peace treaty that would last for decades.

In addition, Squanto showed the Pilgrims how to fertilize and protect the corn they had planted, how to catch fish from the streams and how to harvest their crops.  If Squanto had not arrived, it is doubtful the Pilgrims would have survived.  Squanto is one of the key reasons why the Pilgrims would celebrate Thanksgiving the following fall.  God’s amazing providence was evident in the life of Squanto and he is also a powerful example of the grace of God.  Squanto is an important and usually forgotten part of the Thanksgiving story.  May we remember God’s care, providence and grace this Thanksgiving weekend—and be certain to thank Him for His care, providence and grace in our lives!  Happy Thanksgiving!

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Women's Basketball Rides Hot First Half to Win

GREENVILLE, Ill. -- The women's basketball team opened the Panther Paws for Poverty Classic with a 88-79 win over St. Mary-of-the-Woods on Friday.  Greenville scored 65 points in the first half.  Coley Baker was Greenville's star as she collected 17 points, 13 rebounds, and seven blocked shots.

Leading 65-40 at the intermission, St. Mary-of-the-Woods gave Greenville all it could handle in the second half as the Lady Panthers were outscored by 16 in the second stanza.

Baker and Ieisha Adams were the leading scorers for Greenville with 17 points each.  Adams added nine assists and four steals.  Laura Hobbie posted 15 points, and Jamie Schollenbruch totaled 14 points.

The win was Greenville's sixth in seven games and improved their record to 6-2.  The Lady Panthers return to action Saturday as they host Robert Morris - Springfield at 1 p.m. 

This story was published on December 07, 2012

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