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Newsmakers, January 2025
Featured image (above): Scholarship recipients Mateo Villegas and Kendal Matas stand with Lipscomb University business dean Ray Eldridge and president Candice McQueen.
AWARDED — KENDAL MATAS and MATEO VILLEGAS, the Psalm 78:72 Scholarship from Lipscomb University in Nashville, Tenn. The scholarship honors students who exemplify “skill of the hand and integrity of the heart” by demonstrating character. Oklahoma Christian University’s chapter of history honor society PHI ALPHA THETA, the Best Chapter Award for Division I-sized schools.
BAPTIZED — CODY DAVIS, CAIDEN DAVIS and TYNEETA SILMON of the Dominion Park Church of Christ in Houston. GRACIOASA DA COSTA of a Church of Christ in the Quelimane, Mozambique. LEDICIA DOS SANTOS of a Church of Christ in the Molocueo, Mozambique. CHARLIE MORTON of the Prattville Church of Christ in Alabama. MALLORIE SELVAGE of the Jackson Boulevard Church of Christ in Chicago.
From left, Mallorie Selvage, Scott LaMascus, Don Rose, Mike Willoughby and Sean Wu.
ELECTED — SCOTT LAMASCUS to the board of the Federation of State Humanities Councils (the Federation). LaMascus is the founding director of the McBride Center for Public Humanities at Oklahoma Christian University.
NAMED — JAMES EDWARDS and JONATHAN NEWSON as elders and SHAUNELL HYATT, BRIAN SMITH and JONATHAN TURNER as deacons of the Northwest Church of Christ in Southaven, Miss. DON ROSE as executive director of Mission Alive Canada, a ministry launched by U.S.-based Mission Alive to help Canadian Christians plant churches. Rose served for 18 years with Great Lakes Christian High School in Beamsville, Ontario. BRAD SCHMITZ (wife Julie) and CALEB BELL (wife Lindsey) as deacons of the Grand Strand Church of Christ in Surfside Beach, S.C. MIKE WILLOUGHBY as dean of the College of Business Administration at Abilene Christian University in Texas. SEAN WU, a senior at Pepperdine University in Malibu, Calif., as the university’s first-ever Rhodes Scholar. Wu and 32 other American undergraduate students will receive a full scholarship to pursue graduate studies at the University of Oxford in England.
