Twenty-two graduates received their degrees from Samford University’s Beeson Divinity School on May 2 during the spring service of commencement and consecration.
Phil Ryken, president of Wheaton College, delivered the commencement sermon, encouraging graduates to remember the “urgency of our Gospel task.”
Preaching from Matt. 24:1-14, Ryken told graduates and others gathered in Beeson’s Hodges Chapel that the wisdom of Jesus as we live in the end times is to “not get fooled, don’t be afraid, don’t grow cold and don’t give up.”
“That may not seem that tempting on the day you graduate, but it may seem more tempting one year from now, 10 years from now, 20 years from now, with the burdens of ministry,” Ryken said. “Don’t give up but persevere by the power and grace of God.”
As we await the return of Christ, Ryken said Christians have the privilege to share the Gospel.
Following Ryken’s message, Beeson’s faculty prayed over each graduate in a time of consecration.
This semester’s graduates are:
Master of Arts:
- Hannah Leila Barry
- Hannah Elizabeth Gibson
- Karana Nicola Jones
- Claire Schwenk
- Susannah Brooke Terpin
- Biyang Yu
Master of Divinity:
- Grayson Camille Bartlett
- Salvador Blanco-Perello
- Tucker Reese Bryant
- Caleb Andrew Craft
- Molly Jean Doro, who also received a Certificate of Anglican Studies
- Thomas Carlton Gray
- Grayson R. Holbert
- Ashton Lindley Holt, who also received a Certificate of Anglican Studies
- Charles William Nolen
- James Alan Oliver
- Jacob T. Patton
- Cole Shiflet
- William Hutton Stanard
- Daniel Joseph Terpin
- Nicole Williams
- Stephen Anderson Williams, who also received a Certificate of Anglican Studies
