President Bush, I am Dan Johnson and I am honored to serve as President of Wisconsin Lutheran College, here in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
I came to WLC in 2008 and am in my 9th year as president and I can honestly tell you that I believe our upcoming Divine Servant Award Celebration will be a most momentous event in the life of our young college.
Thank you for being a part of making history with us.
I thought I'd take this brief moment to give you some context to our higher educational ministry, while also giving you a brief visual tour of our campus.
Back in the early 1970's a group of men and women believed that this community needed a Christian college that would prepare men and women for lives of Christian leadership
impacting and influencing their workplaces, communities, churches and families. And so we humbly launched in 1973 as a two-year college,
became a four-year college in 1987 and launched an Adult and Graduate Studies program in 2009.
In 2008, we enrolled over 600 students. Today we are blessed to serve over 1,100 students.
Each and every step along our journey, our God has continued to out-dream us all. We are passionate about sending out equipped Christian leaders into culture shaping roles in society.
WLC offers 38 majors and our largest five majors are the following:
First of all, number one is business - CEO's and business owners love our graduates. They're ethical, hard-working, moral Christian leaders.
Number two is education, and of special note we have a long history of preparing a large number of urban teachers performing at some of our region's finest urban schools.
Number three is nursing. We launched our nursing program in 2008. It's a booming major that prepares nurses who serve with the heart of Jesus.
Number four is sport and exercise science, a growing field.
Number five is biology, a gateway to pre-med programs and other health and science related careers.
So three of our top five majors and 15 of our 38 majors are health care centric and our location could not be more strategic as across the street is the Milwaukee Regional Medical Center, our region's health care epicenter.
And yet, within the context of a vibrant academic program, our students engage in the Arts - from the visual arts to the performing arts -
in our beautiful fine arts and performance center. Whether it be in choir or band, or on stage in our theatre or in the art studio, our students love the Arts.
And, by the way, since you're now an accomplished artist, please know that you have a standing invitation to be a guest artist in residence at any time!
Our students study in our beautiful Schwan Library, reside in outstanding residence halls, from Stimac Hall and Fischer Hall to Aspire.
And, they learn in our state-of-the-art science building known as Generac Hall.
Furthermore, over 45% of our undergraduate students participate in one of our 18 Division III athletic teams, certainly an integral component of equipping competitive and successful leaders.
About a mile from our campus is our Outdoor Athletic Complex that's home to our Warriors football at Raabe Stadium, Warriors softball and baseball at Neumann Family Fields, along with men's and women's soccer.
Our Divine Servant Award celebration will take place in our Time of Grace Center, the home to our men's and women's basketball teams and our women's volleyball program.
God has richly blessed WLC with our beautiful campus, and yet the most important symbol that we have on our campus - that speaks to the heart of this college - is our divine servant statue,
prominently located in our quad. It''s a visual image of Jesus washing his disciple's feet. Our students literally pass it hundreds of times within their years on campus.
In fact, we march our graduates past it one last time on their way to graduation, because we want our graduates to forever know that our true purpose in life is to love God and love others by bold, humble, Christian servant leadership.
So that brings us to this event, our inaugural Divine Servant Award.
When we contemplated on who our first recipient would be, honestly, you were Plan A and we didn't have a Plan B. So thanks for coming!
We simply want to thank God and celebrate the life of a courageous Christian servant leader who led with great integrity during a most critical time in our nation's history... unapologetic about letting his faith in God shine.
It's going to be an awesome evening as a celebration of your Christian witness as a world leader, while also celebrating Christian servant leadership as we generate financial support for Wisconsin Lutheran College and our distinctive mission.
So I look forward to meeting you, and it's my hope that this brief video will give you a better understanding of our cause and help you get a feel for our campus,
and perhaps provide you an understanding of the impetus behind our inaugural Divine Servant Award Celebration.
So travel safe and see you soon.
God bless you.
Thank you.
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