CBS Scholarship Banquet 2010

April 1, 2010, 7-9pm  |  Westin Oaks Houston – Consort Ballroom

Honoring Doris and Terry Looper

The CBS Scholarship Banquet exposes the Body of Christ to a unique avenue for leveraging God’s resources. When a CBS student returns to their communities armed with the Word of God, lives are changed and neighborhoods are transformed!

The College of Biblical Studies has been developing multi-ethnic Christian leaders for 31 years. We exist for no other purpose than to provide quality, relevant, biblical education to anyone with a heart for God. Doing so requires that we keep tuition comparatively low and provide scholarships to those whose passion for ministry outweighs their financial ability.

This year’s scholarship banquet, “Foundation of Our Mission”, is a milestone in our history in that we will award financial assistance directly to our students. In furtherance of the College’s mission, this is an event designed to support our most needy students, especially from our minority communities, who demonstrate not merely financial need, but also academic merit.

We will be honoring Doris and Terry Looper for their unwavering commitment and passion to the Houston community. Our keynote speaker is Dr. Don Richardson, author and strategic thinker in world missions for today (see below).  He frequently speaks on culture change agents and what makes them effective communicators of the Gospel.

We invite you to become a part of the CBS family and friends who wish to help our students further their preparation in serving the Lord as part of the unique impact CBS makes in the city of Houston and around the world.

After prayerful consideration of the levels of support, click below to:

Purchase a Banquet table (seats 10):

Diamond  -  $25,000
Platinum  -   $15,000
Gold  -  $10,000
Silver  -   $5,000
Bronze  -  $2,500
Friends-     $1,000

Make a donation to the Scholarship Banquet

For more information contact Kathleen Evans:
kathleen.evans@cbshouston.edu
832.252.4643

“The College of Biblical Studies is the answer to spiritual poverty in the city of Houston
– for all of us, but especially for the minority community.”

David Weekley, Chairman, David Weekley Homes

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Don Richardson

Missionary and Best-Selling Author

Canadian-born Don Richardson spent his youth in three provinces of Canada: Prince Edward Island, Ontario and British Columbia.  He began his walk with the Lord at a Youth For Christ rally in 1952.  Both he and his late wife, Carol Joy [Soderstrom], graduated from Prairie Bible Institute, Alberta, and completed training at Wycliffe’s Summer Institute of Linguistics.

In 1962, under sponsorship of World Team (formerly Regions Beyond Missionary Union), Don and Carol embarked on a missionary career in Irian Jaya (formerly Dutch New Guinea).  They served for 15 years among the Sawi, a Stone Age tribe of cannibal-headhunters who valued treachery as an ideal.  Don designed an alphabet suited to their language, authored 19 primers, taught the tribesmen to read in their native tongue and translated the New Testament into Sawi.  More than half of the Sawi came to Christ.

Don is a best-selling author.  His first book, PEACE CHILD, tells the dramatic story of how the Richardsons were able to communicate the Gospel to the Sawi.  LORDS OF THE EARTH documents the trials of their colleagues among the Yali, another Irian Jaya tribe.  ETERNITY IN THEIR HEARTS, Don’s third book, presents case histories of the way God prepares cultures to receive the Gospel.  Don’s fourth book, SECRETS OF THE KORAN, enables readers to know the Koran better than many Muslims.  UNHIDDEN, Don’s fifth book, presents a comprehensive “theory of everything”—a unified field of truth covering areas such as theology, anthropology, cosmology, subatomic physics, church history, missions, and more.

Since 1977 Don has served as “Minister-at-Large” for World Team.  He is an ordained pastor and holds an honorary doctorate of literature from Biola University.  He speaks at more than 40 missions conferences per year and has spoken in all 50 U.S. states and in 36 countries.  In addition, Don is a frequent instructor in a course called “Perspectives on the World Christian Movement” and on various college and seminary campuses.

Don is the father of four grown children, all serving the Lord.  Following the passing of his first wife in early 2004, Don wed Carol Joyce Abraham of Bend, Oregon in July 2005.  Carol’s ministry includes speaking to women’s groups, music solos, teaching, and hospitality.