The SEGway News Issue 6

Woven into the fabric of the community Personality, page 3 Panthers’ football win causes ‘Our Town’ to re-schedule—page 2 Panthers capture Sectional crown, move on to Regionals—page 8 The SEGway News Serving South East Grant County Volume 1, Number 6 November 10-16, 2016 A Good News Ventures publication Taylor to serve as a satellite campus for ‘America’s Best Hope’ conference Filtering and curating information in a media storm H By Jim Garringer Taylor University will serve as a satellite campus for the nationwide America’s Best Hope Leadership Conference, sponsored by Truth At Work, November 11, 8:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m., at the Cornwall Auditorium in the LaRita Boren Campus Center on the Taylor campus. Organizers say the goal is for attendees to learn from respected business leaders on how they lead others to catalyze, encourage, and equip a generation of godly business leaders – men and women who want to grow and lead spiritually, professionally and personally to impact the marketplace for Christ. The lineup of speakers will challenge attendees to pursue qualities of godly leadership that include Christ-centeredness and being people of character, commitment, courage, competency, while also being catalysts and having compassion. The goal is for attendees to learn from respected business leaders on how they lead others to catalyze, encourage, and equip a generation of godly business leaders – men and women who want to grow and lead. • • • • Speakers include: Kirk Perry—President, Brand Solutions at Google Anne Graham Lotz— President of AnGeL Ministries Phil Vischer—Founder and CEO of Jellyfish Labs, Creator of Veggie Tales Dee Ann Turner—Vice GROCERY AND VARIETY STORE CALL: 765-998-1111 President, Enterprise Social Responsibility at Chick-fil-a • Jim Munroe—Christian Illusionist • Col. Lee Ellis—Founder and President of Leadership Freedom and FreedomStar Media • Ray Hilbert—CoFounder of Truth At Work The public is invited and attendance (a $60 value) is free, but space is limited. Register at: http://americasbesthope.org/locations. This event is being sponsored by Taylor University’s Business Department and Beta Alpha Epsilon chapter. For more information, contact Emily Jensen (emily_jensen1@taylor. edu) or Joe Schuette (joe_ [email protected]). $ ow did you wake up on Wednesday morning? With a smile on your face? Or a tear? Whatever it was, the first place people turned for breakfast commentary was to their favorite news channel, whether it was traditional morning TV, Facebook newsfeeds or the radio. We all wanted to hear what everyone else was thinking about our new President-elect. We all wanted to process this historical moment with others, whether it was with those we agreed with, or disagreed. Whether As we experiit was with strangers or friends, countrymen or for- ence the multieigners. What did everyone media news and else think? Was this good journalism of our news, or bad news? The world has changed future, as well so fast in the last decades, as all the ways and the way we comwe might hear municate has shifted in lightspeed to the point that opinion through sometimes we don’t know social media, it if we really communicate becomes more well any more. Are we really connecting like we of a challenge used to? Are our families to filter out the and communities really different voices experiencing the togetherness that we once did, when that we'd like to we spent time face-to-face, hear, to curate when we did things tothe information gether, in real-time, in real space? How we share our we are interested lives is so different, and we in and especially do grieve the old ways. to block out the As we experience the multi-media news and negative influjournalism of our future, ences we want to as well as all the ways we might hear opinion through keep out of our social media, it becomes lives. more of a challenge to filter out the different voices that we'd like to hear, to curate the information we are interested in and especially to block out the negative influences we want to keep out of our lives. Which voice do we listen to? Who do we believe? Who can we trust? Our communities depend on certain voices to express our life and identify. OPEN 7 DAYS MON - SUN 8-9 80 E BERRY AVE IN UPLAND PLAZA