The nine nominations are then approved at the Convention, held last year Nov. 15-17 in Columbus, and new members are installed at the Board of Trustees meeting in December. The following trustees' terms began on Jan. 1. Ga. Gerald B. Saunders, '87 Hon. Following are exerts from his inspiring devotional to Mercer University. This morning, Mercer University got out of bed and began to make a difference in the world.
Mercer plans yet another city, engineers an aircraft part and challenges another theory in science.
Mercer holds the hands of a cancer patient and treats a child for a fever. Mercer performs a life-saving procedure in an operating room. Mercer prepares a message to be proclaimed in a pulpit, comforts a grieving family and shares Christ to a lost neighbor. Mercer advises an impoverished farmer on a mission field where many will never walk. Mercer works to relieve the suffering of victims of disaster in Honduras.