Students packing Operation Christmas Child boxes

DBU Prepares 3500 Shoeboxes for Operation Christmas Child

Dallas, TX – The Dallas Baptist University community joined together throughout the month of November to prepare 3,500 shoeboxes full of love and gifts for children around the world through Operation Christmas Child. DBU has partnered with the ministry for many years and serves as the relay center drop-off location for the surrounding community. Through this partnership, DBU and the additional relay centers in the area collected and shipped more than 40,000 boxes to children in war-torn and impoverished countries around the world.

Fred Luter was awarded the honorary Doctor of Divinity degree from Dallas Baptist University during Winter Commencement on Friday, December 14. Luter is pictured with his wife, Elizabeth.

DBU Holds December Commencement

Four hundred eighty-eight degrees were conferred during Dallas Baptist University’s Winter Commencement service held on December 14, 2012. Of the graduates, 264 received bachelor’s degrees, 220 received master’s degrees, and four received doctorates.

the chapel

Professor Bernie Spooner Serves as Editor for Christian Leadership Book

Dallas, TX – Dr. Bernie Spooner, Associate Dean of the Gary Cook Graduate School of Leadership at Dallas Baptist University and Professor of Christian Education, served as the general editor for a new book, Christian Education Leadership: Making Disciples in the 21st Century Church.