![]() ![]() Laboring under these circumstances and the threat of expulsion made me hate chapel.īut we made it through successfully. After doing homework, I might be able to get a few hours of sleep. But I worked evenings after school, from 5PM to 1AM. Now, maintaining a flawless attendance record at chapel might not be a problem for your average student. Three missed chapel services and you’re expelled. Our president warned, “If you miss three chapel services, you will no longer be a student in this school.” In other words, “Three strikes and you’re out.” Regardless of the money you’ve already invested in your education and regardless of your academic performance or any extenuating circumstances, the sentence was the same. Every morning at 7:30, students were required to attend chapel services. Yet a bigger threat of expulsion came from one of the president’s policies. For when one of my college loans was a week late, I was threatened with expulsion for not paying my next tuition payment on time. This was the early 1980s, when it was becoming popular to run churches like businesses. He was chosen for the job because of his draconian methods of “cleaning up messes” and “raising funds” in previous organizations. The Bible College I attended had recently hired a new president. He was an armful who roared himself to sleep every night.īut the family, work, and academic burdens were just part of the problem. After giving birth, she nearly bled to death from an overlooked tear in her cervix. My wife had a very difficult pregnancy with our daughter that year and had to remain on bed rest most of the time. I worked full-time along with taking nineteen semester hours in the fall semester and twenty-one in spring. ![]() For the first few weeks of school, I had an intestinal bug which made it difficult to so much as stand on my feet. No one died that year, thank God, though my wife came very close. My fourth year of Bible College was one of the worst of my life.
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