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Walling to speak at Webb Lecture Series


MILLIGAN COLLEGE, Tenn. (March 7, 2011) — Jeff Walling, senior minister of Providence Road Church of Christ in Charlotte, N.C., is the keynote speaker for Milligan College’s 2011 Webb Lecture Series, to be held Tuesday, March 15, and Wednesday, March 16, at 11 a.m. in Milligan’s Mary B. Martin Auditorium in Seeger Memorial Chapel.

His lecture on Tuesday is titled “Holy Me! God’s Radical Relocation.” Wednesday will feature a performance by the Milligan College Concert Choir and Walling’s lecture titled “Un-Holy Me! Up the Down Escalator.” The lectures are free and open to the public.

Walling will also speak at a luncheon and workshop on Tuesday, March 15, in Milligan’s McMahan Student Center. Lunch begins at noon. The workshop, titled “Leading Through Change: Managing Transition without Mangling Christ’s Body,” is from 1-4 p.m. Advanced reservations are required for lunch. Please contact Phyllis Fox at pfox@milligan.edu or 423.975.8021 before Friday, March 11.

A gifted communicator, Walling served churches in southern California for 20 years, first as a youth minister and then pulpit minister, preaching for the Mission Viejo Church of Christ for 13 years. He became the senior minister at Providence Road in 1997. He earned a bachelor’s degree in speech and communications from the University of California at Irvine. His graduate work in religion was at Pepperdine University in Malibu, Calif.

The Webb Lecture Series is named for Dr. Henry and the late Emerald Webb. Henry Webb was a professor of Bible at Milligan for more than 40 years.

For more information about spiritual formation events at Milligan, contact Campus Minister Brad Wallace at 423.461.8748.


Posted by on March 7, 2011.