(Reposted from the Fall 2020 issue of The ECHO Magazine) During the summer of 2020, Dr. Tanya Solomon was named Site Director for LBC | Capital – Philadelphia. Previously, she led the Philadelphia Ally Center team as the Faculty and Student Support Services Manager. Solomon brings a wealth of experience in education to her role […]
Growing up in the Philadelphia area with parents who were active in their church, 34-year-old Daniel Givens gave his life to Christ at just seven years old. He always felt he had a calling to serve the Lord, but went through a what he calls a rebellious time as a teen and young man, eventually […]
Jael Chambers was a part-time faculty member at Lancaster Bible College’s Philadelphia location and is the founder of Cultured Enuf, a diversity consultant firm. Why is creating a truly diverse team and knowing how to truly value diversity in our lives, ‘valuing differences’, so difficult? Growing up in LA made me feel like I earned […]
Adrien Span-Gale (‘18) attended Community College of Philadelphia for a few classes until an auto accident left her with memory loss and in need of two major surgeries. After having her second child, however, she knew it was the right time to return to college. “I knew that I was getting older, and I always […]
Michael Weatherbe is a two-time graduate of Lancaster Bible College: first, he earned his bachelor’s degree in biblical studies at the college’s Philadelphia location in 2014. Then, overachiever that he is, Weatherbe came back for more and earned his master’s degree with a concentration in leadership studies in 2016 from the college’s seminary. And in […]
Dorothy Brown (‘19) already had a long and successful career as a special education teacher before she came to study at the Philadelphia location of Lancaster Bible College | Capital Seminary & Graduate School. For 36 years, she brought her passion for educating minds in the classroom. Now, she’s preparing to educate minds in the church. […]
You could say that Keith Baker (‘16) is a jack of all trades, though that would be an understatement. While he studied human services at the Philadelphia location of Lancaster Bible College | Capital Seminary & Graduate School and uses his degree on the job, his skills go far beyond that. One look at his resume […]
When a sudden layoff left Sharon Taliaferro (’17) jobless, she capitalized on the opportunity to make a change go back to school. Sharon Taliaferro’s transition back to school came quite unexpectedly. She had a longstanding career as a banking officer at one of the nation’s largest banks. “I worked there for 22 years,” she told […]
For Desiree “Dezzie” Neal (’16), a native of Philadelphia and graduate of LBC | Capital – Philadelphia, getting a college degree was always a part of the plan. But sometimes our plans don’t go – well, according to plan. Early on in her college career, Neal’s mother became bedridden. She dropped out of college to […]