Dr. Michael Freeman

Communication Major Director

Arts & Sciences Department

Dr. Michael J. Freeman has been teaching and mentoring communication students for the past two decades. He has former students working at Fox, ESPN, and even on Capitol Hill. He has prepared students to excel in the fields of television, radio, print journalism, marketing and public relations, and in both corporate and non-profit communication. Dr. Freeman's research passion is the intersection between audiences and the mass media. He has presented at and chaired numerous conferences and panels on media affects. He is the past president of ACCESS, a professional organization for Christians in Distance Education and completed his doctoral dissertation studying the impact of mediated instruction on both a student's spiritual formation and an institution's missional focus. Dr. Freeman supports our students by advising Charge - LBC's fine arts magazine, Focus - the student online newspaper, and Ichthus - the yearbook. In this advisory capacity, Dr. Freeman has provided students with valuable pre-professional opportunities. He serves as the Communication internship supervisor, supervises senior projects, and is the academic adviser for the Communication major. He also contributed to the design of LBC's newest communication production facilities, WJTL Studio B (a collaborative effort between LBC and WJTL to launch a professionally equipped streaming radio station for all LBC students) and the Video Production Studio. Dr. Freeman helped to design LBC's Communication major and continues to work to keep its curriculum current with industry changes and professional demands. Dr. Freeman trains LBC's Communication majors to be embedded missionaries in a very secular profession. He prepares them to be professionally excellent and spirituality equipped to use the passions, talents, and gifts God has given them to be used where He plants them - influencing the influencers.

Dr. Daniel Spanjer

Chair of the Arts & Sciences Department

Arts & Sciences Department

Daniel Spanjer graduated from Nyack College with a BA in History and from Reformed Theological Seminary (Orlando) with a MA Theology. In April, 2016, he successfully defended his dissertation at the University at Albany, SUNY. He has taught at Nyack College, University at Albany, and is currently the Chair of the Arts and Sciences Department and Professor of History at Lancaster Bible College. He also serves the college as the director of the Alcuin Society, a scholarly organization which serves campus faculty. Dr. Spanjer has published several essays for the new Encyclopedia of Christianity and developing a book for Square Halo Books on the history of the Western Church. Dan is a pilot and has worked as a mechanic, commercial fisherman, grant administrator and golf course greens keeper. He is married to Tara Spanjer and they have three daughters: Meghan, Emily, and Katelyn.

Mr. Ned Bustard

Adjunct Faculty

Arts & Sciences Department

Ned Bustard is the graphic designer for World’s End Images and Christians in the Visual Arts (CIVA). He is also a children’s book illustrator, author, and a printmaker. Some of the books he has written, illustrated, or edited include It Was Good: Making Art to the Glory of God, the Veritas Press Legends & Leagues series, Squalls Before War: His Majesty’s Schooner Sultana, The Chronicles of Narnia Comprehension Guide, Bede’s History of ME, History of Art: Creation to Contemporary, The Reformation ABC’s, Bigger on the Inside: Christianity and Doctor Who, Every Moment Holy, and Revealed: A Storybook Bible for Grown-Ups. He is an elder at Wheatland Presbyterian Church, creative director for Square Halo Books, Inc., curator of the Square Halo Gallery, and serves on the boards of the Association of Scholars of Christianity in the History of Art (ASCHA) and The Row House, Inc.. He and his wife Leslie have three daughters, one dog, and an unreasonable about of books. Ned lives in the West End of Lancaster, Pennsylvania—much too far inland for him to get to go sailing.

Mrs. Jessica Whitmore

Adjunct Faculty

Arts & Sciences Department

For more than 15 years, Jessica Whitmore has been a freelance content and proposal writer. Her work and bylines have included hard news and soft news (features) for newspapers and magazines (B2C and B2B) as well as online content and social media posts for businesses across the country. Her work has been published nationally as well as internationally including translations into multiple languages and has been used as part of an international fundraising campaign. Her grant proposal writing has resulted in increased funding for non-profits working to grow their organizations and programs. She has successfully worked remotely with national and international teams. Her interests also focus on all things communication, including nonverbal, interpersonal and intercultural communication.

She holds a Master of Arts in communication and a Bachelor of Arts in broadcasting. Her experience has also included communication and quality control efforts within the traffic (advertising) department of a cable network as well as public relations and development at a private college. Besides her communication efforts, Mrs. Whitmore is actively involved in two local non-profit organizations. She and her husband, Keith, have two sons.