It's 8:30am, where is your MSN summer project student? Sleeping? Hardly. By now, the students are diving into worship and lecture at daily Morning Sessions. These meetings focus on how to have a lifetime of compassion, direction, evangelism in a post-modern age, bioethics, and discipleship--all for the purpose of building up discipleship and evangelism tools. Here are some highlights:

Dr. Richard Hart and Dan Pryor spoke on having the kind of compassion Christians are called to have. Dr. Hart discussed the poverty gap, and challenged us to pursue the process of creating loving relationships with less fortunate people around the world. Dan Pryor talked about keeping a balance between the three ministry priorities of spiritual walk, multiplication, and social concern.

Dr. Stan Shu discussed the importance of setting lifelong objectives and explored the scriptural basis for the formation of a personal mission statement. Using notes from the talk, all the project students wrote their own mission statements this month.

In his three-part talk on "Lifetime Relationships in a Post-Modern World," Bob Mason discussed the spiritual climate in America and con-sidered the model of communication Christians will need to use in order to reach the postmodern generation. By focusing on the Biblical values of love, hope, and faith, we Christians can help meet the needs of our non-believing colleagues.

Rick Langer spoke on the Biblical basis for bioethics and how basic Christian doctrines can shed light upon bioethical dilemmas. By building on values such as the dignity of a person, the sanctity of life, the value of the body, and the equality of persons, Christian health professionals can respond appropriately when ethical situations arise.