by Stephanie Schiraldi | Mar 29, 2015 | News Slider
Collins Alumni Auditorium was full of life Saturday night — life that will help bring water to those in need. The 13th annual Anteater’s Ball brought incredible vocals, comical dance routines and a lip sync battle. The variety show is hosted by Alpha Phi Chi and Pi Kappa Sigma. Director of Anteater’s Ball Chris Netterville, a junior English major from Nashville, said putting the show together is a big task, but the end result is worth it. “What separates Anteater’s Ball from Singarama or anything that the performance art departments put on is that Anteater’s Ball is solely aimed towards serving,” Netterville said. “We aim to use our performance talents to directly impact the world around us by raising money for local nonprofits.” This year, all proceeds went toward the Well Coffeehouse’s Groundswell Project .95. The Well is a non-profit missional coffeehouse providing quality coffee in exchange for funds to provide clean water for people around the world. The Groundswell Project .95 is raising $38,000 to support the Well’s next well drilling project in Nairobi, Kenya. The project plans include building three wells around that area. “Project .95 is designed to be able to help an area of Kenya that has not had rain in over seven years,” said Steve Morrow, secretary of the board for the Well Coffeehouse. “I can’t imagine what it’s like to be raised in a nation that might not potentially see rain for that long.” The Well has built six wells in Africa, three wells in Haiti and five water filtration systems around the world since opening two years ago. “It’s been a thrilling ride to watch God,...
by Brianne Welch | Jan 16, 2014 | Uncategorized
Singing, choreography and even some comedy will accompany Alpha Phi Chi and Pi Kappa Sigma’s annual Anteaters’ Ball Friday at seven p.m. The Anteaters’ Ball is a variety show that the two social clubs put on each year as a fundraising event in Collins Alumni Auditorium. Each year the clubs choose an organization that they wish to support. For the past several years the clubs have fundraised for international organizations, but Alpha Phi Chi’s Caesar Tang says this year they wanted to fundraise for a cause closer to home. “We decided to come back to the states and see if we could do anything locally,” Tang said. “Nashville Food Project is right close to campus and several of our friends wanted to help there, so that’s why we’ve chosen it this year.” The cost to attend the ball is $5 per person and tickets can be purchased in the student center from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Thursday and Friday. All proceeds will go to the Nashville Food Project. During the show, students will see performances by their peers in Alpha Phi Chi and Pi Kappa Sigma. Tang says students should come to the event to enjoy a great show and start the semester off on a good note by giving back to the community. “It’s the first event of the semester,” Tang said. “I believe students should do something with a good cause as a kickstart of the...
by Leah Raich | May 29, 2012 | News Slider
With final exams now nearly one month in the rearview mirror, Lipscomb students have turned their focus to their next objective – serving Christ across the globe this summer. Over the course of 106 days, from May 4 through Aug. 17, Lipscomb Missions will have 24 teams on the ground in 18 different countries. The timeframe is broad in scope – all summer long – and so are the locations and types of services being offered. From discipline-specific trips in Engineering that will be serving communities in Guatemala and the Dominican Republic to a first year trip to Moldova where a team of graduate psychology students will be providing therapeutic counseling to girls once caught in human trafficking, some students have the opportunity to take what they have learned in the classroom and apply it in a mission field. Students will experience a variety of cultures, from the two trips to Australia (Brisbane and Perth) where students will engage growing churches and encourage youth, to two trips in India where Lipscomb teams will spend five weeks in Mumbai, Delhi and Calcutta ministering in a country where Christians are the minority. In each of these missions, students will have the unique chance to literally “go into all the world,” as Jesus directs his followers in Mark 16:15. This year’s 24 summer trips are a record for Lipscomb Missions, up from 20 trips in 2011 and just eight trips three years ago in 2009. There has been a significant shift in the landscape of the Missions Program as the number of trips offered has flipped from being heavily weighted on spring break efforts to the current majority of summer trips leading...
by Aaron Schmelzer | Jan 28, 2011 | Uncategorized
Couldn’t make it to this year’s Anteaters’ ball? No worries. Check out the video below for one of the performances you missed. Please upgrade your...
by Julie Shrewsbury | Jan 24, 2011 | News Slider
Good singers, hilarious dance moves and raw talent came together and made for a great and side-splitting show last Friday and Saturday nights in Collins Alumni Auditorium. The Anteaters’ Ball is far from your typical experience. With styles ranging from Christian hymns and Vanessa Carlton’s “A Thousand Miles,” to Spanish songs such as “Looking for Paradise” and a saxophone solo, each performance left the audience in stitches or in awe, excited to see what was coming next. As if the name Anteaters’ Ball doesn’t give way to the uniqueness of the performance, upon entering the double doors you realize this is a show like no other. A $5 donation was suggested, serving as the entry fee, with proceeds going to help raise awareness and prevent the spread of Malaria in Africa. The two service clubs partnered with a non-profit organization called Global Health Innovations for this year’s production. This organization designs, implements and manages medical programs focused on providing solutions to save lives one village at a time. Brad Gautney, president and medical director of Global Health Innovations and an Abilene Christian University graduate, spoke to the crowd during intermission. “In areas such as Kenya, Malawi and Haiti, where we do the majority of our work, we see so many children and adults dying needlessly from Malaria,” Gautney said. “This disease can not only be prevented, but also cured after someone is infected. We have a heart for these children and their families, and from that stems our hard work to raise awareness and beat this awful disease.” Right before intermission they showed a video that allowed the audience...
