Encompassing a wide range of topics and interests, ProvTalks highlights the diversity of thought within our Providence community. This year, an unofficial throughline uniting all presentations was the value of questioning our biases and shifting our perspective in order to see things in a new light.
On Friday, October 18th, Providence held its annual Harvest Festival banquet in the Reimer Student Life Centre. Thank you to all those who supported this event through volunteering, donations and sponsorships. Over $64 000 was raised this year for the Providence Fund.
The 2024 edition of Eye Witness is now available, which features contributions from Providence alumni, updates from our faculty, a message from President Kenton Anderson, and perspectives from current students like Anabella Perez – our cover story this year.
On Wednesday, October 9th in the courtyard at Providence, a couple dozen staff, faculty and students gathered for the launch of Dr. Michael Gilmour’s new book Reading the Margins: Encounters with the Bible in Literature. Dr. Gilmour is Distinguished Professor of New Testament and English Literature at Providence University College, where he has worked as part of the faculty since 1998.
“I want Providence to experience a little bit of what Indigenous communities do together,” said Jolly. About the teepee-raising that took place in 2023, she shared: “There were a whole bunch of us from different nationalities raising these teepees. What a beautiful picture of reconciliation; of working with each other for a common purpose.”
As I look around campus, I know that God is working new and beautiful things at Providence. From new classes and faces to new trees and skies every morning, we see His hand in it all, the same hand that has sustained Providence all these years despite a changing world. Let us hold this hope and stability as we cross the bridge to a new season at Providence.
It’s September, which means that the 2024-2025 academic year has officially begun at our Otterburne campus. Providence is excited for all of its new and returning students, who have already moved into residence and begun classes.
Speaking truth from all sides precedes celebration. The truth of how we have offended each other, what we have experienced, confession, repentance, and from there to being open, through God’s grace, to reconciliation and new ways of relating and community.
A total of $63 760 was raised this year to support students through the Providence Fund, which is designated to help students with the cost of their studies through scholarships and bursaries.
Providence has the pleasure of boasting championship titles and many successful games played in soccer, basketball, and volleyball, and our school is full of athletes who are winning these games while balancing everything else going on in their lives.
