University president receives Salt & Light Award
Mid-America Christian University President John D. Fozard recently was honored with the Salt& Light Award by Christian Business Men's Connection ( CBMC) at the association's annual banquet at the National Cowboy& Western Heritage Museum.
Fozard has spent a lifetime providing visionary leadership to churches, organizations and businesses.
This year marked his 20 th anniversary as MACU's president.
In his keynote address, Fozard said it is the university's intentional push for discipleship that truly makes it unique.
“This generation needs to be transformed by the love of Jesus Christ. People need someone to walk with them and share life with them in a way that goes deeper than a tweet or a text. This generation needs to be filled with the power of God's spirit, not filled with the panic and pessimism that is brokered today in our society by those who profit in creating anxiety,” he said.
He said that this year, 120 MACU students are taking part in discipleship with faculty and staff members.
Some of those students have begun to disciple their peers.
In addition to establishing the university' s disciples hip initiative, Fozard also created two unique leadership groups for students: the Iron Men and the Women of Valor.
The societies are structured to fulfill his vision of developing young men and women not only professionally, but as Christians who integrate biblical principles in the workplace.
The Salt& Light Award is given annually by CBMC to honor a man whose life is the personification of the “salt and light” that Christ asked believers to be in Matthew 5:13-16.