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friday, august 28,1981
daily nebraskan
Maranatha ministry now reaches UNL students
By Joe Kreizinger
The evangelistic work of Maranatha
Ministries International has recently been
added to the UNL campus.
Walter Walker, leader of the Lincoln
sector of Maranatha, said that this sum
mer UNL became one of 55 campuses
across the nation to receive the words of
the New Testament through this program.
Walker said college campuses are ideal
locations for such projects because they are
centers of thought and culture.
Walker said he believes there are thou
sands of young people "looking for some
thing to throw their lives into.'
He does not think, his evangelistic work
is radical, he said. He is "reasonably com
mitted" to the group, he said. He added
his committment to "moral excellence"
is only a natural response to the Lord.
Delivering the Lord's message to every
campus on earth is Maranatha's goal,
Walker said. He hopes to teach followers
the concept of boldness, which he des
cribes as "an individual taking a stand for
something he believes in, regardless of the
possible consequences."
Walker, a 1975 graduate of the Uni
versity of Tennessee, majored in psycho
logy. He said he describes himself at that
time as a "disillusioned idealist."
"I began to become a cynic," he said.
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"Then I realized that though I had con
sidered myself religious before, I had not,
in reality, known the Lord."
Financing for the Lincoln operation
came from the central office of Mara
natha. Walker said the headquarters, at
the University of Florida, allotted seve
ral thousand dollars as an initial funding
base. Walker hopes the project will be
financially supported later through com
munity donations.
The word Maranatha means the Lord
cometh. Walker said the name was adopted
in 1972, when Bob Weiner, a young evan
gelist from Chicago, organized the first
group, consisting primarily of high school
students.
Since the early 1970s, Maranatha has
spread across the nation and to several
foreign nations, induding Argentina, Aus
tralia, Brazil, Canada, Israel and Mexico.
Maranatha groups are scheduled to be
formed in France and Singapore by December.
Walker estimated that 20 to 25 UNL
students have already joined the 1,800 stu
dents across the nation in this project. He
added the overall reception in the Lin
coin area has been good.
"People are really listening," Walker
said, "I believe a lot of them are really
intent. They just have to find the courage
within themselves to stand out and make
the move."
Walker said he is confident that Mara
natha is here to stay in Lincoln, and more
people are being taught leadership skills
every day. He intends to stay in the Lin
coin area until enough leaders have been
trained to carry through with the project.
"I project that by the first of next year,
I would be able to leave and the project
would carry on with the new leadership,"
he said. "I may then stay around and try to
build the membership to higher numbers or
go on to a new location. But, as I said be
fore, Maranatha is here to stay, whether I
do or not."
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"The best thing about last week, when people were
starting to come back, was that we had two banks in the
union instead of none," he said.
The Gateway Bank, Swanson said, held onto it's union
space until Aug. 25. Swanson had contracted for the Nat
ional Bank of Commerce to take over the same space on
Aug. -17.-
"We ended up with two banks in that south spot, and
had to put NBC in temporary offices," Swanson said. "I
had no legal right to move Gateway, so it was just my
fault that that happened."
The transition itself wasn't a problem, as Gateway sold
all of it's existing equipment inside the office to NBC,
Swanson said.
"At 4 p.m. Aug. 25, NBC had the keys to the space,
and by 4:05 pjn. had scratched Gateway's name off the
door and hung their sign up," he said. "They were here till
11 pjn. laying the carpet, and of course opened up Wed
nesday morning."
The board did a short review of the alcohol policy, but
no position was taken on the matter because it is being
studied by the chancellor's staff.
The regents' guidelines permit alcohol in limited
amounts at approved luncheons and dinners, Swanson
said.
"I think it is legislated against the student's, because it
requires a major expenditure before you can get a drink,"
Swanson said.
Board President Maynard Krantz said he would like to
see the policy geared more toward student access, but
agreed with other board members that any release from
the no alcohol stance could start a movement toward a
policy that might be too lenient.
Scholarships created
The estate of Frank Wheeler, an Omaha casualty in
surance businessman for more than a half century, has
given $200,000 to the NU Foundation to support scholar
ships on all three campuses.
The Frank and Marie T. Wheeler Scholars will be selec
ted on the basis of need, academic achievements and
career potential.
Selections of both graduate and undergraduate stu
dents will be made by the Systems Scholarship Commit
tee, consisting of financial aids officers from ;:he NU Medi
cal Center, UNO and UNL.
Wheeler, who died February 19, 1980, came to Omaha
in 1928 from Waco, Texas with his wife Marie. He was
employed by the lion Bonding Company and National
Surety Company, and the Fell & Pinkerton Insurance
Company, the latter untn iy42, when he formed his own
insurance firm, Frank Wheeler Insurance Company.
In -1977, he sold his company to Alexander and
Alexander. He and his wife, who died in 1964, had no
children.
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