Hugh's News & Commentary

Lion Pride Campaign

The athletic program has just completed our first official Lion Pride Campaign this spring. The Lion Pride Campaign was implemented to inform our supporters of all the exciting things taking place at Emmanuel College, especially within athletics.

We called all alumni who played sports here and those who have donated to just athletics in the past.

The purpose of the Lion Pride Campaign was to raise money for the upcoming EC Athletics Golf Marathon, which will benefit the sports teams at Emmanuel.

For those we reached, thank you for your time and support. You should be receiving information in the mail shortly. For those who we were unable to reach, sorry we missed you. You will also be receiving information in the mail. Hopefully, we will be in contact next Fall! If you would like to make a contribution to the Lion Pride Campaign, please contact Erin Rosene at erosene@ec.edu.

[Editor's Comment: It is a pleasure for me to highlight the athletic programs at Emmanuel College. My love for Emmanuel College goes back to the year I was a student on this lovely campus in northeast Georgia, 1952-53. After that full year, I joined the United States Marine Corps. I served for three years on active duty. It was there that God called me to be a military chaplain. Upon being released from the Marines in 1956, I attended Asbury College for one year. In 1957, I enrolled at Holmes Bible College and spent three years on that campus to complete the Bible courses. However, after my first year, I transferred to Furman University where I graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology, and a minor in English and Speech in May 1960.

In August 1960, I married Melvine Stewart of Draper, NC (now called Eden). We traveled to Wilmore, KY, where I enrolled at Asbury Theological Seminary. Melvine taught my way through seminary. Those were three of the greatest years of our lives. My last year in seminary, I became the minister of music at the Wilmore Presbyterian Church. God helped me to graduate in May 1963, and I took my first pastorate that summer at the Brownville Pentecostal Holiness Church near Evergreen, AL.

While at Brownville, Greg was born at the Evergreen Hospital in June 1964.

Everything we needed to learn about people of all kinds we learned at that country church. Leon O. Stewart was our conference superintendent. He told me that the church had great potential. My salary was $35 a week, with a parsonage that had no air conditioning. Leon was right, every church has great potential if God is in it, and you give it your best. We discovered tremendous growth not only in numbers of people, but in giving to World Missions, the heartbeat of Jesus.

The Pentecostal Holiness Church, although I was born and raised in it, is my choice as an adult. I turned down many attractive offers in the United Methodist Church to take a country church in rural Alabama. I am grateful I made the choice. We will always love the people of that community and in Conecuh County.

Both of our children attended and graduated from Emmanuel College--Greg Morgan and Stephanie Morgan. It was a junior college when they graduated. Greg went on to Oral Roberts University where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Music Education. Stephanie transferred to Lee University where she earned the Bachelor of Science degree in Elementary Education. Later, Stephanie earned the Masters degree in Teaching at Piedmont College.]