Commencement party for Christian grads

Commencement party for Christian grads
Event meant to provide alternative to beer bashes, encourage believers
Posted: April 28, 2006
1:00 a.m. Eastern

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A group of Christians in a Texas college town are hosting a "Commencement for Life" party for likeminded graduating seniors as an alternative to the usual beer bashes and as a way to encourage them to live out their faith on the job.

"Instead of promoting the usual beer parties, the committee got together to try to do something special for the graduates who have faith in Jesus," professor Mark R. Davids, a Criminal Justice teacher at Midwestern State University in Wichita Falls, Texas, told WND.

Davids and the other organizers will host the party for Christian grads Friday at a church adjacent to the school's campus.

"My goal in starting this was to give the graduates who have faith something positive to hear before they enter the secular work world," explained the professor. "I wish I would have had something like this when I graduated years ago, as it might have saved me some troubles."

Free food will be provided by a local business and, according to the invitation for the event, "professional leaders from the community [will share] about living out their Christian faith in the secular world."