The Morning Thing hosts share their favorite memories from 2024 for their final Friday Favorites of the year.
The Morning Thing Friday Favorites 12/27/2024
The 2024 Food For The Hungry Drive was a huge success!
We are recapping the 2024 Food For The Hungry Drive held on Friday, December 13th.
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The Volunteers and WNZR crew share their thoughts, feelings about the drive and how every single donation whether food or monetary impacts the Knox County community.
Don’t forget the Food For The Hungry drive continues through the end of 2024.
Click HERE to see how you can still make a difference in a Knox County resident’s life in 2024!
WNZR presents the December 2024 MVNU Presidential Update
MVNU’s President, Dr. Carson Castleman, talked with WNZR for our monthly MVNU Update.
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Dr. Castleman shared his thoughts about fall semester at MVNU and plans for 2025.
We covered many topics including:
- Enrollment numbers for Spring 2025
- Top priorities for 2025
- Fundraising campaign updates for the Chapel Project and the “On Deck Campaign” for MVNU Baseball
- How giving to MVNU changes lives
- Exciting events coming to MVNU in 2025
- Dr. Carson Castleman highlights some exciting events coming up on his calendar and the MVNU calendar, including several trips for the Castleman family.
- He shares special Christmas messages for MVNU students, faculty and staff.
- He also shares how we can pray for MVNU and his family in the month of December.
Click HERE to stay up to date with news from MVNU.
Thanksgiving Thoughts with the Big Blue Crew
Happy Thanksgiving from WNZR.
Here are some thoughts about this special holiday for our WNZR Staff. You will hear from our Administrative Staff (Joe, Marcy and Sue), hosts of The Morning Thing and The Afternoon Drive, Student Leadership Team members and NEW students taking Intro to Radio at MVNU.
Click HERE to hear the conversation or click on the link below.
We hope you enjoy them sharing about traditions, favorite foods and what they are thankful for this year.
Happy Thanksgiving! We are thankful for YOU!
The Turkey Trot is back in 2024 to benefit Food For The Hungry
WNZR’s Marcy Rinehart talked with Scott Burgess from We Run MV about this year’s Turkey Trot.
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The 14th Annual Turkey Trot is scheduled for Thanksgiving morning (11/28) on the campus of Mount Vernon Nazarene University.
Registration starts at 8am. The race starts at 9am.
Participants are asked to bring a food and/or monetary donation to benefit Food For The Hungry.
Scott shares some amazing stats from the past 13 years:
- Over 2,000 participants
- 7,600 food items collected
- Over $14,000 collected
You can keep the legacy alive. Come be a part of the Turkey Trot this year!
The Morning Thing Friday Favorites 11/22/24
Today for our Friday Favorites, we celebrated National Bible Week. Each show host shared their favorite bible verses.
Click HERE to hear from Shawn, Xander and Marcy.
Shawn’s favorite verse – 2 Corinthians 12:9
Xander’s favorite verse – Proverbs 16:9
Marcy’s favorite verse – Proverbs 3:5-6
MVNU Cross Country hosts the “Before the Bird” 5K Run and Walk
MVNU’s Cross Country Coach, Simon Taylor stopped by WNZR to chat about the team and an exciting event.
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The team is hosting the “Before the Bird” 5K Run and Walk on Saturday, November 16th!
Registration is from 8:15am – 8:45am
Race starts at 9am
Where – MVNU Campus Chapel.
All proceeds from the event are donated to MVNU Cross Country.
MVNU presents Handel’s Messiah on 11/24
Dr. Bob Tocheff stopped by WNZR to share about the upcoming performance of Handel’s Messiah.
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The 56th performance of Handel’s Messiah is scheduled earlier than past years, taking place Sunday, Nov. 24, at 7 p.m. in the R.R. Hodges Chapel/Auditorium. Tickets are $10 for General Admission.
Dr. Bob talks about this year’s performance, the guest singers and the orchestra. He also shares how the Messiah benefits the MVNU Music Program and students.
Click HERE for the all the details of this event.
Click HERE to purchase your ticket for the Messiah at MVNU.
MVNU Homecoming and Friday Favs!
Today Joe and Morgan were in for Marcy and Shawn, who are in Nashville, TN for the CMBU conference this weekend.
It’s MVNU Homecoming weekend, so we shared Marcy’s Cougar Conversation with former track national champion Mitch Soviak – find it here!
Plus our monthly MVNU Presidential Update with Dr. Carson Castleman – here’s the Soundcloud link:
Plus Friday Favorites for National Children’s Book Week!
Today’s winner of ‘What’s That Sound?’ (drinking water) was Laura from Mount Vernon. Congratulations!
Thanks for listening!
It is World Communication Week – MVNU Professor Jayme McMillan shares tips for better communication
It is World Communication Week, so The Morning Thing talked about communication today.
MVNU Professor, Jayme McMillan joined us with tips on how to have better and more effective communication.
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He shared why communication is so important in our world today.
He also shared a superpower tip of using “I language”.
Professor McMillan talks about how nonverbal communication plays a big part in our daily lives and ways that we can improve this skill.
He also shared the importance of active listening and how to become a better listener.
Enjoy our conversation about Communication!
It is an art form and takes practice!
Rise and Shine 