GIAL Events
Ten Year Anniversary Celebration
GIAL celebrated the weekend of March 29-31, 2008, commemorating ten years of God's faithfulness.Bible Translation 2009
GIAL has been pleased to cosponsor a biennial Bible Translation conference for a number of years. The Bible Translation 2009 Conference will be October 16-20, 2009. Preliminary information on this academic conference is available.
Past Events
GIAL Commencement 2007
The 8th commencement exercises of the Graduate Institute of Applied Linguistics (GIAL) were held June 7, 2007, at Hillcrest Baptist Church in Cedar Hill, TX. The commencement speaker was Dr. Gary Cook, President of Dallas Baptist University.
GIAL is pleased to share some photographs of past events. Each collection below is available on CD. If interested, contact Cheryl Rinehart at Cheryl_Rinehart@gial.edu or (972) 708-7297.
GIAL Commencement 2006
Twenty-one graduates (seven in Fall and fourteen in Spring sessions) received their degrees at the 7th GIAL graduation ceremony on June 9 at Hillcrest Baptist Church, Cedar Hill. Dr. Marshall R. Gillam, Executive Director of Lutheran Bible Translators, spoke on the importance of words, challenging graduates to use their lives in Bible work, which, at some level, will make God's Word available to those who don't have it in their language so that they, too, will come to understand "the final word is Jesus." An innovation for this year's ceremony was personal remarks about each graduate, compiled and given by the Dean of Students, Ruth Schilberg.
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January 26, 2006, was a very special day in the history of GIAL, as we held a formal convocation celebrating our initial accreditation with the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS). |
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On December 13, 2005, GIAL hosted an informal reception on the ILC campus, to celebrate the awarding of initial accreditation to GIAL by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS). |
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