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Banners for Eastern College

Eastern College, St. David’s, Pennsylvania, 1990 

Eastern College is a sister college to Regent College. They are a Christian graduate school training students in Business Administration and Economic Development to offer help to the developing world. The motto of the college is: ‘The Whole Gospel for the Whole World.’ 

The ideas for the banners were suggested by the College; they were to hang in the central stairwells. Laurel Gasque of Regent College and the Lookout Gallery were the liaisons with Eastern College.

Solidarity  (vertical banner):

The image of the gospel is visualized by the cross in the world. The hands represent needs and resources being brought together in their many expressions, and in the many colors symbolizing diversity of nations and peoples.

The Kingdom of Heaven is like a grain of mustard seed (horizontal banner):

The image is one of a fruitful tree in a setting of global unity and optimism. Since the parable of the mustard seed is about growth and spread of the gospel, as the kingdom of heaven, throughout the world, it seems to express well the theme of Eastern College ‘the whole gospel for the whole world.'

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