The Dimensions Program at Gardner-Webb University is proud to present Byron Sellers as the keynote speaker during the annual Disability Awareness Week on Tuesday, February 16, 2010 at 9:25a.m. in the Paul Porter Arena, located inside the Lutz Yelton Convocation Center. Gardner-Webb University has celebrated Disability Awareness Week for several years by bringing many well-known disabled speakers to campus to share their stories. Sellars, who has been a quadriplegic since 1988, is a native of Siler City, North Carolina and will share his experiences from college, his ministry work, his family background, and his life at Dimensions.
Sellers graduated from St. Andrew’s Presbyterian College, located in Laurinburg, North Carolina with a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology and Religious Studies as well as a Master of Arts degree in Counseling from Columbia International University in South Carolina. For the past eight years, Sellers has worked for Joni and Friends in Charlotte, North Carolina as the Church Relations Coordinator - where he helps church leaders in developing ministries for disabled people. Joni and Friends is Joni Eareckson Tada’s international disabilities awareness ministry celebrating 30 years of outreach. Tada is a well known national figure who became a quadriplegic after a car accident in 1967.
Sellers has also led mission trips to Kenya, and has preached in churches throughout both Carolinas. Today, Sellers and his wife, Scarlet, and their daughter, Josie, reside in Matthews, North Carolina.
Gardner-Webb University’s Dimensions programs are free and open to the public. The goal of Dimensions is to enhance the spiritual, intellectual, and cultural life of the University and also to promote a sense of community. Dimensions programs are held on Tuesdays at 9:25a.m. in the Lutz-Yelton Convocation Center (LYCC). More information is available by calling 704.406.4277.
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