2024 Commencement Events Schedule
May
3
Baccalaureate
Guest speaker Pastor Danny McCubbin, father of graduating senior Noah McCubbin, will address the Class of 2024.
🕚 11:00am CDT
📌 Liberty Chapel
🎓 Regalia is worn
Guest Speaker: Pastor Danny McCubbin
Senior Pastor of First Baptist Church of Belton; Superintendent of Heartland Family Ministries
Each year, the Senior class chooses one of the Seniors’ parents to be our Baccalaureate speaker. The class this year has chosen Pastor Danny McCubbin, father of Noah McCubbin.
Pastor McCubbin is the Senior Pastor at First Baptist Church here in Belton and the Superintendent of Heartland Family Ministries. Danny has served as Pastor and Leader of Christian schools for the past thirty years, where he has started multiple Christian schools in the Kansas City area.
He received his undergraduate degree in History Education and Religion from William Jewell College, and received his Master’s degree in Leadership from Mid America Nazarene University.
Danny and his wife Amy, have six grown children, and his heart’s desire is to see his family follow Christ in everything that they do.
Awards Banquet & Alumni Induction
The Alumni Induction and Awards Banquet is designed to recognize and welcome our new graduates into the Calvary University Alumni Association and recognize our graduates for outstanding achievements this past year. Department Awards, Non-Academic Awards, the Who’s Who of Calvary University, Delta Epsilon Chi recipients, and Honors will be given.
🕠 5:30pm CDT
📌 Student Life Center
May
4
Commencement
Guest Speaker Mark Alford, United States Representative for Missouri’s 4th Congressional District
🕚 10:00am CDT
📌 South Haven Baptist Church – 16800 Bel-Ray Blvd., Belton, MO 64012
🎓 Regalia is worn
Guest Speaker: Mark Alford, United States Representative
Mark Alford is a husband, father, former small business owner and former local TV news anchor. Alford spent 25 years anchoring Kansas City’s #1 morning news show prior to his time in Congress. Currently, he proudly represents Missouri’s 4th District in the United States Congress.
His time covering Missouri’s top news stories connected him to thousands of Missourian families of all walks of life, providing insight into the issues most important to Missouri families, and the struggles most common to them. It also offered the opportunity to hone his God-given talents as a professional communicator, enhancing his voice to inform, influence, and inspire millions of people across Missouri.
Alford’s experience behind the news desk gave him a front row view to the constant attacks against our nation’s founding principles from an increasingly liberal, progressive ideology that threatens to undermine our country’s values of faith, family, hard work, and individual liberty.
Alford serves as a megaphone to each and every Missourian in the 4th district, magnifying their voices and their values in Washington, D.C.
Over the years, Alford’s voice helped raise millions of dollars for charities both locally and nationally, and served dozens of boards, foundations, churches, civic organizations, families, and strangers. Alford and his wife Leslie have been married 33 years and have three grown children.
After being sworn into the 118th Congress as a freshman member, Alford was selected to the House Armed Services Committee, House Agriculture committee, and House Small Business committee.