In 2004, Georgetown College President William Crouch designated Joel as a Distinguished Fellow of Georgetown College.  In this capacity he acts as a consultant to the college and a friend to its mission.

Georgetown College in Georgetown, Kentucky, near Lexington was founded in 1787 and is the oldest college west of the Alleghenies.  It maintains historic ties to Baptists and has been acknowledged as one of the best small liberal arts colleges in America.

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Joel works with several programs related to the college.  Along with President Crouch, he consults on a major project to preserve the name and spirit of Bishop College, an African-American college of Dallas which closed in 1988.  With President Crouch, Joel has helped to lead a national movement to support the construction of the Bishop Center for African-American Preaching at Georgetown, a dream about to come true in the immediate future.

In addition, Joel consults with the college to conduct Proclaimers Place, a four-day intensive seminar in exegesis, hermeneutics and homiletics.  In the last two years more than 100 proclaimers have attended Proclaimers Place at Georgetown, Fort Worth, Oxford University and elsewhere. 

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