By Karen Vance
Enquirer contributor

Jeff Langley and daughter Janell will graduate from Cincinnati Bible College and Seminary. Contributed photo

PRICE HILL - For one Delhi Township family, this weekend's graduations at Cincinnati Bible College and Seminary will be doubly exciting.

Jeff Langley, 42, will be among the 61 people receiving graduate degrees from the seminary at services tonight. And on Saturday, his daughter, Janell, 20, will be among the 80 people receiving undergraduate degrees from the college.

"It's been a wonderful experience," said Jeff, who has been at the college for 51/2 years, first taking undergraduate and then graduate-level classes in theology. "I was hoping she'd go into religious studies, and it was nice to have her on campus. She was always teaching me something."

The graduation ceremonies, the 80th in the Price Hill school's history, will see students receive bachelor's and associate's degrees in Bible, preaching, missions work, general ministries, helping professions and other religious areas. At the graduate level, the seminary will award master of divinity and master of arts degrees tonight.

"Most of our graduates go on to work in churches or para-churches - organizations that support churches like national conventions and church planting organizations," said Donovan Weber, dean of student development for the seminary. The school is independent but associated with the Independent Christian Church and Churches of Christ.

Jeff, who has been a preacher in the past but hopes to take on a position teaching theology at the college level after graduation, moved his family, Janell and his wife, Lynn, from O'Neill, Neb., just to attend Cincinnati Bible College.

Then in her junior year at Oak Hills High School, Janell decided to start taking college classes through the postsecondary option program at the college. She'll graduate with a bachelor of science degree in urban and international missions. She hopes to start with an internship abroad in mission work.

"I just love it. Since the first time I went to Mexico to work while I was in high school," she said. "Just being able to go to another culture and tell them and show them how God is in our lives. We're called to do that, and that's where my heart is."

The graduation ceremony for the seminary is at 7:30 p.m. today on the Price Hill campus. The college graduation is at 10 a.m. Saturday. Both ceremonies are open to the public and no tickets are required.