Archive for August 2016

As students purchased the last of their books and packed away the final boxes in their dorm rooms, Student Life helped them get the semester started on the right foot with the makings of a successful first week back to school: some competition among friends; games in a normally quiet library; and, of course, a…

Night market vendors were just beginning to set up their kiosks as the mission team from Southwestern Seminary prayer-walked the community around a mosque in Chiang Mai, Thailand. The team’s leader, Keith Eitel, walked by himself roughly a block behind his wife and a translator. This latter pair was handing out Thai-language Gospel tracts, and…

President of Southwestern Seminary Paige Patterson welcomed new and returning students and faculty to the fall semester by reminding them of the implications of their decision to serve the Lord. “To serve the Lord means that you’re going to give yourself [to Him],” he explained. “You are not going to pursue income; that’s going to…

This fall, Southwestern Seminary is taking the Gospel “everywhere to everybody” through Everyday Evangelism, an initiative that expands Going the Second Mile to reach beyond the two-mile radius of campus. While the seminary will continue to organize evangelism teams daily to reach homes within the vicinity of the Southwestern campus, this expanded initiative will advance…

Southwestern Seminary has unveiled its lineup of chapel speakers for the fall 2016 semester. It includes the recently elected president of the Southern Baptist Convention; a member of the “Duck Dynasty” family; government leaders; and numerous other pastors, evangelists, and seminary faculty members. The chapel speakers are as follows: Aug. 25: Paige Patterson, president of…