Archive for January 2017
Women find fellowship, encouragement through spring’s first Metochai gathering
Metochai, Southwestern Seminary’s organization for student wives, held its first monthly meeting of the spring 2017 semester, Jan. 23. The evening afforded women the opportunity to gather for fellowship, develop new friendships, and receive spiritual encouragement from the evening’s speaker, Cheryl Bell. Bell, a recent Southwestern graduate (Ph.D., 2016), spoke on Metochai’s theme for the…
Read MoreEvangelistic strikeouts lead to spiritual home run
Engaging in door-to-door evangelism, Austin Binz’s team, in the words of their instructor, Brandon Kiesling, kept “striking out.” But instead of quitting, they decided to go to a gas station, and there, they found a young man who needed Christ. The man, A.J., was a self-proclaimed Sikh, and according to Binz, he needed a divine…
Read MorePh.D. students use teaching opportunity to spread the Gospel
On his way back from lunch to a seminary in Southeast Asia, Anthony Svajda sat in the front seat of the car next to his Uber driver, Wilson. From there, Svajda, a Ph.D. student at Southwestern Seminary, noticed a small wooden cross hanging from Wilson’s rear view mirror. Svajda and the other Southwestern students with…
Read MoreWelcome Week connects students with campus community
When incoming Bachelor of Arts student Hannah Beth Cannon arrived on Southwestern’s campus for move-in day, she was excited and eager to start her college career, but she was also nervous and overwhelmed by the numerous “firsts” that many college freshmen experience. But after she settled into her room in Barnard Hall, she says the…
Read MoreHavard students encouraged to share ‘only hope for our world’
“Who do you say that I am?” Southwestern President Paige Patterson, preaching at the J. Dalton Havard School for Theological Studies in Houston during their spring convocation service, Jan. 23, identified this question, posed by Jesus to His disciples in Matthew 16, as the most important question anyone has to answer in this life. “Everything…
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